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Laid Back Lounge / Re: animals in your life
Last post by billy rubin - Today at 03:31:31 PMbees are like that
amazing things just to watch and study
lots harder to keep than before parasites and pesticides
amazing things just to watch and study
lots harder to keep than before parasites and pesticides
#2
Science / Re: James Webb Space Telescope...
Last post by Asmodean - Today at 08:13:13 AM...Jolly Wankers Sin Together. 
#3
Laid Back Lounge / Re: Game: The Next Person... (...
Last post by Asmodean - Today at 08:09:09 AMFalse. To the degree I care, I support this motion.
The next person thinks local politics get too little attention for how much they matter to the individual compared to national?
The next person thinks local politics get too little attention for how much they matter to the individual compared to national?
#4
Laid Back Lounge / Re: animals in your life
Last post by Tank - Today at 07:45:00 AMFascinating.
#5
Laid Back Lounge / Re: animals in your life
Last post by billy rubin - Today at 12:41:41 AMone gallon feeder jugs. the lids have a hole bored in the top, and i up-end the plastic jugs over the hole. tehre are three little holes punched in the cap.
when i was starting out i used all sorts of stuff to mix feed-- candy factory sweepings, bakery sugar, pallets of sucrose. later on i would mix my own in a 55 gallon barrell. start with 17 gallons of water and then add 400 pounds of sugar. it would fill the barrell with a thick syrup. eventually i would buy about ten barrells ata tiume from a sugar supplier.
towards the end i bought about 1100 steel gallon cans and arranged for another beekeeper to fill em for me with high fructose corn syrup he bought in bulk. he could sell me syrup in my own cans cheaper than i could buy it.
for this stuff i just pour two gallons of water into a big cooking pot, then pour in about 15 pounds of sugar. that will give me three full gallon cans of medium density syrup.
im doing all i can to make these bees fat for the winter, so im feeding them even though theres still a honey flow. i want them to have forty or fifty pounds of stores going into the winter. then in the spring, ill be feeding em again.
these deep supers are all destined for brood chambers. i collect honey in shallower boxes, and dont mix the tw. that way the pesticides and such that i use in the brood nests never contaminate the supers that ill be using for honey.
when i was starting out i used all sorts of stuff to mix feed-- candy factory sweepings, bakery sugar, pallets of sucrose. later on i would mix my own in a 55 gallon barrell. start with 17 gallons of water and then add 400 pounds of sugar. it would fill the barrell with a thick syrup. eventually i would buy about ten barrells ata tiume from a sugar supplier.
towards the end i bought about 1100 steel gallon cans and arranged for another beekeeper to fill em for me with high fructose corn syrup he bought in bulk. he could sell me syrup in my own cans cheaper than i could buy it.
for this stuff i just pour two gallons of water into a big cooking pot, then pour in about 15 pounds of sugar. that will give me three full gallon cans of medium density syrup.
im doing all i can to make these bees fat for the winter, so im feeding them even though theres still a honey flow. i want them to have forty or fifty pounds of stores going into the winter. then in the spring, ill be feeding em again.
these deep supers are all destined for brood chambers. i collect honey in shallower boxes, and dont mix the tw. that way the pesticides and such that i use in the brood nests never contaminate the supers that ill be using for honey.
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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Game: The Next Person... (...
Last post by Dark Lightning - October 02, 2023, 07:38:11 PMTrue. Biden is too old and the chump is a lunatic.
TNP disagrees.
TNP disagrees.
#7
Laid Back Lounge / Re: Game: The Next Person... (...
Last post by Tom62 - October 02, 2023, 07:01:53 PMFalse, I really didn't give a damn.
TNP would like to remove Trump and Biden from the presidential race.
TNP would like to remove Trump and Biden from the presidential race.
#8
Science / Re: James Webb Space Telescope...
Last post by Tank - October 02, 2023, 04:38:39 PMJames Webb telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion
It can see free floating planets!!!
It can see free floating planets!!!
#9
Laid Back Lounge / Re: animals in your life
Last post by Tank - October 02, 2023, 04:23:10 PMWhat are the black boxes on top of the hives for?
#10
Laid Back Lounge / Re: Who Am I?
Last post by Recusant - October 02, 2023, 03:08:11 PM
I worship the sky, and am said to have been born with blood in my fist. My riders and I cover huge distances and subdue opposition we encounter, frequently with severe action.