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    my light sussex are the same, i think you need to confine them for a while with only a small run to get them to put more weight on but i`ve never tryed it.
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    just out of interest how much is a farm with outbuildings and 7.5acres. to bloody much, the house is in need of total revamp due to some twats breaking in and ripping all pipes and lead up, but just lets say i wont have much change left from £200k And thats very cheap, a place just down the road from me with 6.5 acres, bungalow and 2 poly tunnels sold for over £600k. We gave up looking for a place to live on with land just silly money round here, we just brought a 4 acre field 2 miles down the road 7 years ago and started from there, keep sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, bees.
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    like to see the pics when your ready t-man.just had a hive given to me a few weeks ago with bees they were out flying 2 days ago i have a lot to learn quick. Will do
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    I did my oa last week, i brought myself a varrox vapouriser and its very easy to use, (after much reading and thought vapourising is my chosen method of using the acid) I`m quite suprised at the drop already after just a few days, i`ve also knocked up a false floor with a cutout that it fits neatly in so i can use it on my topbar hives aswell.
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    anyone get any bee gear for crimbo? i got a new full bbwear bee suit, a new hive tool, a skep for swarm catching and 2 more bee books i`m just about all bee`d out. I have sold off my weight lifting gear and brought some woodworking kit for the garage, and am now making my own topbar hives to a design i found online have made 2 and on my 3rd with all new timber they cost me around £50-£60 each, i like them because they are so simple, i will put some pics up sometime.
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    yes just tryed again and their all working
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    magnum trap working fine, the wasp and mole come up saying "server not found" for me.
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    My log splitter has now sold.
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    Well it cost me around £1100 about 4-5 years ago when i used to get wood off my mate (whos a tree surgeon) to sell a few loads through the winter. It is one of the best i looked at for the money, being able to split logs upto 24" it works upright or horisontel or any position in between and also i think most important it has auto return so when you let go of the lever to move cut logs or turn for another split it takes itself back to your preset starting point which saves loads of time. I suppose i would be looking for £500 ovno, any less and i may aswell hold on to it for my own use (
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    I`m thinking of selling my splitter if anyones interested. Its a woodline multipla 6-8 ton 2 speed with extra 4 way wedge, honda engine.
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    Done a couple over the last week not to active but still fairly high numbers, i`m usually done by mid november.
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    Just make sure they have enough weight of stores, i fed odd bits of syrup 2:1 2lts at a time up untill a couple of weeks ago, with this late warm spell they seam to have used alot more, could be later brood rearing? I have now changed to fondant as its getting colder and will keep a slab on each through the winter just incase they get short. You can also insulate the top under the roof with kingspan or polystyrene or anything really, i have a couple of old fleese blankets on 2, poly on another and 1 with nothing but the crown board and roof, my 2 topbars also have nothing but i`m tempt
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    I started with a complete top quality hive cost over £200 i think, but to be honest i have learnt to buy cheap seconds stuff in the sales it does the same job for less than half the price and the bees dont know the differance, its the way to go.
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    I used a good quality kitchen roll, 1 piece lining a funnel, its slow but comes out very clear.
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    How you guys with bees doing, had a good year? lots of honey? I`m feeding some that need it with 2:1 sugar syrup and fondant in the topbars all in all looking good. I`m going into winter with 6 hives 3 nationals on single brood 1 on double brood and 2 topbars as my 3rd was totaly cross combed and i couldnt get into it so i moved it from the top of one topbar to the other every few weeks to strenghen the other 2 topbars up, i will correct the now empty combs and put a swarm in it next spring. What you guys doing for varroa control?
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    I`ve just ordered a load of gear from maismore apairys they have a sale on now its all new but its seconds quality, this isnt a problem tho just the odd knot or scratch etc and all well cheap supers about £13 brood bodys £18 50 frames £25 Have a look mate its about the best prices you will find.
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    Get yourself a dr5 or a pa2, a quick 2 second blast and your out of there, i started with a dustik but soon changed i hardly use it now.
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    funny i know but it does kind of piss me off a bit, not that i`m bitter or anything . Any advise on how to legally become a traveller .
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    My holding isnt in anything, green belt or anob and it still didnt make any difference, i think each district council varys wildly. West oxon are a bunch of c#nts. Do you mind me asking what your dad did to get permission as i know how hard it is and they will only allow it if its for a business which has a big "need to be there" and then its only temperary for 3-5 years in which time the business needs to be proved viable to then be granted full permission. unless its for travellers.
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    Me and the wife brought 4 acres about 6 years ago, put a plan together for a free range meat chicken farm so that we always had birds on heat to look after, and after a very long battle still got told no as they didnt want to set a pressident for this type of thing. And f##k me if 6 months later my wife found a retrospective application on some land not 2 miles away for 5 caravans and storage sheds which went straight through as traveller status with full permission . go figure. Lesson learned, you get nothing in this life and country from being honest. I have since planted even
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    A few pics of mine, bred my first two kids this year, their quality
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    Just checked and its kilgerm has the offer, buy 12 tubs get dr5 free. .
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    I think essex environmental have an offer on, buy a certian number of ficam tubs and get dr5 free . And use a tyre inflator on it, much quicker.
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    I think it depends on what you start with, i got a 5 frame nuc end of may last year and only got 1 small jar of honey to taste they spent there time building up, but a stronger nuc or a good year may well be different This year they just exploded i have split them 4 ways for new hives and have already extracted 25lbs of honey and now have another full super and a half So i would say realistically the second season .
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    got my first swarm yesterday, which then went and threw a cast today, 2 virgin queens in it possibly? First swarm Todays cast
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