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Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by Christistruth00: 4:49pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
honifome: Please continue this thread . A successful Ugandan beekeeper said “Honey is to the black man what Crude Oil is to the Arab.” This is an area that God has given as a gift to us but it needs to be discovered and really harnessed. 1 Like |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by Christistruth00: 4:59pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
saliubello: There are many simple queen breeding techniques on YouTube. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 12:02pm On Apr 16, 2019 |
Christistruth00:New updates coming |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by Christistruth00: 6:26pm On Apr 17, 2019 |
saliubello: Very good Thanks. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 4:12pm On Apr 21, 2019 |
We have acquired few units of Langstroth hives ( oyinbo styled hives ) and hoping to stock them with bees from our swarm catchers which we have placed in various places. Updates as we progress 2 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by Christistruth00: 7:07pm On Apr 21, 2019 |
saliubello: Thank you. What are you using as bait in the Swarm traps is it Lemon grass or Bee wax? |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 9:58pm On Apr 21, 2019 |
Christistruth00:Beewax only. But remember as I have noted earlier, the fulani boy will not ignore this setup if he sights them. So im not leaving them in the open, rather i will only transfer the bees into them from the smaller versions which i already have in the fields for catching swarms. 2 Likes |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by honifome(m): 4:13am On Apr 22, 2019 |
Congratulations on your new langstroth hives! Did you use top bars alone or rectangular frames and what bee space did you use? saliubello: |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by honifome(m): 4:27am On Apr 22, 2019 |
Where did you place your catcher boxes before swarm arrival saliubello: |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 10:38am On Apr 22, 2019 |
honifome:on tree trunks or custom made stands placed near a hedge or tree |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 10:38am On Apr 22, 2019 |
honifome:it came with its frames. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by honifome(m): 1:21pm On Apr 22, 2019 |
saliubello:That means you need honey extractor for harvest |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 2:31pm On Apr 22, 2019 |
honifome:i have that already. Check the previous page, i had reported about it before. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by honifome(m): 3:38pm On Apr 22, 2019 |
Very good bro! Your new hive looks like imported one or is it? |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 3:51pm On Apr 22, 2019 |
honifome:that's correct. Only when you have the real/original close to you, can you make good replica. My carpenter has assured me that he will make a good replica. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 5:35am On May 16, 2019 |
All apiaries must have a good source water nearby, plenty of flowering trees and plants as well as be situated 100 meters from homes and schools. Also, there are noticed threats to hives/apiary everyday. The biggest threats are people, honey badgers/thieves and ants, in that order. 1 Like |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 8:10am On May 23, 2019 |
talk to us us if you want to start your beekeeping ventures |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by Ibus: 10:56pm On May 30, 2019 |
Bro, I like your Langstroth hive, your carpenter really did a great job., I will like to make mine too, pls give me a contact I can order for. And how much did it cost you to make one. Thanks. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by Brineharry: 9:03am On May 31, 2019 |
saliubello:Good day sir... Sir pls I need ur contact so I can talk more with u...zero eight one one 6048 eight 36 |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by jarx: 2:46pm On Mar 04, 2020 |
saliubello:please can I see the inside and the frames |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 8:20pm On Mar 06, 2020 |
jarx:if you are the one who has been chatting me on whassap lately. I will suggest you join a bee beekeeping training session. There you will be taught the whats and the whys. It saves you money, time and heartache. 1 Like |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by Afoskalex(m): 9:50pm On Mar 06, 2020 |
saliubello: How can one join? |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by OpmOfficer: 4:10pm On Aug 13, 2020 |
Great thread I have learnt alot just going through, keep up the good work. Please who here based in Cross River State, I'm in the honey business and I believe we can be of help to each other. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 11:25pm On Sep 10, 2020 |
OpmOfficer:good to know. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 8:08pm On Oct 04, 2020 |
saliubello:Do you remember this post? I'm returning today 4th October 2020 to continue the diary. Hope you will learn something from the experiences. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 8:10pm On Oct 04, 2020 |
saliubello:You remember this report? Based on this report, several things happened afterwards. I'm returning today 4th October 2020 to continue the diary. Hope you will learn something from the experiences. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 8:44pm On Oct 04, 2020 |
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Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 8:51pm On Oct 04, 2020 |
saliubello:This was the starting point of the decisions that happened afterwards.. I went all out to make many more bee hives. I couldn't make all at once, but in all the hives populated to 110 colonized hives (with bees inside) by December 2019. It was at this point, I was assured we have been able to solve our problems and was hoping for the best in terms of honey harvest. In my head, 110 hives should yield 8litres minimum each, 880litres of honey minimum, even at the base line of 1k - 1k5 a liter, I have passed the one million naira revenue mark which I have set for my self. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 9:00pm On Oct 04, 2020 |
The security guy didn't start living permanently initially. He would come spend few nights and go and return randomly at his wish. He said he was creating awareness before he resumes fully and that he had some personal stuffs he needed to Carter for before resuming fully. While I was getting worried about this, we had passed October which is usually the time they start disturbing my hives. Somehow, I was rejoicing that it seems the thieves had relocated from the area, while still mounting pressure on the security to resume fully. He wouldn't resume fully until the thieves had raided about half of the hives. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 9:24pm On Oct 04, 2020 |
One day in early December 2019, I went to inspect the bees with one other assistant. So that we can decide if it was best to harvest honey in december or wait till January 2020, but as I drove close to the farm, I had seen some unusual signs which told me I already had the unwanted visitors around me. 1. Just by the main road leading to the farm, I know I have about 2 - 3 trees just facing the road that had some bees living in the tree crevices/holes. One at the tree bottom, the other at the tree top (trunk), I had seen dry straws, burn fire and long sticks dipped inside the crevices. Meaning someone had tried to harvest honey from them. 2. These trees are spread apart like 80meters apart and the other was about 200m apart from the first two, I had noticed all three had the same or similar straws, burn fires and sticks all around them. It was these signs that made me remember that like 15minutes earlier while coming, I had met some three fulani youngsters on my way bearing two twenty litre kegs on their head and two Five litre kegs too and I was asking the assistant with me if he recognized them and he told me the location of their farmstead. I told him, those guy are carrying honey oo. How did I know? I had seen several bees following them and circling the kegs' mouth. |
Re: Bee - keeping: My New Found Hobby. My Hop, Step & Jump Experience by saliubello(m): 10:08pm On Oct 04, 2020 |
As a village boy, my assistant was telling me to be looking for the foot print of the thieves. The spotted footprints were actually mine, from the new shoes I just bought and wore to the farm like 3days prior to that morning. The assistant marked the shoe prints in the soil and covered it with leaves. I wasn't familiar with the sole mark on this new shoe. Usually, if I will walk around in the farm I will wear gumboots, but on that particular visit it was straight from the city to the farm and no prior preparation was made for farm visitation and so I didn't wear the rubber boot. We salvaged what was left, fixed all the setups that were dismantled. I wouldn't realise what he did to the shoe sole mark found in the apiary until some 8-9 days later while in far away Ile Ife, Osun State for my MSc convocation ceremony when I just discovered I can't just wear my shoes for 10 minutes straight, it's hot, discomforting with burning sensations all over in the shoes. Same shoe I had worn to the farm, and the sole marks were found near the apiary after the theft. |
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