Farm chatter

[ackie]

or you could just hunt wild swarms but you'd still need the equipment to house them.

 

[riss]

ummm i think we paid 130$ per "package" which is 1 queen and 3 lbs of bees to go with her.

then you need boxes, lids, bottoms, feeder boards, feeders, SUGAR, frames, and beeswax. and a beesuit. the box stuff is easy to build though if you just get wood.

if you're patient, you can get one hive and then 'split' the hive - you do a specific thing that causes the bees to make a new queen, and then you can take her and some amount of bees and start a second hive. (if they split naturally, the original queen will leave with some amount of bees to find somewhere new & the other bees will switch allegiance to the new queen.)

and then you have 2 hives! (or you have a bee package to sell to someone else for $130 lol)

Soundsss complicated

I know one day I will and probably so will my dad. He for some reason wants to be a beekeeper

 

[black_cat]

ummm i think we paid 130$ per "package" which is 1 queen and 3 lbs of bees to go with her.

then you need boxes, lids, bottoms, feeder boards, feeders, SUGAR, frames, and beeswax. and a beesuit. the box stuff is easy to build though if you just get wood.

if you're patient, you can get one hive and then 'split' the hive - you do a specific thing that causes the bees to make a new queen, and then you can take her and some amount of bees and start a second hive. (if they split naturally, the original queen will leave with some amount of bees to find somewhere new & the other bees will switch allegiance to the new queen.)

and then you have 2 hives! (or you have a bee package to sell to someone else for $130 lol)

OMG ONE POUND OF BEES IS SO MANY BEES

 

[ackie]

this is a hive. the bottom box is where the queen lays babies, and you add additional boxes on top as the box below it fills up- with honey or wax or babies. or you can take out the frames and replace them with empty frames and eat all the honey.

this box is a package of bees. the can in the middle is a sugar water feeder.

here hes spraying the frames with sugar water because the bees like it

 

[ackie]

also someone tell my dog to not sit under a hive? lmao

 

[black_cat]

OMG ONE POUND OF BEES IS SO MANY BEES

WAIT HOLY CRAP ITS 3 POUNDS OF BEES
WHY DO YOU NEED THAT MANY BEES

 

[CHlCKEN]

YALL THE POND IS HERE

 

[CHlCKEN]

ALSO LOOK I SET UP MY BROODER

 

[CHlCKEN]

They were officially shipped about one hour ago, though I got the message this morning that they would ship today. I should expect them on Wednesday.

 

[ButtonHoarder]

They were officially shipped about one hour ago, though I got the message this morning that they would ship today. I should expect them on Wednesday.

finally!