[Jacob-list] Sheep & Bees

[Linda Bjarkman]

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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