Dover and District Honey Show is at the Bruderhof Community Hall in Nonington on 19th October. Contact the Show Secretary, Chris Holdstock on 01304-828041, or see attachments below. Closing date for entries is 12th October. Here is the schedule and more details about the Show.
You will need to login to download this entry form:
dover honey show 2013 entry form
BEE IMPROVEMENT FOR ALL
A joint BIBBA/ West Sussex BKA event
In conjunction with the Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders Association (BIBBA) the West Sussex BKA will be holding a “Bee Improvement for All” day. This is one of a number that BIBBA will be staging throughout the country on a regional basis. This is an all-day event aimed at encouraging all beekeepers to improve their bees. The purpose is to help all beekeepers to continuously assess their colonies, so they have a good idea of which queens to cull, and which colonies to take queen cells from when they need new queens.
There will be tuition on how to raise queens using queen cells that bees often present us with during the summer, as well as some simple “artificial” techniques that may be suitable for the more advanced beekeeper, or those working in groups.
Date:- Saturday 16th November 2013
Time:- 9.30-4.30
Venue:- Pulborough Village Hall, Pulborough, West Sussex
To apply for tickets, follow instructions on this application form: BIBBA Booking Form Pulborough (you’ll need to login first)
If you’ve been on any decent course about beekeeping – Julian’s being one such! – you will have been encouraged to keep records of each of your hives. This is a good practice for several reasons – we tend to forget if things aren’t written down, and it’s useful to be able to compare between hives – either your own, or perhaps with another local beekeeper in your mentor group.
If you use such a scheme throughout the season, you will quickly get used to judging your colonies – and have a record of which colonies are your “keepers”, and which might need “upgrading” with a new queen in the late summer, or spring. Attached, you’ll find posted a record card that you can use. You could even laminate it, so that it can be left inside the roof of a hive, and written on with permanent marker pens.
Apiary card content based on Eigil Holm’s “Queen breeding and bee genetics”, and the NBU’s “managing varroa” booklet.
The 28th June deadline for entries to the Kent Honey Show is fast approaching! If you want to enter honey or other hive products into our County Honey Show at Detling on 12-14 July, get your entries in before 28th June. Entry form is here: Kent Honey Show 2013