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    I extracted my first full super today about 25lb of honey. I ordered a bees on a budget extracter kit from thornes its all plastic and only 2 frame but will do me for a couple of years. This is what its all about i suppose in the end, although i think i would keep them anyway even if i got no honey. Quite a sticky job it is.
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    I`ve got my 3 topbar hives as bait hives and theres been bees in and out of them for weeks but no sign of swarms yet . Knowing my luck i`ll probly get wasps in them .
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    I had my first little beekeeping hicup you could say . I came back from the beekeeping show and went through the bees (it had been about 10 days since my last inspection) i thought they had plenty of room because at the last inspection i added a second brood box and a second super, but no i found about 10-12 queen cells some of which were sealed i couldnt find the queen so i decided to split them and made up 2 nucs with queen cells. Checked them on friday and found old queen in one of the nucs ,anyway the old hive had 3 nice fat new queen cells so i divided the 2 broods with a que
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    I`m sure he was just pulling our legs, .
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    I think you may need a shovel as the hole your in is getting bigger lol. . .
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    Any pics of the bras and knickers .
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    Anyone going to the beekeepers show at stoneleigh on saturday. I`m going along for the first time hoping to pick up some bargins if theres any left.
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    The sheep are soay and the goats are pygmy The horns defo help when catching them up as soay are the greyhounds of the sheep world lol.
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    Heres my latest, born today at 3pm a nice little ewe lamb this is the forth so far, 2 ewe lambs and twin ram lambs, i have 3 more to lamb 2 i think with singles and 1 with twins. About 15mins old. Also had a couple of nanny kids. And a few thousand baby bees lol. Its certainly that reproductive time of year.
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    Just done my second inspection of the season and they were bursting at the seems, brood now on 9 frames and a fair amount of honey in the super. I decided it was a good time to go to double brood, so i put the new brood box full of foundation under the old brood so they can build down into it as they need more room. Brood in all stages, and so many bees i`m buggered if i could see the queen, getting a bit worried about being able to find her when i come to do a split later on. .
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    Yes mate i used apiguard in the late summer aswell, and then oxalic acid during winter (mid jan) to knock them off when there is very little or no brood cells for them to hide in.
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    This being only my second season, ive been really nervous but no there great. Trapperman, do you slide floors under your hives in the winter? Ive got veroa floors and i put slides in over the winter to keep them warm but on reflection i was wondering if they would have been better without?? ATB D No i leave the slide in floor out except when we had that really cold spell i put it in but upside down so there was a slight gap to allow a flow of air across the bottem and out the front. I had 2" of polystyrene and a fleese blanket on top as insulation, with no top ventilation.
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    I supered mine today aswell they had already built back all the comb from crown board to tops of frames that i cleaned off last time and filled it with honey.
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    Nice vid john, you handsome devil you .
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    well i finaly got round to doing my first inspection, my bee thermometer said 21c in the full sun. I am well pleased they have come through the winter fantasticly, there is brood on 7 frames in all stages from eggs to capped there are 4 frames of stores some around the brood also and loads of pollen aswell . I took a couple of pics. Just taken the crown board off, there was some brace comb but not to much, i just scraped this off with the hive tool before putting back together. And some brood frames, i didnt see the queen but didnt want to take to long and the eg
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    How did they look BULLDOUG.
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    i`m hoping tomorrow is as good as it was here today i`ve got a bit of spare time and will have a quick look through them.
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    Y didn;t say i was offering a service.(theres always one) £10 mate If you say an average job is 3 visits, i`m talking domestic jobs here, and you get 1 mole on the job thats £3.33 per visit . name one other trade, and thats what it is if its part of your living a trade, where a tradesman charges £3/visit, it wouldnt even cover my diesel. Milk man O.k smart ass lol
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    come on england .
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    my 4 acre smallholding is cleared for fac air.
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    someone talking sense at last .
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    didn;t say i was offering a service.(theres always one) £10 mate If you say an average job is 3 visits, i`m talking domestic jobs here, and you get 1 mole on the job thats £3.33 per visit . name one other trade, and thats what it is if its part of your living a trade, where a tradesman charges £3/visit, it wouldnt even cover my diesel.
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    This time next year i`m going to be a millionare .
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    Nice video john, i put a kilo of neopoll on mine today and they were well busy bringing in the same colour pollen as yours bright orangey/yellow.
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    Ha, He was 2 year old when i got him hes now 4 and i have been told that at this age an intact ram tastes shit. So just seeing if any other soay breeders might want him, if not then it will be to the local hunt with him .
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