To get some conversation started here, i"d like to ask folks to do an intro on how you all got started in top bar hives- or how you found out about them if you...
I first heard of them at a beekeeper's meeting in Richmond, Virginia. An extention agent who had 100 or so (used them for pollination contracts) gave a...
wow , he was doing movable beekeeping with TBH's ? one of the 'issues' is that they're not as easy to move as Langs , since comb is not supported as well as...
just getting interested, no hives yet, my BIL removes hives from time to time and is going to give me the next one he does, I need to get my hive ready soon,...
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I don't know. I live in Phoenix and i just picked up and hived a swarm on Monday. It was in a water meter box and had been there a few weeks at least. it...
</blurb>I know some members are a bit tweaked that a send tbhers to other lists, but quite frankly mark has just demonstrated why I do so. Having said this I...
I was wanting to keep some bees, but what I knew about Langstroth hives seemed very complicated. So I went to a 2 day workshop at the Permaculture Institute...
Well, for starters, most mating nucs here in Northern Europe are actually small TBH's. I was fascinated by the way the bees draw out the combs. Then I came...
I wish I could find the notebook I had at that meeting, as I took a tape measure and got the dimensions. But, it seems to me that his TBH's were a bit smaller...
500 packages? Wow... how many outyards will you be running? I'd be interested in knowing more about your design. I'd like to have all the info I can get before...
Dear Robert, I am on vacation in Switzerland at the moment and would contact you when I return to Guyana by the beginning of December. George E.McCammon Robert...
Well the initial plan is five 1 acre yards, but that maybe just increased to a 6th with some luck here with someone who let me know they would mind me having...
Comment from user: I've got 8 hives and one TTBH. I'd like to hear about anyone who does pollenation services using TBH's. I hope to expand my TBH's this...
The biggest issues with TBHs and pollination is transportation issues. 2 big things about TBHs, they aren't as modularly stackable as lang style hives. Though...
I"m not sure if this has been covered recently as I hadn't been reading the list. My apologies if I'm repeating anything. How much of a die-off in a TBH have...
Hiya Mark, Well the style of the hive really isn't going to effect survivability so long as it follows certain rules which pertain to space, ventilation and...
yeah I agree on the 'work it like the type of hive it is' school of thought . I was actually wondering what's 'normal' (I know it'll vary wildly) for how much...
I am new to beekeeping, and just joined this list today. I have a TBH that I started in late May of 2005. I do not have enough experience to tell if the bees...
I have dropped the idea again, as it was impractical (read: momentary brain-fart). Well, it is kind'a heresy, but my idea was simply to simulate some of the ...
If you don't have enough honey stores, then yes feed. I've seen a top bar fitted with hardware cloth that could hold various containers that can be used to...
Drone removal is wrong thought really. You want even distrubution of drone brood throughout the nest. About 10% of the brood nest should be even distrubution...
Paul, I got started completely by accident. Didn't know there was such a thing as a TBH. I was invited to a party where a really enthusiastice beekeeper was...
If they need it of course. Check on a day when the temp(or if you're already sure go-ahead), is at least in the 50's, but you would want the sealed honey/syrup...
