Beekeeping – worthy interesting occupation. With its help it is possible to provide with honey, propolis and pollen the family and if to put more beehives, then and to be engaged in sale of these products. The most important if you decided to be engaged in beekeeping – it is necessary to love bees. These are clever and interesting insects.
Instruction
1. Decide for what you need to breed bees. If you expect to produce honey only for the family, then there will be 2-4 beehives enough. But if you want also to earn a little, then 10-15 bee families will be required already, or it is more.
2. It is necessary to choose the place where there will be an apiary. The best – if a land relief mountainous or hilly, then, depending on height and from an obogrevayemost the sun, the same plants blossom at different times that will allow bees to collect constantly pollen from them. Bees fly away from a beehive on distance to about 2 km and if the rough country, then the square which they will cover increases. You should not choose such place near which there are already other apiaries. Bees can begin to steal honey, to be infected with diseases by other bees, etc. Anyway, the medosbor will fall both at you, and at the neighbor. On one site it is not necessary to have too many bee families, it is necessary that their number was less, than a territory medosbor.
3. There are several types of beehives, depending on for what you are going to use them. From some beehives it is simpler to pick honey, from others propolis. Bee breeds differ too. To choose the best options, consult to experienced beekeepers.
4. You need stock for the maintenance of an apiary. Initially it is necessary to have a smoker, a chisel, a box for a framework and a framework, wit, royevnyu to catch a swarm, a voshchina and a wire, you navashchivatsya also a knife. Also the medogonka – the device is required to pump out medical. It is rather expensive thing therefore if there is an opportunity, borrow it for a while, and then you will be able already to buy new. Further you will see that there is also other stock which is required to you, but it is usually bought in process.
5. Surely you hold a first-aid kit on an apiary. It has to include drugs for first-aid treatment stung. If you have neighbors, tell them where the first-aid kit lies if it is required to them at a sting, and to you will not be on the place.
6. For beekeeping the special clothes are necessary: light, dense and doing not pass stings, and it is obligatory – a grid for the person! Bees I can sting anywhere including in an eye, from a sting of a bee it is possible to lose sight. To put on rubber gloves or not – for beginners it is better to put on. Experienced beekeepers often work without them, but they are already able to treat bees.