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What makes you think they are mediocre?

Yea I wasn't over keen on 14x14, do like the look of long lugs but extracting seems to be a nightmare if your using as a super to draw comb? I've already bought 3 new full natinoal hives, extra suppers for them all and nuc boxs that's why I was tempted to go commercial over langstroth still...

Yes I do, also stated that further up lol.

Ofcorse its what the bees need, the BKA this post is about obviosly likes to keep bees that dont require more than one brood box. Instead of cherry picking read everything....... my new bees will most likley be on brood and a half when they build up as the very experienced bee keeper I got them...

That's great to hear I do love to hear about amm/near native bees that's the reason I got bees. The only things that put me off commercial is the little lugs and expensive boxs, plus I've got polly national nucs so they would need changing. I wonder how your prolific queen goes with longevity...

It was more having to buy extra brood boxs and the risk of loosing the queen when getying through them, mine are on a brood and a half but the bees I was lucky enough to get are so nice and calm its worth the trade off of multiple brood boxs. I was thinking of going to langstroth or using a...

For me I don't like having to move brood boxs that possibly contain the queen, plus the extra expense of having more brood boxs. I havnt as much experience as you by the sounds of it but the bees I've seen other people handle on single brood boxs seemed very placid and calm.

Lol no I think it was more they sold out to foreign company's then can't compete with their low labour prices 😬

Not my grandad lol. It's important to me, the more prolific the bees the more I have to spend per colony and the more faffing on with extra brood boxs and I'm guessing it's probably the same reason they culled the queen.

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I make an exception to 3 wheelers, i prefer the yellow ones

Hear we go, is it like the fact no one keeps bees on single brood boxs because your grandad said?

There is, ive lived hear since I was 14 and never actually been to a race !

I just love red cars they are my favourite 😂

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Oh I agree, my first colony was a swarm it had a very dark queen but her offspring where a mix and match of lots of colours so I'd guess they had abit of everything in them but my point was they where not pure anything and most likley had attributes of of everything and closer to native than say...

I think alot of mongrels are closer to native bees so would probably be more Likley to do well on stores over winter than forign subspecies or buckfast, same as vice versa if amm where taken to a country where other subspecies evolved. I started off with 2 swarms, I recently got a near native...

What bees do you keep? Haha dont think you can ever have enough kit, I'm going to have to invest in more this year I only wanted 2 colonies and now I'm looking for out apiarys 😬

How much do you feed them through the winter?

Be interesting to see what kind of bees they have, and if they use the double and triple broodboxs for stores or brood and how prolific the bees are. I think I've watched Roger Patterson over winter on single brood but with his bees they pack enough stores in a single brood box so they don't...