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Title: average honey yield
Post by: tig on April 10, 2007, 08:15:21 AM
i'm curious to know what everyone's average honey yield is per year per hive?
Title: Re: average honey yield
Post by: Michael Bush on April 10, 2007, 09:35:35 PM
I've never had an average year.  I've had 300 pounds per hive years.  I've had no honey and feed 80 pounds of sugar per hive years...
Title: Re: average honey yield
Post by: tig on April 11, 2007, 01:15:54 AM
i guess more so now that the worlds weather is so erratic.
Title: Re: average honey yield
Post by: MrILoveTheAnts on April 11, 2007, 01:22:50 AM
Last year I got 38, 8 ounce bottles of honey from my one and only hive. I don't know what that weighs out to.
Title: Re: average honey yield
Post by: wtiger on April 11, 2007, 03:05:46 AM
the worlds weather has always been eratic.  I don't thing there has been a single time in history where the earth wasn't heating up or cooling down.
Title: Re: average honey yield
Post by: Mici on April 11, 2007, 05:02:46 AM
300+80+0/3=126lbs per year per hive for M.Bush :)
3,3dCl weigh roughly around a pound
Title: Re: average honey yield
Post by: reinbeau on April 11, 2007, 08:33:54 AM
Quote from: MrILoveTheAnts on April 11, 2007, 01:22:50 AM
Last year I got 38, 8 ounce bottles of honey from my one and only hive. I don't know what that weighs out to.

19 pounds.

We got 55 lbs out of one hive last year, the other one, the one we called the weak one, didn't produce anything surplus that we could see, however, that hive yielded a full super of honey this spring after they died.