maddiedou said:
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Did your bees dies from neglect or animal or disease
2nd. How hard is it to take that hit money wise or did you start with one hive and multiply
You have 15 hives coming at 325 or just small hives coming and you will build from that
Interested but you dont have to answer
I keep about half the hives at my house and the other half out at my wedding venue, way out in the back... but its across the street from the Weavers queen yard, so I get free weaver genetics..
so last year, we had to do some plumbing work at the house, which involved moving all my hives out to the wedding venue. However, from my parking lot to the bees is about 8-900 yards... or so.. and from October till march last year, it rained.. almost twice a week,.. ad I could not get my truck back there to feed and treat for mites.. I got my truck stuck about 6 times in 7 days.... so they didn't have enought stores and couldn't treat for mites.
My packages im getting are $175 from Rweaver. I 've got tons of hardware, just no bees..
one hive did survive, but its small and I don't think the queen is very good..
I started with 2 hives..... and I offer sometimes free bee removals just for the bees, but thats not as fun as it used to be.... so while I could start with just dividing up the one hive, I decided to just get 15 packages.... maybe make ONE split off each... and try to have at least one box of stores for winter.
so while it wasn't really neglect, or disease, it kinda was.... I blame the rain.. and mud..