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    Expanding colonies ready for additional box, and then the weather....

    I like that idea too polymath, will try brood n half this year and yours next year.
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    Feeders Question - Bee are making honeycomb in it

    I'm fairly confident this won't happen. They had already produced large amounts of drones and were very very over crowded, the brood has more than enough bees to accommodate the extra space, your thoughts were weighed up before I did this by myself but my gut told me to add as they were that...
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    Expanding colonies ready for additional box, and then the weather....

    My hives are the same. I'm in dorset. Some on 8 frames full of brood. I've decided to go brood and a half this year. As my hives are commercial size, when I go double brood, they never seem to use it properly and chuck too much honey in and not enough in the supers. So I'm trying to give them a...
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    Feeders Question - Bee are making honeycomb in it

    Hiall, I run commercial and did an inspection before it got chilly again. All my hives on 7 or 8 full frames of brood. I normally go to double brood but then they never fill it with brood fully and put too much honey in brood boxes and not enough in supers. This year I've decided to go brood and...
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    Do I need Oxalic acid treatment for bees in December?

    God is an imaginary friend for grownups.:giggle:
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    Preferred fuel for smoker

    Ahhh it's not posting erichalfbees post!
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    Preferred fuel for smoker

    This one
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    Preferred fuel for smoker

    Ooo I like this recipe :)
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    Preferred fuel for smoker

    I'm not sure about others posts but mine is not sawdust, it's the curly shavings that come off when turning wood, no sparks anywhere.
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    Preferred fuel for smoker

    I don't use a smoker very much but use my husbands shavings from his wood turning if I do light it. What do you use?
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    What to Cover Feed holes with?

    Ceramic tiles, Bees propolis them so well I don't have to move them when leaning crown board on its side during inspection, except when it's super hot.
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    Has anyone used this?

    As I said just checking out and researching different methods. That's the whole point in the post inquiring if anyone had heard of it. That does not mean I intend to use it.
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    Has anyone used this?

    I am neither old or crusty guys:giggle: just have a few hives and not outlaying money on unnecessary equipment when a syringe and liquid will suffice, I've always done a trickle mid winter. I warm my liquid and my hubby and I have it down to a fine art. Open trickle, job done in under 1...
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    How much syrup is 'enough'

    Again not spain , my thumbs :ROFLMAO:
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