3.6m Omlet Chicken Run for sale, Brand New in Boxes, Milton Keynes (MK19)

[Daphne]

I've just had a message from a local beek that somebody has very tragically lost 4 horses to bee stings. He says: One of the horses managed to jump into the section of the field where several bees were kept, and it appears that a hive was knocked over and the horse was stung. The horse panicked, and practically all the hives in the apiary were knocked down, and the horse was severely attacked. This attracted the other three horses in the field to come over, and these too, were severely stung. AS a result, all four horses died of heart failure.

 

Under normal circs sheep and cattle are OK with bees, as are our chooks. Apparently, some horse fly sprays are citrus flavoured which the bees don't like. The advice is to change your clothes if going from horse to bee.

 

I know this is a very rare occurance, but isn't it so sad

[Olly]

A friend of mine has her beehive in the field where she keeps her horses! I will warn her about this - the apiary site is fenced off so the horses can't reach it, but that's an interesting point about the smell of horse flysprays.

 

A very sad story.