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I will be buying no poly this year its just too expensive !

I use a milwaukee cordless blower for the stranglers

I know colm . he can be a little blunt and gets to the point but he knows his bees .. he has a good queen rearing operation with great genetics nice gentle bees .

What hive format are you using standard brood ? Probably not enough bees in there to keep the hive temperature correct . Were they late splits by any chance

Do we really need plastic foundation all that faffing no thanks .

I have no reason to lie nothing to gain by doing so . I will admit that one out of 6 apiaries in wicklow last season was getting crossbreeding on some queens ... I hope you enjoyed the wicklow mountains its a great place to holiday ..

Im in wicklow and i can tell you that the greater majority of commercial beeks keep amm in the Republic.

They all seem to burn well with recommended wick sizes but im no expert . I cant believe how

What temperature should the wax be while pouring into silicone moulds ? I am currenty pouring at 70 . Here is a few i made .

My plywood nucs are 4 or 5 years old still in good nick .. the roofs are very deep which saves the ply boxes from the weather. I painted the roofs 3 times but i must admit they will need replacing in a couple of year

Thanks for feedback I think ill skip this venture sounds like too much hassle

I have had some members of association enquiring how much i would charge for extracting supers What would be a fair price per super to charge?

Very informative Thank you I will need a change in system Currently running 50 colonies want to expand to 100 next year .. i have been using demaree but is time consuming. Tried alot of colonies on double brood this season which helped swarming

Interesting Do you just let them build up on spring flow and add supers for summer flow if not on early crops such as osr ..whats your method of swarm control while dealing with 3 brood boxes ?

Turn them upside down let the bees clean them

7 different locations

I tried a little experiment last winter All my hives (50) are on stands with OMF I left the inspection tray in full on half my colonies and had no inspection tray on the other half There was no difference on the colonies come spring i had no winter losses apart from 4 nucs

So it really works. Super ! I can finally put my hand loosener away

I have had to add supers to half my colonies i was going around pulling out frames of stores and adding foundation which was a lost cause with the massive ivy flow thats on now .. Looks like ill have alot of ivy to sell this year

Make a jig for a router I made one up in an hour one evening for jointing roofs i take it your making commercial hives