Sunday night Alan & Big Daddy showed up at my pad. I cooked shrimp etouffee & had boudin as well. They ate less than a hummingbird! I cooked all day and they stopped at McDonald's and had hamburgers!
Monday we met up with Bailey in Raceland and went through his hives, looking real good & a flow is on down there (jealous!) Made several splits and caught one hive just before it swarmed.
Alan found the very thinned down mated queen and we found two other virgins, one hatched out right in front of us.
We had a real ball, just messin' with the bees.
Monday night they sopped real good on the etouffee. a long day in the bee yard will make ya hungry!
Yesterday Alan and Bud went through my main yard. I could only stay til noon as I had a cut out (pictured). Thing had somewhere between 25-30,000 bees, it was supposed to be an easy one!
Caught a nice sized swarm today, virgin left the box three times, third time I caught her on a tree low to the ground surrounded by about twenty five bees or so. Picked 'em up tonight.
I'm now at 39 hives and growing.
I sure had fun with uncle Bud, Alan and Bailey. We got a lot done and passed a good time.
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