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If its on their back, it's probably balsam. Mine are on it still. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free

Yeh I have dummy boards in. Would you put them in the half that is empty to keep them far away from brood, or put them in the corners where the brood is? I will be putting them back in a nuc box later next month if they do grow, but didn't want to treat them in a nuc with reduced space!

Just a quick one, I want to treat a nuc, do I give it a full dose or do I put only half one in at a time. When I say nuc, it's been put in a national hive but is still small, three frames.

Mine have just started on the balsam yesterday. It's been in flower here for over a week.

That's quite close, best have a look in the hives this week

Tap talk so I can find good answers on here while at work;)

Had a quick look in my nuc that I introduced a new queen on Wednesday. Lifted lid to see her pop her head up and take a look around, then toddle off back down into the nuc. So I took a look in to see what's happening and she's busy laying nicely. Lets just hope her off spring are nice and...

And me I'm at Ponteland but not much use for advice:(

Depends on what you feed them, but you need a holding number plus a herd number. And there is a lot Of rules on keeping pig. Not worth the hastle when a whole pig is only about £100

All sorted found some

Looking for two mated queens in the northeast, local mongrels are fine, mine have turned out to be drone layers

Touch wood it works, weather looks to be on the up, so that should help the virgins?

It's never simple, they keep on throwing more challenges at us. From this day on I'm going write every thing down well il try!!! Thanks for the replies il be back in touch if it all works out or il be on the scrounge for queens?

I should start Writing things down!!! About the middle of may the original hive was split, a week later the nuc swarmed was then united back together three weeks ago cos of no queen, or eggs. Two weeks ago the rest of the original hive swarmed but caught and hived. The queen in original hive...

Hi I had one large ish hive which was going to swarm, so slit and made a nuc to expand! All fine then nuc swarmed when virgins hatched, luckily into a Spare hive. I combined the nuc an the swarm after no queen mated or survived? Then two weeks ago the original hive swarmed which I caught, now in...