Just got my first 2 hives this spring. Everything that I didn't want to happen my first year of beekeeping did. Had a huge die out on my first nuc and barely saved them the first 2 weeks of having them. 2nd hive was a cut out. Had them in the hive for about a month and she swarmed on me. Ordered new queen but it took Don the fat bee man just over 3 weeks to get her to me. Good queen but probably won't do business with him again.
Ended up getting a gallon my 1st year, was expecting more but it seemed like it was one thing after another.
Tips I've learned so far.
Drawn out comb is worth it's weight in gold.
It's no problem selling honey.
It's not as expensive to start up as fishing is.
Figure about $1500 for 2 hives starting out if you buy nucs and all wooden ware, suit, accessories.
I started out saying 2 hives and that's all I want/ need. WRONG. Gonna be hard next year to stay with just 2 hives.
Watch/ learn/ train with people that have the same goal as you. Don, Barnyard, Jason, commercial beekeepers, and all other youtubers have a very different agenda than what you do. I'm not in it for the honey either so my way of keeping vs the way someone that's breeding queens or commerical beeks is very different.

Get bees you'll enjoy it.

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