Breeding bees in the home is very beneficial, useful, but very troublesome task.Where to begin?The first buy a plot of land, convenient for apiaries located close to a large number of honey plants.For a business to be profitable, it is sure to follow all the rules of beekeeping.If the apiary is installed correctly, you may have a strong working-class family.It is important to take into account factors affecting the full development of the apiary.
Breeding bees in the home: features
- apiary in a windless place around it should be a large number of trees.
- Hive is recommended to have a south-facing slope, this will always be the apiary sunlight.
- apiaries located in the garden of family, it is desirable to protect.For this purpose, hedge or fence, the optimum height of 2 meters.
- hive should be placed as far away from the road.People and animals near the apiary should not keep walking.
- apiary should not be placed in low and humid places, near the plants.This can lead to serious diseases of bees.
alignment hives
distance between the hives in the apiary should be 4-6 m, and between the rows of 5-6 m. But this is not always possible in home gardens, so the hives are placed more densely (under the trees, buildings, along the fence, stationary and mobile pavilions).With the onset of sustained cold hives with bees transferred to a specially constructed winterer or adapted for this room: a dry shed, temporary barracks, a country house, a basement with low humidity and so on. D.
Breeding
methods of breeding bees can bedifferent.When choosing counted:
- wintering families;
- opportunity honey collection;
- design and type of hives;
- breed characteristics of bees.
One of the methods of breeding bees - the use of cuttings.This is done as follows.Early in the spring from one hive clean the uterus and move to another.The bees that were left in the first hive, finding the uterus begin to lay the fistulous queen cells.After approximately 2 weeks you can cut mature queen cells and move them into the slips.They consist of frames, which are taken from other hives.On the 16th day of the queen appear uterus.
breeding bees for beginners - the problem is quite complicated and it is recommended to choose the method of "Gender-summer."It consists in the following: choose the strongest one bee family and share equally.Honeycombs with a different set brood hives that are placed at a certain distance from each other.The first half of the insects must be contained in a single hive, and the second - in the other.
If there is no uterus, care should be taken to acquire a new one.It is better when the bees do it grow.Then, after the flyby, it will lay a lot of eggs.
Breeding and maintenance of bees depends on the climatic conditions.In some regions to build up the family may need to 40 days, in others - about 100, the average increase during the last 70 days.
beekeeper must follow if there is enough food to bees and pollen.
Bees: breeding and for beginners in the pavilions
bee plant, as a rule, quickly wither and bees can not leave without cause.They were transferred to another location.Breeding bees for beginners - is not easy.To facilitate the work we came up with a special pavilion with wheels, which put the hive.To have the bees free fly, it is necessary to provide the tap hole.The front wall of the hall are painted in different colors to each family oriented exactly where their homes.
The pavilion should be left some space to be able to work beekeeper.Insulated with glass wool design, it gives the opportunity to bee family to maintain and develop for a long time.
costs pavilion will be the same as the very apiary.If you choose to beekeeping for beginners as a business, then before you raise the question of profitability.So, the costs will be recouped within two years.Each hall can accommodate up to 30 families.
What do I need to buy
To begin with you, as a businessman, you need to make a list of what you will need to spend money:
- for the purchase of hives.
- thoroughbred bees.
- on special equipment, instruments, costumes.
If all goes well, after the first apiary honey crop can fully pay off, as 30 families can not give less than 1,000 kg of honey, and it is an expensive product.
breeding queens bees
As is known, the main desire of the beekeeper is the rapid breeding of bees on his amateur apiary.
Almost everyone who decided to take up beekeeping, ask the question: what they need to start?Experienced beekeepers recommend starting with the breeding ewes, which will allow the families to be strong and fulfilling. breeding ewes should be to build and force the bees to keep them alive in the winter.To begin breeding ewes, adhere to the following rules:
- draw up a special cell in which will continue to lay eggs.
- if necessary, where there is no nectar use a special fertilizer.
Breeding ewes should be only with the quality of parents, that they were transferred genetic quality.If you pay attention, you will notice that each family brings their number of bee honey.This is due to the fact that each of them has its own breed.
Beekeepers believe that the family, which is actively working on the main bribe and brings a lot of nectar to survive the winter.In this case, specifically to feed the queens do not need.Before breeding ewes must first select the strongest family of bees.
hives of bees Breeding usually begins with the preparation for their hive.It is the main equipment of an apiary.There are two options.The first - buy a ready-made hive, the second - to make it on their own.Whichever option you choose, you need to examine the types of hives and their structure to acquire a suitable exactly for your conditions.
hives of different types differ primarily in the number placed in their scope and dimensions of the latter.More hives are divided into single-and double-skinned, with detachable or neotemnym bottom.
Breeding bees in hives multihull
strong family placed in two buildings.In the spring of the uterus are transferred upward as there is warmer.After filling the brood and increase family housing should be reversed.
To have overwintered in the same housing families need to add the other bees and another building, which is enough to feed hundreds.
families who were in the multihull hives in the winter, check and are beginning to replace the framework honeycombs.Further, after the bodies rearrangement places set grid for separation, which is obligatory in the multihull hives.It allows you to divert the bees from swarming.
Experienced beekeepers have shown that the presence of bees in hives multihull can significantly raise energy levels, resulting in a brood much more.
Breeding bees in the winter and spring
In the winter and spring of bees need careful care to have grown strong family that will please you a lot of wonderful nectar.Care in this period involves constant monitoring of the temperature in omshanike, hives, the state of the brood mares, and the number of bees Podmore.It is quite important to insects in their home was comfortable and have enough food.
rapid breeding of bees for early spring bribe may be only with the right care.
Breeding bees in the loungers
The sunbeds insects breed quite convenient and easy.Advantages of beekeeping as follows:
- convenient transportation;
- no need for constant raising of the housing;
- presence of the heat capacity of the device type;
- except family sunbeds can be further diluted Nucleus for bees;
- loungers in the uterus have a higher egg production;
- the possibility of breeding a large number of strong families.
- provided protivoroevye measures have a special diaphragm, which is formed of slips.
breeding bees for beginners can seem very complicated process, but experience shows that land, hives, bee colonies and your initial efforts to be sufficient for the prosperity of the business.Cultivation and care of bees can trust its utility worker, because the process takes place largely without human intervention.
Breeding and maintenance of bees is a very lucrative business, because it is able to obtain several kinds of income: from the sale of bee propolis, honey, pollen, bee venom and wax.
