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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => REQUEENING & RAISING NEW QUEENS => Topic started by: Brooklyn on August 08, 2010, 08:21:18 pm

Title: Cloake Boards
Post by: Brooklyn on August 08, 2010, 08:21:18 pm

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

Title: Re: Cloake Boards
Post by: AllenF on August 08, 2010, 09:28:35 pm

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/)

Title: Re: Cloake Boards
Post by: Brooklyn on August 08, 2010, 09:52:54 pm

Thanks Allen.
Also does anyone have any plans on how to make a 8 frame cloak board?

Title: Re: Cloake Boards
Post by: broke-t on August 13, 2010, 06:50:16 pm

I used one this year to raise about 100 cells and loved it.

Johnny

Title: Re: Cloake Boards
Post by: Jim134 on August 13, 2010, 08:53:43 pm

 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 :)

Title: Re: Cloake Boards
Post by: RayMarler on August 14, 2010, 12:36:11 am

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)

Title: Re: Cloake Boards
Post by: Michael Bush on August 14, 2010, 02:40:34 am

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)

Title: Re: Cloake Boards
Post by: Jim134 on August 14, 2010, 09:29:54 am

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 :)