The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Bees & Beekeeping => Topic started by: wonderwooly on August 17, 2013, 08:46:21 pm
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hi I have started a new post as the heading in a hope it will atract people with experince
EFB, I started of with the chalk brood post, so if you would like to see photos, its there. but i think it looks like EFB, s>>>. first year to.
well could people give me some advice, I have you tubed lots of burning, I also seen terramycin ? as a possebale help.
by burning sorry stupid question (do they mean just the hive) and transfering the bees!
if so what can I do for them at this time of year to prepre for winter?
bit stressed . thanks though
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I would definitely get your local bee inspector to come and have a look asap. Your local beekeeping association website should have their contact details.
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yep, were on that and he'll hopfully come tomorow.
what luck for our first year!
we have anouther hive next to this one there dosent seem to be a problem
at the moment but is there anything i can do to minimise the risk of infection?.
apart from the normal washing and burning tools ect..
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Oh, sorry, just seen this thread having replied about the bee inspector on the other one. Hope he comes with good news.
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well just to follow up as I do apreciate the posts given, was that it is efb
yes quite bugger...
so we completly changed the hive, made them walk the
wight plank so to speek into a complety new hive. serilised everything
and burnt the all comb that had come into contact. we then moved the
hive into quarantine in a new location. and is on 1 to 1 feed untill the are better.
we hope.
by the way we had never done any thing like this before so, it was under advice from the inspecter, and it was really quite mental, at one stage i thought how the hell are
they going to go into the hive, we couldnt find the queen and they were all over the place, and not to happy, anyway in the end i found the queen quite by accident after she had gone under the drape and was heading into the field, I nerly nelt on her so after picking her up jentley and poping her into there new hive, the presher was off.
ohh but that was some first year learning curve.
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Sounds awful. Thank goodness you did call him out. :fc: they take the food in quickly and build up enough to get them through the winter.
H