Vampire bees

[?honey?]

Last week we were butchering chickens.
When we cut off the head they bleed as usual.
Strange thing we soon had many bees drinkimng up the warm blood.
Is this normal> What is going on??

[luvin honey]

wow--Strange and freaky! What kind of honey would that make? We butchered chickens 2 weeks ago and I never noticed a single bee. I guess blood is a little sweet...

[livz2hunt]

Last week we were butchering chickens.
When we cut off the head they bleed as usual.
Strange thing we soon had many bees drinkimng up the warm blood.
Is this normal> What is going on??

You mean you never have sucked hen heads? Gees! I thought everyone that ever lived on a farm had tried hen head tea. :popcorn: Hee! Hee!

Seriously, I have seen yellowjackets on deer carcasses, but never honey bees. Maybe you need to feed them.:)

[jdittemore]

HI

Sure they wore not Yelow Jackets?

They love blood.

blood is high in protein and yelow jackets go for that in mid to late summer.

[beyondthesidewalks]

I butcher at least a couple hundred broilers a year in the backyard and have never seen my bees in the chicken blood. I sure have seen yellow jackets all over it.

[IBRed]

I butchered 30 roaster a couple of weeks ago, and my bees were not interested in the blood per say, but they were interested in the water-blood mixture. After i was finished, and washed everything down, they went away. I think it may have been the salty flavor, kinda like the clorine from a pool, and I did not like the idea of that stuff in the hives!

[bnatural]

I think it may have been the salty flavor, kinda like the clorine from a pool, and I did not like the idea of that stuff in the hives!

Well, then never look too closely at muddy puddles along the side of a farm road, especially if there is a little cow manure (or pee) mixed in. Bees, butterflies, they all love that tasty stuff. They have to get their minerals from somewhere, and the concentration is higher, the edges are safer, and the water is warmer, than that from a pond or stream.

Bill