average honey yield

tig · April 10, 2007, 08:15:21 AM

i'm curious to know what everyone's average honey yield is per year per hive?

Michael Bush · 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...

tig · April 11, 2007, 01:15:54 AM

i guess more so now that the worlds weather is so erratic.

MrILoveTheAnts · 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.

wtiger · 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.

Mici · 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

reinbeau · 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.