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Offline Mikey N.C.

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Caution useing top feeders
« on: September 02, 2019, 03:13:48 pm »
Boy howdy you don't know how pi$$ed I'm. Now went out 4 days ago installed top feeders 3 Miller's 2 dadant guess what happened

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Re: Caution useing top feeders
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2019, 03:24:13 pm »
That was dadant top feeder will know better next time, dang I'm mad
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Re: Caution useing top feeders
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2019, 04:17:41 pm »
Did you squash her highness?
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Re: Caution useing top feeders
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2019, 04:20:53 pm »
Yes , late in evening just putting on feeders
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Re: Caution useing top feeders
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2019, 06:22:29 pm »
It was totally my mistake , got off work that day at 6:30 was in a rush . Didn't thank about looking for Q on top bars, and didn't thank about some top feeders are flat on the bottom. Clearly my fought , but a lesson learned.
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Re: Caution useing top feeders
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2019, 07:34:48 pm »
just read this.
mikey-you should add 1/4"-3/8" wooden strips to the bottom of those feeders & mind your burr comb after you do.
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Re: Caution useing top feeders
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2019, 12:52:33 pm »
Awe Mikey, I'm so sorry about that. I see her green dot as well. Bummer this time of year as well.

I understand that sinking feeling when we have squished a queen unkowingly. I try real hard to remember to examine my frames while holding them over the hive box. The queens abdomen is heavy so she can drop of easily. Three years ago I wasn't minding my own rules and a queen dropped off the frame and hit the grown. I stepped on her, and if she hadn't had the painted dot I may have missed it all together and that hive would have possibly perished without my knowing.

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Re: Caution useing top feeders
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2019, 06:59:17 pm »
Darn Mikey, what a bummer.  :sad:


Do you have a queenright nuc you can combine with it?
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Re: Caution useing top feeders
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2019, 08:46:45 pm »
 Uh, ya know this was a September incident.
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Re: Caution useing top feeders
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2019, 09:22:10 pm »
Had to new paper combine
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