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    Sorry to hear about your hard luck Adrian. I'm sure you will come back full strength in no time.
    I am extreamly intrested to hear how you overcome this set back and if there is anything I can do to help let me know....
    I intend to graft some queens this year and if I have even 50% success with the queens, you can have some of mine for free. :)
    We are planing a trip to Sacramento, ca. in late april and I plan to pick up some strachen aperies queens while i'm there (10) either NWC or Caucation which ever I can get, I'm hoping to carry them on the plane with me if possible....
    I have 2 wintering sheds going this year. The one on the back of my garage which looks like i have 9 of 13 coming into spring and I built another that has 8 double deeps + and a 140# nuc... LOL...The nuc is Big and Strong but the others are real slow (I do much better with nucs than 10s)
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    Earl, this year i got my butt kicked - my mistake. I started my splits too soon, and consequently there were too many cycles of mites for them. I have not totalled my losses yet, but I believe I am sitting around 40% survival. This means that I won't have excess nucs to sell beyond what i have already promised. The lesson here is that I have learned, the hard way, that May is too soon to get going. Next time my bees are too strong too soon I will have to do something to delay them until June. How about you? How is it going?

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    Hello Adrian'
    I hope all is well with you. I was wondering if you will have any nucs for sale in 2017 and how much''' your bees and mine are similar and our objectives are the same , and I'm looking to add some new blood to my stock this year. I would love to add your wintering and production genetics to my yards....:) send me a note or call me and let me know what you think or have available...

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    Howdy Adrian........

    Just thought I'd send you a note to see how your bees were wintering now that its almost feb 1??
    I've been re-reading some of the overwintering threads and This IS the time of the year that
    the proof is in the pudding....I really liked the nuc packs that you are using and consider it a good
    system,,and may try it next year.....and wondered if you brought any of them inside this late winter?
    Also wondered if you had any of the dark bee blood that seems tto do better in the winters...
    First week of april I'll pick up 12 packages from Wolfs,,They are italian and buckfast cross I believe
    and am thinking of re-queening some at some point to NWC or something like that and see if
    they'll make it through next winter...always glad to read your posts--:)

    ==McBee7==

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    Hey Adrian, I was reading your posts about swarm prevention, regarding Roland's method of moving capped brood up above a queen excluder. If you don't mind, I have a couple questions: do you put the QE between the top and bottom deep, and move the capped brood into the second deep every 12-14 days? Do you then make a top entrance between the top deep and the supers? And then close off the bottom entrance?

    Thanks man!
    Andrew
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