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- Number of Hives
- 4 Hives!!
Double post, sorry.
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Personally, I'd have made up the nuc after she'd arrived
Only made 9 nucs up with mated Queens but hell yeh i agree.. all 9 would have pulled safe but i goofed up with one last week..for me make a Queeless Nuc with brood food and plenty of bees..go to the cottage and get the commercial caged Queen out of the wardrobe..walk back to the hives open the candy plug and place them into the nuc side ways to stop the fondant dripping in or out..job sorted..
Fair enough - I know I'm tight for time this week so was hedging bets a bit. Still, she's there now, hopefully all will work out.
.. I would not be happy with that..got one pin test today and it hurt..Tested colonies for hygienic behaviour. They're coming out at 96-100% (5 hr pin test)
.. I would not be happy with that..got one pin test today and it hurt..
I'm pretty happy with those scores.
. just messing about if this is still allowed..
B+ I’ve recently had delivered a P Stoffen hygienic queen, doubt I will get anything/test done this season it’s not my field of interest. But I will raise a few queens off her. May drop you a line next season for some advice.
Today was supposed to be inspection day - with a couple of interested friends coming round to give a hand and see what goes on.
Looking at the forecast though, thunderstorms start at 5pm and inspection is 6pm...
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