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I'm so sorry, I'm struggling with this pain as well. Something about these dogs makes you love them so much!

Pray for Toli.... Got a knot on his foreleg just above the ankle. Thought it was a bruise but after a week took him to the vet. She thought it was a bruise. Got worse so I took him back the yesterday. Xray shows a growth inside and outside the bone. Bone appears very thin. Either a bone...

Toli is 5 years old now. Haven't come back to this page in a long time. Thought I'd leave an update. The big fella is 150 now. Finally taught him deer where farm animals. Now every doe in the county comes to my farm to raise fawns. No coyotes come on our farm. I never even see a print...

The dogs are wonderful, love them to death. I did finally break all of them of chasing the deer. The deer responded by REALLY moving in. My son saw one under the carport on the concrete last week. Toli keeps the coyotes off the property and every doe comes here to have her fawns. I've seen...

I tried the breakaways but I use an electric in ground fence and they constantly popped the collars off. Very expensive if you don't find them...

Haven't been here in a while, saw an email from a post go buy from Southern, Made me come back and enjoy the blog. Toli is almost 5. Summer 135 to 140, winter 150. What an awesome pup, love him to death. Stray came up, and she's young enough and big enough to rough house with him. He was...

I've only lost a very weak nuc, but a commercial buddy has lost 30. We're very close to spring here in Florida, highs in the upper 60s and low 70 are in the forecast for next week. So we're almost out of the woods. After my buddies loses, I've decided to start feeding next week when it warms...

I'm trying Hubam Clover, which is annual white sweet clover, this year. It's a hybrid of biannual sweetclovers. All the benefits of sweetclover but flowers the first year. Tests showed it actually produced more nectar than the biannual. Suppose to tolerate warmer dryer climates in the south...

I use sugar bricks. I add 2 cups of sugar, 3 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar, mix, repeat, till I get enough to fill my hive sized cookie sheets. cook them at 170 for 3 or 4 hours and stick them in the hives. works great. You can use water but I read that the acid in the vinegar makes the...

I will try some, Thanks Southern!

Toli has been bitten 3 times, twice on the nose, face got badly swollen, last one was probably a pygmy rattler on the ankle. That was by far the worst. Our vet said there is little they can do unless you are sure of the type of snake. He was miserable for 48 hours, but no worse for ware. I...

For big dogs, that's a pretty long life span. I'm glad, I want the big fella around for a long time. I asked because my old border collie is really starting to show his age. Arthritis is getting bad, solid gray face. He's such a sweetheart and a great mentor when Toli was a puppy. Traffic...

What is the life expectancy of Anatolian shepherds?

I've never bought a package, just nucs, but I would say the same thing, If you treat them in the spring, that's a great extra treatment. but I wouldn't do that instead of a dearth treatment or a fall treatment. Treating a new package, with NO BROOD, would be very effective. But they will...

You have to treat for mites, usually it's the second year that gets them going into fall. Mites breed up with the bees, literally using the brood to raise their own. But the numbers of the mites don't fall as fast as the number for bees in the fall. So the number of mites compared to the...

I hunted for many years, but don't do that any more. I don't kill anything I don't have to now, thou the wife is pushing me to reduce the deer population. But I won't. I don't even kill and eat my extra roosters, I just separate them (so they can't harass the hens) and let them free range...

I'm doing much better, takes almost a year to recover from the surgery. He is too big for me to manhandle, which is why he gets no baths. :-( Funny, I've got pretty solid voice control and can even stop him when he sees a deer, he cries and wants to do as I tell him when it's bath time, runs...

I took the big dog to the vet to get his ears checked and to re-weigh him for heart worm meds. Ears have been a big problem for months. I've tried everything. Still can't get the big guy to let us give him a bath. He'll play in the sprinklers, but don't even ACT like you're going to bath...

So very sorry....

OA is now legal in the US, one of the major beekeeping groups finally got the FDA to undertake a study and following the study the FDA has approved OA dribble and Vaporizing for bees in the US. I've been using it for about 3 years.