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Old 08-10-2019, 07:24 AM   #31
raldog
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Re: General bee keeping advice

Yup, thats how it starts. Next thing you know you're giving away 5 gallon buckets of honey and saying you would really appreciate it if they could return the bucket quickly. Are you running double deep brood boxes? Easiest split in the world is to get double deeps really healthy and do a walk away split when you see a few queen cells. Best advice I ever got was to focus on keeping 4 hives super healthy until they were busting at the seams and then figure out where you want to be. With 4 you can share resources between them and survive most beekeeping problems. Sooner of later with friends and friends of friends they all start offering to pay to get to the top of the list next year and you realize that pretty easily you could make and extra 10k per year without much effort. I used to sell quart jars like hotcakes in key west for $25. There seems to be a trend in the last 5 years to replace sugar with honey.
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