Last night we brought the two original hives up from the backyard and put them down in the sideyard. Now all the hives are in one spot. The two that were moved are Mary & Myrina.
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| The now OLD Bee yard back in 2010 at maximum occupancy |
We have been developing the sideyard since Spring of last year. The area has better shelter from weather due to the culvert embankment. It also has a Western slope providing more heat during Winter.
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| The Bee Yard now. Mary & Myrina are the two at the bottom of the slope |
The new hive stand was made for three hives. I plan to convert the two older stand to support three hives as well. At least one more stand will be installed in the future. So i figure up to ten hives with two additional Queen Castles.
So the backyard is finally empty bees for the first time since May of 2008. Now i can drop a couple of dangerous trees that have been worrying me. When that's done i have been ordered to build a Chicken Coop. Yes i said 'chickens'. My backyard is apparently a eighty-foot by forty-foot farm!
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