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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 5207" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>My experience with top bar hives is that the agency supported them. I did my very best to get them declared illegal as I consider they do not meet the legal requirements of a movable frame hive but I was overruled. I would like to see the definition of a legal hive change to must contain frames made using the bee space principle which will allow any type of hive as long as it had proper frames not sticks. I actually thought the agencies approach to top bar hives was weak.</p><p>I may be wrong but top bar hives seem to be disappearing just about as fast as they appeared, well-maintained they are reasonable to inspect but neglected ones are impossible to inspect without causing damage .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 5207, member: 207"] My experience with top bar hives is that the agency supported them. I did my very best to get them declared illegal as I consider they do not meet the legal requirements of a movable frame hive but I was overruled. I would like to see the definition of a legal hive change to must contain frames made using the bee space principle which will allow any type of hive as long as it had proper frames not sticks. I actually thought the agencies approach to top bar hives was weak. I may be wrong but top bar hives seem to be disappearing just about as fast as they appeared, well-maintained they are reasonable to inspect but neglected ones are impossible to inspect without causing damage . [/QUOTE]
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