We are so proud of our buck, Majenli HH Jericho, who is now a finished champion as a YEARLING! He is a beautiful buck with a very gentle disposition. We can’t wait to see what his daughter’s udders look like next year.
Wax Moth Larvae infestation… Gross!!!!
We had 4 boxes of drawn comb stored in our house with 1/2 cup of moth crystals on the inside top of the highest box. It was covered and there were no ‘leaks’. Several weeks later, we needed a few frames and were so disappointed to find that 50% were infested with hundreds of wax moth larvae (large and small) along with live moths and cocoons everywhere!! It was disgusting!
New Buck Shelter – ShelterLogic 12′ x 12′
We assembled a new shelter for our bucks. The last shelter was too small and difficult to clean. This large Shelter Logic is almost too large. The kit fits on 12′ coral panels although we chose to use 12′ gates instead. The gates are about 10-12″ shorter than the coral panels; plus, we can utilize them later if the shelter is ever disassembled.
Migration is tough, but good!
So our website was migrated a week ago and I have been busy learning new website software. We were migrated from SiteStudio (no longer supported) to WordPress and although it has been a very long learning curve, it is great and I am looking forward to learning all its bells and whistles! So many new options to choose from is overwhelming so we are very slowly chipping away at getting our site back together. You will see many changes over the next several months for sure. Wish me luck!!
Dead Outs =(
We have been so successful with out bees so finding several of our hives dead really upset us. We surmise that their mite population was too great even though we treated in late September with MAQs – Mite Away Quick Strips. We are thinking that we treated too late in the year?
- Very small population of bees
- Tons of capped honey
- Plus we had a sugar cake on top
- No signs of disease
We ended up loosing 80% of our hives =(
