A Beautiful Day in South Texas - Beekeeping and Chicken FiressteemCreated with Sketch.

in homesteading •  7 years ago 

Chicken fires? What is that all about? Today I posted this picture on Instagram showing my fire in the chicken run.

I shared this thought:

Who can be the first to post a link to an old Daddykirbs video that explains why I burn in the chicken run?

This was a fun way for me to spark (see what I did there?) a little interest in an older YouTube video. Here's the video explaining why I do the fires in the chicken run.

Later in the afternoon when it warmed up to about 80 degrees (ah I miss those days) I got to do a little beekeeping. My son @espenkirby helped me out by being my cameraman for this beekeeping episode on the Daddykirbs Farm.

I'm actually sitting right now editing that video and remembered "Oh no, I haven't done my steemit post for the day!". The edited video will be ready hopefully tomorrow. It's going to be a long one since I'm showing the first inspection of 2018 on all three hives.

Did all 3 hives make it through the winter? That's something you'll find out in a future steemit post and YouTube video :)

I will say this... it's nice working in a wide open apiary (bee yard)! Wow, I'm glad I made that move.



Thank you for sharing this time with me!
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I was starting to get worried because you had not posted...Tweeting..

Life got crazy yesterday for a lot of reasons. I'm glad I remembered at all!

Great tip on using ash, chickens need to stay healthy!

this post is very interesting, I really like this kind of work.

good day and enjoy bro!

Beekeepers, they help everyone out, nice job.

I do this also, my dogs also like to roll in it. I hope my bees make it through this last month of winter, I'm a first time bee mom so a bit nervous but I check on them regularly and can still hear them in there.

That's a great idea! Our new coop is going to be partially in our woods though, so burning in that area would be a bad idea. However, we can dump our cooled ash from the wood stove in there instead! Thanks so much for the inspiration. My chickens will thank you too!

Yes, a great way to use those wood stove ashes :)

That is a really good idea. If I ever get chickens I will keep it in mind. :)

My chicken run isn't big enough to do this in so I put down sand for them to lay and roll in - they really love that too :)

You could make it a bit more beneficial by adding ash or diatomaceous earth to the sand.

I have ash from the fire that I can add - Thank you :)

here's a link to some DE on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2GQv9ka