mazzamazda
Field Bee
- Joined
- Feb 16, 2010
- Messages
- 620
- Reaction score
- 61
- Location
- Porto, Portugal
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 200
Hi everyone!
I'm looking for some ideas, I'm going away for 3 weeks on 28th July, getting married actually!
Problem is, I have 10 full colonies and roughly 20 nucs or hopefully will have. I have a few beekeeping friends but dont want to put on them and ask them to inspect. So how do I cut the swarms down to a minimum. I have a mix of carni and local bees however I plan to swap the carnis for some of my local queens before I go.
I was thinking of putting an extra BB on the full colonies and some walk away splits on any big nucs. Never been away for longer than a week before.
Im on National, and langstroth and 6 frame poly nucs.
Any advice very much appreciated.
Mark
I'm looking for some ideas, I'm going away for 3 weeks on 28th July, getting married actually!
Problem is, I have 10 full colonies and roughly 20 nucs or hopefully will have. I have a few beekeeping friends but dont want to put on them and ask them to inspect. So how do I cut the swarms down to a minimum. I have a mix of carni and local bees however I plan to swap the carnis for some of my local queens before I go.
I was thinking of putting an extra BB on the full colonies and some walk away splits on any big nucs. Never been away for longer than a week before.
Im on National, and langstroth and 6 frame poly nucs.
Any advice very much appreciated.
Mark