Bees keeping

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animal mad

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Bees keeping
« on: May 10, 2012, 13:05 »
Any advice from bee keepers, my husband wants to keep bees and has tasked me with buying the hive and finding bees. Where do I start?

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Kate and her Ducks

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Re: Bees keeping
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2012, 18:31 »
With your local bee keeping association. They are brilliant for advice and training. You can see different types of hive and work with the bees before getting your own. Very useful to find out if you are allergic or scared or just don't like them very much. You also need an experienced mentor to help you through the first year or ten!
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

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darren64

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Re: Bees keeping
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2012, 20:47 »
kate said it,the local association is(in my view)the very first route to go down,bees need managing very carefully to maintain a healthy colony and to stop them swarming.



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