No… It doesn’t, but unfortunately many don’t lift their head (or perhaps get a chance to), until its too late and they are in the home straight.
Depending on the profession, there may or may not be an apprenticeship, Vets have none.
Interviews and probationary periods can be lax, depending on who is hiring. If its a rural vet who has been looking for someone for 12 months and is run ragged, then they will take anybody… They may not be spoiled for choice in very rural area (Eg Skibereen/Kenmare/Glengarriff/ Waterville/Belmullet/Carndonagh) as most new grad vets like to be fairly close to the cities for night life/socialising etc
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Easier than teaching
I think you misunderstood what I was looking good in the previous image.
And fuck George Ross…
I am impressed with your knowledge.
With the news that came out recently that bees are an endangered species it got me wondering if we have any amateur beekeepers here? There was a neighbour of mine here he kept a few hives as a hobby years ago, I must ask him about it. Apparently in the USA anyway, demand for honey is three times more than supply, so they’re altering the honey to bulk it out.
An expert on beekeeping on TFK, I’ve a feeling there’ll be more than one
Dunno much about it. One of the lads I work with is a master bee keeper and I have asked him to give me a hand to get a hive or two started… Dunno if its a runner yet, the kids are too small yet, maybe when the youngest is 5 or so…
I was at a seminar last year and they were talking about US situation. Apparently hives are contracted (as pollinators) from state to state there. Essentially, commercial bee keepers will start off in New England and criss cross the country with their 100+ hives all the way to LA& Florida for the orange crops, then with the hives on a lull, go back up the NE and start again from there a month or so later. Apparently, hive turnover is very high due to disease etc so it has become a very expensive/lucrative overhead (depending on what way you look at it). Fruit farmers will have a contract with an individual bee keeper and he arrives on for pollination season with his hives and after maybe two or three weeks, moves on again to the next stop… Mental when you think about it…
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We’ve really fucked up the World altogether
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Is there savage work in it? As in would you need to be out there every day tweaking/maintaining something? Any auld courses one could take in it or what would the set up costs be?
I don’t know if you’ve seen the show ‘Rotten’ on Netflix but the first episode was about honey production. Very interesting stuff. They are consuming three times the amount of honey in America per what American honey producers are making. The surplus then they were bringing it in from China who are expert honey makers apparently, but the Chinese were selling the honey at half what American producers were selling it at, therefore crippling the local producers. They then tripled the tariffs on Chinese honey so it was now not worth it. Instead the Chinese are re routing the honey to the likes of Malaysia and getting stamps there pretending it’s Malaysian honey, but the Malaysians have no history of honey making, don’t think the environment there is great for it.
I was thinking could be a nice little hobby if it was low maintenance work, although the hives near the house wouldn’t be great if you’d kids, young fellas would definitely be booting the ball into the hive etc.
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What’s this we shit paleface, I’m voting Green
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Diesel cars for everyone
There was a local couple who kept bees . They won awards for their honey. Turned out they were just repackaging the stuff from Aldi.
They killed themselves in some sort of suicide pact.
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I was talking to a chap recently who was telling me that Kilbarrack fire station was attempting to become the first Eco friendly fire station on the country by growing their own vegetables, installing solar panels, composting etc
They set up a bee hive but had to get rid of it after a few weeks due to there being another hive/beekeeper in the area and cross pollination would have destroyed both hives.
That’s what’s happening the bees?
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My mate has 15 hives and there is a bit in that many. I would guess maybe an hour to an hour and a half a day at his level. He does a lot of it at lunch time, he has three hives at work
The reason I am slow to get into it is the honey afterwards, there is a bit of work in that. You need a clean workstation and you couldn’t have it where there are really small kids, f**k sake if they got near it could you imagine the mess? That and the hives near the house. I would be inclined to get builders fencing (6ft stuff and put that around the hives) and apparently once the hives are more than 50-100 yards from the house it should substantially reduce the risk of stings.
From my recollection of that seminar, much of the honey that the large US commercial pollinators produce is not palatable so its just dumped. They produce tonnes of it.
Sure I think Boyne Valley import much of their stuff here, mainly from Portugal from recollection.
There was an article in the Farming Indo last year about two bros from Waterford direction who got into honey as a side option to milking and they said that it was making either as much as or more than the 80 cows for them now… That stuck with me.
The recent mild Winters have been a balls for the bees. They wake up out of hibernation too early in spring and start eating the honey, which can fuck them up for the year.
Was that the case with the woman from up the North originally that had amassed an array of fraud charges over the years ?