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Bee Ranching
« on: March 19, 2017, 04:15:43 PM »
My one remaining hive that successfully overwintered is going great guns.  Lots of Drone brood around the edges and a very nice solid brood pattern in the main brood nest. This queen is doing a good job and since she is less than a year old I expect at least this season and next out of her.

 

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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2017, 05:51:25 PM »
How do you brand them to ensure you know which bees are yours? ??? ???

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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2017, 05:56:02 PM »
Quote from: Viking on March 19, 2017, 05:51:25 PM
How do you brand them to ensure you know which bees are yours? ??? ???

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This is 'Mericuh!! We got free range bees over here.



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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2017, 06:01:30 PM »
My momma used to tell me, "don't brand the bees, brand the buyer - he's the one likely to stray."
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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2017, 07:31:13 PM »
Cut some over powder and over shot wads out of a grocery store meat tray.add a few grains pistol powder OPC then walnut hulls to almost top and OSC then roll crimp. If they get out of hand that will line them out.
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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2017, 03:29:35 AM »
Well, didn't they paint-dot the bees to correlate an individual bee's dance with the location of the nectar?  Something like that percolates around in my brain.
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Re: Bee Ranching
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2017, 06:06:45 AM »
It's common for the queen to be marked with a dot of paint, makes her easier to find .
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