the daydream fund challenge thread

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

bees are a risk with horses and cattle certainly alfie.

:eek: cant have my MABE upset.....................:D

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

:eek: cant have my MABE upset.....................:D

if nothing else think of the havoc she could cause :eek:

siting ours was really hard, we have now id three different sites, two of them road side, as being the best suitable here....least foot traffic, furthest from animals....my favorite being my that path down to the lagoon.....when its fenced and hedged.

Itismehonest

Around here a few of the old farms have bee boles in their farmhouse walls

alfie_1

if nothing else think of the havoc she could cause :eek:

i remember when she was little .........well littler !!:o she used to "break out" whenever she saw cyclists passing and join in with thier route :rotfl: trouble was the cyclists thought she was heading home thier route and didnt think to see where she'd come from ! i was forever getting a call to go fetch her from gardens/fields that people had shoved her in...:rotfl:
we upped the anti on electric fencing and it worked:) unless battery went flat:( only to be alerted by sqwauks as she bounded round my garden trying to play with the animogs !! funny thing was she went straight to HER paddock when she arrived yet she knew to go up the road,turn left,left again to find my front gate whenever she got out ive been known to be stood in the middle of the crossroads outside my house with a bucket of donuts,bread and allsorts of goodies to bribe a HUGE pig to shift herself back to her home ! i even got a mention in our weekly newspaper...:o albeit no names mentioned EVERYONE knew who they were talking about

she hasnt escaped for over a year now :rotfl: i think she just cant be arsed now !!:rotfl:

alfie_1

Itismehonest wrote: »

Around here a few of the old farms have bee boles in their farmhouse walls

i get hornets nesting under my upper half tiled walls outside every year :eek:

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

i get hornets nesting under my upper half tiled walls outside every year :eek:

:eek: Hornets are huge. At least the boles & skeps kept the bees out of the houses most of the time.
If Mabel is used to hornets I don't think bees would phase her. :rotfl:

alfie_1

Itismehonest wrote: »

:eek: Hornets are huge. At least the boles & skeps kept the bees out of the houses most of the time.
If Mabel is used to hornets I don't think bees would phase her. :rotfl:

ooooooooooo NO the hornets are on my house, she is over the road with sheds/trees etc inbetween


what is BOLES and SKEPS ??:o

Itismehonest

Had to hunt online for this link.
The boles are the nooks built into a wall to hold skeps which were what bees were kept in before hives.

If Mabel likes honey it might be another good reason to keep them apart

alfie_1

itismehonest wrote: »

had to hunt online for this link.
the boles are the nooks built into a wall to hold skeps which were what bees were kept in before hives.

cool !!!

lostinrates

oh, isn't that stunningly beautiful?