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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 10155" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>Ventilated floors make no statistical difference to the number of varroa in a hive. It is a personal preference thing and for every beekeeper that loves them there is another one that hates them. Personally I don't like them and only have a couple which I use for doing varroa experiments as they are very easy to monitor.</p><p>I hate hives on pallets because they are very difficult to work and hard on your back because you can't stand right beside the hive, however your pallet looks quite interesting and if you move the hive to the one edge of the pallet I think it would work quite well.</p><p>I have never found it makes any difference at all which way a hive is facing although if I only had one I would still probably face it North.</p><p>Shelter from wind is a big bonus for hives. Morning sun is overrated and while I prefer hives that are in the sun all day if I cannot have that I would go for afternoon sun every time.</p><p>Your chucked out drone brood could have been damaged during shifting but it is most likely that they are just throwing them out because it's the time of year they do that sort of thing. When the honey flow stops then drones get chucked out. Shifting hives tends to encourage this behaviour as well and I have seen hives even in the spring completely surrounded with dead drones and drone brood a couple of days after shifting out of Apple orchards up into the mountains. These hives had plenty of bees and honey but for whatever reason they could sense hard times coming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 10155, member: 207"] Ventilated floors make no statistical difference to the number of varroa in a hive. It is a personal preference thing and for every beekeeper that loves them there is another one that hates them. Personally I don't like them and only have a couple which I use for doing varroa experiments as they are very easy to monitor. I hate hives on pallets because they are very difficult to work and hard on your back because you can't stand right beside the hive, however your pallet looks quite interesting and if you move the hive to the one edge of the pallet I think it would work quite well. I have never found it makes any difference at all which way a hive is facing although if I only had one I would still probably face it North. Shelter from wind is a big bonus for hives. Morning sun is overrated and while I prefer hives that are in the sun all day if I cannot have that I would go for afternoon sun every time. Your chucked out drone brood could have been damaged during shifting but it is most likely that they are just throwing them out because it's the time of year they do that sort of thing. When the honey flow stops then drones get chucked out. Shifting hives tends to encourage this behaviour as well and I have seen hives even in the spring completely surrounded with dead drones and drone brood a couple of days after shifting out of Apple orchards up into the mountains. These hives had plenty of bees and honey but for whatever reason they could sense hard times coming. [/QUOTE]
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