It took forever to warm up and now it’s 100′ The bees are getting hot.
We went to the big hive to set up a watering system for them.
The horses always come over to say hello.
Eli called himself farmer Eli.
For the water jar, Paul poked holes in a mason jar lid.
This is boardman feeder. The jar is placed upside down in the feeder.
When the jar is filled with water and tipped upside down, water doesn’t come out. The bees walk up through the feeder and drinks from the jar.
Paul also put in a queen excluder. This screen keeps the queen bee down below and allows all the other bees to move up to the upper boxes.
Why?? To keep the brood out of the honey we collect.
The first two boxes will be brood and honey for the bees to eat. Above the queen excluder will be honey for us.
The queen excluder on top of box two.
Paul slid in the feeder so the bees can access the water from inside the hive.
Pretty cute!
Before we left, we had to feed the horses their treats.
He is so cute!
Love you little pea!