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2.5 at last count!
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SlickMick
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« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2009, 05:03:24 AM » |
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Struth, Mick! I started the year with zip.. lost out in a tussel with the shb
Bought a nuc and caught some swarms.. I was going to limit it to 5 but I cant help myself..now I have 8 (includes 3 nucs) from swarmsand have so much of the golden stuff in drums that I dont know what to do with it. I think I might combine the nucs and let the queens fight it out
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On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few, And men of religion are scanty, On a road never cross'd 'cept by folk that are lost, One Michael Magee had a shanty. Now this Mike was the dad of a ten-year-old lad, Plump, healthy, and stoutly conditioned; He was strong as the best, but poor Mike had no rest For the youngster had never been christened, A BUSH CHRISTENING - A.B. "Banjo" Paterson http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/patersonab/poetry/christen.html |
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« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2009, 05:46:42 AM » |
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Three for me, at the moment!!
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Meadlover
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« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2009, 04:26:49 PM » |
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« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2009, 05:43:57 PM » |
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Started this year with (2),
no honey but still have 2 hives that I guess are healthy with 3 deeps of built out comb and 4 mediums.
I think I have done "ok"
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Former beekeeper until March....maybe next year...RIP
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« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2009, 06:03:41 PM » |
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Our magic number seems to be 20. We gain a few, sell a few, then gain again. One TBH, two Long Hives, seventeen Langs, and a Nuc.  |
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« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2009, 10:20:52 AM » |
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1 and 1/2 - started last May with a package, and did a trap out in July. Fingers crossed.
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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Samuel Clemens
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marinsbee
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« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2010, 01:28:31 PM » |
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I have 120. |
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Pete
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« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2010, 07:02:59 PM » |
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Started the year with 1 and now have 7. Will reduce to 4 or 5. Way too many bees in the backyard.
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« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2010, 09:17:30 PM » |
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I had 2 from this time last year until about 5 weeks now I have 12. I'm looking for agisting sites within an hour and a half of Melb to the north.  I have way too many hives in the back yard... |
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« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2010, 11:58:50 PM » |
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Well I bought six and they swarmed and I now have 11. I have just sold some and will sell some more soon I think the magic number for me to keep will be 3. Just enough for fun and some real good honey.
Cheers
Steve
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« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2010, 08:38:39 PM » |
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I have none at present, hopefully 2011 I will have a few. A few years past I had 27.
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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a veteran.
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« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2010, 08:40:47 PM » |
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7 and baby swarm.
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« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2010, 06:01:33 PM » |
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3 for right now.
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OzBuzz
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« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2010, 12:27:20 PM » |
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I think i have 12 right now...
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« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2010, 06:52:43 AM » |
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I think i have 12 right now...
I'll count them next time I get up there for you. |
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« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2010, 04:33:10 PM » |
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55 right now.
The goal for this year is sixty - we should be there with a couple to spare already, but it's been a right sod of a spring down here. If we stay where we are that'll be ok - probably time to concentrate on building em up for the crop rather than splitting any more at this point.
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col c
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« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2010, 01:53:44 AM » |
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ha ha.... I can remember Oz Buzz arriving on here... Hive count zero.... none.... zilch.
Now the poor bugger hasn't even the time to count them.....
What a great pass time
p/s we have 3 swarms pass by here in Glen Waverley in the past couple of weeks, one mine. Caught 2, othe ran and hid
Building a TBH to try
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Col
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« Reply #18 on: November 07, 2010, 06:40:25 AM » |
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ha ha.... I can remember Oz Buzz arriving on here... Hive count zero.... none.... zilch.
Now the poor bugger hasn't even the time to count them.....
What a great pass time
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« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2010, 03:58:01 PM » |
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6 currently, time to make more boxes!
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