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Comment by Ralph Ketter on April 28, 2013 at 12:44pm

Thanks Rob for the well attended hands-on Queen Cell grafting class this morning

Inspecting the brood comb while also looking for the queen.

Cutting out the Queen Cell from the brood comb with adequate margin to insure not injuring the target Queen Cell.

Queen Cell in placed in a Push-In Cell Protector.  The cup has prongs to allow it to be inserted in the target brood comb in a mating hive or nuc box.  Queen Cages were also discussed.

Comment by Rob Shepler on April 27, 2013 at 12:33pm

An interesting hive design coming out of Germany

http://milkwood.net/2013/03/05/the-sun-hive-experiments-in-natural-...

Comment by Paul McCarty on April 26, 2013 at 9:09pm

FYI - I am headed down to Boles Acres tomorrow for a trap-out if anyone wants to tag along and see how those are done. I will be headed down around 10am or so unless something comes up.

Comment by James H DAWDY on April 26, 2013 at 6:17pm

Jim G. and Jim H.  And before anyone asks, I am never going to admit what the H stands for.

Comment by Rob Shepler on April 26, 2013 at 6:16pm

Let's call one of them Ralph?

Comment by Paul McCarty on April 26, 2013 at 5:53pm

Too many Jim's around here. Gonna have to come up with some new names.

Comment by Paul McCarty on April 26, 2013 at 5:50pm

James - I hope to have a few queens. Need to wait and see how they come out.

Comment by James G. Blackburn II on April 26, 2013 at 4:42pm

It would be nice if we could develop a flexible inventory to help each other out from time to time. I'm getting to a lack of critical mass in one of my 4 hives. They have only built one full comb, are working on the two additional "starter" combs and have built less than 5% on comb #4. The worker population has really dwindled,  but the beautiful caramel colored queen seems to be doing well. She has a solid pattern of brood on the new comb. Not sure they can survive w/o an influx of capped brood, but I don't want to weaken the other three hives that are just getting started as well.

I have decreased the size of the hive to 10 TBs to help them deal with the cold nights of late and since they have not enlarged the minature comb on TB #4 in over a week . The weird thing is they are consuming about the same amt. of Bee Tea as the stronger hive

.Any suggestions??

If they continue to dwindle, I may have a queen available.  

Comment by Rob Shepler on April 26, 2013 at 3:48pm

Jim you have just added poignancy to our discussions of keeping a couple extra queens in the group. I hope to have some mated queens in about four weeks, I will have some queen cells that I could lend you around Thursday. It would be a long haul for you, but I would meet you in Alamo. With no eggs you are probably better off with a mated queen, so much can go wrong on a mating flight, I would hate to have her get hit by a truck and jepordize those hives.

Comment by James H DAWDY on April 26, 2013 at 2:18pm

Should mention that I don't have any viable young larvae at this point, so a nuc with a good laying queen that I can take frames of eggs from for my deeps to make queens would also be an option.

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