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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question

« Last post by The15thMember on Today at 10:54:20 am »

You can split, but realize that it will set both colonies back, so you may have to continue to baby the two colonies longer than you otherwise would have the one colony.  You will definitely want to inspect before doing so, because the contents of that second box will determine whether or not the job can be as simple as just separating the two boxes.  I might be inclined to do a little more strategic of a split given that the colony is already behind, just because it's only their first year.   

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question

« Last post by Ben Framed on Today at 10:51:22 am »

You are very welcome Terri. He is quite efficient Terri and a good communicator as well. He has other videos that are VERY informative as well.
Yes you can split if you wish.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Curious done behavior (at least to me)

« Last post by Terri Yaki on Today at 10:10:03 am »

Poor guys, all they get is used and abused.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Curious done behavior (at least to me)

« Last post by BeeMaster2 on Today at 09:53:38 am »

Sounds like the hive is ok. It might just bee that they are kicking the drones out.
Jim Altmiller

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question

« Last post by Terri Yaki on Today at 08:41:14 am »

Terri, Devan Rawn has a good video explaining how and why he winters single deeps. He is in Canada. A real nice fellow who is always willing to help
Phillip

https://youtu.be/YjyNcyVvbEI?si=2mhX7N7pLUFk6uiO

And another good video, thanks. I like the way he did the math and explained everything and like I said previously, I like efficiency. I was also impressed with how he could hold the queen and move that frame around without squeezing her too hard. So now for my next question(s)...I want to have two hives before I go into winter and am hoping to catch a swarm. Absent the catching of a swarm, I'll want to get another hive going one way or another. The colony that I have seems to be doing well (for all I know anyhow) and after watching that, I'm wondering...Can I just split this colony? I'll inspect it again tomorrow as it's the best weather day we have in sight. If I find plenty of brood and stores in both boxes, can I just pull the top box off and let the queenless one requeen? I'll video the job and maybe decide what do do afterwards?

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by max2 on Today at 08:26:46 am »

Occam - is this related?
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Curious done behavior (at least to me)

« Last post by Occam on Today at 08:07:28 am »

When I performed an inspection 2 weeks ago the queen was doing well, there was plenty of eggs and brood of all stages, not an unusual amount of drones either. There had been no queen cells and the hive hadn't swarmed, I still had a marked queen. I opened the brood nest for some expansion and moved a couple frames of brood to a weaker hive needing a bit of a boost (made sure queen wasn't on those frames). We haven't had any frost lately, it's been  probably close to a month. We've had a lot of rain but nothing that would cause a dearth that I'm aware of.

I've been planning on making a cut-down split of this hive if they're still doing well this weekend and giving the split (once I know everything is successful) to my father in law since he's wanting to start keeping.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question

« Last post by Michael Bush on Today at 05:24:55 am »

>Notice in the video Paul cuts all the landing boards off his hives.  It's easier to stack and store equipment and a landing board is unnecessary.

A man after my own heart.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Curious done behavior (at least to me)

« Last post by Michael Bush on Today at 05:23:31 am »

Did you get a late frost or something that would cause a dearth?  Are there worker brood cells in the hive?  Certainly on a drone laying hive (either a drone laying queen or laying workers) sometimes there are so many drones that they would cluster like this.  In any dearth they will drive out the drones if it lasts long at all.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same

« Last post by Occam on May 14, 2024, 11:01:28 pm »

I'm going with the "dirt is good for you" idea. ... exposure to stuff builds up resistance, kinda thing.
Also, can't help but think being inside and breathing filtered AC air might have something to do with being more sensitive to pollen.

plus ... that means... when I was a kid and made my little sister take a bite of a mud pie .. I was just helping her build her immune system

This is absolutely a big factor. Allergies started spiking the more prevalent central heat and air had become and the more sealed from the outside of houses are. We weren't made to be separate from nature in our daily lives we're a part of nature. When we live in ways we weren't made to live we develop problems we weren't meant to have.  That said I agree with Kathy, it's death by a million cuts. There are so many factors bombarding us that "progress" and industrialization have brought us that weren't faced by most 100 years ago, we're quickly careening towards illness and disease.