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Later in the video, Ken talks about the Bees as created creatures by God. God’s accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs. For example: The eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days. The eggs of the canary in 14 days. The eggs of the barnyard hen in 21 days. The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days; The eggs of the mallard in 35 days. The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days. (Notice, they are all divisible by Seven). Wonder why your life is a mess? The lives of each …

It was a fun day, with a road trip to rural Baxley GA to pick up 3 lbs of Italian strain honey bees. (Approx 10000 bees) Once we got them to Atlanta, they were put into a new hive. The queen stays in her cage until she is used to the smell of the new hive, and the workers have made some comb for her. I brought shallow supers, frames with bees wax coated foundation from Dadant. In a few days, we will take the cork out of one end of the queen cage, and let the worker bees eat through the …

We are looking into one of our hives to find the queen, watch bees do the bee dance, and watch worker bees licking up honey off the comb!

To get the honey from the wax comb takes some serious plumbing.

Covered in honey, bees and sensations of righteous harvest.