Half over winter

[Paul Zelenski]

Dale, 

When you say you keep half over winter, what do you do with the others? Do you combine them to have stronger hives. Do you kill them (like Craig)? Do you simply let the weak ones die on their own? 

Im curious about the 'efficiencies' of keeping bees. This year I spent way too much effort trying to combine and requeen some of my weak hives. I still don't like their chances and put a lot of effort into them that I could have spent on the stronger hives. 

Thanks,

Paul 

On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:06 AM, 'Dale Marsden' via madbees <mad...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

HI Rich, 

This is great, I'd love to try these out on several hives this winter. A good trial with several hives should help to dertermine if the data provided can help understand what condition the hive is in.  If the price is right I'll be glad to buys into this and give you some feedback.  I run 50 hives a year and keep about half over winter. 

Dale

Marsden's pure Honey LLC

McFarland

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From: rfmorris <ri...@walnutbank.com>
To: madbees <mad...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 7:10 AM
Subject: [madbees] Brood Minder

I've come to several meetings, (missed the last one darnit) and mentioned this project of wirelessly transmitting hive temperature & humidity to a smartphone.  Well, it's coming to fruition and I would love any feedback that you guys would be willing to give on the product and website.

Personally, I've wanted this for years and finally decided to make it.  I know that it doesn't replace good winter practices and that I wouldn't need it if I were a better beekeeper.  Still... peace of mind, something to do while waiting for spring...

In particular, I'm trying to figure out what the retail price should be.  I've designed it very inexpensively, but without huge volumes it can't be a cheap as I wish it could be.  I'd appreciate any opinions on this.

The site is broodminder.com.  You can send comments to in...@broodminder.com.  

Thanks much, see you next Tuesday.

Rich Morris

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