We Have a New Bunny!

This is Busey our Flemish Giant Buck. He's only 8 weeks old. He will get up to 25lbs at full grown. He's such a sweetie.

This is Romona the Flemish Giant doe. She's going to be Busey's mate. We tried to weigh her today, and before she jumped off the scales it read 22lbs.

Caroline & Romona

Busey & Romona

We also have spring chicks arriving. Our Mama Cochin Bantam hen laid 12 eggs, and so far 10 have hatched. Here are their pictures.

Aren't they cute!

Here Mama hen with her babies.

We Now Have Honey Bees!

Eddie and I went today and bought 2lbs of honey bees for our new hive. We bought these from Dixie Bee Supply in Lula, GA. These are a hybrid bee. They are mixed with Russian, Carniolan, and Italian.

Eddie getting ready to install his first package of bees. He did wonderful.

He wasn't scared one bit.

I placed the queen in the middle of the frames, and dumped the bees on top.

It was amazing to be surrounded by that many bees.

I hope they like their new home.

This is me getting ready to close the hive up. We will check on them in a couple of days to make sure that the worker bees released the queen from her cage. If not, then I will have to do it for them. We will also have to keep a close check on the sugar water that we are feeding them. They will need a lot of sugar water to start the comb on the wax foundation.

Bee Hive

Yay!! My grandpa finally finished my bee hive. This spring we are adding bees to our little farm. What you see here is the hive stand, brood box, super, and top. I've still got to paint it white and put the handles on the super.

This is my son Eddie, and he will be my assistant beekeeper. Our helmets and veils arrived in the mail this week, and he couldn't wait to try it on.

This is my grandpa's new hive. He already has established hives, so that's why this one is huge. It looks like he has 3 brood boxes and 3 supers on this one. What a show off. LOL