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Why would they ship them on friday of any weekend? Thats a recipe for disaster. They should know better. I only ever ship mondays and tuesdays, which is ment to keep bees out of the postal hubs...

You should have left her in longer, many times they wont lay in the cups for a day or two. Next time try leaving her in there longer and you will most likely get the eggs you want.

I never put the cups in prior to grafting and get 90-95% takes on grafts. I used to let them polish new cups, but i got the same percentage. Putting them in to have them polished is up to you, but...

Lauri,

I use the same incubator, well the reptipro 6000 which is the same thing in grey. It works really well for keeping a constant temp without hot spots. I like your cage setup, i wish i had...

Beepro,

Yes your starter and finisher can be the same hive, but you need to either make a really strong starter finisher, or graft fewer cells. I have found that my starter finisher combos can...

Bluegrass,
i would agree that most hives wont be ready to split for 3-4 weeks, but i dont believe its to early. We have plenty of pollen, nectar, and lots of purple eyed drone brood. I think that...

I would put 3 frames of brood, in all stages, in the nuc with the existing queen, along with a frame of food and an emtpy frame. Then move the nuc a distance away from the hive. Allow the large...

Thanks for the definition, i appreciate it.

Can you explain why? I am curious what your definition of non intervention beekeeping is, I have never heard anyone use that term.

Does splitting your hives go against your "non-intervention" approach to beekeeping? I don't have my crystal ball handy, so I cant tell which one is queenless, but I will wager that it is the white...

I would think its still a little early. I know we are having great weather now, but it was very cold up to 3 weeks ago. I would think it will be another 2 weeks before we see any swarms this far...

Yeah, they can be capped in 3 1/2 days, because capping has to do with larve development, and older larve are more developed than younger larve.
A stainless steel grafting tool from dadant is very...

I like to keep my incubator between 89-91 degrees with between 35-50% humidity. The colder the incubator, the more delayed the hatch will be

If they capped the queen cells already, that means that the larvae that you grafted into the cell cups were older than the 12-18hr old larvae that you want. This means that the larvae in the capped...

My 4 frame mini nucs are homemade. They are deep size end bars, but the top bars are only 9.25 inches long. This gives me just under 2 deep frames worth of comb for the queen to lay in, once you...

I like grafting personally. I used a starter/finisher hive, and move capped queen cells into my incubator. Last year i had lost too many cells to tear down and had a lot get burr combed, so I...

You should have plenty of drones in GA this time of year, we split hives down there 2 weeks ago, and there was an abundance of drones for the new queens to mate with. Try Rossmans or D Best. Miksa...

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How many of you have a Business Plan?.

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Written or well thought out? Written, no, I dont have one. Thought out, yes I do. Its not hard to figure out if I made...

For the original poster,
I looked around at what other local beekeepers were selling their honey for, and set my price at 25% higher than theirs, as i felt that they were to low. The market would...

Daniel,
Step out of the business owner mindset and use a farmers mentality for a moment. I know many farmers that have gone their whole lives and never used their labor hours with a cost involved. ...

Just caught a 2nd swarm in the same tree as the first, and it was the same size. We werent expecting them to be swarming this soon.

March 10, 2013
Southern GA

Came down from NY to make early splits and found a 4 pound swarm 15 feet up on a tree branch. Used a 10 foot length of pipe and a cardboard box taped to the pipe to...

Lauri,

I like the mini boxes you made up. What length are you mini top bars?
And that is a very nice looking virgin queen, what is its lineage?

I believe that video was shot within the last week by a guy that was going to be a sub for Russell. After this info came out, he headed to Brandon to get his hives and take them home, if i remember...

I don't believe any of the sub producers are selling any of the lines of RA. Most have refunded all orders and have disassociated with him, including myself.