Hobbies

[hillbillyhammer]

I forgot Bees....just getting into that but i do plan to take it a bit further than a hobby. Anyone else have bees?

Don't have any, but I have always been interested in keepin some. One day maybe

 

[Calman]

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Shoot em with a 12 gauge slug. You'll never go back to any other way.[/quote]

Bet that would destroy them for sure, :lol2:

 

[Rafter S]

I forgot Bees....just getting into that but i do plan to take it a bit further than a hobby. Anyone else have bees?

Don't have any, but I have always been interested in keepin some. One day maybe

I worked for one of the best known queen producers in the country about 20 years ago, and kept a few bees for a year or two after I quit. When I finally sold them I was talking to my father about it. I told him that I was selling them so I could spend more time with my cattle, and told him how much I was getting for them. He looked at me and said "Are you sure you're selling the right livestock?"

 

[wacocowboy]

I enjoy hunting and fishing,gardening,cooking
And of course my cattle.
My favorite pastime though is to get a good sized chicken snake and put it in a new Nike shoebox. Then we drive up to the north side of Killeen there around MLK Blvd . And set it on a bench at the bus stop. Sit back and watch. Funny as he'll seeing them snakes get the shyt scared out of em.... ;-)

Poor chicken snake. I would love to come along to watch next time.

 

[cowgirl8]

I forgot Bees....just getting into that but i do plan to take it a bit further than a hobby. Anyone else have bees?

Don't have any, but I have always been interested in keepin some. One day maybe

I'm not sure i'm cut out for it. I checked to see if my bees are working like i hoped and they went nuts..took over 30 min to get them off of me...freaked me out a bit..

 

[ez14]

I enjoy hunting and fishing,gardening,cooking
And of course my cattle.
My favorite pastime though is to get a good sized chicken snake and put it in a new Nike shoebox. Then we drive up to the north side of Killeen there around MLK Blvd . And set it on a bench at the bus stop. Sit back and watch. Funny as he'll seeing them snakes get the shyt scared out of em.... ;-)

Poor chicken snake. I would love to come along to watch next time.

Well texas is a bit far away just to come watch this so maybe you could make a video

 

[Rafter S]

I forgot Bees....just getting into that but i do plan to take it a bit further than a hobby. Anyone else have bees?

Don't have any, but I have always been interested in keepin some. One day maybe

I'm not sure i'm cut out for it. I checked to see if my bees are working like i hoped and they went nuts..took over 30 min to get them off of me...freaked me out a bit..

Let me try to guess what happened.

1. You didn't smoke them.
2. You didn't wait a minute or so after smoking them before you opened the hive.
3. You didn't move slow when opening the hive and lifting out the frames.
4. You didn't keep putting smoke on them periodically.
5. At some point you panicked and started flailing around.
6. You opened the hive on a cloudy, overcast, or cold day.
7. Or you started out with mean bees.

Do any of those sound familiar?

 

[Muddy]

Maybe Africanized bees took over the hive?

 

[M-5]

I think the vet said they were circle flys instead of bees

 

[Alan]

Were they shiny or dull?

 

[greybeard]

Which end of the bee do ya light to get the smoke?

 

[hurleyjd]

I tried the bee keeping at one time in my life looked pretty promising until the queen took up with a male tumble bug and you can guess the rest of the story.

 

[cowgirl8]

Let me try to guess what happened.

1. You didn't smoke them.
2. You didn't wait a minute or so after smoking them before you opened the hive.
3. You didn't move slow when opening the hive and lifting out the frames.
4. You didn't keep putting smoke on them periodically.
5. At some point you panicked and started flailing around.
6. You opened the hive on a cloudy, overcast, or cold day.
7. Or you started out with mean bees.

Do any of those sound familiar?

They had been very nice, hadnt smoked them or needed to.....but that day, they needed smoke... I dont like inconsistencies...so i'll be consistently using smoke with that one....lol

 

[Rafter S]

Let me try to guess what happened.

1. You didn't smoke them.
2. You didn't wait a minute or so after smoking them before you opened the hive.
3. You didn't move slow when opening the hive and lifting out the frames.
4. You didn't keep putting smoke on them periodically.
5. At some point you panicked and started flailing around.
6. You opened the hive on a cloudy, overcast, or cold day.
7. Or you started out with mean bees.

Do any of those sound familiar?

They had been very nice, hadnt smoked them or needed to.....but that day, they needed smoke... I dont like inconsistencies...so i'll be consistently using smoke with that one....lol

Excellent idea.

 

[ctadmin]

Do you know how much dust accumulates on threads when they go with no replies for a decade? :)

Cmon, I need some hobby ideas. Sudoku isn't cutting it for me anymore

 

[Brute 23]

Sure miss TB, lavaca rancher, and a some of those others.

 

[Rafter S]

Sure miss TB, lavaca rancher, and a some of those others.

I saw that cowgirl8 started this thread. Whatever happened to her?

 

[MurraysMutts]

Turkeys in the middle way out at 150yds with a Ruger Bisley .41
Not my best day, but it's a hobby.

 

[Brute 23]

I saw that cowgirl8 started this thread. Whatever happened to her?

Im not sure. She just stopped posting.

 

[M.Magis]

Probably decided this place was too rinky-dink for her.