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The lorry looks like a 40ft curtain side how did the bees get from there into the cab as the cab is seperate from the trailer

have been out checking the nucs over the last week or so done around 600 so far. and i have never seen so much pollen in the frames in some cases there is so much its blocking the queen from laying as i have never seen this before on such a large scale looking for ideas to clear the pollen and...

My money is on starvation, the bees have been struggling to get out and have a poo also when there under stress they get the squits

check there not starving!

Just to make people aware there is still a chance some hives can still starve the good weather in the last few weeks has led to a rapid build up of bees now in some areas EG: up here In scotland the weather has made a turn backwards. so there are a lot more mouths to feed and the bees are unable...

http://www.abe.msstate.edu/~fto/tools/vol/box.html this works out the volume of a box

I have several hundred overwintering and all are doing well only one that has been a little chewed on one corner but the corners are fairly thick so they gave up before getting all the way in

Last week i was given 3 1.5oz test jars of honey from the co op from there scottish bees the label said it was from the scottish bees and they had 200 hives They told me that they only had taster jars as the hives had not produced that much honey so i opened up a jar to test heres my feedback...

£3.75 1/2lb £5.50lb

All he will be doing is dropshipping no need to hold stock take the money from the customer place the order and and pay the supplier and keep 10% simples

the room has large double door the electrics are up to scratch so all i need is some information for kitting it out with quality equiptment that is compact easy to clean and will do the job

a few more facts 1 this one is not based in scotland 2 the room is the only space he has 3 due to the space thats why im asking the question here 4 im paying for this as a gift so i dont want to get it wrong and have to dip my hand in my pocket again!

the room is tiled floor to celing has hot + cold water stainless steel tables would be no heather honey to speak of. no other equiptment in there at the moment would be extraction all the way to bottleing

I produce very little honey I produce Nuc and mated Queens

This ones not for me its for my brother the space is all we have is the only room he has for the honey room

Im buikding a new honey room this winter 16ft x 10ft I only want to spend once on this project so i need to get it right the first time It will have to cope with between 100 to 200 hives worth of honey any tips on what sort of equiptment to invest in Budget will be up to 5k but change would be nice

if you have no equiptment at all a brand new pair of tights works well scrape the comb in to the tights squeeze it down the legs in to a bowl /jug or what you want . Nice clean honey no bits. wash the tights in cold water when finished to recover the wax

Yes got lots but i can sell even more! it would be a bit stupid to post the max price your willing to pay as thats then would be the lowest price you would end up paying

Seems like no one in the whole of scotland in the forum wanted to part with any honey or even show any intrest I was willing to pay over £3 per pound too late now!