Not looking for a QE debate as we are happy with the production we see with QEs in place and find it very easy for honey extraction - just confused about how not to end up with 70 hives in a couple of years haha!
G'Evening Phil...
No doubt someone has told you it is possible to max out both honey production _and_ brood
generation using a QE/QX as a manipulative tool. Not at all concerned with either any
longer - I retired - I do the lazyman thing with two Langs for brood and up to two for honey...
.. on my two permanent colonies, largely unattended.
And like you I do very nicely, thankyeall.
On the "70 hives" thing..?..by the way, for the enthusiaist it's "colonies", or should be.
Commercial operations have "hives". The term makes it less personal and so as a farming
enterprise somewhat easier to do some things a businessman must do with bees to remain
viable.
I digress... as I am wont to do ;-D
Even if you did not matriculate Phil you would be no stranger to consuming studies, so I provide
a link to one paper that could explain why it is you are in no danger of getting to 70 hives, or indeed
losing a colony from a failure to split. I learnt this stuff at school as part of Ag.Study, pure theory
(then) for us as graduation saw the end of the colonies under our study.
Yet that groundwork stood me in good stead for many years prior to the iNetz turning up.
I'd give out a basic plan of management buuuuut I took me dawg to the Vet just last Friday and
came away with a 10day course of antibiotics and a $265 tab for an examination and a wound
wash..... say no more :-)))
Good news is I am putting together a tute on airpaths for some here who are puzzled by the topic
and of which there is little to none wrtten up in docs as I link to here;
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647073/Cheers.
Bill