This time of year the carpenter bees are everywhere. In the past two years I’ve had ‘Bee Gone’ insecticide applied, but I could still see bee activity. This year I’m going a different route by putting up traps. After two days they seem to work pretty well, I’ve order three more so I can have them on all sides of the house.
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Guineas are Laying Eggs!
The four guineas have been busy this spring. They’ve laid a total of 23 eggs in the barn. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the hen(s) to sit on them, in fact they laid them in random places all over the coop. After about two weeks I took all of them and put them in an incubator, we’ll find out soon enough if they are fertile, they should hatch around the 20th of May.
Stocked the Big Pond
Purchased a whole load of fish from a Zetts up in West Virginia, the containers took up the entire trailer and pickup truck. The fish included:
- Large mouth bass
- Blue gill
- Yellow perch
- Channel catfish
- Fathead minnows
- Crayfish
- Shiners
- Giant tadpoles
- Koi
- Large snails
- Daphnia – water fleas
Maddy & Patrick helped me spread them around the pond. Keeping fingers crossed that they will take.