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Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6588103
08/04/19 09:54 PM
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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

Re: YukonJeff [Re: old243] #6588378
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Originally Posted by old243
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

Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6597118
08/18/19 04:21 AM
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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] #6606902
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Have you started feeding your bees up for the winter?

Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6607048
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We are going to take our supers off next week. There is quite a lot of goldenrod yet. Haven't seen the fall asters yet. Will start feeding if the weather turns bad.

I tried 2 frame nucs like on barnyard bee videos. Good way to raise a queen and have available , if you need it. As they get filled up move to a 5 frame. Have 2 mated . Will likely use to requeen an old queen, once we get honey off. Good luck getting them into winter. old243

Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6607158
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Originally Posted by gibb
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.

Re: YukonJeff [Re: yukonjeff] #6624393
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yukonjeff do you have pretty good luck overwintering your bees up there ?

Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6624491
09/25/19 01:47 AM
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I really cant say "good luck" but have managed to winter a few hives now. I had 100% survival last winter. Two hives smile

I wouldn't say its any more difficult than any northern type climate like Minnesota or Wisconsin. Just set them up good and they can do the rest.

Here is a nuc almost ready for winter. My first mated queen I made here. Its a deep, with a medium on the bottom. And a another medium on top filled with dry grass as a quilt box. I will add a 3 " shim and sugar brick later next month, and open a upper entrance, and a mouse guard installed.

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All my boxes are painted black to take in the solar heat. I open feed to get them up to weight in late August and early Sept. in time to cap it before it gets too cold. And treat for mites.

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I give them a pollen patty. I make my own.

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I noticed last week they were bringing in what I thought was pollen, but we had several hard freezes and nothing blooming. Turns out they were gathering orange mold from the underside of fireweed leaves.

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Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6628859
09/29/19 10:17 PM
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Jeff your bees are looking good. What did you use to wrap your hives. , so type of foam, pad. . It is amazing what they will bring in. Our golden rod and fall asters are still blooming, haven't had frost. Putting the sugar syrup to them, all they want. . It was quite a good year. Raised a couple of queens, have them in , double 8 frame boxes. .My big hives produced well. Will wrap them once they quit taking syrup. Haven't tried the bucket feeder, should be a good system. Good luck on your fall hunts. old243

Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6629276
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Old 243 These wraps are called colony quilts, I ordered online. They are kind of a foam pad with plastic on the outside. I have been using them for a few years now and had good success with them. Sounds like you had a good season. I still need to treat for mites yet. I will do a OAV round here soon and see if any mites drop. I think I might be mite free now. I hope so.

Re: YukonJeff [Re: yukonjeff] #6630227
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I’m running behind on getting my treatments done this year too. We have 43 hives and I got apivar strips in 28 of them last night.

Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6651832
10/29/19 12:36 AM
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I have my hives treated with two rounds of OAV . Sugar bricks, quilt boxes on, and wrapped.

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This is the last Nuc I made, First mated queen, I ever did. She started laying the last week of August. So kind of small. Hope they make it.

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