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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: LazyBkpr on February 08, 2014, 03:48:41 pm
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Keep dreaming it will get here. ;) I know the feeling I have 3 foot by my hives. :o
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Life in a snow bank. Ain't it great? :o
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Love the photo. Spring will eventually arrive. Have faith.
Walt
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One word for that photo!
OPTIMISM!
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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love what tefer said:
"Life in a snow bank. Ain't it great? :o"
too funny! so true!........great fun picture lazy! loved it!
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Awwwe Buddy....
Here is an upnote for ya. The last three days it's been raining and raining and raining here. The inner cover that you made for my bees is doing it's job of keeping out the condensation out. I can't thank you enough ~
However, the bees are working furiously to close up the notch. And I go out with my trusty screwdriver and undo all their hard work. But I guess if you're a bee, you need to have something to do. A plus x two with the inner cover ~wink~
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I feel for you, it got up to 66 here and the bees are sure enjoying it, though I would start my lawn mower to charge the battery and not have to worry about it later on, battery would not start it so on charge now glad I found out now instead of later. Oh yes suppose to be up to 68 tomorrow here.
Ken
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"the bees are working furiously to close up the notch. And I go out with my trusty screwdriver and undo all their hard work. But I guess if you're a bee, you need to have something to do. A plus x two with the inner cover ~wink~"
jen, let them be....... :D errr bee!.....don't undo what they did, cuz they just do it again.....they know more than we do about their needs.... :D
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ps, great picture btw!
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Indeed! If they want it closed let them close it.. Mine dont close up the opening all the way, they leave it open JUST enough to get through.. If they close it up and you start to get moisture inside you will have to open it back up, but usually the bees know what they are doing!!
STILL snowing here, depression is starting to set in!! I guess its time to fire up the furnace in the shop and take the cover off the big block... Nothing like the roar of 800 HP to shake off the gloom.
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Maybe you can shake some ice off the roof with that thing!
Be careful you don't blow the windows out too!
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Riv and Scott- Okaaay!
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jen, hang in there, you are doing alright!
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you're supposed to put that stuff in the hive, not feed the birds with it! Fat deer in the fall, is that the goal? :laugh:
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Tell us about that table.
My bees love that Ultra bee. They roll in it.
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Keeper ""you're supposed to put that stuff in the hive, not feed the birds with it! Fat deer in the fall, is that the goal?""
Did I miss something here? scratching head
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Tell us about that table.
My bees love that Ultra bee. They roll in it.
I love watching them dive bomb into the Ultra Bee, and they DO litterally dive bomb into it. I hope I can get a GOOD quality video of them doing it this spring.
The table (I have two of them) is for early and late feeding, before the supers go on and after supers come off. Saves me time from trying to feed each hive. I don't go to them, they come to me. I use three gallon jugs with small mouths in each table.. though my wife broke a couple of the jars this winter, so I need to find MORE soon! It didn't actually bother me that she broke them until I found out that you cannot get these jars anymore. The best you can order is the Ball 2 quart small mouth jars as far as I have found.
1/1 syrup in the three one gallon jars, and the pollen sub in the tray under it to protect it from, light rain, but mostly to keep it from all blowing out with the winds we have here.
I set it out in the yard by the side porch where I can sit in my chair and watch them feed and squish the yellow jackets. The bees usually find it in an amazingly short amount of time.
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I open feed about the same distance as you are and have not had any robbing issues so far. I use a box and a chicken waterer. I drown bees in the chicken waterer. Even using gravel in the trough.
I think I'll use your design and build be one like yours if you don't mind.
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How many hives do you feed with that one station?
Also, Is there way to post videos on this forum?
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Not at all. You might want to make the holes for the jars large enough they will fit the wide mouth. You can still buy those brand new. One of the two nearby beeks uses the gallon plastic tubs inverted with a similar design.
Two tables and keeping them full of pollen sub and syrup are enough to get twenty hives jump started before the flow kicks in. It IS a sight to behold when the bees are in full feeding frenzy.
To post a vid I use PhotoBucket and post the link. Couldnt tell you if theres a better way.
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Lazy- '''I found out that you cannot get these jars anymore. The best you can order is the Ball 2 quart small mouth jars as far as I have found'''
Very true, your going to have to hit the local thrift shops and antique stores to find these nice glass gallon jars.
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What about a gallon glass pickle jar. Has a different lid that's not as available as mason jar lids.
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The pickle jars have a wider mouth and wont fit into my feeders. When I reach the point that I don't have enough jars I will simply have to widen the holes to fit the larger mouth jars. In the meantime I will have to put my mother on a mission to find more of these old gallon jars. Avoiding breaking those jars became important! I dislike having mismatched equipment.. its sort of like using all medium frames for hives and supers.. having BOTH types of jars means I will be constantly taking the wrong jars to the wrong feeders.
If it EVER warms up, I am going to revamp the storage area behind the store for a safer place to keep the jars and my growing plethora of wooden ware.
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I may just go ahead and make my holes larger to fit the pickle jars. That way if I break one I can get another jar fairly easy.
I hear ya on the equipment matching though.
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Lazy- I'm always prowling our vintage stores. Always. So if you want to, take a pic of the exact jar and lid you want and I'll prowl for it. I do this for other people too, it's not a problem. I don't care about shipping. One of the antique stores here has lots of jars. Just say the word, don't be bashful.
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Does feeding several hives from a one point source, aid in spreading diseases from hive to hive? Have you done this successfully over a period of years? It's just a curious mind thing.
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It might be detrimental with the things that would be transferred by contact, which drifting drones and workers do by default. Its one of the reasons the Mites spread so explosively fast.. Beyond that I have not seen any ill effects. To get most other diseases I would think the bees would have to transfer syrup from one hive to another, IE; Robbing it from the combs in order to transfer AFB etc.. But I am always trying to pay attention in case my methods or beliefs are proven incorrect!
I know of quite a lot of open feeding by different individuals as well as Commercial beekeepers, and have not HEARD of problems.. but sometimes you need to ask the right questions to get the right answers.
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Keeper ""you're supposed to put that stuff in the hive, not feed the birds with it! Fat deer in the fall, is that the goal?""
Did I miss something here? scratching head
Maybe? Pollen patties...I don't like critters being able to get to it. ;D
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The pickle jars have a wider mouth and wont fit into my feeders. When I reach the point that I don't have enough jars I will simply have to widen the holes to fit the larger mouth jars. In the meantime I will have to put my mother on a mission to find more of these old gallon jars. Avoiding breaking those jars became important! I dislike having mismatched equipment.. its sort of like using all medium frames for hives and supers.. having BOTH types of jars means I will be constantly taking the wrong jars to the wrong feeders.
If it EVER warms up, I am going to revamp the storage area behind the store for a safer place to keep the jars and my growing plethora of wooden ware.
Plug out a 2x10 cut off(square) with a hole saw of the appropriate size and tack/hive nail the thing to the feeder box with 2 nails.
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Keeper- ""Maybe? Pollen patties...I don't like critters being able to get to it""
OH! Okay, I thought it was a big sack of suger he was holding
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you're supposed to put that stuff in the hive, not feed the birds with it! Fat deer in the fall, is that the goal? :laugh:
LOL, Sorry, just read that.. IF, this stuff draws in the deer I will be very happy with it. No more walking to find the things to fill my freezer with!!
We have tracks all over the field and even across the pond, through the hives in front and hives in back.. they are EVERYWHERE like rats in a feed mill.. We need open season on them for about three years to get their numbers cut down to manageable level.
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California does a pretty good job with game managment. It's rare that we don't bring in a buck or two... or three.
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well for all you northerners you'll be happy to know we have some of your cold weather down here in Florida. its supposed to go down to 47 tonight. courses going up to 74 tomorrow but
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