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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => REQUEENING & RAISING NEW QUEENS => Topic started by: Brooklyn on August 08, 2010, 08:21:18 pm
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Has anyone used the cloake method of Queen raising? Anyone know of a good book or internet site that explains the cloake method?
Thanks for all the help
Brooklyn
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I have not tried it, but here is a good explanation on how to do it.
http://robo.bushkillfarms.com/beekeeping/queen-rearing/ (http://robo.bushkillfarms.com/beekeeping/queen-rearing/)
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Thanks Allen.
Also does anyone have any plans on how to make a 8 frame cloak board?
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I used one this year to raise about 100 cells and loved it.
Johnny
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Brooklyn...........
This may help you
http://www.kelleybees.com/Files/Organization3/Downloads/CLOAKE%20BOARD%20Directions%20updated.pdf (http://www.kelleybees.com/Files/Organization3/Downloads/CLOAKE%20BOARD%20Directions%20updated.pdf)
http://www.kelleybees.com/CMS/CMSPage.aspx?redirect=26a6c601-0460-4d78-b8f4-ec5cfb0b90cb (http://www.kelleybees.com/CMS/CMSPage.aspx?redirect=26a6c601-0460-4d78-b8f4-ec5cfb0b90cb)
BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
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Here you can download an article by Sue Cobey in The American Bee Journal in 2005 concerning the uses of a cloake board. It is in 2 parts and is PDF format.
http://www.honeybee.breeding.com/Publications.html (http://www.honeybee.breeding.com/Publications.html)
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There isn't anything you can do with a cloake board that you can't do with a queen excluder and an extra bottom and top, you can just do it more conveniently. The use of it is to make a crowded queenless starter and then recombine it as a queenright finisher without having to disassemble things in order to do so. You just slide out the board.
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesqueenrearing.htm#FWOF (http://www.bushfarms.com/beesqueenrearing.htm#FWOF)
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Hear are some plans and pic
http://www.beeworks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=321 (http://www.beeworks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=321)
BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)