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keito

May 22, 2012, 07:59:11 PM
I used SBB but worry about the draft do you need to seal off the bottom completely?

hardwood

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May 22, 2012, 08:04:33 PM
That depends...where are you? Folks that use them (I don't) here in the south (and even some northerners) leave them open all year.

Scott
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keito

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May 22, 2012, 08:49:45 PM
I am in North Mississippi. It is quite warm these days and all seems to be well but I wonder about the winter and the screened bottom boards. My first year and I have four hives they all seem to be doing good. I have my sbb set on top of regular bottom boards there is about an inch open in the rear of the hive. I think all will be ok. Thanks

texjim

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May 22, 2012, 09:28:17 PM
i use a piece of Plexiglas that i can remove when the temps get warm and reinstall for the cooler months.

Joe D

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May 22, 2012, 09:35:13 PM

Hi, welcome to the forum.  It gets colder were you are than here, I got my hives last fall, put SBB on them when I got them.  They did fine though the winter, altho it wasn't that cold.  Where in north Miss are you.

Joe

Kathyp

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May 22, 2012, 09:55:43 PM
mine are open about 3 months of the warmest part of the year.  closed the rest.  my main reason for going with them is that they are super for swarm catching.  if not for that, i might go with solids all around. they are cheaper. 
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Abraham  Lincoln
Speech in Kansas, December 1859

Jim134

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May 22, 2012, 11:08:01 PM
Quote from: keito on May 22, 2012, 07:59:11 PM
I used SBB but worry about the draft do you need to seal off the bottom completely?

I have a few (7 or 8 hives) on SBB leave them open all year in Athol,Massachusetts the hives do ok.



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Jim134

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May 22, 2012, 11:13:38 PM
Put you'r Locution in the profile it will help all of us.



      BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
"Tell me and I'll forget,show me and I may  remember,involve me and I'll understand"
        Chinese Proverb

"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
John F. Kennedy
Franklin County Beekeepers Association MA. http://www.franklinmabeekeepers.org/
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