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Beekeeping: Healthy Beehives
Summary: Make sure beehives have a good queen and a good brood. Learn about beekeeping and making a healthy beehive in this free apiary video.
"Normally, if we take care of them through the year, they're in pretty good shape this time of the year. Mainly, you're looking really for; to make sure they have a queen. If they have a good queen and they have good brood, then when the orange trees are blooming like they are right now, they are typically going to be doing just fine. Normally, a good colony will produce like, when the orange trees are blooming like they are now, a good colony can produce a hundred pounds of orange blossom honey. So that would be, if they filled those boxes, would be potentially three or four boxes, be kind of typical for a good hive, and sometimes they'll do five or six boxes, depending on how strong they are."
eHow Article: Beekeeping: Healthy Beehives
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