Re: YukonJeff
[Re: old243]
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08/05/19 10:23 AM
08/05/19 10:23 AM
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BigBlackBirds
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Our season was slow to start. When the apple blossoms and dandelion were on, the weather was quite backward. Lately it has been nice , with some hot days. Have 7 big hives and we took off 10 medium boxes the other day. They were on clovers and canola is almost finished. The goldenrod is just starting , Have a lot of it close by , so they should start packing it in. Have 3 nucs started from swarm cells and splits I like getting new queens started. My mentor has had a good queen raising season as well. For me it is an interesting hobby. Good luck everyone with your bees. old243 We have goldenrod start opening around here right in early August. However, the varieties that they work dont start until about the first week of September for us. Fall is fast approaching
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Re: YukonJeff
[Re: gibb]
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08/18/19 04:21 AM
08/18/19 04:21 AM
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yukonjeff
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The Fireweed flow is pretty much over here,and that's about it. We have a goldenrod type here but it blooms in summer when the bees are working the Fireweed. I thought was going to get a deep off the three big hives, one was a nuc from this year, but we had two weeks of rainy weather and they ate up a lot of the honey. The queen on one laid up the super wall to wall after it was almost full. lol So I extracted some more partial frames and will call it good. Had fun season and got enough honey for my needs. I Made up three nucs this summer, (not sure two got mated yet,) and will treat soon with OA and started feeding today.
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Re: YukonJeff
[Re: gibb]
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09/01/19 03:02 AM
09/01/19 03:02 AM
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yukonjeff
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Have you started feeding your bees up for the winter? Yes I fed last week. I open feed with two gallon buckets with dry grass sticking out the top of the syrup, like a wick. I mix 10lbs sugar and a kettle of hot water and makes 17 lbs of syrup. That's good for a day of feeding. I feed on warm sunny day. I have two full hives, that have a deep of sugar syrup,and capping it now. I have another that is about half way there, I will jar feed the rest of the way, or might put out another bucket or two yet, depending how much they eat now until freeze up. I did get a queen mated and pretty exited about that. She is laying now. I combined my failed Nuc with it, and adding a couple frames of hatching brood to boost the cluster size and hope I can get it through winter. have to feed it a bunch yet.
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