Distance between apairys

[Curly green finger's]

Hi, I've hives in the garden and out on the Common 30 metres away. Would this be classed as two separate apairys?
The hives on the common are mainly where my swarms have ended up and stayed over the last few years.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Here's a few photos all swarms from last year

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[Millet]

My apiary consists of eight hives split 30 meters apart so to me that is one Apiary..

 

[Hebeegeebee]

Why does it matter? Beebase and postcodes?

 

[Ian123]

Why does it matter? Beebase and postcodes?

No I think the original poster wanted an idea on numbers of hives in a location.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Why does it matter? Beebase and postcodes?

What's beebase and postcodes got to do with my original question?

If I've hives one and a half miles away on land but still the same postcode is this not another apairy to put it another way?

I've yet to find how many hives the forage will take up at the titterstone Clee site

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[Millet]

What's beebase and postcodes got to do with my original question?

If I've hives one and a half miles away on land but still the same postcode is this not another apairy to put it another way?

I've yet to find how many hives the forage will take up at the titterstone Clee site

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All you can do Mark is suck it and see..once i got productive bees in my apiary around 2016 the two colonies done good ..i am now up to eight and
still done exceptionally good last season.. so my plan for this year is to go up to ten or even 12 hives in the same location and if the bees do well again who knows..? i might go higher again..?..

 

[Curly green finger's]

All you can do Mark is suck it and see..once i got productive bees in my apiary around 2016 the two colonies done good ..i am now up to eight and

still done exceptionally good last season.. so my plan for this year is to go up to ten or even 12 hives in the same location and if the bees do well again who knows..? i might go higher again..?..

I'll keep building the numbers up steve I had 10 at home now 4 but I might move more back to the hill later in the season...
One of my production colonys. I united them in early June and they went on to produce 90lbs of summer honey and a 10 frame super of cut comb.

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[Curly green finger's]

One down fall if I would of had super comb they would of produced more.
I plan to concentrate on building my comb frames this year. I've also got Baileys to do.

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[Millet]

I have plenty of drawn comb but my plan this spring is to get another eight supers drawn from the Oil Seed Rape flow..if it works i will not get as much OSR crop but another eight supers drawn out ready for the summer flow of runny honey.

 

[drex]

Much the same as Millet. Even though I try to regularly change comb in my brood boxes, some is still a bit tatty. So have made up 50 or so brood frames ( some recycled from last year), added fresh foundation from my wax exchange, and will use the Osr flow to get that drawn. Have plenty of drawn supers in good nick.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Much the same as Millet. Even though I try to regularly change comb in my brood boxes, some is still a bit tatty. So have made up 50 or so brood frames ( some recycled from last year), added fresh foundation from my wax exchange, and will use the Osr flow to get that drawn. Have plenty of drawn supers in good nick.

I'm a few years behind you guys, I don't have osr up on the hill so no way I could use the flow for drawing comb..
I have to use syrup and spring flows to draw comb for the summer.
I do have balsam for the late summer and have more than one extraction.
Had a bit of a screw up with osr last year down on the farm and found it hard stretching myself among to many apairys hence me concentrating on just two.
Thanks for the advice as always.