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Re: Short video of us sliding the queen cell frame in cloake board hive.
« Reply #20 on: April 05, 2015, 08:58:05 pm »
It would save time looking for the right age larvae I think. I may try and build on as well.

I'm kinda getting into that "saving time" thing now days.  :)

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Re: Short video of us sliding the queen cell frame in cloake board hive.
« Reply #21 on: April 05, 2015, 11:09:26 pm »
Its simple to build. One plastic excluder and some scrap wood to put the sides together. In the picture it looks like he used a piece of plastic on the bottom and plastic on the two ends to hold it together. With this thing I wouldn’t have to punch out cells. Just cut a strip of wax foundation, wax it to the cell bar and let the bees pick what larva they want. Fat beeman has a box for commercial beekeepers but its to big for what I need it for. He calls it the queen cell timing box. Hes got a nice video up on you tube about it. I watched it 10 times already.

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Re: Short video of us sliding the queen cell frame in cloake board hive.
« Reply #22 on: April 05, 2015, 11:24:25 pm »
Ya know. I bet if you had wax foundation frame ad put it in that box with queen for 4 or 5 days. You could pull it out a "notch" several different places
on that frame and then put it in a queenlees cloake board starter hive and they would pull a lot of quens. Then you could just cut the quenn cells out.

Have you looked up anything on cell notching?

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Re: Short video of us sliding the queen cell frame in cloake board hive.
« Reply #24 on: April 18, 2015, 12:35:19 am »
I use a timing box which is a 10 frame box with 3 compartments.
Each compartment is separated with a queen excluder put in like a follower board.
The queen has 3 frames in the center.
I pull a frame and see eggs I place that frame in the outside box.
I come back and see larva I know exactly how old this larva is.
This way there is no guess work.
I got the plans from Fat Bee Man
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