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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    It's strange but it does seem to reinvigorate them. Hard to say, I don't combine hives because it could also be viral. I usually just reduce them down to one hive body and get surprised in the spring when they bounce back.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Did you remove the queen before combining?
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Some beekeepers tilt a hive on to a scale. Or you can guess at the weight by counting full frames of honey. A full deep frame is about 8 pounds and a medium frame 5 lbs.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    I'm not sure what the target weight in your area is but let's say its 130 pounds for 2 deeps. If your hive weighs 110 pounds you would feed them 2 gallons of 2:1. A gallon of 2:1 adds about 10 pounds.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Like here, in Michigan you should go by weight. Once the hive is at the target weight you can stop feeding.
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    Solar for coop

    You can get solar chicken doors and led lights. You run into problems with the water heater, it would cost thousands for that amount of panels and batteries to store the power. I found inexpensive solar lights in my area just aren't reliable for year round use. For an RV or camp, sure.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Yes, you can get synthetic comb. I was given a few to try a couple of years ago and they work but the comb and cells didn't really hold their shape over the summer. They looked a little weird and I took them out the following spring. They may be better now, I'm not sure. It's not something I...
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    How do you get rid of the rubber smell?

    NOOOOOOooooooo! They don't. Fortex rubber bowls are made from 100% rubber and do not contain PFAS. They are designed to be durable and safe for use with pets and small animals.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    If it is 2:1 syrup it can be stored in an airtight container for about 6 months. 1:1 will get moldy quick because of the higher water content. Adding distilled apple cider vinegar or lemon juice can inhibit mold growth for storage. The problem is it's just a guess on how much to add because...
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Yes, not a very good golfer but lots of fun with the wife and kids. Rare to catch bumblebees during mating season. Highlight of the game for me. :D
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    Horse name!!!!!

    Splenda :)
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    In places like North Dakota and areas in Canada around 30 pounds in a day of nectar have been recorded. I don't know where my bees were robbing but it could have been a feral or backyard hive. Either way it puts them at risk of disease and mites. It's over now, today they were calm and quiet...
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    He probably could. Theres all kinds of neat electronics you can put together.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    They are, I never thought I would like it as much as I do. It does temperature and humidity as well.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    I don't have them on all my hives, too expensive. It's just coincidence that the hive with the scale is robbing.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    Invasive plants are my skill level. BroodMinder scale.
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    I don't come close to the greenthumb you guys have but I did order siberian squill bulbs, it would be nice to see blue pollen coming in next spring. I did have a hive jump 9 pounds this afternoon, they are definitely robbing out someone's bees. I'll have to do a mite count on them soon.
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    Sally's GF3 thread

    My reply: It's for sale! 1.5 million an acre. Have a nice day.
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    Sally's GF3 thread

    I know there's a bill that is supposed to end wall street level companies from buying up houses and renting them. Hopefully it passes. The other problem in NYS, is people from NYC will go to small upstate towns and buy a small lot with an old, closed business on it. They will pay crazy prices...
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    How do you get rid of the rubber smell?

    Buy Fortex. American made and they don't come with all the crazy odors.
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