Moving a hive

[lorrick]

Hello All
Just a question, is it more viable to move a hive over this cold spell !! (should be cold anyway) than when it gets warmer. It is just next year I hope to build a garage where one of my hives are, and I only need to move the hive about 5 feet but with the old rule of 3 feet or 3 miles ?
Regards
Richard

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Hello All
Just a question, is it more viable to move a hive over this cold spell !! (should be cold anyway) than when it gets warmer. It is just next year I hope to build a garage where one of my hives are, and I only need to move the hive about 5 feet but with the old rule of 3 feet or 3 miles ?
Regards
Richard

Try this thread Richard

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=27668

 

[yellowrage 53]

i moved two in late oct on a cold morning and the bees seem to like there new home

 

[lorrick]

Thanks jenkinsbrynmair for the heads up, I will have to see if there looks like a few constant days of cold, as over here in Suffolk it is wet and not to cold.

Regards
Richard

 

[FreeFall]

...and I only need to move the hive about 5 feet
Richard

If they are active, just move it in stages. A foot or two every couple of days.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

If they are active, just move it in stages. A foot or two every couple of days.

Ah - missed that little snippet! less faff and won't bother the bees at all

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Hello All
Just a question, is it more viable to move a hive over this cold spell !! (should be cold anyway) than when it gets warmer. It is just next year I hope to build a garage where one of my hives are, and I only need to move the hive about 5 feet but with the old rule of 3 feet or 3 miles ?
Regards
Richard

Hooper says hives may be moved about within an aviary after a week of frost when no flying has occurred without much fear of flyers getting lost when flying starts. This supports comments by others in the forum.

 

[Davelin]

Hooper says hives may be moved about within an aviary after a week of frost when no flying has occurred without much fear of flyers getting lost when flying starts. This supports comments by others in the forum.

No room for the birds if you put all your hives in there.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

No room for the birds if you put all your hives in there.

This damn software! Why does it insist on correcting what I want to say to other spellings with different meanings