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I couldn't get a glove on for three days..

I had a bad reaction on the back of my hand last year..the swelling went down after around three days.

It still will not be enough space bottom bee space..if I had not glued 50mm of celotex in the Abelo poly roofs I would have got away with your suggestion.

Pollen substitute placed on four hives but I forgot to put the ekes in the car so I will have to do the others next weekend.

I have plenty of drawn comb but my plan this spring is to get another eight supers drawn from the Oil Seed Rape flow..if it works i will not get as much OSR crop but another eight supers drawn out ready for the summer flow of runny honey.

Yip and it is going in the bin..or sold to somebody who has a bin.

I was talking to a very nice man today who is a commercial beek and he has had enough of the Varrox...Amitraz /Apitraz is the way forward with OA strips inbetween ..

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Went to the Abelo Open Day today and it was choker with folk wanting a bargain and i dare say nobody was disappointed.. i am not sure how Mark and Damien do it but that shop is stocked to the gunnels with everything you will ever need with space still to move.. if i took 10k with me today it...

I'm sure i have read somewhere that Canadian Red Ceder is used..

That is exactly what i have done..;) ..i used a company that feeds its own commercial hives on the same product that they make and that is what i am using..

Pollen patties on two..the other six will get a blob each tomorrow.

Start a thread on pollen sub's..your posts might crawl up slowly..:rolleyes:

:eek::eek::eek: ..how dare you..the gods above on here will rain down on you with great vengeance and fury..

I do not know her and i have never heard of her so the last thing i will do is listen to advise from her..and before someone says she has this phd and that phd thee is not interested in the slightest..i have been on here a couple of years now and i know who too and who not to take advise from.

Brilliant.. thank you for the heads up..;) .

If we have no pollen coming in through vile weather what are we supposed to do..? ..leave them to it and hope for the best..or give them a near as dam it substitute feed that obviously works ..otherwise Micheal Palmer would not waste his time with this supposedly rubbish recipe..

All you can do Mark is suck it and see..once i got productive bees in my apiary around 2016 the two colonies done good ..i am now up to eight and still done exceptionally good last season.. so my plan for this year is to go up to ten or even 12 hives in the same location and if the bees do...

Thank you Bryan have seen all that palava...i would like to see someones experiences from mixing a lot smaller batch..and also where the ingredients to make this came from.

No Very few male flowers are on show which are the size of a pin head..like 2mm bunches of bananas..the pollen is like dust that blows in the wind...just what i have researched by the way..