Whoops..thought i waas replying directly to Waldemar
Waldemar wrote:
>I have at least 100 of my hives 4 years + w/o treatment and all my hives
are doing well as a whole) is that my honey production seems to compare
well with those whose hives were treated annually.
This is very positive. How do you run your hives (size of broodnest, with
or w/o excluders) and what is your honey yield per hive?
I was one of those featured in the last Bee Journal study of VSH vs Russuan
vs Italian. Drs Danka & Ward.... that study described bees in our area
fairly well wrt honey productiion.......
I dont use excluders as a rule, I run a deep + shallow overwinter. I find
my
crops thus far at about the average of my neighbors per year ~ 50- 80 #
per
hive annually. I have a total of about 300 hives.
John Horton
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