Raising Honey Bees

[Echo2]

My brother and SIL just got their first hive set up.

Kinda blew me away when I heard there was a 40% failure rate....ouch.

But so far so good.

My friend down the road from me I had been getting honey from.....just lost 12 hives to bears. He's gonna rebuild....but that hurt. I see a very large electric fence in his future....of the buffalo variety.

[ladyhk13]

I agree about the Top bar... from my research they do seem to be the best all the way around.

Buffalo fencing.... ah don't even want to think about that. We'll be putting that all around our whole property and it's not going to be cheap.

[Taz Baby]

plywood part for jar comb honey
Lauri over on Bee Source forums shared her homemade set up for jar honeycomb. This is pretty cool. They set it up so the bees actually make the honey right in the jars.






http://www.beesource.com/forums/show...jar-comb-honey

[vukic]

Does it actually work???

[Taz Baby]

That link has pics of it working but I have never heard much less seen this. But I will be giving it a try as soon as I get my hives