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    swarm now a colony

    I just had an email with photos of a May/June swarm that established itself in the cluster spot on the tree. It is now fully established with comb and brood, but is exposed to the elements and predators. How the hell it has not been wasp attacked yet I just dont know, I have trouble with my...
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    frames for cut-outs?

    I have had my wife on hand when doing cut outs, she does all the wiring up, bless her. But I have seen some plans to make folding frames to make cut outs easy single handed. The frame is hinged at the bottom wired both sides, you lay the cut out natural comb on the wires of one inside and bring...
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    Very high swarm

    Yesterday evening went to get a swarm that was apparently quite high in a Lime tree. They were not joking, my swarm catcher was nowhere near long enough and I didn't have a cherry picker in my back pocket. So I placed a bait hive on the canopy of an adjacent shop. Today there is great interest...
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    Price of honey

    I know Honey sale price has been discussed before but as it looks like we will not be extracting so much honey this year, will this shortage affect its market value? Supply and demand affects the price of all other commodities but I bet we will still sell our liquid gold for the same price as...
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    Get off my tractor

    Angora goatling taking liberties this morning.
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    Lulu and Bertha

    This is Lulu, saddleback not Berkshire as I said last night, oops. She was due yesterday but as you can see is about to burst, she must farrow tonight. And this is Bertha, she is 1/2 Berkshire, also due yesterday. Again ready to burst do expect it must happen soon.
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    Lulu and the Bees

    Yep, I am definitely in bee mode today. I have just come in from the nights farm checks and said to my wife “I will have to check lulu again soon (Berkshire sow due to farrow tonight)as she is laying in the entrance of the hive rather than inside." Some mouse guard eh! :D
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    Confirmation of supercedure cells please

    Hive inspection today and found these cells. Very strong hive, with 7 no. 14 x12 brood frames of good brood, although one outer frame not fully drawn out. One honey super just about full so put on a second today. However found these 4 queen cells today and before I act I would like...
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    Timing for rape to come off?

    I still have rape in flower, quite a bit around me although the yellow blossom is looking a bit patchy now. My bees are still bringing in lots of yellow and i was going to wait until the rape had gone completely. But a local bee group are extracting this weekend. 1) if I also extract now...
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    Worried about drone laying hives

    I am about to extract my rape harvest but am worried. Last year after removing my rape harvest from 2 hives they both went Drone laying. All I did was clear the honey supers of bees overnight, remove supers from the hives and replace with an empty supers and extract the full ones. But a few...
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    super full of honey still?

    I was just planning on getting ready for over wintering, feeders etc, and remembered I still had one hive that I forgot to extract honey from. At the time I ran out of equipment, jars etc and planned to get back to it later but forgot. It is a national hive with a deep brood and one very very...
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    Efb

    Yesterday I bumped into a big bee keeper who supplies all the usual outlets and shops in my area with honey, he was selling his honey at a boot fair..Introduced myself as his neighbour who also has bees and we generally chatted for a bit about our apiary locations how long we had been keeping...
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    Combining help please????

    Can you help, I have 2 questions please? I have small caste swarm taken a month ago in a nuc box in my No1 apiary, basically 2/3 frames of bees with a queen who is laying ok as there is a small amount of capped brood and eggs on both sides of one frame. On Sunday I removed a colony from a...
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    Vat

    I am sure this has been asked before, but I am just going to sell my honey to my local village shop, do I charge VAT or is it as I suspect zero rated? Thanks, Steve. Ps, Sorry you may wonder why I would be thinking of charging vat. As a farmer/ carpenter and builder I am vat registered so any...
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    No varroa in wild bee brood

    It is not offen you get to see wild comb but I had the opportunity to inspect a mass of brood comb for varroa that had naturally fallen down a chimney the other day. (photos are on my recent thread) And quess what? When I broke open the drone cells I couldn't find a single mite. There were...
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    wasp nest 100yds from my hives.

    I have just located a wasp nest 100 yds from my hives. I will destroy this nest urgently, but thought I should also have some wasp traps about, but although I know there are threads mentioning making and baiting them, do you think the search thingy will find them? Can you guy's instruct or...
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    This is what happens when a colony is left in a chimney

    Householder heard a loud bang in the bedroom, went to investigate and found this mess.
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    Can I relax or should I be doing more?

    I have a National hive running 11 no. 14 x 12 deep frames with dummy board. Queen excluder on top and until today only had one super. Upon inspection I found my marked queen from a swarm last year, plenty of capped brood, eggs, larvae and just as all my other inspections this year fortunately...
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    Choice of fresh water or pig slurry?

    When I walk around my farm feeding our pigs I notice my girls lining up along the gully that takes pig slurry straight from the pig yard to the drain and see them drinking from there. Maybe this is why my home cooked honey roast ham is so good? Steve. Ps. Dont tell my local bee inspector or...
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    How do I combine two small swarms?

    I would like to combine two small swarms. I took one yesterday and it is now in a nuc box in my apiary, the other is in the process of being taken, that is, I have the queen in my swarm box, still at the swarm site (2pm is early in the day to take a swarm I know, but they are in a very public...
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