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It’s been a blood bath for a lot of producers but not all. I have a friend 20 miles away that had 90% survival this winter. I had 6 colonies survive the winter after a high of 35 last year. I’m going to go spend some time figuring out what he did differently.
I have 6, and drug home a lot of a tree knocked down in a storm a couple of weeks ago. Now that things are blooming I’ll find time to open that log up and move them to a manageable hive and maybe split into 2.
I was down, but I’m over it regrouped with a plan. When I see drones, I’m going to make as many splits as I can and build up to a number of hives I can manage well in limited time.
I went and looked at 2 places I planned to do cutout removals for free bees,.those wild colonies were dead too which is concerning.
One thing bee keepers are foot at, is making new bees. This is a setback….but building back from surviving stock should result in stronger bees
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