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  1. Egghead_Jr

    How does rapid growth pass down?

    Hopefully you are correct and it is a faster growing female and not just a second cockerel. Tag it and find out. If it is a pullet then evaluate for any major flaws, if none then breeder! Fast fleshing is a trait of Deleware and New Hampshire. It should be bred for.
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    Maryland Permit to Sell Poultry & Frederick County's Limited Agricultural Activity Questions

    The page I linked has selling of poultry permit information.
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    Maryland Permit to Sell Poultry & Frederick County's Limited Agricultural Activity Questions

    https://mda.maryland.gov/AnimalHealth/pages/poultry.aspx#Register Note that the information is confidential. It has no impact on your local ordinance.
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    Using broiler chickens as egg laying chickens and letting their genes mix in a flock of egg chickens?

    Use what you already have. They will work fine. Select for traits you desire each year and you'll end up with exactly what you want. A hardy, friendly, moderate laying mutt.
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    The Honey Factory

    We had an inch of snow last week and it was 71 F today. Between the wind and rains it's hit or miss on getting things wrapped up in the bee yards. I should have most of it wrapped up over the cold weekend. Last round of OA sublimation is in order too.
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    Question about farm guns?

    Oddly, I've dispatched more poultry predators with a strong single pump pellet gun in .22 cal than anything else. Hatsan 95 is strong enough to take out most pests including moderate size groundhogs. I've taken mink, small raccoon, groundhogs, etc. with mine. If you go this route throw the scope...
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    The Honey Factory

    What an incredible fall flow. Not that I wanted the supers on this long but things got pushed back further than expected. My hives are high elevation and not what I would consider a prime area for honey yet I averaged 100 lbs per hive for the first time ever. I'd pulled summer honey the third...
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    The Honey Factory

    120 lbs is a good haul for a hive. Up in the Northeast Kingdom we don't get that much. Summer honey was near 50 lbs and the goldenrod pull may be 30 lbs. Very cold and wet this past week so I'm not expecting much but they will likely be packing it away this week. I did a round of Oxalic this...
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    The Honey Factory

    You don't have Joe Pye weed or loosestrife? That's what the bees were on, Joe Pye is ending. Knapweed is starting but we don't have much of that. Again, I can't tell if they wait for Joe Pye to end then move to goldenrod or if they are waiting for a certain variety to bloom. Have had blooming...
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    The Honey Factory

    The musty, locker room odor started emitting from the hives today. The fall flow has begun! Seems I pulled the summer honey just in time.
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    The Honey Factory

    Washboarding- The anti robbing scent makes the most sense to me. Folks in the South that experience a summer dearth and then a fall flow say the bees washboard at the start of both dearths.
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    The Honey Factory

    What's your theory on the behavior?
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    The Honey Factory

    Did some bee lining this afternoon with the boy. We could only find two honey bees in 40 minutes of looking, swashed one on the bee box lid. Set up the box anyway not thinking we'd get the lone bee to return. Within an hour we had a hundred bees oriented to our location and bee lining 87...
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    The Honey Factory

    If a person wanted plastic for supers Acorn sells boxes of of 72 medium drone frames for $144 plus shipping. That's for the heavy wax. https://www.acornbee.com/collections/drone-combs/products/acorn-drone-comb?variant=43431770947812 Those would draw out fast and hold a lot of honey. And they'd...
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    The Honey Factory

    Mann lake super kits come with rite cell foundation. It's excellent stuff, well coated with wax and deep cells. I use a lot of rite cell in the brood chambers and it's what I cut in half for open frame ends the bees draw drone comb in. For honey supers I use Permadent foundaiton from Mann Lake...
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    The Honey Factory

    The overpriced label name products are weak. Apivar OK most of the time. Formic Pro or Mite Away are also poorly designed. The bottom line is they don't have a proper dosage therefore instruct you to keep them on the hive much longer to get some sort of efficacy from the meager dosage...
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    The Honey Factory

    Bees won't draw comb on poorly waxed foundation. Get wax on those frames or you will have a mess. Take the wonky comb and ball it up to rub on the plastic foundation. It's a quick fix in the field. Some people have luck with tossing an undrawn super right on top of a queen excluder. I never...
  18. Egghead_Jr

    The Honey Factory

    A member of Bee source in Great Lakes Region of New York posted an image I find alarming. I'll zoom and crop the image and subsequent image they said was 15 miles away on an outer cover, they've been seeing more and more of them. At least it's not a yellow legged hornet they are trying to...
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    The Honey Factory

    Using this weekend to attempt and put a dent in my bee equipment upkeep. Always so far behind. Have frames from a bear taking out a yard years ago in boxes, unpainted boxes I'd been using for honey supers and need to use them again soon. After setting up a cell builder and grafting 20 larva into...
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    The Honey Factory

    Agreed, move before the foragers fix on the location of the trap. late evening or very early morning I put a screen over the entrance and move them. If I don't know when the swarm arrived will move them to a far location for a few days then back to my apiary. Prime swarms have mated queens. The...
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