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Re: used hives
« Reply #40 on: January 05, 2014, 01:26:57 pm »
Jan0, what is the weather there. Has the equip. already been frozen? Will it be before you use it in the spring? Maybe just setting it outside where it will stay dry is freezing enough.
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Re: used hives
« Reply #41 on: January 05, 2014, 01:46:04 pm »
Quote from: iddee on January 05, 2014, 01:26:57 pm
Jan0, what is the weather there. Has the equip. already been frozen? Will it be before you use it in the spring? Maybe just setting it outside where it will stay dry is freezing enough.

Iddee I doubt that they've already been frozen.  More than likely they've just been sitting in a garage forever.  I'll know more when I get out there to pick it up this afternoon.

Currently we are getting down to below freezing, teens and low 20's, at night, but it warms up to the high 30's/low 40's during the day.  It's suppose to start raining tomorrow and we probably won't see the sun again till the end of February or early March if weather patterns are true to form, so I'll have them in my garage where I can keep them dry while I clean them up. 
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Re: used hives
« Reply #42 on: January 05, 2014, 01:59:58 pm »
i think they are saying leave them out side a few nights to freeze off wax moth.  the scorching of the hive is to prevent afb so im thinking you would have to do both procedures. But im just as new to this as your are so lets see what the more expirenced beeks say.
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« Reply #43 on: January 05, 2014, 02:49:46 pm »
Mama, the same understanding with me. charing is for American Foul Brood spores. Freezing is for wax moth larvae, and just found out from tecumseh that it works for Small Hive Beetle as well.

Charing to the point of medium colored coffee
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Re: used hives
« Reply #44 on: January 05, 2014, 04:33:18 pm »
using coffe for a refrence you are getting to know me well lol
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Re: used hives
« Reply #45 on: January 05, 2014, 04:38:37 pm »
i watched a youtube today where a lady was using a gallon of bleach to saturate around the base of the hives to prevent brooding of SHB has any one used and tested this method and how well did it work?
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Re: used hives
« Reply #46 on: January 05, 2014, 05:15:39 pm »
I dummo mama... I don't want to use anything like bleach around my bees. I do know of a shb trap that can be put into a hive. I try, repeat "I try" to stay as natural as possible.
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« Reply #47 on: January 05, 2014, 05:41:39 pm »
Knowing that many people have died from breathing chlorine fumes, I won't be pouring any under my hives. It's just too easy to set the hives in full sun and the SHB leave.
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Re: used hives
« Reply #48 on: January 05, 2014, 05:59:03 pm »
My SHB brooding solution. Not many SHB gets past these. No fumes, and the by products are either good fertilizer or tasty


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Re: used hives
« Reply #49 on: January 05, 2014, 06:00:28 pm »
k thought it was odd but always good to check around and see what the masses say.
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« Reply #50 on: January 05, 2014, 06:26:11 pm »
Gypsi, they will take care of the wax moths, too. Great to have around hives.
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Re: used hives
« Reply #51 on: January 05, 2014, 06:40:52 pm »
So my neighbors Guinies should help take care of any issures as well as my free rangers.
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« Reply #52 on: January 05, 2014, 06:46:57 pm »
Correct. Guineas and chickens are great around bee hives.
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Re: used hives
« Reply #53 on: January 05, 2014, 06:51:45 pm »
I have guineas and chickens, but I've been told that guineas think of bees as a delicacy and will destroy a whole colony in no time at all. Chickens, no so much.  Any truth to that?
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« Reply #54 on: January 05, 2014, 06:59:15 pm »
Absolutely no truth to that. I kept a hive in the yard with 50 plus guineas and 100 plus chickens for 10 years. Harvested and caught swarms from it every year. Never seen a wax moth or SHB.
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Re: used hives
« Reply #55 on: January 05, 2014, 07:58:54 pm »
Thanks iddee.  That's reassuring.  It's not that I'm in love with my guineas, but I do like having them around.  I was thinking that I might have to put up something to protect the hives from them.  I feel much better now.  :)
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« Reply #56 on: January 05, 2014, 08:06:09 pm »
Really good thread, makes me want a couple of hens in my yard  :)
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Re: used hives
« Reply #57 on: January 05, 2014, 08:39:50 pm »
jaybird hens are good but they dont have the spurs like roosters do. I leave spurs on any that will free range so they can defend them selfs. had one refuse to go to coop for the night and the only thing that saved him from a wild dog or racoon attack was those spures. he is one of my fav roos and darn stubborn. you need at least one roo and four hens to him.
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Re: used hives
« Reply #58 on: January 05, 2014, 08:46:56 pm »
Chickens are a gateway drug. Next comes.....
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« Reply #59 on: January 05, 2014, 11:50:36 pm »
We live within the city limits, we can have 4 hens no roosters.
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