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<blockquote data-quote="Larry" data-source="post: 5580" data-attributes="member: 439"><p>Just found your question, I live in Michigan and was tired of loosing my hives to the bitter cold winters so over the covid winter I built 2 horizontal hives. I didn't get bees into them until mid June 2020 and was somewhat worried that they wouldn't be ready for winter with their stores. I didn't take anything off the hives last year and I put 2" styrofoam on the follower boards for insulation and in the spring time when I opened them up they were in great shape. Then I decided to build an Insulated Layens hive and made my deep Langstroth frames using dove tails so I could take them apart for extraction ( I have a Langstroth extractor). So I put a swarm in it that I caught in the spring and they are doing fantastic. I'm in the process of building an insulated horizontal hive for standard deep Langstroth frames to put another swarm I caught. It should be interesting to see how they all come through the winter.... Bottom line no matter what you hear don't be afraid to experiment, I love the horizontal hives and will not go back to the vertical hives........ Good Luck...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larry, post: 5580, member: 439"] Just found your question, I live in Michigan and was tired of loosing my hives to the bitter cold winters so over the covid winter I built 2 horizontal hives. I didn't get bees into them until mid June 2020 and was somewhat worried that they wouldn't be ready for winter with their stores. I didn't take anything off the hives last year and I put 2" styrofoam on the follower boards for insulation and in the spring time when I opened them up they were in great shape. Then I decided to build an Insulated Layens hive and made my deep Langstroth frames using dove tails so I could take them apart for extraction ( I have a Langstroth extractor). So I put a swarm in it that I caught in the spring and they are doing fantastic. I'm in the process of building an insulated horizontal hive for standard deep Langstroth frames to put another swarm I caught. It should be interesting to see how they all come through the winter.... Bottom line no matter what you hear don't be afraid to experiment, I love the horizontal hives and will not go back to the vertical hives........ Good Luck... [/QUOTE]
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