Saftey warning signs or not?

[Anonimo22]

8 walkers killed by cows in the last 10 years in the UK.

Holy crap. What kind of cows are you people raising over there?

That kind of stuff happens here too.

Relative is a (farm type, not a get rich schemer type) veterinarian. All of his serious injuries were from cattle and bulls. Especially the bulls are nuts. Sometimes they'll for no reason at all after years of being patient kick people. Know a few people kicked by both cows and horses. Both are deadly.

But people don't like to talk about it because they love animals.
Some of them can be prevented by not walking right behind them, except the bulls act weird whenever there's no cows near it some people say. Some cattle people will say the animals stay calmer with their 'friends' near them, and can get scared more easily when they aren't. And sometimes we'd see animals start to get riled up when the painkillers were wearing off in the middle of surgery and stuff. That could get wild and you'd have to act fast.

Sometimes people know their animal is more aggressive than normal and they don't put it down or phase it out for whatever reason. (This was what happened on one accident I know of.)

But still its amazing there aren't more accidents. A lot of the cattle corals can be really big for the commercial farmers. Relative X was telling me for their vet internship they'd worked out near Nebraska at this one outfit that had about a hundred thousand cattle in it. I was kind of shocked they can even get that big. (With that many of them in one place you start to think wow the number of accidents is actually pretty low compared to how many of them there are.)

[TheHoneyPump]

Best practice is to keep a low profile.  Keep beehives out of site and best bee away from populated areas. Imho, Do not post signs or say anything or register anything unless required by law.  The area apiculturalists usually strongly advise the - out if sight out of mind - approach.  They are the ones taking the calls and concerns.  They do not like getting calls any more than you like them showing up having to deal with it. 

Imho - Generally speaking, in terms of PR; as much as the general public is all hyped up about bees nowadays the reality is people and beehives just do not mix well at all.  Folks will appreciate seeing the odd bee in their gardens and lawns. They also like the idea of bees and the saving the planet. However, the sight if a full blown beehive in action and what is involved in keeping bees is usually overwhelming and downright frightening to all of your neighbours.

For you and the PR of your local beekeeping community, it is best to keep your bee activities on a -need to know only- basis. Some suggestions are:  If you are in town, tell your immediate overthefence next door neighbour on each side. No one else. If the closest neighbour is more than 50 yards out, tell no one. Those you have told, periodically Invite them over from to participate or simply observed the beehive on the days you know the bees are in a good mood. Always follow the bylaws as well as be practical and rational about where the laws fall short. What that means is do not be stupid; as example do not put 50 hives in your backyard near a school zone!  Try to setup so the hive(s) tucked out of sight near a shrub or such so any of those nosy fence climbing lookie-loos have nothing to see to be waving hands about.