I keep sheep, horses, poultry and bees all on the same six acres. The bees are in three places of between 10 & 15 hives, the horses rarely get stung, they are kept back six foot from the hives by an electric wire, the sheep can walk under the wire and graze along the front of the hives, They get buzzed rather than stung and that is when they itch themselves against the hives. The bees are neither bad tempered nor good tempered. The animals are like us, they learn or they don't. Regards from the Garden of England [log in to unmask]