From: "joel acheson" <joeljed@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:01:27 +0000
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: How do you tell diseases apart

>Okay, Chris, I understand old DRASTIC
>shakedowns. and yes, IT DOES WORK! So now if you are shaking down anyway,
>you going to try more small cell while at it, so you don't go through the
>shakedown loop again? or at least for the ones that will survive the
>shakedowns?

Hi all

Dee, Probably I just don't understand the shakedown process. But if one
puts a hive body with new foundation under the existing stack, and puts the
queen down into it with an excluder above her, doesn't that do the same
thing as would "shaking down" the workers into it. I mean, they're going to
follow her down anyway, and create new comb for her without any severe
disruption to the colony. Is that drastic? Like I said, I probably don't
understand what you mean by "shake down". Please help me to understand what
is going on here, for I feel as I am missing something.

Thanx, Joel