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I had some free hives given to me. I finally got to inspect them today....man what a mess! One hive, a 10 frame, only had 5 or 6 frames, 3 of them were at an angle and the gaps were filled up with comb....I just left it that way and put a new brood box on top. Lots of brood and some honey.
The other hive had 3 frames of bees with good amount of brood and some honey. Cleaned up the empty frames and left it as is....will recheck in May.
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Originally posted by lovemylegacy View PostI had some free hives given to me. I finally got to inspect them today....man what a mess! One hive, a 10 frame, only had 5 or 6 frames, 3 of them were at an angle and the gaps were filled up with comb....I just left it that way and put a new brood box on top. Lots of brood and some honey.
The other hive had 3 frames of bees with good amount of brood and some honey. Cleaned up the empty frames and left it as is....will recheck in May.
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Had a Beekeeper come set up 6 hives this past weekend on my property out back. He needs a place to put bees and I need bees for a few benefits.
1. Pollination help in the garden.
2. 6 out of my 7.5 acres homestead will now be going to ag exempt after the 5 years. I wish I had done this years ago.
3. A jar of honey every once in awhile.
Interesting thing is that the beekeeper isn't doing it for honey production but for the harvesting of queens. Apparently he has some crossbreed of bees/queens that are better for the Texas climate. He gets the queens and some bees and resells them.
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Originally posted by Ferg View Postanytime we install bees from a trap or swarm, we put them in jail. Queen excluder at the entrance or on top of the bottom board, just to make sure the queen does do leave. It hurts to install some bees one day and they are gone the next. Good luck.
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Originally posted by Ferg View Postanytime we install bees from a trap or swarm, we put them in jail. Queen excluder at the entrance or on top of the bottom board, just to make sure the queen does do leave. It hurts to install some bees one day and they are gone the next. Good luck.
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Originally posted by jay07ag View Post
Alright, I’m in the game! Installed two nucs today, put in some 1:1 feed in the tops to help them draw out the remaining frames in the deep. Will be anxious to get back in and take a look in a week or two!
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Originally posted by lovemylegacy View PostNice! Where did you get those Brood Boxes?
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Picked up this swarm from a woman who lives about a mile from me in Houston. Her granddaughter saw the swarm on Easter, and I came over on Sunday evening. Didn't have a ladder tall enough, so I used her extension cord to 'lasso' for lack of a better term the limb they were on, and pulled it down to reach the branch they were all clustered to. Of course it broke, and all the bees fell on her roof. I'm on my hands and knees with my phone flashlight trying to find the queen because I ran out of daylight. By the grace of God, I find her, and sprayed a few shots of Swarm Lure in the empty box, and they marched right in. I came and got them on Monday after work. The queen was unmarked, and I have already had to give them another super because they are filling up the bottom box already. I mowed next to them and they couldn't care less. I did it for free, because her husband has Stage 4 colon cancer, and I like to pay it forward. Very happy with these feral bees!
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