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My son is considering sending one semi load of bees to the almonds next year - assuming he can get the right contract. I know that he has had conversations with the couple of guys that we do know that do send bees to CA - he has a few horror stories now. I was trying to help him come up with a plan to get the bees ready for the trip and wonder what type of suggestions guys might have that do go to the Almonds. My ideas look like this.
1.. Bring all the pallets in from the yards about Oct 1.
2. Place them in circles of 25 pallets (100 hives). Syrup truck would park in middle with hose as radius of circle. He would have about 5 circles to feed.
3. Oct 1 feed one big Patty - keep feeders full of syrup till they will take no more - about Nov 15 here in Eastern NC.
4. Nov 1 feed another patty - Dec and Jan try to feed a patty each month.
Anyway these are my thoughts on getting the bee numbers and brood up to the kind of numbers that would be required in CA and I would appreciate any comments or suggestions.
1.. Bring all the pallets in from the yards about Oct 1.
2. Place them in circles of 25 pallets (100 hives). Syrup truck would park in middle with hose as radius of circle. He would have about 5 circles to feed.
3. Oct 1 feed one big Patty - keep feeders full of syrup till they will take no more - about Nov 15 here in Eastern NC.
4. Nov 1 feed another patty - Dec and Jan try to feed a patty each month.
Anyway these are my thoughts on getting the bee numbers and brood up to the kind of numbers that would be required in CA and I would appreciate any comments or suggestions.