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Title: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: pa-farmhand on February 26, 2017, 06:29:29 pm

Second year beekeeper here . Im here to learn what i can

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: cao on February 26, 2017, 08:05:13 pm

Welcome  :happy:

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: BeeMaster2 on February 26, 2017, 08:32:34 pm

Welcome to Beemaster.
Jim

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: Rurification on February 27, 2017, 09:11:54 am

Welcome to the forum.  Hope you have a great year with your bees.

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: Psparr on February 27, 2017, 02:50:47 pm

Where abouts? I'm in Berks county.

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: pa-farmhand on February 27, 2017, 07:16:13 pm

I live north of New Holland about 4 miles close a town called Terre Hill. Whereabouts in berks do you live?

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: Psparr on February 28, 2017, 02:38:29 pm

Birdsboro. I have a game I set up at Terri Hill days. Used to live in Blue Ball. My stomping grounds.

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: pa-farmhand on February 28, 2017, 10:13:29 pm

nice i hardly ever find the time to go to terre hill days but i always stay up to watch the fireworks. I live about a mile out of town

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: Psparr on February 28, 2017, 10:54:00 pm

They are about the best fireworks around.
Don't know how the dairy cows down the hill like them though.
How many hives do you have?

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: GSF on March 01, 2017, 08:11:36 am

Welcome

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: pa-farmhand on March 01, 2017, 10:24:04 pm

Haha the neighbor said the cows milk    milk shakes the day after the fireworks every year.                     I bought 2 nucs in 2016 both swarmed in may one of the hives did ok anyway the second one died in the fall. The one that died out had yellow jackets in them all of a sudden so im not sure if the yellow jackets finished them off or if they moved in after the hive died. One hive is still alive and seems ok. They still have about 4 or 5 frames of honey so i have high hopes for their chances. I also ordered 2 more nucs for this spring. I am seriously thinking of splitting my overwintered hive into nucs once they get started and trying for increase. So right now i have 1 hive and 2 nucs ordered.

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: Psparr on March 02, 2017, 11:31:12 am

Good luck with your bees this year. Just be careful of temps when you split. I split last year in April, it was beautiful out. A week later it was below freezing! Then when it was time for mating flights it rained a week straight. 3 out of 4 splits failed.

Title: Re: Hello from SE Pennsylvania
Post by: pa-farmhand on March 02, 2017, 12:53:06 pm

ok i will have to make sure i dont split to early . Thanks for the warning