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@duckpondsfarm Dec 2, 2019, 11:26 AM UTC

Installing bees into a Kenyan Top Bar hive from a Langstroth Nuc

Installing bees from a Langstroth nuc into a Topbar hive. Today we get our first ever honey bees! Except somehow we need to make them fit from a rectangular Langstroth hive box into the more triangul…

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@duckpondsfarm Nov 26, 2019, 9:57 AM UTC

4 week inspection of Top Bar Hive plus DIY sugar feeder

Join us as we dive in for a look at how our hive is doing 4 weeks after installing a nucleus colony into our Top Bar Hive. I'll also show you how I made a very simple DIY sugar feeder to supplement o…

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@duckpondsfarm Nov 4, 2019, 11:32 AM UTC

First inspection of our top bar hive.

Today we inspected our Top Bar Hive, one week after installing bees. Find out how they have fared and we decide if we need to supplementally feed them or not. https://youtu.be/6KZJKdgfb94

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@duckpondsfarm Oct 30, 2019, 6:48 AM UTC

Transferring bees into our Top Bar Hive.

I'll show you how we, as first time honey bee keepers, transferred our first colony from a 5 frame langstroth nucleus box to our topbar hive. Let us know if you have any questions. https://youtu.be/R…

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@duckpondsfarm Mar 6, 2018, 9:09 PM UTC

Daddykirbs Cool Curators Contest Entry - @duckpondsfarm

Hey guys, today I'd like to share with you one of my current favourite videos put out by YouTuber and Steemian, @daddykirbs. This particular videos details how he went about building some fencing to…

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@duckpondsfarm Mar 3, 2018, 11:03 AM UTC

Predator Frustration - Graphic Images.

Predators are a fact of life for almost every homesteader, no matter which part of the world they hail from. They can vary in form from tiny spiders that pose a very real threat to the homesteader, t…

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@duckpondsfarm Feb 25, 2018, 7:08 AM UTC

A look forward. A look back. Farm Updates

A look at some of the things that have changed since our last video, and some of the things we are aiming for in 2018. Follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DuckPondsFarm/ Follow us on Ins…

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@duckpondsfarm Feb 16, 2018, 8:56 PM UTC

Kuku the talking Eclectus parrot

Meet Kuku, our gorgeous female Eclectus parrot. Kuku means chicken in Swahilli, or at least that's what Google translate tells us. It's hard to get her talking on camera as she usually only talks whe…

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@duckpondsfarm Feb 15, 2018, 8:57 PM UTC

Tough times at Duck Ponds Farm

We experience some tough times with our farm animals here at Duck Ponds Farm and begin to question what we are doing. On a brighter note, we have received a lot of rain that has really recharged the…

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@duckpondsfarm Feb 12, 2018, 9:07 PM UTC

Australian Native Stingless Beekeeping - Part 3 - Splitting a boxed hive

Part 3 in a series that shows how we keep and utilise our Native Stingless bees. This third video shows how we go about splitting one of our boxed native bee hives. Things don't always go as planned,…

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