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Old March 12th, 2010, 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Dog Dancer View Post
Last year two of my hives were new and didn't produce honey for me, just enough for them to winter with. The other hive had about 100 lbs in it, but they ate half of that in the last week before I harvested it and I only managed to get about 45 lbs for us. 80 to 100 would be about average. I lost two hives over the winter and one survived. I have since bought two more and hopefully because it's earlier in the year I will get honey from all of them. Harvest is in late August. I have heard that one of the ladies living at your house is a nut case, but I can never be sure which one it is... Doesn't matter, I love all of you.
Aw...gee, thanks, DD. Now we're blushing again!

I second MMM's questions--and also, how do you know how much they'll need to get through winter?
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