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If it is AMM then that confirms one thing !!!!!! :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Thanks for the info Murray, getting involved with local authorities usually takes loads of time and money, don't get me wrong I want it right but was asking how others have gone about it. Chris your input as ever is also useful as one of the local farms has just got rid of their dairy herd...

As a relatively new member of the BFA I am trying to find out the best way to go about building a dedicated Honey House, do i need planning permission or would i still be waiting in xx years time, do i build in timber and vermin proof and line with Anti Bac, etc etc etc, there is loads about the...

Nosema Cerane does not have the symtoms of Apis, with the season we have had a queen problem as Chris B has said is also likely, no queen means no drive to collect pollen as no brood to feed

Hi Chris He has no idea as the bees were already on site when the current scheme came into being, the rules state that margins set aside from production cannot have any agriculture carried out on them and colonies of bees are classified as agriculture by the powers that be. The problem gets...

So Murray what do you use a cowen line from the states ? Kev

What is the general feeling on here with regard to this? i was talking to a farmer on whose land I have bees, the bees are on a set aside headland and he was saying that because bees are on that headland he cannot claim for it in the normal way as it is still being used for agriculture as bees...

chris i have been offered a thomas 20 frame radial but it has a plastic coated basket and paul from thornes reckons a replacement would around 400.00, seems alittle excessive to me can you deal direct with thomas

did you buy yours direct chris or through bfa

Sorry, missed that

Thanks pete, thats north and south wilts plus north somerset covered and that was the idea of the thread. kev

I am in on this one Chris but not before christmas, to those that use one already would I be right in the thought thats its one of those pieces of kit that you could not imagine managing without ounce you have one.

Not just the bees in crisis after this year

Chris Take a look at the video of the mobile homes at Evesham now on floating pontoons and chained to concrete blocks in the ground, a bit OTT for hives me thinks. kev

Many thanks for all the advice, my wife has just ordered a i pad 2 for my daughter and a Samsung something similar for my son (His choice and different to his sisters!!) Kev

Just work out what you would have been paying and put it in a savings account, the money is there when you want it and nobody can control what you do with it. I know people that have claimed and not got back even half of what the whole setup would have been worth, ie mid summer, double brood and...

you could always do like the lady on iwf.de does and put an empty frame in and when it is full of sealed drone brood cut it out and replace , the bees will do it all over again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKTvp1lupHY&feature=related 4.50 minutes on

abelo sell two sizes and reasonably cheap

Many thanks for all the advice, my daughter (19 at Uni) wants an i pad but the i pad 2, as you all say she has i tunes etc but a b/berry phone, my son 17 just wants one he is looking at Samsung galaxy something and now my wife is looking at kindle fire, the honey is selling but not that...

As there are many on this forum with vast pc knowledge I am after advice, my kids want a tablet PC each for christmas but the choice is endless, what is the best? HELP:thanks: