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Crazy Hive Design

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#1 ·
This hive is the brain child of my brother. He is a just entering his second year of beekeeping and decided he wanted to build a monster hive. At first he is planning to have multiple colonies in this behemoth. At some point he wants one colony in here. I had to just shake my head and smile.
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PS that is a deep frame in the foreground :D
 
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#34 ·
10 nucs were for this and his other traditional hives, so no 10 did not go into this big boy. Yesterday they put 5 packages back onto the dead out sections. The problem is that it is cold, but they should have stores. (His teen age sons did the install, as he is gone on a mission trip).
 
#44 ·
Well so far so good. Most of the installed colonies are doing well, if they make the winter some division boards will be pulled and we should be on the way to some large colonies. As a side note one advantage of the monster hive is evident.

 
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