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Agreed. However, a quick email can be sent to a lot of customers at once telling them that things are running behind. This would likely free up time because everyone would not be calling to find...

Ordered 4 for April 8th shipping. No reply to email but finally got thru by phone at night on April 16th. Got an email the next morning (Wednesday) that my queens had shipped. Set up hives for the...

Caught 3 swarms Friday, 4 Saturday, 2 yesterday, and 1 today.

Do a search for Robert Russell, not Rob Hughes. The person who is Robert Russell presented himself as Rob Hughes.

When my orders kept getting delayed last year I sent a PM to Robert or Rob telling them that I was coming on a certain date and that I was leaving with either bees or a refund. I met and spent...

I got one on eBay but the focal distance makes it hard to use.

I only wanted one hive, but got the fever. I now have 30 hives plus 100 mating nucs, an extracting and bottling house with central air/heat, a grafting room and a comb room. I started grafting into...

I started back beekeeping a year and a half ago, and wanted 1 hive . So far have spent about $45k give or take a few k. And I build a lot of my own equipment and raise my own queens. Glad I didn't...

A gallon of water equals 8.33#. So for 25# of sugar add 1 gallon, 3 quarts, 6.3 ounces of water. Get R Done.

I must have bought from the same seller over a year ago. They advertised as all organic pure beeswax but when I got it the smell was awful. Called and he gave me the same story about apricot oil.

Keep in mind that good bookkeeping is primarily designed to help run your business more profitably with being able to create a tax return from the numbers being a by-product. If the categories don't...

Ordered the 21 frame with electronic control from Brushy Mountain. Have 30 hives and 100 mating nucs.

Around here that would be quite expensive. Virgins sell for less than that, and cell are less than $5.00.

It's about 4'long. I just went online and ordered 3 of them.

Their boxes are good quality but the outside dimensions do not match the other boxes I have. They will work but I prefer more standardization.

I love ordering from Mann Lake but will not order any more boxes unless they conform the size to match those available from Dadant and most other suppliers.

Thanks Joe. I'll talk to the other beekeepers and see what they think.

Mark:

I certainly am not trying to imply that all beekeepers, or even most, are not paying their employees properly. Its just that a LOT of small business people don't understand the importance of...

The only beekeeper's return I do is my own. Seems a lot of beekeepers want to play games with their payroll and I've seen enough business owners' (not beekeepers) pay thousands in penalties or lose...

A 1099 is only an official record of something that occured during the year. You should have or be able to get that information before the next year for most things that are relevant to your tax...

Sometimes things that are free are very expensive.

I would add to those wanting to properly set up their business accounting system, to enter the information as it is available, rather than at...

QuickBooks can do a very good job of you know how to set it up and you enter all your relavent information in a timely manner

Greg:

If you get more offers than you can use, I would be interested in the same thing.

Thanks. I think you did a great job explaining it. I'll have to give it a try.

Oldtimer, I know this is an old thread, and I enjoyed it a lot, but could you tell more about the breeder hive you used when rearing queens professionally, and how it was set up to confine the queen?