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Title: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: Gary on December 31, 2013, 10:34:30 am

71 year old new beek with 12 hives going to 24 this spring. Look forward to learning and enjoying this site.

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: BoilerJim on December 31, 2013, 10:36:11 am

Welcome to forum, Gary !

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: iddee on December 31, 2013, 10:59:19 am

Welcome. Pull up a chair and visit fer a spell. Hope you like what you find.

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: Perry on December 31, 2013, 11:11:50 am

Wow
When you start something you don't fool around.
Welcome to our friendly part of the beekeeping world here.

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: riverbee on December 31, 2013, 11:17:38 am

hi ya gary!  greetings and welcome!!!  look forward to reading your posts!

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: JanO on December 31, 2013, 11:53:26 am

Welcome Gary.  I bet you can teach us a few things.  I look forward to reading your post. 

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: Riverrat on December 31, 2013, 02:52:03 pm

welcome aboard gary

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: Finally Home on December 31, 2013, 02:52:57 pm

Howdy, glad you're here  ;)

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: kebee on December 31, 2013, 05:03:02 pm

Welcome Gary, glad to see some more folks around my age here, there are already a few.

Ken

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: apisbees on January 01, 2014, 02:36:11 am

Hi Gary 71 and doubling your size. Most are thinking of downsizing and retirement at 71 Just think if you would have started beekeeping when you were 20 you would 50 years experience by now.

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: blueblood on January 01, 2014, 03:54:31 am

Welcome!

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: brooksbeefarm on January 01, 2014, 08:08:27 am

Welcome Gary, from the show me state. Jack

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: G3farms on January 01, 2014, 09:36:04 am

hello Gary and welcome to the forum! That must have bee a quick and steep learning curve. Hope all of your hives make it through the winter.

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: Gary on January 01, 2014, 10:59:42 am

Steep learning curve is right! But it is a quick way to learn much. I plan to start teaching PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury soldiers how to keep bees next year, maybe this summer and I've got to learn fast. Beekeeping is intoxicating. Wish I had started many years ago. 58 here yesterday and all hives were flying. All have winter patties. 18 this morning. Ordered another 12 packages and one nuc yesterday. A number of suppliers are already sold out or have stopped handling bees. Happy New Year!

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: apisbees on January 04, 2014, 05:52:30 am

Gary with 12 hives and feeding already you are going to have so many bees in the existing hives that you could of split each of them with only adding a queen. I think you may find yourself with a swarming problem with the original hives, splitting would have been one means of swarm control.

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: Gary on January 04, 2014, 12:29:13 pm

Apis,
Good advice. Thank you. First I have to get them through the winter of course. One of the mentors I have tells me that we can do a form of checkerboarding using frames from the old hives to place in the new hives. Reduces swarming potential in the old and boosts the new hives with pulled out frames and brood. Not precisely sure how and when  that will go but I'll follow his directions and hope swarming is held to a minimum.

Title: Re: Hello from mid Kansas
Post by: Finally Home on January 04, 2014, 12:37:39 pm

Welcome Sir 8)