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See my thread titled "My Most Favorite Top Bar Feeder" recently. In it I included my YouTube Video's URL; near the end I also talk about my hives design showing my top 3/8-inch-slot entrance and my...

UPDATE...
My wife and I just now came in from moving the three top-bar feeders back on the top to the 15th bar near the end of the brood chamber.
After we moved each feeder back about seven bars,...

Hi, Mike, GLAD that you're back... missed ya. My wife and I just now came in from moving the three top-bar feeders back on the top to the 15th bar near the end of the brood chamber.
After we...

Colleen O. and rhaldridge, a big THANKS for the reassurance from the two of you. I am 90% sure that my three hives all have their queens. They are bringing in pollen by the boatloads, so I am going...

Thanks, Loup, your bees' having drawn four bars of honey already is really good. Sounds like you're off and running for a good year. Glad that you liked the video. I have (I think) 31 or 32 bars...

Thanks to ALL for your replies. Seems I have a two-week waiting game; that will be no problem. I have a good supply of gin, vermouth, and olives. As long as that supply holds out for two weeks, so...

Thanks, ALL above.
I think that I will wait another week or two to check the comb. I've had several bad experiences lifting the new combs loaded with bees. I'll just wait and hope for the best. ...

Thanks, ALL above.
I think that I will wait another week or two to check the comb. I've had several bad experiences lifting the new combs loaded with bees. I'll just wait and hope for the best. ...

HappyBeing, thanks.
mrutkaus, good thinking. If I had known then what I know now, and if my hives weren't fixed in place permanently, I would have moved them into the barn and done what you did....

I have read so many that I've lost count of the posts on this and other forums and in popular "how to" bee books advising my releasing the queen(s) if she's been with the bees several days before...

I like EVERYTHING about your hives' design, and I see no room for improvement... great ideas.

Today is April 7. Monday evening and Tuesday morning of April 1, 2013, in freezing weather I installed three three-pound packages into three top bar hives. At the same time, I released the queens...

Thanks, Dudelt. Honestly, I had considered doing that, but I wasn't sure that it would work. I'll know now that it will, and from now on if I ever have to hive bees in cold weather, that's the way...

I want someone to knock me in the head if I EVER attempt to install bees in cold weather again, especially more that one hive. Today I wanted to install the last two of the three packages I ordered....

Thanks, Shannon, it saved three pounds of bees this evening. if you noticed, my name is down below the video screen, and beside my name it shows my other two videos of my installing bees into the...

http://youtu.be/i6QXG9kCOpQ

My wife, Anne, and I made this video today, March 30. I am getting ready for three three-pound packages with queens to arrive Monday, April 1, with the weather...

Colleen and AkDan, hopefully our queens will start laying in a week or two, and we'll all have a boatload of new bees to bring in all the makings of honey from the tree blossoms soon afterwards. ...

Thanks, Thomas, they're hidden on the other side and out of sight again. The temperature this week is in the teens here in Indiana. It's cold here in spite of the fact that when I left for Hawaii,...

Thanks, it was a day that was one better'n Christmas... knowing that I still had a live hive with LOTS of bees. :-)

I hadn't thought about that's being a possibility, BUT they were on the side facing south, i.e., the glass is on the north side. Hmmmmm ?

Thanks, it was really a relief to know that I still have a hive with bees. They had twenty-two bars filled with honey and pollen in November, so they should make it to warm weather.
I have four...

I've been looking through the glass on the side of my top bar hive for a couple of months seeing few or no bees. Day before yesterday, the first really warm day for a LONG time there were several...

Mike, I don't have any mites yet, but when I do, I'm planning to buy the electric vaporizer for oxalic acid. I'm looking forward to reading how yours worked for your killing mites in your top bar...

QUESTION:
How would it be if I were to attach 1/2-inch hardware cloth w/thumbtacks on one side of a wooden follow board to hold up two or three pollen strips that I bought at a bee supply store?...

True, somewhat; however, no matter where you live, you said yourself, "Amount of honey in the hive will vary from year to year."