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I'm revisiting this thread after picking up my bees this morning...

Once more, I have two established colonies in single deep brood boxes. I'm hoping to get some honey production right away, if...

I've heard excluders can go quite a long ways toward preventing comb from being drawn out. I understand trying to keep brood out, but what sort of impact do you think it would have with my non-drawn...

Forgot to address beedeetee's question about the amount of honey... I really only need about 9 pounds at the lest. I'm doing a 3-gallon batch at the workshop. 9 is probably slightly more than...

Thanks for all the good input! Based on this, my current plan is to just go with the supering, and wait until later add a second brood body.

@fant214: I'm leading the workshop in Radford, VA.
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This may sound like a stupid question- but then, there are no stupid questions, only stupid people. :D (Yes, I am a bit self-deprecating!)

In central Alabama, established colony to arrive...

Gotcha. I've done all kinds of homework, and apparently missed one of the basics. D'OH!

Be well
-UF

I figure a little feeding probably can't hurt. I may go with a little syrup just to see how they take it, then do more if the girls are little lushes. :) Granted, the president of my local...

Steven:

I'm not really counting on getting much if any honey this year. I'll be getting two brood boxes with tested queens. Due to some weird weather here, and the fact in my sitting on the...

Fortunately, I know the president of local association (she got me into all this), and she has an extractor.

I'm not really expecting any honey this year- but I'm buying established colonies, so...

Interesting. I think it was just last week or week before, that NYC legalized beekeeping. Before, they had been classified in the same group with venomous or dangerous animals. There were lots of...

I'm making the mead myself. :) (That's what got me into this. I've been making mead for about a year now- 1 of 4 batches is now in the bottle.)

The bees will reside at a house just over the...

Gotcha. Thanks for the info! I was, indeed, misinterpreting it.

BTW, I love your handle. :)

Be well
-UF

I'm just getting into beekeeping, and I'm considering equipment options..
Has anyone here used one of these?

http://www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/Multi-Use-Straining-System/productinfo/295/
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Oh, I was very much a silly person before I moved to 5 Points South (when I was 33), so I fit right in! I think it came from growing up with a forensic psychologist for a father, and a mother who...

The fun started this morning just after 2am. Soon as I got home from the pub across the street, I decided just for fun, I'd tack together a medium super before going to bed. About 2:30, I decided...

My ancestors are also Scots- and Germans. :)

It was actually a Scot (transplanted to USA) who got me into all this. He's a mead maker, and got me into that. That in turn led me into keeping...

Welcome, Borislav! As a world traveller, I'm very happy to have an international crowd here.

Be well
-UF

I'm a Canon loyalist. I've used their P&S and SLRs (film and digital) for some great shots on all 7 continents.

Brands aside, I would definitely look for a somewhat slim-line point & shoot. Why?...

Gesundheit. I was never a boy scout. :( However, I loved the mushroom cloud merit badge during the end credits of the movie Up!, and I really want one.....

Be well
-UF

Howdy......I'm a Scot/German TV producer, digeridoo player, world traveller, photographer, mead maker, and soon to be beekeeper! My first big shipment of supplies has come in, after the county...

Jefferson county checking in. I just got my shipment of unassembled hive bodies and supers today. Hopefully, I'll have bees in them very soon!

Be well
-UF