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No need to apologies, but thanks anyway. like everyone I just want the protocol to be right :)

Welcome to my world :confused:

All the sales will be coming in over the next couple of weeks so bid your time and buy from anyone that fits your budget.

Job well done by someone or something, take the small wins when you can ;) its another season in 2022 :confused:

There is no more to the thread, its all in the Sponsor Market, I thought that was the right place for it ?

Who have I managed to upset this time ??

Oh I do hope so, I dont need or send xmas or birthday cards never have :unsure: I find easier to talk to people rather than give them a wste problem ;)

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Your finger is only the width of a Langstroth lug, the rest is wasted, we all drop frames at some stage :unsure:you wont see many Langstroth broken lugs either. :ROFLMAO:

I agree, I have some pine Langstroth from 19 years ago painted with BQ fence paint the first time I painted them it was 4 coats after that it’s a top up, still look good. I have Nationals made from WRC and British Cedar from two different UK suppliers, all are showing signs of rot and shrinkage...

Not to try a quick inspection without a least a face veil :mad: ouch it was sore :ROFLMAO:

Well it works for most of the confectionary manufacturers :ROFLMAO:

They are assumptions ! Why on earth do we need to think of ways of corrupting the guidelines, they are surely based on current thinking, do we really want to follow the American way of keeping bees ? We need to be careful, our honey products are some of the best in the world lets try to keep it...

Treat it like a hit and go, a monoculture is not a good crop necessarily it will boost the hive and increase the swarming instincts, it is a good early crop to build nucs on, unfortunately well bred queens will not be available early enough for splits. It is usually part of a 3 year rotation...

I am on the electoral register, I don’t consider that to be a risk of theft or anything else. We could make excuses for everything if we wanted, why not just get on with it and sort the issues out as we go. Registration should be a positive, we should not let government use soppy legislation...

Carniolans have a bad rep for swarming, usually from beekeepers with Nationals but you have Langstroth as I do, I use a lot of double brood boxes and that seems to help. Buckfast are probably the most reliable of the main ones available, Bro Adams spent many years importing and mixing to get the...

I was told by my SBI the source/area, it did not originate from my apiary of 46 nucs, it was found in one of my nucs just getting started in my area. The SBI also told me the source was the latest’s in several visits over the years. Usually I would not conder a blame culture, it just happens but...

Yep Ged Marshall was probably the best breeder, although I am not sure about elevating him to “God” status not worthy :ROFLMAO:. The problem with local mongrels is we cannot control the progeny, to breed good queens we must concentrate on the drones from the best colonies we have.

Maybe part of an improved system would be to notify movements, although if the number of hives are registered and the SBI arrives to find half that number they would ask what had happened to the others I would hope. I have no idea how my neighbor got the EFB, its not a blame culture that we...

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