[Jacob-list] Sheep & Bees

[gf]

mmmmm honeyyyy ...  was this bear balding and overweight?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Bjarkman" <patchworkfibers at alltel.net>
To: <creaganlios at monad.net>; "Jacob Sheep List" <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Sheep & Bees


Every year for the last 4 years we have pastured out our freezer rams at a
neighbors
along with another neighbor's bee hives.  The hives are enclosed within two
strands
of electric.   There has never been any problem with the bees.  I have
walked
through the bees numerous times going to feed and the bees have never stung
me or
the sheep. Although, one year, after we had taken the rams to the butcher, a
bear
did come and destroy both the hives and the pasture perimeter fencing.

Linda

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:18:03 -0400, Thomas Simmons wrote:
>Some questions I've decided to muse over today:
>
>1) Has anyone kept beehives in the fields where they pasture their sheep?
>The sheep dont seem to touch the wildflowers in the pasture, so I'm
thinking
>of "double-cropping...."

>
>Thom
>
>
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