Title: New to the forum
Post by: tjswingle on May 11, 2016, 09:32:32 PM
Post by: tjswingle on May 11, 2016, 09:32:32 PM
I'm in the 3rd yr of keeping/having bees
. I just joined the forum a week ago and thought I should post something. So, going into this past (2015) winter I had 2 hives. I started with 1 hive the first year and they didn't survive the winter, it was pretty darn cold too that winter. In the spring (2015) my brother and I cut a hive out of a tree for the neighbor, and added a package, giving me 2 hives.
This spring the weather has warmed sooner then in the past and the swarming has been under way here for the past 2-3 weeks. I had to go to a conference a few hundred miles away and my wife messaged me this (http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160512/99fc414709a8e88307a8fa10a93f0d4a.jpg) and said the neighbor, (same neighbor) asked if we wanted it? Now my wife hasn't really been very active in my beekeeping adventure, but she said "I'll go get it", not really knowing how to go about it. And so, questions started "blowing up" my phone. She finally found a cardboard box, and collected the swarm (http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160512/92a914039af53d46f32edaa1a4a70784.jpg).
She moved them into a couple shallow 10 frames until I returned, then we moved them into a 10 frame deep with some comb, and started feeding them. Success! This was the first swarm we have caught, aside from the cut out last spring.
This past Saturday evening, same neighbor comes over and asked if we had gotten the bees, and we said yes. He says, well there are more, in the same location. So, we go over and sure enough (http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160512/81281b1ef15142cd93cebe582640c5c4.jpg). Holy cow, now we have 4 hives.
And, I did two splits off the original hive about 2 weeks ago and took them to my brothers. So, I'll have 6 hives all together. I need to get busy building wooden ware.
Thanks for listening.
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. I just joined the forum a week ago and thought I should post something. So, going into this past (2015) winter I had 2 hives. I started with 1 hive the first year and they didn't survive the winter, it was pretty darn cold too that winter. In the spring (2015) my brother and I cut a hive out of a tree for the neighbor, and added a package, giving me 2 hives. This spring the weather has warmed sooner then in the past and the swarming has been under way here for the past 2-3 weeks. I had to go to a conference a few hundred miles away and my wife messaged me this (http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160512/99fc414709a8e88307a8fa10a93f0d4a.jpg) and said the neighbor, (same neighbor) asked if we wanted it? Now my wife hasn't really been very active in my beekeeping adventure, but she said "I'll go get it", not really knowing how to go about it. And so, questions started "blowing up" my phone. She finally found a cardboard box, and collected the swarm (http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160512/92a914039af53d46f32edaa1a4a70784.jpg).
She moved them into a couple shallow 10 frames until I returned, then we moved them into a 10 frame deep with some comb, and started feeding them. Success! This was the first swarm we have caught, aside from the cut out last spring.
This past Saturday evening, same neighbor comes over and asked if we had gotten the bees, and we said yes. He says, well there are more, in the same location. So, we go over and sure enough (http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160512/81281b1ef15142cd93cebe582640c5c4.jpg). Holy cow, now we have 4 hives.
And, I did two splits off the original hive about 2 weeks ago and took them to my brothers. So, I'll have 6 hives all together. I need to get busy building wooden ware.
Thanks for listening.
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Title: Re: New to the forum
Post by: cao on May 11, 2016, 09:46:48 PM
Post by: cao on May 11, 2016, 09:46:48 PM
Welcome to the forum and congrats on the swarms. :happy:
Title: Re: New to the forum
Post by: BeeMaster2 on May 12, 2016, 12:49:31 PM
Post by: BeeMaster2 on May 12, 2016, 12:49:31 PM
Welcome to the Beemaster and congrats on the swarms and getting a new assistant beekeeper.
Nothing better than having your wife helping you out. Pretty soon she will bee making the decisions about the hives.
My wife now owns my observation hive that was never going in her house. :cheesy:
Jim
Nothing better than having your wife helping you out. Pretty soon she will bee making the decisions about the hives.
My wife now owns my observation hive that was never going in her house. :cheesy:
Jim
Title: Re: New to the forum
Post by: Rurification on May 12, 2016, 07:29:13 PM
Post by: Rurification on May 12, 2016, 07:29:13 PM
Welcome to the forum! Glad you're off to a great start.
Title: Re: New to the forum
Post by: tjswingle on May 12, 2016, 09:44:42 PM
Post by: tjswingle on May 12, 2016, 09:44:42 PM
Quote from: sawdstmakr on May 12, 2016, 12:49:31 PMThat may be something my wife would enjoy with our kids.
Welcome to the Beemaster and congrats on the swarms and getting a new assistant beekeeper.
Nothing better than having your wife helping you out. Pretty soon she will bee making the decisions about the hives.
My wife now owns my observation hive that was never going in her house. :cheesy:
Jim
Title: Re: New to the forum
Post by: tjswingle on May 12, 2016, 09:44:57 PM
Post by: tjswingle on May 12, 2016, 09:44:57 PM
Quote from: sawdstmakr on May 12, 2016, 12:49:31 PMThat may be something my wife would enjoy with our kids.
Welcome to the Beemaster and congrats on the swarms and getting a new assistant beekeeper.
Nothing better than having your wife helping you out. Pretty soon she will bee making the decisions about the hives.
My wife now owns my observation hive that was never going in her house. :cheesy:
Jim
Title: Re: New to the forum
Post by: tjswingle on May 12, 2016, 09:45:44 PM
Post by: tjswingle on May 12, 2016, 09:45:44 PM
Quote from: sawdstmakr on May 12, 2016, 12:49:31 PMMaybe my wife would like to do that with our kids.
Welcome to the Beemaster and congrats on the swarms and getting a new assistant beekeeper.
Nothing better than having your wife helping you out. Pretty soon she will bee making the decisions about the hives.
My wife now owns my observation hive that was never going in her house. :cheesy:
Jim
Title: Re: New to the forum
Post by: tjswingle on May 12, 2016, 09:47:25 PM
Post by: tjswingle on May 12, 2016, 09:47:25 PM
Quote from: sawdstmakr on May 12, 2016, 12:49:31 PMMaybe my wife would like to do that with our kids.
Welcome to the Beemaster and congrats on the swarms and getting a new assistant beekeeper.
Nothing better than having your wife helping you out. Pretty soon she will bee making the decisions about the hives.
My wife now owns my observation hive that was never going in her house. :cheesy:
Jim
Title: Re: New to the forum
Post by: tjswingle on May 12, 2016, 09:47:59 PM
Post by: tjswingle on May 12, 2016, 09:47:59 PM
Quote from: sawdstmakr on May 12, 2016, 12:49:31 PMMaybe my wife would like to do that with our kids.
Welcome to the Beemaster and congrats on the swarms and getting a new assistant beekeeper.
Nothing better than having your wife helping you out. Pretty soon she will bee making the decisions about the hives.
My wife now owns my observation hive that was never going in her house. :cheesy:
Jim
Title: Re: New to the forum
Post by: BeeMaster2 on May 12, 2016, 11:13:49 PM
Post by: BeeMaster2 on May 12, 2016, 11:13:49 PM
TJ,
They make great conversation pieces.
They make great conversation pieces.
Title: Re: New to the forum
Post by: GSF on May 13, 2016, 10:32:20 AM
Post by: GSF on May 13, 2016, 10:32:20 AM
Welcome, my wife has started helping me again since they've got someone to sit with her parents. I told her the stuff she does may seem small time but it really cuts my time a great deal.
She really gets a big kick out of finding the queen. That could be something to draw you wife in more. Be sure to wear protective clothing. A sting in the eyeball could really mess things up.
She really gets a big kick out of finding the queen. That could be something to draw you wife in more. Be sure to wear protective clothing. A sting in the eyeball could really mess things up.
Title: Re: New to the forum
Post by: KeyLargoBees on May 23, 2016, 04:14:29 PM
Post by: KeyLargoBees on May 23, 2016, 04:14:29 PM
welcome to the forum