Well, it is a no-go on splitting my bee hives. I cannot locate good carnolian queen bees anywhere. Everyone is sold out until June. Sigh. Guess I will just go with the two hives and buy the 10 honey supers and hope to split next year.
I finished my feed-bunk! The materials cost about $50. Can you believe how much lumber is going for? Alan came up from working on the electric fence and commented how great it looked in an obnoxiously surprised voice. (When is that man gonna learn that the woodshop tools are really mine and I just let him borrow them?) I think it looks great, if I do say so myself. The steers let me know that it meets expectations.
Alan also used the last bag of insulators and had to head to Farm and Fleet for more. He spent $150 there on replentishing our fencing supplies. The new pasture is almost goat ready! I am going to be SO happy to have them out there instead of in the pen.
I picked up the two new does today. One is a two year old and the other is a one year old. He bred the two year old on the 7th. I believe that my Sr. doe was also bred on Saturday, so I should get two new litters of baby bunnies around the 8th of May.
Note to self: Remember to put litter-boxes in hutches on the 2nd.
