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Monday, January 31, 2011

Re: [AlpacaTalk] RE: honey

 

Flossie thank you so much! i don't have snow but i've got MUD - and the toboggen slides right over it - the wheel barrow is impossible for me right now.
 
husband is working away now and i'm on my own - the toboggen solution makes a huge difference for me
 
thanks again
Wendy
DreamWeaver Alpacas
Port Alberni, BC
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Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:07 PM
Subject: RE: [AlpacaTalk] RE: honey

 

I also have chickens (and ducks and turkeys) and will tuck that hint about the honey away for future use. My son's girlfriend lives on an estate that also has bee keepers as tenets.  I usually get a fresh supply of it in the summer. I am going to ask about the corn syrup being used. Learn something new everyday. And Janice, you are welcome. I try to share every time saver or money saver I can. I switched to sheeps minerals without copper this year. Cost around $20 for 50 pounds and the alpacas seem to like it better than the expensive alpaca minerals I was buying. I also switched from using a wheel barrel to a plastic toboggen (sled) to haul hay. So much easier in all the snow we have right now.
Flossie

Flossie and Joe Carmichael
GentleGrangeAlpacas
Jamison,Pa.
Home-215-918-0339
Cell-267-614-9620
http://www.alpacanation.com/gentlegrange.asp




 

To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
From: jelizabethfarms1@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:43:56 -0500
Subject: [AlpacaTalk] RE: honey

 
<<<I think the sugar in the honey makes the swelling in the tissues go
down and it is then easier to put it back in place. I had an alpaca with
a prolapsed uterus and the vet told me to have a 5 pound bag of sugar
ready when he got there. He poured the sugar over the prolapse after
cleaning it off. The sugar drew the fluid out of the tissues so he was
able to fit it back in.
Flossie>>>

Interesting! And thanks Laura for the chicken first aid info. I am
a beek (as well as chicken lover and keeper) and know there are just a
ton of uses for the amazing honey, but this was a new one on me! In
Australian hospitals they use bandages impregnated with honey for burn
patients as it is powerfully antibacterial as well as hydrophilic. It
is very good for the skin. Long ago I remember reading an article
wherein honey workers noticed that their hands were always soft; now it
is used in mnay cosmetics as is the beeswax. Burt (Burt's Bees) has
made it common and easy to obtain and use.
And the discussion is correct concerning getting your honey from a local
producer instead of off the grocery shelves. Almost all commercial
honey comes to us now from China - and there has been a recent. scandal
about it being contaminated. But beyond all that commercial bees (here
as well as abroad) are fed corn syrup. Commercial beeks take every drop
of honey leaving the bees nothing but sugar or corn syrup (cheaper than
sugar and much much worse for the bees) to raise their brood on. You
can't raise heatlhy babies on sugar or corn syrup. And you can't make
honey, at least not real honey, from corn syrup! It looks the same,
smells the same, tastes pretty much the same.....but it is NOT the
same. Honey contains all the amazing delicate fragile volatile oils,
phenols, enzymes from each flower........if it is heated or filtered
(which all commercial is) you lose all that. Small producers merely
extract by centrifigal force or gravity and allowed to filter by gravity
alone thru fine mesh screens - taking days. Keeping bees and
harvesting honey is hot heavy hard work. Expect to pay a bit more for
the real deal and support your local beek.....we need them :-).

Janice
PS Flossie - I think it was you that alerted us to the sale at Big
Dees last year on the XXXL dog blankets. I wanted to thank you for
that. Thanks to you sharing that info my babies all have blankets this
cold wet icy winter.

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RE: [AlpacaTalk] RE: honey

 

I also have chickens (and ducks and turkeys) and will tuck that hint about the honey away for future use. My son's girlfriend lives on an estate that also has bee keepers as tenets.  I usually get a fresh supply of it in the summer. I am going to ask about the corn syrup being used. Learn something new everyday. And Janice, you are welcome. I try to share every time saver or money saver I can. I switched to sheeps minerals without copper this year. Cost around $20 for 50 pounds and the alpacas seem to like it better than the expensive alpaca minerals I was buying. I also switched from using a wheel barrel to a plastic toboggen (sled) to haul hay. So much easier in all the snow we have right now.
Flossie

Flossie and Joe Carmichael
GentleGrangeAlpacas
Jamison,Pa.
Home-215-918-0339
Cell-267-614-9620
http://www.alpacanation.com/gentlegrange.asp




 

To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
From: jelizabethfarms1@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:43:56 -0500
Subject: [AlpacaTalk] RE: honey

 
<<<I think the sugar in the honey makes the swelling in the tissues go
down and it is then easier to put it back in place. I had an alpaca with
a prolapsed uterus and the vet told me to have a 5 pound bag of sugar
ready when he got there. He poured the sugar over the prolapse after
cleaning it off. The sugar drew the fluid out of the tissues so he was
able to fit it back in.
Flossie>>>

Interesting! And thanks Laura for the chicken first aid info. I am
a beek (as well as chicken lover and keeper) and know there are just a
ton of uses for the amazing honey, but this was a new one on me! In
Australian hospitals they use bandages impregnated with honey for burn
patients as it is powerfully antibacterial as well as hydrophilic. It
is very good for the skin. Long ago I remember reading an article
wherein honey workers noticed that their hands were always soft; now it
is used in mnay cosmetics as is the beeswax. Burt (Burt's Bees) has
made it common and easy to obtain and use.
And the discussion is correct concerning getting your honey from a local
producer instead of off the grocery shelves. Almost all commercial
honey comes to us now from China - and there has been a recent. scandal
about it being contaminated. But beyond all that commercial bees (here
as well as abroad) are fed corn syrup. Commercial beeks take every drop
of honey leaving the bees nothing but sugar or corn syrup (cheaper than
sugar and much much worse for the bees) to raise their brood on. You
can't raise heatlhy babies on sugar or corn syrup. And you can't make
honey, at least not real honey, from corn syrup! It looks the same,
smells the same, tastes pretty much the same.....but it is NOT the
same. Honey contains all the amazing delicate fragile volatile oils,
phenols, enzymes from each flower........if it is heated or filtered
(which all commercial is) you lose all that. Small producers merely
extract by centrifigal force or gravity and allowed to filter by gravity
alone thru fine mesh screens - taking days. Keeping bees and
harvesting honey is hot heavy hard work. Expect to pay a bit more for
the real deal and support your local beek.....we need them :-).

Janice
PS Flossie - I think it was you that alerted us to the sale at Big
Dees last year on the XXXL dog blankets. I wanted to thank you for
that. Thanks to you sharing that info my babies all have blankets this
cold wet icy winter.

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.

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posted by Chaddo at 12:07 PM 0 comments

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[AlpacaTalk] RE: honey

 

<<<I think the sugar in the honey makes the swelling in the tissues go
down and it is then easier to put it back in place. I had an alpaca with
a prolapsed uterus and the vet told me to have a 5 pound bag of sugar
ready when he got there. He poured the sugar over the prolapse after
cleaning it off. The sugar drew the fluid out of the tissues so he was
able to fit it back in.
Flossie>>>

Interesting! And thanks Laura for the chicken first aid info. I am
a beek (as well as chicken lover and keeper) and know there are just a
ton of uses for the amazing honey, but this was a new one on me! In
Australian hospitals they use bandages impregnated with honey for burn
patients as it is powerfully antibacterial as well as hydrophilic. It
is very good for the skin. Long ago I remember reading an article
wherein honey workers noticed that their hands were always soft; now it
is used in mnay cosmetics as is the beeswax. Burt (Burt's Bees) has
made it common and easy to obtain and use.
And the discussion is correct concerning getting your honey from a local
producer instead of off the grocery shelves. Almost all commercial
honey comes to us now from China - and there has been a recent. scandal
about it being contaminated. But beyond all that commercial bees (here
as well as abroad) are fed corn syrup. Commercial beeks take every drop
of honey leaving the bees nothing but sugar or corn syrup (cheaper than
sugar and much much worse for the bees) to raise their brood on. You
can't raise heatlhy babies on sugar or corn syrup. And you can't make
honey, at least not real honey, from corn syrup! It looks the same,
smells the same, tastes pretty much the same.....but it is NOT the
same. Honey contains all the amazing delicate fragile volatile oils,
phenols, enzymes from each flower........if it is heated or filtered
(which all commercial is) you lose all that. Small producers merely
extract by centrifigal force or gravity and allowed to filter by gravity
alone thru fine mesh screens - taking days. Keeping bees and
harvesting honey is hot heavy hard work. Expect to pay a bit more for
the real deal and support your local beek.....we need them :-).

Janice
PS Flossie - I think it was you that alerted us to the sale at Big
Dees last year on the XXXL dog blankets. I wanted to thank you for
that. Thanks to you sharing that info my babies all have blankets this
cold wet icy winter.

__._,_.___
Recent Activity:
Message posts are the opinion of individuals posting and are not necessarily endorsed or approved by Yahoo! or the moderator of this group. The purpose of this discussion group is to ensure that all points of view can be aired. It is the responsibility of all individuals who post to treat others with respect and civility.
.

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posted by Chaddo at 7:43 AM 0 comments