8 weeks.... not a laugh a true story.

[Poly Hive]

I have Chris.

PH

 

[Chris Luck]

Not been a good year here either for VQ's to get sorted but it's roundabouts and swings, last year was very good and in the long term it averages out.

Chris

 

[TBRNoTB]

I had a virgin take 7 weeks to lay this year, only to be superseded 2 or 3 weeks after she started......new virgin pops out tomorrow or the day after. Hopefully. Fingers crossed with this one!

....when I was young..ish I had a virgin that took seven weeks.....ummmmm but it was worth it!

 

[Into the lions den]

....when I was young..ish I had a virgin that took seven weeks.....ummmmm but it was worth it!

So a very good one after she started to lay?

 

[meidel]

....when I was young..ish I had a virgin that took seven weeks.....ummmmm but it was worth it!

So a very good one after she started to lay?

I don't think TBRNoTB meant laying eggs by his comment on worth it

 

[Into the lions den]

I don't think TBRNoTB meant laying eggs by his comment on worth it

Neither did I. The choice of the word 'lay' was deliberate.

 

[Finman]

So a very good one after she started to lay?

we have a statue in the centre of HELSINKI, Three Hammers.
They are naken and they are bronze.

Every time when over 18 years old virgin goes by, bronze men hit with their sledges.

 

[george]

I will refer back to my notes when I get home but I had a colony that I split in late May , the 25th I think . It had a sealed cell and was on 14 x 12 frames .
I knew it was queen right by its general demeanour and thought it only a matter of time before she started to lay . It was only last week that I had my first sealed brood in there , so about 8 wks .
To say its been a funny old yr does'nt do it justice really . I have had one colony with last yrs queen in it have a brood break of over a month . Lots of second and third yr keepers panicking a little and saying they were queen less too this season .
2013 will be better .