This New Beehive Design Could Change Everything! (Keeper's Hive)

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  @ShorewoodBeeNice · 4 months ago (edited) · pinned

  Check out the 3 week update! - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVgWbewBqxQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVgWbewBqxQ</a>

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• DA

  @Dallan-x9c · 5 months ago (edited)

  Don&apos;t shake the queen. Just the package. &nbsp;Brush the queen cage, with out touching it, to get the bees off. If your not carfull, you can damage the queens legs by brushing the queencage, do just touch the bees, that you want to move out of the way. You can use your fingers to do this, because the bees on the queencage are very young bees, that won&apos;t sting you. All you really have to see, is that the queen is alive, and that the cork is removed, and that the only thing in the escape hole is candy, so the bees can release the queen ,when they want too. If all that is in the hole, is cork, take it out, and put in a marshmelow. Remember the queen is the most important bee. Don&apos;t hurt her, by shaking, amor scrapping het feet off. I like to give her some water on my finger while she is in the cage. If the syrup can is empty I give her a syrup the same way, just to make sure. It i<br>only takes one very small drop to feed her for days, and the bees will do that. &nbsp;Don&apos;t drawned her. Don&apos;t. smoke her. She can&apos;t get away from the heat, or the smoke, and the bees that are on her cadge won&apos;t let go untill they are about<br> dead from the smoke anyway. &nbsp;I have syrup, pollen patties, and narshmelows al ready to go, with some thing to take out the cork, and some small pieces of wire to wire in the queencage, before I put the bees in the hive. The syrup goes on top of the top cover.

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• DU

  @dueling_spectra7270 · 5 months ago

  If you go as dark as your purple, it absorbs heat. That means your bees have to work harder to keep the hive &nbsp;from overheating in summer. Pastels are easier on your hives.

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• SI

  @silverw12 · 5 months ago

  4 year beginner, &nbsp;will try anything.

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• CH

  @charlesmaurer6214 · 5 months ago

  Don&apos;t like the choice of spray paint, it will make it harder to repaint or treat the wood later. &nbsp;Most advise either a wax dip or latex but white wash lime-chalk mixes work well too. &nbsp;The issue with an oil based paint is other paints will peal off. &nbsp;Some will use UV paints to aid Bees finding a given hive in packed yards. &nbsp;Good luck, I like the idea of multi queen setups but think that model lacks some needed flexibility. &nbsp;A concept I would consider is going all mediums with extra excluders. &nbsp;Under Super one box excluder, 1-2 brood, a double excluded super between brood boxes and toped with supers to harvest. &nbsp;Some breeders say confining a queen to one box extends her useful life about a year as she slows down a bit. &nbsp;Also to deal with drones or mating flights those brood boxes I would add a hole for a secondary entrance with a dial type vent/excluder. &nbsp;I don&apos;t have the time or resources but I also would consider adding some weight back by fattening out the boxes to square (maybe 12 frame) &nbsp;This would allow rotating boxes in 90 degrees to each other so those other entrances can face alternate directions. &nbsp;It could lead to tall hives so I wouldn&apos;t consider more than 3 Queens per stack &nbsp;and either 2 side by side or 4 in a block would share some heat/cooling. &nbsp;The super under each brood I would leave for them for winter and rotate the bottom above in the fall for winter and add a partial block to the excluders leaving an open square in the middle to act as a heat baffle. &nbsp;The lowest colony would be the greatest risk but the shared heat would protect the ones above while moving up into the former super. &nbsp;The closest setups I have seen is true honey houses with walls filled with hives that often have an inside access for the keepers.

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• CO

  @Counselor77 · 4 months ago (edited)

  My hives are coated in beeswax, and they last. And the bees do well in the natural wood, and the beeswax helps them to walk around and be in their natural element, and it seals out water nicely. &nbsp;I really like this new type of hive.

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• RA

  @raoufaissi7694 · 3 weeks ago

  Thanks for the efforts and the share

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• BR

  @briandonald689 · 4 months ago

  A great tribute to a great Canadian inspiration and role model. Well done!

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• ME

  @mesachie · 3 months ago

  Nice, Thanks.

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• HU

  @Hulk-v9y3j · 1 month ago

  Well done

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• BE

  @beebob1279 · 5 months ago

  Nice presentation. &nbsp; One question. &nbsp; Why would you place your hive towards a street. &nbsp; Out of sight out of mind is the general motto. &nbsp; <br>Let us know if your neighbors say anything about moving the colony

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• JO

  @johnthomas5806 · 1 month ago

  thanks

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