Shearing at Tor Royal Farm
Sheep grow thick wool coats which keep them warm and cosy in the winter. But in the summer they can get too hot unless their wool is shorn off. Dartmoor farmers go out to gather in their sheep off the moor each summer. At Tor Royal we have several trusty sheepdogs that help us. Once […]
Today we inspected a few of our hives
Today we inspected a few of our hives – they have a lot of stores still so after checking that the queen was in the brood box we added a queen excluder and removed some of the frames full of stores made from syrup to help them through the winter and replaced with drawn wax […]
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Super frame in observation hive showing wild comb build
