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Adding a new out yard
I was recently invited to put a few colonies on a tree farm about 3 min from my current apiary. I happily agreed and got to work building it yesterday. Anyone in my area knows that digging is not an easy task because of all the rock we have here. Well, putting T-posts and 8’ grounding rods in isn’t much easier. Please excuse the crooked t-posts, they started out straight but, the rocks had other plans. Why did I need an electric fence you may ask. Well, black bears are very common in my area. While nothing will keep out a determined bear, electric fence is a little more insurance…
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Replacement Queen Day
Sadly sometimes, queens for some reason disappear from their hives. This could be because, she died, was failing, accidentally got rolled by the beekeeper inspecting the hive, pests caused problems or she was chased from the hive. However it happened to me this time, I needed to replace my queen in one of my 9 hives. First I tried to give the colony a frame of brood from egg to capped. I did this so that the colony could try and raise their own emergency queen. It looked like they were successful, I saw emergency cells created, capped and then torn down. This means the virgin queen emerged took out…
