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Not for treating bees. It's widely used on livestock. ( the four legged kind anyway )Terramycin not allowed in the UK
and certainly a bad idea just to give it to the bees as a prophylactic 'just in case.Terramycin not allowed in the UK
Are you not concerned it will get into the honey?Finally, I treated 3 strong hives with terramycin to prevent brood disease/foulbrood.
Dr Abe is from the US and things are different thereAre you not concerned it will get into the honey?
Yes I know. Is it ok to have antibiotic in USA honey?Dr Abe is from the US and things are different there
Cheaper to buy some honey if it has, than to go to hospital in the USAYes I know. Is it ok to have antibiotic in USA honey?
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Cheaper to buy some honey if it has, than to go to hospital in the USA
The antibiotics used suppress the clinical signs but do not necessarily eradicate the disease and there's a risk of spread while they're being treated. Destruction doesn't have those isssues.I think that the argument in the UK regarding antibiotics is the worry that organisms become resistant to them and often it removes a potential weapon in your armoury at a time when you need it most. We have resistant varroa as we know but when it comes to bacteria affecting human health this is a much more scenario for us. We already have MRSA and are running out of effective antibiotic treatments hence the limit on use and the medics holding back on prescribing willy nilly for coughs and colds like they used to.
My brother kept time logs.l just let the time go by,l just take the pleasure,bee farmers have to get there skates on but I think that’s a different outlook.l take the honey sales and divide by the number of days,usually a day a week in the season,l used to deal with 40 hives in a day but now that is too much,in a reasonable year the days and the honey crop was a satisfactory ratio.The UK weather is very variable but some beekeepers sell honey honey for $9.37 per pound and that makes it worthwhile.Yesterday I prepared 20 EZ Nuc boxes with frames and foundations, grafted 25-30, fed, assessed some mating nucs, went through a populous hive and made a cell starter from it.
In total I spent 8.5 hours in bees. I’ve decided to keep some actual time totals. Tried to treat it like a job yesterday.
While you can make fairly decent income from a backyard operation, I jokingly say I work for 3-4USD an hour in bees. Trying to put a real figure on it to decide whether the work is worth doing next year. This backyard operation has overtaken all other pastimes. It is great exercise, but whether I want to continue to sell is in question.
Inspected my home hives - added a fourth super to my monster hive. 2 supers feeling rather heavy and in the process of being capped, the third has nectar in the central few frames - all packed with bees and I should probably have given the fourth super last week. The queen's still an absolute laying machine, just 1 end frame with no brood. Play cups but nothing more (that I saw...)
Split one colony as there were 6-7 charged cells. Tore them down except 1 then put queen and a couple of frames of BIAS into a nuc box and took them to my out apiary.
I'll inspect the out apiary colonies tomorrow. I suspect one of them will need splitting as they had eggs in cups (though no larvae/jelly) last week.
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