Cloake Boards

[Brooklyn]

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

[AllenF]

I have not tried it, but here is a good explanation on how to do it.
http://robo.bushkillfarms.com/beekeeping/queen-rearing/

[Brooklyn]

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

[broke-t]

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

Johnny

[Jim134]

Brooklyn...........

This may help you


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




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[RayMarler]

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

[Michael Bush]

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

[Jim134]

Hear are some  plans and pic

http://www.beeworks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=321



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