I ask this question sometimes, but never get a straight answer. I started last year with 2 hives and got about 100 lbs per hive, including what I did
not use of the autumn honey I kept "just in case". This year I have already gotten more than that from the those same 2 hives, and the new one I started from a package this year, which had a queen supercedure right off, is about ready to generate about this same quantity as the two old ones did last year. I know it differs from year to year.....any responses?
I raise them chemical free in middle Tennessee, feed them when they will eat syrup (which was any time after the spring flow and not much during the current fall flow-they wanted to nothing to do with it at those times). I think this is pretty decent, but have no frame of reference, which is ALWAYS pretty darned relative.....
What do most people get in a normal year? What is considered a decent return for the effort, which I think is A LOT OF EFFORT!!!!???? (when on the hobby level)
Thanx to all....just wondering.
not use of the autumn honey I kept "just in case". This year I have already gotten more than that from the those same 2 hives, and the new one I started from a package this year, which had a queen supercedure right off, is about ready to generate about this same quantity as the two old ones did last year. I know it differs from year to year.....any responses?
I raise them chemical free in middle Tennessee, feed them when they will eat syrup (which was any time after the spring flow and not much during the current fall flow-they wanted to nothing to do with it at those times). I think this is pretty decent, but have no frame of reference, which is ALWAYS pretty darned relative.....
What do most people get in a normal year? What is considered a decent return for the effort, which I think is A LOT OF EFFORT!!!!???? (when on the hobby level)
Thanx to all....just wondering.