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Date: | Mon, 14 Dec 1998 20:40:08 -0500 |
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With the extremely warm fall and winter in the North Carolina mountains, the bees are remaining active - but with a strange twist - in our yard. We have 5 chickens that we are feeding cracked corn and layer mash. One day this week my son(owner of the bees) reported finding bees in the chicken feeder. I went out thinking that he was mistaken and that there were yellow jackets making a nest in the chicken yard. Indeed, both my bees(midnight bees) and others(Italians) were in the feeder and the surrounding area grubbing(for lack of a better word) in the layer mash. I looked up the ingredients of the layer mash and found that they contain soy beans, amongst many other fine scientific words(vitamins, nothing else).
I don't think that my bees are in danger, as I think that they probably know what to feed on most of the time, but wonder if any of you have any experience with this.
BTW - the weather has finally turned cold in the last two days, and rained also. The bees are staying at home more now.
Tim Rich
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