Bee Keeping

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Rebond
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Bee Keeping

Post by Rebond »

I am new at Apiculture. I have 20 hives and all are at the 80K to 100K size. Some of the hives give "0" yeilds for the day and they tell me they are thriving, water is "+" pollen is "+". I feed them 2 Agilty per day and potions if needed. Each plant has it's own water and flower. Is it normal that 40 to 50% of the hives will yeild nothing for the day? Is there something I am missing that gives better yeild?
ticketguru
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Re: Bee Keeping

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There is a percent chance each day that a hive will not yield. The percentage increase as the number of hives you own increases. After a certain point the percentage sky-rockets; it seems to be the agreement that after about 24 or 25 hives owned that the percentage of daily failure becomes counter-productive. So at 20 hives you should expect maybe 20% or 25% of your hive not to yield any honey on any given day. With 25 hives I still yield about 1.2-1.3 mil each week in honey and wax.
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Re: Bee Keeping

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I was told when your bee's are at full strength that you are going to want 3 flowers per.that may cut down on the no yeild then again it may not.
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