i have about 60 or more acreage of goldon rod
Type: Posts; User: frederick
i have about 60 or more acreage of goldon rod
not blooming here yet
you can add two more to that 30 and make it 32 swarms so far.
the flow here is going stong here. shue mack is blooming.
ive picked up over 30 swarms allready and just got one more today. started with 14 hives and now im just over 60 and counting. keep them coming.
caught my 30th swarm yesterday.
i live in wolcott and no blooms on the locust at all. may i ask who your freind is in wolcott.
cuaght one swarm yesterday and 2 today
nice job. trying doing 6 cut outs in 2 days. i do about 2 cut outs a day.
one of my hives swarmed today. corvair68 if you think catching swarms wares you out try doing cut outs.
i did 2 cut out and a swarm all in one day. when i did get home i had 3 more cut out calls.
did another cut out today and pulled 9 queencells out of that one
did a cut today and i counted 14 queencells. im going to split my hives and use all 14 cells.
got my 3rd swarm today in rochster
got my 2 swarm today in spencerport.
got 2 swarms today. one was about 2 pounds and the other one was about 5 pounds.
there was five that made it thourgh winter.no swarms off the hives this year.
i did five cut outs this year on one house and was able to make 8 hives out of them.
i use a beevac that i bought from brushy mountain bee farm. best investment i could buy. im in and out in 3 hours or less.
i charge between 100 and 200 dollors per job no matter how long it takes. ive done 3 this week and have 3 more to go and more the following week.
i have drones walking around in the hive. should be flying this week.
i reversed my bees a week ago and they already putting pollen and nector there. the queen is laying up there too. put on a shalloow to give more room to store honey.all my hives are in double deeps.
as soon as the weather warms up im going to start raising drones and queens. im hoping for mid april late april. give me a call and we can talk more if you want (315)594-1069 ask for fred. i also do...
im going to try and graft some from my over winter colinies . i might have a few left over.
i dont treat my hives. they are chemical free.