{"id":232,"date":"2013-10-09T17:31:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2013-10-09T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T03:00:16","slug":"beekeeping-winter-prep-for-observation-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Beekeeping &#8211; Winterizing Observation Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really been troubled as to what to do for the colony in the observation hive. After a great deal of debate, I decided to put the queen and brood back down into the Nuc, move them into the shed and insulate them for winter&#8230; hope it works.\u00a0Here are some of the details:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mkmPsU9YSl8\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That evening, I moved them into the shed, insulated them and created a plastic entrance\/exit out of the shed (pictures from the following day).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-233\" alt=\"Observation in the  Shed (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-1-640x426.jpg 640w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-1-780x520.jpg 780w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-1.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-235\" alt=\"Observation in the  Shed (3)\" src=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-3-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-3-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-3-640x426.jpg 640w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-3-780x520.jpg 780w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-3.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-236\" alt=\"Observation in the  Shed (4)\" src=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-4-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-4-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-4-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-4-640x960.jpg 640w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-4.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-238\" alt=\"Observation in the  Shed (5)\" src=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-5-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-5-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-5-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-5-640x426.jpg 640w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-5-780x520.jpg 780w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Observation-in-the-Shed-5.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really been troubled as to what to do for the colony in the observation hive. After a great deal of debate, I decided to put the queen and brood back down into the Nuc, move them into the shed and insulate them for winter&#8230; hope it works.\u00a0Here are some of the details: &nbsp; That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,61,11,15,16,10,13,14],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beekeeping","tag-beehive","tag-beekeeping","tag-hive","tag-honey","tag-honey-bees","tag-observation-hive","tag-ulster","tag-ulster-hive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}