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Nothing that I know of, but someone on here was saying that they had changed brooder styles and I just said that my local one has not changed styles so it may be a regional thing rather than a company wide change.

My TSC hasn't switched brooder styles yet, they are still in the galvanized stock tanks with a fence around them.

You were concerned about them getting too hot though when I first suggested the greenhouse, now you are saying you couldn't keep them to 30-40 degrees because they would be much colder than that. It just seems that as long as they don't get above 40 that every degree warmer that you can get them...

I did some googling (I know, not the best source sometimes, but what can you do) and it seems like you want to keep them from 30-40 degrees all winter for optimum cluster and minimum reserves being consumed. If the hypothetical greenhouse had ridge vents that would open at 35 degrees in the...

Couldn't they just re-cluster when it cools down again? Isn't that what they do anyway when the weather does that stupid thing it does around here where it bounces back and forth between freezing and 70 all winter? I know you are colder in general, but seems to me from the conversation on this...

I wonder if you could drop an unheated greenhouse around the hives once they go inside for the winter which would keep the worst of the cold off of them but shouldn't warm them up too much. You could potentially leave feeders out for them in the greenhouse on the chance that they have a warm day...

Possibly, I'm just going from the info on this thread. Where I am we get a week below freezing at a time max and usually 15-20 at night is as cold as we get so I don't know any weird northern climate issues.

Good point assuming there is a virus. It has already been stated many times that bees don't overwinter in that climate and that most are shipped south for the winter if the people wanted to keep them alive for next year. In fact, the original idea with these bees was to kill them in the fall and...

I believe he said the stores were below them

This part makes me think they simply froze to death. He had a LOT of those head in the cell and butt out bees in this hive which makes me think that it just got so cold that everyone just froze.

The one he mentioned that died earlier and he could have fed but didnt because it would be a waste of time were agressive and would have been killed if they had survived the winter so no point in feeding them to keep them alive.

That one picture with nothing but bee butts sticking out everywhere is kind of freaky.

because they kind of make comb in circles?

Question. I know it takes a lot of resources to produce comb / wax, but I wonder if you could just give bees chunks of wax or wax pellets and let them melt them down and use them to build how they want so no foundation needed as well as the bees not having to waste time and effort making more...

Agreed on the update. You have the dividers that were asked about first on top, the little wood boxes are under them making square places for them to put comb. I THINK, that there may be actual frames with foundation in there as well.

Yep, they do, look at the one that I shared, you can see the dividers on the top (the long sticks with holes in them), there are 7 with that kit, then there are 28 of the split section boxes under them or at least the kit comes with 28 of them, not sure how many are actually in use at once...

I found it!! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/comb-honey-kit Look at this picture. They are for making comb honey. Essentially they are splitting 1 box into a bunch of small square boxes and the bees can only enter and exit through the slots in the wood thing so they don't cross comb and glue the...

Again, no first hand experience, but I did see a youtube video where a guy that deals with probably close to 100 hives for a monastery does clean them off every so often. He had a giant kettle with a valve at the bottom and he melted the wax into it, filtered it to remove all the extra bits that...

It's all ya'll which is an improvement over youse guys...

I don't know what that is, but looks like your girls did a number on it before they died...