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Hey all,
I wrote in about a month ago regarding some hot bees I received from Hawaii.
Well, they're still damn hot. However, I've just finished extracting for
the year here in Eastern Ontario. The hot hive produced 7 shallow supers
for a total of 232 lbs of honey. Less cappings so the actual figure is
slightly lower. The Russian hive produced 194 lbs from 6 boxes and my mutts
each produced on average138 lbs. They are lower due to requeening. The
weights were found by measuring before and after weights of the supers. I
went out a few days ago to prepare to requeen them and after locating the
queen I noticed I was covered by a considerable amount of angry bees. Great
hive for honey but just to dangerous to have around. Put local Russian
queen in today. Oh, and had quite a few of my kids friends and families
over to watch the extraction this time. Normally I like to do it myself,
you know listen to music and consume a few wobbly pops :) but sold a lot of
honey with every one over so I think I will do it again. Gave the kids all
a small container to have and they eat it all right then and there. Wow,
what a sugar rush. If they weren't hyper before they sure were when they
left :) Hope everyone had a great year.
Kent
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