Apiary

Rules keeping bees in towns: veterinary and sanitary.

Many beekeepers FAQs, if you can keep bees in country houses and gardens, whether they can live and work in these conditions and how to treat it around.

Rules keeping bees in towns, by the Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine, identified the main activities of hygiene and prevention to protect private beekeeping farms from infectious and parasitic diseases.

1. Veterinary and sanitary rules in the apiary
2. Hygienic requirements for the installation of apiary
3. Sanitation measures for disease prevention

Veterinary and sanitary rules in the apiary

To avoid illness, be followed veterinary and sanitary rules for keeping bees the apiary in residential area.

Advantaged situation for diseases laboratory tests must be confirmed, conducted twice a year, and regular veterinarian examinations, documented in the veterinary passport apiary.

Before starting the installation of apiaries in rural areas, on a country or a plot, necessary to carry out the following activities:

• When buying bee or complete family health check all documents apiary, including veterinary certificate with a note from a veterinary specialist, which must provide the seller.
• Even if all documents are in order, still be proactively handle a family of diseases: askosferozu, American foul brood and tick defeat. Processing is performed strictly according to instructions.

These measures will protect bees from diseases, will strengthen the family and not let the insects loose presentation.

Hygienic requirements for the installation of apiary

Space for bdzholohozyaystv personnel in the private sector must be selected with all the biological characteristics of life of these insects:

• Apiary to be held at a distance greater, than 3 km, from businesses, engaged in processing sugar products, and zones, are prone to handling pesticides and herbicides.
• the rules bee keeping when the device apiaries in the settlements should not be carried out in places, close to the carriageway, in crowded places.
• Bees, contained on the plot, preferably placed away from large public enterprises beekeeping, a minimum distance of five kilometers, that insects do not transmit the disease to each other, and to avoid theft.
• In stationary apiaries on private land bees must be protected against the penetration of animals. For this area is surrounded by dense garden fence and hedge trees.
• The best place in the apiary site, isolated from wind woodland, next requires a water source and a good entrance.

Sanitation measures for disease prevention

Preparing good food and providing yimy bees throughout the year will keep the family strong, healthy and developed.

Therefore, we must constantly work on it: honey plants grow more flowering, which will provide abundant bees quality pollen and nectar.

You can blow up the bushes near the apiary goat willow or hazel.

In early spring, these plants are best to help rejuvenate the bees after winter.

Careful selection of the tribal structure will also support the strength of family.

You must select breed, resistant to diseases.

Regular disinfection of hives helps prevent many infectious diseases of bees.

Housings, framework and other wooden parts of hives clean and treated with disinfectant solutions.

Spend cell sorting, які придатні – чистять і дезінфікують, unsuitable removed and melted.

Spring produce buildings to the previous staffing them with special disinfection. This preventive disinfection.

In the process of conducting current disinfection. After a review of family disinfect used instruments: stamesku, than, chimney, carrying case, front grid.

For disinfection using steam and formalin solution and bleach, acetic and formic acid.

Winter should collect samples of bees and carry on the analysis to the laboratory of veterinary medicine, and in the summer to study send samples honeycomb.

Upon detection of diseases veterinarian determines the necessary treatment procedure and measures to eliminate the disease.

Veterinary and sanitary measures in the apiary in the village in detecting infectious diseases or invasive:

If the doctor detects pathogens in the apiary, it would be appropriate for treatment with the right drugs, as well as processing of parts and equipment.

Upon detection of diseases at a nearby apiary doctor limits the migrations of apiaries in the area in order, to prevent transfer of infection from one to another apiary.

Upon detection of diseases in the same family is separated into a special prison, in which the conditions for treatment.

Each apiary should be a first aid kit with the necessary cure common diseases.

Warning! Veterinary doctor in the village should keep full control of all medical measures, monitor the implementation of preventive measures, as well as compliance with all rules of hygiene in the apiary.

so, keeping bees in towns it provides for the establishment of special conditions.

First, you need to provide them to collect honey plant feed quality, especially during the spring and reproduction wintering, promptly pump with hives honeydew honey, as it is unsuitable for food, keep them in good, clean the hive and timely maintenance works.