Winter losses 2011/2012

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What percentage of your hives did you lose this winter

  • 5 hives or less: No losses

    Votes: 98 46.0%
  • 5 hives or less: 1-25% losses

    Votes: 19 8.9%
  • 5 hives or less: 26-50% losses

    Votes: 16 7.5%
  • 5 hives or less: 51%+ losses

    Votes: 4 1.9%
  • More than 5 hives: No losses

    Votes: 28 13.1%
  • More than 5 hives: 1-10% losses

    Votes: 32 15.0%
  • More than 5 hives: 11-20% losses

    Votes: 9 4.2%
  • More than 5 hives: 21-30% losses

    Votes: 5 2.3%
  • More than 5 hives: 31-50% losses

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • More than 5 hives: 51%+ losses

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • Total voters
    213
  • Poll closed .
Lost 2 out of 4 hives and one of the survivors is supersceding the queen so not a good winter for me:cuss:

Mind you, with the year I've had and the lack of autumn feeding etc, it could easily have been worse:seeya:
 
Those are big losses abereef

Yip, not good at all but with what was happening to us through the autumn/winter I'm suprised I didn't lose the lot.

Never mind though, I'll pick myself back up and carry on as always. The supersceding queen has hatched out but still not mated. I've ordered an imported queen in case I need one and also another nuc. I'm planning on doing a demarree when needed and from there starting another 2 nucs so hopefully I'll end this year with at least 5 colonies. Fingers crossed:rolleyes:
 

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