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RoadKingLarry

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Bee Ranching
« on: February 22, 2017, 07:58:28 PM »
Went in to my one hive that made it through winter this afternoon.
Looking good, starting to build up strong and plenty of honey and pollen to feed the new spring crop of bees.

Top of hive

hive 1-2220641 by lmmiers, on Flickr

Frames of capped honey

honey frame2-2220632 by lmmiers, on Flickr

honey frame-2220625 by lmmiers, on Flickr

Capped and open brood

brrod frame-2220651 by lmmiers, on Flickr

First year was a steep learning curve. Hopefully I've learned from my mistakes.
I plan to manage this hive for honey and will be buying a few more to build up my apiary.
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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2017, 08:56:04 PM »
Nice  ;)
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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2017, 09:01:40 PM »
I'm going to start this spring hopefully.
There is a local bee club with a meeting this Friday night so I'm going to try and make it.
Where did you find the cheapest price on the wood wares?
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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2017, 10:19:37 PM »

Ohio Bee Box has probably the cheapest advertised prices but I haven't dealt with them
https://theohiobeeboxcompany.com/

I'm getting most of my stuff from Brushy Mountain. They have 2 levels of wooden ware. I bought some of both to compare and I'm perfectly happy with the commercial grade.
http://www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/

I use Tite bond III for glue when I assemble my boxes.

I highly recommend hooking up with a local group.
My experience from last year is that 2 hives is a minimum to start with. one is none, two is one.

Books, Beekeeping for Dummies and The Backyard Beekeeper are good starting places

Internet resources - http://www.beesource.com/forums/
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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2017, 10:04:22 AM »
So very jealous. I was considering adding bees to our backyard menagerie when we discovered that my wife is fairly allergic last year. (As in, the doctor said she might die next time she gets stung.)

So I decided I prefer not becoming a young widower to fresh honey.
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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2017, 10:10:40 AM »
Quote from: makattak on February 23, 2017, 10:04:22 AM
So very jealous. I was considering adding bees to our backyard menagerie when we discovered that my wife is fairly allergic last year. (As in, the doctor said she might die next time she gets stung.)

So I decided I prefer not becoming a young widower to fresh honey.

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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2017, 10:26:31 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on February 22, 2017, 10:19:37 PM
Ohio Bee Box has probably the cheapest advertised prices but I haven't dealt with them
https://theohiobeeboxcompany.com/

I'm getting most of my stuff from Brushy Mountain. They have 2 levels of wooden ware. I bought some of both to compare and I'm perfectly happy with the commercial grade.
http://www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/

I use Tite bond III for glue when I assemble my boxes.

I highly recommend hooking up with a local group.
My experience from last year is that 2 hives is a minimum to start with. one is none, two is one.

Books, Beekeeping for Dummies and The Backyard Beekeeper are good starting places

Internet resources - http://www.beesource.com/forums/

I have and read the backyard beekeeper. Seems like 2 hives are recommended and I was going to do that. If they look different you can figure out something is going wrong.
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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2017, 11:36:59 AM »
I miss my bees, maybe spring of 2018 I'll get back into it. I got tired of losing 90% my bees each year, even treating them.
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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2017, 02:21:50 PM »
My brother has some, as does my daughter and son-in-law.  Brother's survived the winter, SIL's did not.
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