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    Lincoln Bee Auction

    Went to the Auction yesterday but didn't buy anything. There were only 2 nucs for sale well down on previous years.
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    Lincs Bee Auction Today

    Had a ride to the bee auction at Lincoln showground. Over 600 lots up for grabs and allot of gear sold in my opinion for peanuts. There were hives and boxes that went for less than if you bought the equivalent as kindling for your fire. As an example There were 3 old but solid top bar hives...
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    Roof connector for Steam Generator Pipe?

    Thankyou all for advice and help
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    Roof connector for Steam Generator Pipe?

    I managed to get hold of the Thornes Steam Generator for £8 in their sale last year. I have bought a metal roof cover but struggling to find a connector that I can screw onto / into the top once drilled. Anybody know what I need please. Photos of the Pipe may help.
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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    Qrikey, a week ago I had to feed most hives as nothing in the hives. Today they have stuffed the broods with nectar and I may need to remove a couple of frames from most hives to give the queen space to lay. Ivy out in force here in sunny hot South Lincolnshire. All my nucs from my grafted...
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    What's flowering as forage in your area

    Ivy out all over here in South Lincs. This must be the earliest I've seen it by about 4 weeks. Last of the supers coming off tomorrow so they will now not feeding hopefully
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    Weather

    Weather here in South Lincolnshire has also been a washout in July, Not a spot of rain from around beginning of April to end of June. Then the annoying thing is we are getting heavy showers every day throughout July so can not get outside to anything with the bees or the garden. Today is a...
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    What to do with Laying Worker frames?

    I have a laying worker hive that has some capped drone brood but mainly multiple eggs in the cells. I plan to shake them out The frames are good condition. What are my options please to reuse the frames? Do I need to do anything to them before adding to other colonies or nucs?
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    My method for nuc making with virgin queens .

    I'm a bit of novice still on queen rearing but find that if I have my 3 frame nucs hopelessly queenless then I just run my virgins in the entrance. Have had very good results doing it this way
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    F0 Breeder Queen

    For some positive feedback I bought 2 AI queens from Melo bees and found them super helpful. My queens were due to be dispatched on a Thursday when I was away on the Friday. I changed the delivery date by 2 weeks at very late notice and now have 2 great queens I am grafting from. Very Good...
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    Sad state of affairs at the home apiary!

    Ok thanks. So even with 4 frames of brood add a super when the flow starts?
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    Sad state of affairs at the home apiary!

    I checked all my 20 hives and nucs yesterday here in south lincs in the sunshine and was thinking exactly the same. Most only on 4 frames of brood. A couple were on 6 frames. The OSR is starting to yellow up here so what would people do, let them put what they collect into the brood box?
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    God I love growing our own

    Pink fur apple are in my opinion the best tasting you can get. Great hot or cold and store well
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    Nuc measurements

    Ive gone down a little easier route. Ive got a load of 3rds brood boxes from the sale days. Cut a little bit less than 1/2 and added 18mm offcut sides from local timber merchant. Going to make seperate floors so can use boxes as nucs or double nucs. Very cheap and quick way
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    Finding an out apiary.

    Once you found a good spot PH, how do you find out who owns the land or spot? I live in very rural Lincolnshire and have seen some good out the way spots one near a whole load of lime trees and brambles but no idea who the farmer is.
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    Sealing plywood nuc sides with yacht varnish?

    What paint did you use please? And how did you seal the edges?
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    Sealing plywood nuc sides with yacht varnish?

    Thank you for info How many coats of linseed do you give something like ply please? Anything else you use in parallel with it?
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    Sealing plywood nuc sides with yacht varnish?

    That was my original plan but the 3 packs of 3rds I got I was lucky enough that only parts for 1 box are very poor so will use ply for rest of sides.
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    Sealing plywood nuc sides with yacht varnish?

    I recently bought some national brood 3rds, I have filled where required and now in the process of table sawing in half to make 5 frame nuc boxes. So 3/4 of the box will be cedar with a 18mm plywood side My question is has anybody used yacht varnish to seal plywood before on new nucs or hives...
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    Where did i go wrong?

    Ive grafted for the last 3 years and this year seemed the worse year, poor take on the grafting and poor mating.
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