Here’s an interesting article at Slate about hive rental prices. If you’re interested in going big in bee hives, renting them out for crop pollination seems to be the way to go, the rental price will probably only be going up until more hives are established nationwide.
Here’s the Posters we’ve made so far. If you see/found/made a good one, send a link to it.
I caught the Bison out for a little run this morning. It’s a nice cool day with a little rain so I think they were happy to have a day without a lot of heat. Most of them still have a lot of their winter coat hanging on them still.
Here’s a local news story about the Decline in bee population puts sting on honey prices
And after reading that, make yourself feel better with some Honey recipes
Yesterday I was wondering when the ducks were going to hatch, this morning I see Mom and 4 ducklings wandering around.
Momma Duck was sitting on 11 eggs. She hatched 7 but 3 didn’t make it. There’s one still trying to get out of the shell but I don’t think he’ll make it either since momma has left the nest now. There’s another Duck on eggs still, she started a week after this one. Maybe she’ll have better luck. They’re Rouen ducks, basically mallards but much heavier so they don’t fly away. They can fly, but just short distances.
I looked out the window Saturday morning and saw Nessie swimming in the pond. Turns out it was Buddy and Joey taking a dip. I had seen them in the past in the pond but they’d only go in up to their chests. This time the were fully in swimming around and having a good time. I’m glad they’re good swimmers, I don’t know how I’d get floaties on them otherwise.
Finally got a digital camcorder. Welcome to the future. It’ll be a handy accessory to carry in my shiny metal aircar (was listening to Rush yesterday). So I’ll be putting together some strange and mostly boring videos of the farm and the rag-tag motley collection of critters and other items of general interest.
Here is our channel on the YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/exoticgamedotcom
And here is our first video posted :
It’s a few minutes of the Bison lazily grazing in the field. There’s 11 of them currently, 9 are coming up on 2 years old and you’ll see 2 that are about 1 year old. At some points it’ll seem like I’m 8 feet away from them, that’s because I was about 8 feet away from them. They’re still definitely wild animals but they are constantly exposed to people and are even hand feed cattle cubes some times so standing calmly near them is possible. As they’re getting bigger and they’ll be mature this year for the fall mating season, we’ll be giving them more space and most interaction will be from the other side of a fence or from the bed of a truck.
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This video contains important and startling information about Llamas and their usefulness
as an emergency floatation device. (Note: some facts presented in this brief videolog maybe slightly
erroneous and potentially incorrect)
Here’s the Wikipedia Bison entry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bison
and a gallery of images on Wikimedia (most are public domain pics)
Man, 75, Hurt While Riding Pet Buffalo
I’ve seen a few old photos of people sitting on a saddled bison, but let me suggest that this article is a good reason why you shouldn’t.
