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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #40 on: January 29, 2014, 07:40:30 pm »
Denise- How many hives do you have?
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #41 on: February 02, 2014, 01:55:51 pm »
hi jen I have 4 hives and a nuc  hoping to make a few more nuc then I can take them up to my allotment (large garden). im getting ready for retiring and spend more time beekeeping
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #42 on: February 02, 2014, 04:02:07 pm »
Would like to keep half of the wintered hives for honey production and split the other half.
Last season is the first time in many years I have sold honey, and quickly developed a customer base with more folks wanting honey.
Make up and sell several nucs from the splits and of course chase swarms and do several cut outs.

Not really wanting to grow more hives, can not take care of them, too many irons in the fire.
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #43 on: February 02, 2014, 08:19:37 pm »
I think my plans have changed since my first post on this thread. Since I've learn so much about splits lately, I'm thinking maybe my hive isn't ready. So I'm going to change out the plastic frames in the brood box to wedge wood/wired wax frames. And then add honey supers as needed.

Yah, that's what I'm going to do!

until someone else changes my mind tomorrow  :D
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #44 on: February 02, 2014, 08:37:45 pm »
If all you have is one hive, wait till it's ready, and split it!
Two hives are 10 times better than one!
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #45 on: February 02, 2014, 08:41:51 pm »
AW, Jaybird... You know a woman never changes her mind.   ;D
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #46 on: February 02, 2014, 09:06:30 pm »
No Wait! maybe I'll just buy a nuc
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #47 on: February 02, 2014, 09:08:35 pm »
But on the other hand. If I split, I can put one of them out on my friends property, but he won't keep and eye on it............ So... no no better not do that

hmmmm
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #48 on: February 02, 2014, 09:11:24 pm »
Wood frames and wax foundation is 10 times better than plastic. ;D Jack :laugh:
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #49 on: February 02, 2014, 09:13:46 pm »
However, I could make the split, and then if I don't like it I can put it back together... right?
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #50 on: February 02, 2014, 09:15:30 pm »
How about if I put another deep on my already two deep hive?
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #51 on: February 02, 2014, 09:17:27 pm »
I got it! I'll start with my patio hive again!............no no... that's not good.........
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #52 on: February 02, 2014, 09:27:49 pm »
Brooks ""Wood frames and wax foundation is 10 times better than plastic.""

YES! so much more natural.

Come to think of it, I don't have much plastic in my house, except the tv and my laptop. 
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #53 on: February 02, 2014, 11:05:01 pm »
 Iddee ""AW, Jaybird... You know a woman never changes her mind.""


The last 5 posts from me was just to get under Iddee's collar  ;) :D
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #54 on: February 03, 2014, 08:57:52 am »
Quote from: Jen on February 02, 2014, 11:05:01 pm
Iddee ""AW, Jaybird... You know a woman never changes her mind.""


The last 5 posts from me was just to get under Iddee's collar  ;) :D

   LOL Kind of figured that...   better do it before it gets warm because then he just takes his shirt off...  no collar to get under!!!

   Do the small split, keep them from swarming, still get honey, and you will be growing a new hive in the meantime!   getting a nuc is a good idea too. You can pull brood from the big hive to help the nuc/hive build up faster, and MAY even get honey from BOTH.
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #55 on: February 06, 2014, 10:22:05 am »
Quote from: brooksbeefarm on February 02, 2014, 09:11:24 pm
Wood frames and wax foundation is 10 times better than plastic. ;D Jack :laugh:

Look at that now will you! Completely off topic and all. Jack tries to just slip that in there, hoping I won't notice! Apparently afraid to debate the merits and obvious advantages of wax coated plastic versus that other stuff!
Jack, Jack, Jack!
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #56 on: February 06, 2014, 12:26:51 pm »
Yum, Yum i can't wait to taste some comb honey made from plastic foundation. :laugh: Jack
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #57 on: February 06, 2014, 01:25:15 pm »
Jack- I'll be switching out all my plastic this year. When I purchased my two deeps the plastic came with it, didn't know until already purchased. Dang!
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #58 on: February 06, 2014, 04:06:49 pm »
Quote from: brooksbeefarm on February 06, 2014, 12:26:51 pm
Yum, Yum i can't wait to taste some comb honey made from plastic foundation. :laugh: Jack

When starting up I showed a hive to my sister and our nieces, I didn't have any beekeeping jackets so the sat in the car and I showed the some frames with bees and larvae pupae and the queen and they sat safely in the car.

They drove 30 meters away, so I could give them a frame,  all the kids had big smiles, they had 500 km 310 miles to drive so I gave them a frame of plastic honey frame  ;D There were some very happy sticky fingers, the rest my sister scraped with a butter knife when she wanted some honey.

Then I got the frame back and stuck it in a new hive.  :D


mvh Edward  :P
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Re: What are your goals for this year?
« Reply #59 on: February 06, 2014, 04:09:30 pm »
Cool! What a sweet learning lesson for the kids ~
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