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Randy has an interesting and important point about scaleability. I guess I
am one of those "part time" beekeepers right now. The big thing keeping me
from expanding is the mortality rate.....I have to figure that out first or "I
will lose my shirt." It is not treat and incur the heavy losses (deadout
cost and lost production cost....T&L, wages, lost equipment in there too) until
I reach equilibrium ( which I am assuming is attainable since bees have
lived for many thousands of years thru all sorts of issues), or treat and incur
the heavy medication cost (medication, T&L, Labor) with having to jump from
medication to medication and the contamination issues which smacks back to
deadout cost.
I have made 100 foundationless frames of two different types; enough for 10
brood chambers to test on my splits and packages next Spring. I am hoping
this will improve the "survivability" of the colonies:
- can develop what ever cell size bees want with whatever mixture of worker
and drone cells
-cheaper cleanup cost from dead outs
-cheaper - do not incur the foundation cost
-freer of contaminants
- easier to rework frames after rotate out combs/frames
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