Experience shows that the productive period in muskrat does not exceed two years, after which the fertility of females is reduced. I use muskrat for brood for at least three years, which makes it possible to save repair young for replacement of the main herd. This is of particular importance for amateur fur farmers, since […]
In the pictures: 1 – The tub, the general view; 2 – ratio of the diameter of the tub and its height; 3 – Template; 4 – Marking riveting; 5 – Fragment of riveting with cut out chipping (deepening) and bevelled chamfer on the bottom. In the household, tubs are in great demand. They have […]
Is it advisable to use silica gel for collection of moisture in hives? The silica gel is used indoors, but it is inconvenient to do it in a hive. First, by packing it, bees worry. Secondly, to trace when it is filled with water and ceases to function, there is no possibility. However, it can […]
Fig. 1 wrong It often happens that during the construction of a house you will not pay attention to some minor, at first glance, flaws, you will not eliminate it in a timely manner, and it will make itself felt at the first opportunity. And for a long time sometimes it is necessary to break […]
In the years of the initial use of bees for pollination of crops grown in greenhouses, there were many factors that adversely affected bees, for example, greenhouses were of small size, most of them were odnoskatnye, cluttered shelves, which made bees more difficult to orient, led to the weakening and death of bees. The main […]
I equipped my apiary on a mobile platform. Its width is 245 cm, the hives have 22 frames on the narrow frame 300X430 mm. Letka two: the lower slotted and upper round, oriented to a warm skid. The roof is flat, covered with sheet iron. In the end part, it is fastened to the hive […]
To what extent, with the correct choice of color, the bees use this identification sign of their hive for orientation, can be solved not by reasoning, but only by experiments. Fig. 63. Use of bee hive colors for orientation. A – the usual order of the arrangement of the hives, to which bees are accustomed. […]
A friend of mine once said: One day in June, when the day was already slipping towards evening, I began to inspect the family and found mature queen cells. It is clear that the swarm is about to come out, and as luck would have it, I was in a hurry: it was necessary to […]
Along with the hives-lounges, two-hull beehives are now widely distributed. Methods and methods of keeping bees in such hives are usually called bicomponent contents. With a bicomponent content of bee colonies, significantly more bees grow than in 12-14-frame hives; improve the working conditions of bees and queens; the area of honeycombs for folding the forage […]
The replacement of sugar with honey in the diet has a beneficial effect on the formation of the child’s body. To consume honey is best in pure form, and also adding to different foods. This significantly improves their taste, increasing caloric value and nutritional value. With a therapeutic purpose, on the contrary, it is better […]