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Had an email from Mann Lake yesterday to say my order will be delayed until approx. 11 March. This has surprised me as I placed my order at 10.26 on 05/02/16. At least they are honouring the order. I will have to look to see if they have taken payment. Has anyone else had the same problem...

I was going to use Cuprinol Duckback, I contacted the help desk and was told the new version of this treatment is not suitable for spray painting. I have a stack of supers, brood boxes etc which is over 8feet tall and would be easy to spray paint. Any suggestions of suitable paint, Cuprinol...

I shall, but have had to settle this year with one from Sainsburys, will not be the same as a real butchers haggis from Scotland. Mike

Checked the drop after oxalic acid treatment on Sunday, quite a few, but there were a few mouse droppings on the inspection board on one hive. This hive has a super under the brood box and it was very active this afternoon. I have cleaned the board off and installed mouse guards on all 5 hives...

Just pulled my first rhubarb of the year. It was not forced just in the open ground. Thought I had better pull it before the frosts get it.

Has anyone had any dealings with this Company. I am having a awful time with them, ordered a carpet shampooer on 27/12/15, informed it would be delivered within 7 working days. Should have been 04/01/16 but still no Vax. The Customer Service Centre is useless - keeps fobbing me off with...

Pea hen arrived at the kitchen door with her old chick and a further 6, 3 white and 3 normal colour. We thought she had been killed some week ago but then she returned once a day for food.

While weeding in the strawberry bed, found a female grass snake stuck in my green plastic netting. I managed to get it out without too much difficulty, the net was caught on a large bulbous area about 12 inches from the head. When I lifted it up by the tail a large toad fell out. (the bulbous...

I never thought I would see the Goggle Eyed Plover in my Garden. In the last few nights we have had a pair making quite a racket in the garden at dusk. The attached picture was taken with telephoto from lounge window.

I was worried that our black calf might have fly strike. I have had problems in the past with fly strike on our Highland calves. Its now a major job catching these fast running calves but I was fortunate it went into the catching area without too much trouble. It is now too strong for me to...

A colony swarmed, with no sealed Q cells which rather surprised me, I inspected 7 days ago when there were no signs, but today they appeared to have swarmed. I have removed all 6 unsealed Q cells. I have a collected swarm covering 6 frames of brood which I intend to amalgamate with the...

This morning during the hot weather we had a huge amount of fruit flies come into our house. They covered the windows walls and ceilings. I sprayed fly killer which did not seem to do much, but eventually most died. Tonight I vacuumed and on some window sills there was 1/4 inch of dead flies...

Had phone call yesterday asking to remove a colony of bees. Went through the usual questions and suspected a colony of bumbles. As the house was near my grand daughters school I agreed to have a look. As expected a colony of Bombus lapidaries in a bird box in a clump of ivy. Asked if I could...

We only normally here of the poor service from Bee equipment suppliers. I have just had excellent service from Wynne Jones, ordered frames on Friday received them on Monday. Will be using them again.

One of the Kestrel chicks which fledge today out of our owl box in a Scots Pine tree I'm now getting used to my new camera which has a x60 telephoto so can get some pictures some distance away. Only problem the pictures are too big for this forum so have to cut them down to be able to upload...

Half the lambs went off to the ???? today, the ewes are missing them and bellowing all the time, and the 2 bottle fed lambs are now weaned and calling for their milk. We are also getting a lot of noise from the Goggled Eyed Plovers, they are stating to call at dawn and dusk. Never had them so...

Pea Hen with her young. She hatched off 4 and all doing well

Weighed the lambs, and was very surprised at their weights. The twins were over 40kg and the triplets left on the ewe were 37 kg, bottle fed triplets 32kg. So I have some for the abattoir on Monday. Only 9 weeks from birth and not too much creep fed. Hope the price is good, will not be as...

Has anyone been having problems getting onto Amazon or Ebay today (Sunday)? I can get the home page up but cannot do any searching. Mike

Had a phone call from a lady yesterday, saying she had a swarm of honey bees and would I take care of them. On questioning her I asked are they honey bees and where were they. She assured me they were H bees, so I agreed to go and have a look. When I got to the cottage I was directed to the...