I want to become a beekeeper! - The difficult choice of a hive system.

I want to become a beekeeper! - The difficult choice of a hive system.

The question often arises about which way to go, the fast and expensive way, or the slow way, but with great savings, and for beekeeping this question is very relevant.

You know... I can't consider a hive as an aquarium with fish lol, although, wait, when I kept fish, I tried to breed them and get from this, in addition to moral pleasure, also some material benefits.

Yes, getting honey and bee products, this is perhaps the main motivation for me to try to find a common language with bees, which is impossible to do, since even the calmest bees cannot be trained and they have no such concept as a friend, both in relation to the beekeeper and within the bee colony, where the rules are very strict.

Most beekeepers try to minimize their costs in order to get the maximum profit from the apiary, because beekeeping is a constant testing ground for some innovations and attempts to improve the honey harvest indicators in comparison with previous years.

There are quite a few hive systems that can be divided into two categories, these are single-body and multi-body hives, and both categories are divided into many subcategories.

For nomadic apiaries, beekeepers try to use multi-body hives of the Dadan and Udav systems, or, as it is also called, a horned hive.

These hives allow you to work with the bodies when building the hive during the nectar flow, adding wax bodies, this is especially appreciated during the nectar flow from sunflowers.

I am inclined to start my beekeeping, working on a single-body hive that fits about thirty full frames of the Dadan system, they say that it is much easier for a beginner to learn on such a hive, but old-timers say that a lying hive, although they call it a grandfather's hive, can give odds to modern hive designs in terms of ease of use and honey production.

Some lying hives yield 100 or more kilograms of honey per season, it's tempting lol.

Although the lying hive is heavy, each frame with honey weighs about four kilograms, beekeepers agree to migrate with them during the honey collection season.

Since I do not plan to migrate, I am inclined to look at a lying hive made of polystyrene, which will allow me not to worry about frosts in the winter and I can make it myself, which is a big saving of money.

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Material thoughts about beekeeping №1

When I visited dense forests, I did not see ideal conditions for bees there, but many beekeepers harvest beekeeping products in such places.

Link to the container with my portfolio

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