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I totally understand. I got it as a Christmas gift so I was lucky that way.

We will try to continue to do videos on the roxor

I didn't take any honey from this hive as it was a first year hive. Some of the hives this year need the sugar syrup to build more stores for winter. In the region I'm in I also have to feed them sugar bricks during the winter. I always leave 2 full boxes of honey. This is the method that most of the successful bee keepers in my area do.

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That's a good idea. I might try that with the ones I clean this fall. I pulled the flow frames but haven't had time to harvest yet.

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Unfortunately I do not share my recipes. I currently sell my soap and I formulate all my own recipes for my business and that takes a lot of time, sampling, testing etc to perfect them. But you should be able to look online for recipes you can use or change for your needs.

Unfortunately you would need to come up with something else......OR you could put in a sand point and you could use a pitcher pump to pump your water. But that is a lot more work! Trust me we tried that.

That would have been a great idea to show you the finished product. Every person we have made this for loved it. I have also shared the recipe with people and when they made it they loved it. Anyone who likes Pizza loves this recipe. Give it a try for your Cook-off. I would love to know the results!

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I personally would NOT use my shower, especially for anyone with a septic. I would worry about the wax clogging the pipes. I use the big kettle so that I can save the wax and repurpose it.

@@tinashideaway i get that. This was just for removing small parts of wax stuck on say the outer plastic window that needed some pressure not for flowing out chunks of wax

I didn't measure the temp of the water. I just keep heating the water, and test it by putting a flow frame in. Once I see the wax melting I know it's hot enough.

@@tinashideawayno worries thanks for the reply!

Beeswax has a melting point of 144 to 147 degrees so I'm guessing the temperature would need to be close to that.

Exactly what we watch for. Those awesome sales..... definitely the time to buy!

Some people call them wild leeks.

@@tinashideaway oh ok, thanks

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I have purchased mine from the local bee store. We just built swarm traps last year so I'm hoping this year we can get some swarms. Keeping my fingers crossed!

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They are the best. Much better flavor than the stuff you buy in the store.

Yikes that is a totally different environment. How do your bees do with it?

@@tinashideaway Well not the best but not the worst either, this is my 2nd Winter. 1st Winter I lost all 8 the First week of February mostly due to wet and cold. This year I build a roof over their bee benches to shelter them from the rain and learnt about upper venting, that fixed most all of that issue. They are doing better this year but this last summer I had a lot of queen issues. Some of that appears to have carried over into Winter. I lost 2 to requeen attempts in Nov, and another 4 or 6 to just being to small. I should have combined more in the Fall I think. But I have been able to recover all the drawn comb and most of the left over food stuffs. I should be set up well for this season and with each year I learn more of the bloom and bee cycle. Atm it looks like I have 3 strong and another 2 that are okish. 2 or 3 that my not make it the rest of the way tell bee season. But that is the way of things, sometimes. As long as some make it to bee season it's a lot better then the 1st Winter.😁Hoping year 3 is the Charm.

@@dcsblessedbees WOW you have had struggles. I have found I learn so much each year! And each year teaches me something new! Best of luck to you!

You’re absolutely right! I bought it towards the end of the year since my bees got more aggressive and I was getting stung too much! I also have a bee jacket with veil and I let my husband wear that while he was doing the camera work. That is more dirty. Love the comment. Thanks for the laugh!

@@tinashideaway Tell him he did a good job with the camera.👍

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I've never heard of this.

@@tinashideawayneither have I. And I grow a ton of herbs and spices- dehydrate and use throughout the year

Thanks for the info

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We do have a KitchenAid mixer. I love it but found it got too warm when grinding large amounts of meat. We bought LEM grinder and it works great for large amounts and I also use it for vegetables when canning

What is your suggestion on what I should change? I'm always open to improving recipes! We do buy our meat on sale and grind our own. That was our main reason for wanting to come up with a recipe for the Italian seasoning. We have an upright freezer and 2 chest freezers we use.

Can you provide details on the set up you have? Yes I lost my bees last year, but that was due to mites. I didn’t do my fall treatments like I should have. I have used this exact set up with 100% success during winters much colder than this, I was even able to split the hives in spring because they were doing so well. I’m not convinced it’s my set up that is the problem this year……but I could be wrong too. I honestly feel like the overly warm temperatures we have been having all winter so far is the problem. The bees are flying way more than they should be and they are doing this almost every day. The temps have been in the mid 40’s more days than not. My set up is the following: above the 2 boxes, I have the sugar board, then the pillow board packed full of cedar shavings, then an inner cover, and the top cover.

I have the same set up as you except I use double reflective insulation under top cover to seal off everything so no air gets out on top and no feeding board.(you can do this in many ways). I don't wrap hives but I do tape where boxes meet so no heat gets out. This guy explains it th-cam.com/video/1JZKyZWSTGk/w-d-xo.html@@tinashideaway

Good morning. Those are winter patties which I don't believe is the same as pollen patties. But I will make sure to double check with the place I buy them from. They are very experienced bee keepers and they recommend these along with the sugar bricks for the winter.

Thanks for the feedback, but I have done my research. The set up I have is what is recommended by other bee keepers in my area based on the weather we have. The ventilation is an absolute must with the weather we have. The open space you mention was not there at the beginning of winter. The sugar bricks were full so there was not too much open space until the bees started using the sugar as an extra emergency food supply. Only 1 hive has an extremely small cluster at this time….the other hives have lots of bees below the sugar brick. The 1 hive started as a very large/full hive. Unfortunately with the very warm weather we are having this year the bees are extra active and flying around almost daily and therefore dying much sooner than they should be.

Agreed. But at the same time it makes this hobby interesting. Nothing is ever the same year to year!

Bee keeping is cool. It's also lots of work but worth it! If I can suggest anything it would be to do lots of research. Books and watch lots of TH-cam videos. There is so much good info out there that you can learn from! Good luck when you do get your bees!

@tinashideaway Thank you! I have been doing all of this already, but still it's fantastic advice. I am hoping to run them off of the Peach Trees in Palisade, Colorado.

Some people are and some are not. That is why I make both. 😉

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Your welcome, our whole family loves it.

Thank you. I do try

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I did a mite count on the dead bees.....it was definitely mites. The count was high. We didn't have a very cold winter, and I prepare the hives to prevent moisture problems.

You would need to talk to the dealer you buy the plow from. They should know if it would work.

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I'm not promoting the knock off verses the original flow hive. I've never owned the original flow hive so I can't make a comparison. This is just what I choose to use. I did buy my bees from a VERY reputable bee supplier! I'm sorry you feel like I'm misrepresenting my bees. All this is meant to be is a comparison between the 2 breeds that have an identical set up and location.

They are the knockoff version, they are called autoframes. We then cut some boxes so we could get to the keyway and drain hole. I haven't had any problems with them. The first 2 I bought were the whole hive kit, after that I just bought the frames themselves.

This is actually my best yield so far. We are in Northern Wisconsin so our season is much shorter. I didn't get a chance to pull the frames until a week later and there is some weight to them so I think I will get some more honey from those. All my hives this year were new packages in spring and due to a snowstorm in April (18") the bees arrived late this year. I agree with you, they shouldn't be so aggressive....part of that may have been my fault. I keep my bees at our property that we only can go to on the weekends. So I don't always have a choice of when I can work with the bees. One time it was the day/night after rain, the other time it was 99 degrees and hot out. (Not normal for this area) If they continue to be aggressive in spring I plan on requeening.

@tinashideaway I would not be so tolerant. It is precisely because I can't always inspect my colonies when the weather is perfect that I don't tolerate aggression. It would limit when I could get any work done and allow drones from aggressive queens to mate with any virgin queens in the area. This would be a much bigger (and longer term) problem than confronting the problem early. I suspect (from what you said) that the colonies may not be pure carnica (or not mated in isolation from other bees) as carnica are usually very easy to handle.

That is possible. They were very aggressive again today. But to be honest I'm not sure if there is much that I can do this year anymore???

@@tinashideaway A good breeder will usualy take orders a year in advance so it may be too late to requeen this year. You may be lucky but I prefer to identify any colonies that I don't want to take into winter and get them re-queened asap (ideally before July/August as there is little opportunity to correct problems after this). The "old queens" workers can live out their lives supporting the "new queen" (from selected stock) and helping her set up her winter nest. They will be long gone by Spring so any workers you see will be daughters of your new queen and any behavioural problems should be fixed.

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