Notices by Charles Zi Britannia (czb@eientei.org)
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@djsumdog left all but the two mean hives lots of honey reserves for the winter, like 40lbs per hive, plus they are insulated so they consume it slower. Lots of cow pasture around here where they obtain quite a bit of honey surprisingly. I think 100lbs per hive is normal around here. Last year was my first year tho so most of their honey was used to build comb. Just like this year my goal will be most of the hives building the equivalent of 14 deep langstroth frames and saving enough honey for the winter. Have access to like 8 pastures each about 2-5 miles from each other so if I do 5 mile circles around all the apiaries I can cover like 250-300 sqare miles. Also the local beekeeper died from covid 4 years ago so there were like no bees anywhere around here so I have it all to myself as far as I know. It think I could probably comfortably house 1-2k colonies, but I'd probably not get 100lbs per hive if I go that dense. Trying to do it the old fashioned russian way where farmers would have 1000 colonies and just check them one or two times a year. Not doing any treatment bullshit, want to breed strong bees, not strong mites. Losses will be rough for awhile but in the long run it will be best for the bees.
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@djsumdog keep the door open and leave an old brood frame in it, maybe you will catch a swarm!
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@djsumdog I'm trying to position myself so I never have to deal with tech support or customer service ever again :02_drink:
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Just spent 3 hours replanning my bee empire. Think I figured a way to hit 300-350 colonies spending 25k on hives, frames, and queens. Might even make enough honey once I harvest the dead outs next spring to double my money if I can pull this off. Going to put my 21 new 8 frame shitty commercial nucs I'm buying in the remote pastures and pull splits from them aggressively in April leaving pretty much just the queen and one frame of honey and the field force. I'll add the expensif old sol queens and bee weaver queens to the splits and move to surround my central mating yard. So I'll need to spend like 5k on queens. Then I'll split all those a month later and move the splits to 60+ hives made of 2x6 lumber for cheap. Then right before the summer solstice June 15th I'll make 150 more splits into more cheap ass hives. That will then give 300 colonies 3-4 months to make enough honey to hopefully make it thru the winter on huge lazutin frames. Hoping the large frames with lots of honey above the clusters helps them stay warm like in Russia where they use this style. My 10 survivor layens colonies I should be able to split twice as well getting them to 40-50 colonies. If I have 30% survival, I should be able to be at 400 colonies by May of next year and they will have a full season to bring in more honey then I'll probably be able to sell. Like 20k lbs of treatment free honey and comb honey that I should be able to sell for a premium. So 10k in credit card interest expense to hopefully make 200k back from the risk 18 months later. If things go well I might even get a decent enough comb honey crop this summer to pay off the debt. Kinda just depends on weather and how well they do. Should get an operating loan, but hoping I can dig out by end of summer so not worth the hassle.
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@Erpel @aetios @kaia I love Knipex, but that is one tool of theirs that sucks. Even the free ones that come with 3D printers seem more durable. Have a Jonard one that is my favorite.
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@sapphire @rher @prettygood oh shit I was wrong... Didn't know there was so many similar names.
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@prettygood @rher Nebraski
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Soldering all done yeeeeeyeeeeeeeee
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Aw sheeet, it's alive!
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@kaia @Mitsu lol at his scars on arm.
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@Tony whatcha doing buying gas station tobacco?
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@Tony These are good too.
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House smells like grits...
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@lina Great motivation lifehack. Thanks, I needed this.
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Planted a shit ton of seeds. Ordered a couple syringes of mushroom stuff. Got some blue oyster and lions mane. Also realized I can use my skidsteer concrete mixer bucket to mix mushroom grow media and fill bags with it's spout on the bottom.
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@hakui guess I won't be eating any then :laugh-about-it:
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@prettygood wife
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@lina skibidy scream.
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89 year old neighbor just waved and did a dance. Good to see him feeling better.
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@lina gm
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Charles Zi Britannia
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