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That is how most small scale beekeepers do it--hive to bottle to store. Most will filter the honey at some point to remove bee parts and wax, but otherwise it truly is natural honey. On the other hand, large commercial bottlers will flash heat their honey before it is bottle to cut down on the...

You and the bees will be fine doing what you described. You will want to smoke them to calm them down during the transfer, but otherwise the bees won't care as long as they have their queen. It's all about the pheromones.

Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex : Yeah, my Dad doesn't seem to have any side effects from stings at all-lucky! But I react badly to mosquito bites and apparently bee stings. The one on my neck is not aweful- feels like a bad mosquito bite (swollen lump that itches) but my finger sting has swollen so...

When I first got into bees I would swell up like a balloon at the sting site and then it would itch like crazy for a week. It was so bad I almost got out of the bee business. Now 4 years later I hardly swell up and the itching stops in a day or two. It still hurts like heck when I get stung, but...

Quote: You don't need an excluder with a TBH. The bees will use the first few combs for brood, but eventually will have nothing but honey in combs over the course of the season. I know some folks use different width bars for brood and honey. Not sure there is anything scientific about that...

Quote: Okay--this was one those ideas that should have worked out well, except that it didn't. My bees found the frame of brood and the chickens couldn't get near it. I gave up and just put it back in the hive. Oh well, live and learn.

Excellent! Thank you.

To other beeks on the Forum: I started using the green drone frames this year and have had some success with them being filled. Per what I understand you are suppose to do with them once they get about half full of drone brood, I put the frames in the freezer for a couple of days until all of...

Quote: Me too! Oh man I hope I win. That makes three of us!

Sorry to hijack this string, but have any of you beekeepers let your chickens clean up a frame of drone brood? I have been using the green drone frames and then freezing them when they get about half full. Usually I put them back in the hive and the bees clean them up pretty well, but I was...

Glad to know that I'm not the only that keeps a chair by their coop! The only problem is with the monsoons we've been having lately, the mosquitoes don't let me sit out there too long...

It looks like we in SE Minnesota will find out over the next five days...heat index could hit 110. No eggs today, and it was barely in the 90's. Maybe AC in the coop wouldn't have been a bad idea after all...

Quote: Really? I always take'em straight to the refrig. What is the best way to keep laid eggs ...for eating? I'm with you--maybe my city kid-ness is showing through, but two months and still good to eat??? I gotta be missing something...

Our three girls have a pattern going (more or less) 2-1-0-2-1-0-2-1-0-etc. Seems strange, but we are still pretty new at this so maybe it's normal? We're just happy to get what we can.

Okay, really stupid question from a really new chicken rancher: So how long does it take from the time a hen "assumes the position" until the egg actually emerges? Is it five minutes, 30 minutes, four hours? Or all over the map? Thanks for indulging my curiosity...

@Dogfish--I am impressed with your handiwork. I especially like the bells on the trapdoor! Good job.

Okay, I am a bit of a newbie (make that a really new newbie), but never considered putting top netting on under the kennel cover. Guess I never considered that some critter would actually work that hard to get to my girls. My cover is a bit different than the TSC style in that it the sides come...

Yippee!! =

My wife (a former farm girl) suggests we just have a big chicken feed every November, and start over each spring!

I am at best a pre-newbie chicken grower. My wife (who grew up with chickens on her farm) and I have talked about this for a couple of years and are getting closer and closer to pulling the trigger on diving in. We have several acres of land in the country, and currently have bees. I thought...