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    Home » Video » Bee TV

    Bear Proofing Your Beeyard : Beginning Beekeeping Video

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 5 Comments

    In this video on bear proofing your bee hive, we talk about ways to keep bears away from you beehives. The largest danger to our beehives are bears. They are very common here in NW CT and we don't want them wrecking our beehives.

    We read an article on bear proofing one's hives in Bee Culture link here, by Ross Conrad, author of Natural Beekeeping, and have used a few of the bear proofing methods he wrote about for our hives.

    We are in our sophmore year of beekeeping, and don't purport to be experts on beekeeping yet, but we wanted to document our first years of beekeeping and share them with you all.

    We have used this and other electric fences to bear proof the beeyard with good results. Your results may vary. Be very careful when dealing with bears. If there is one in your yard, get in the house, and get your dogs in the house too.

    Full disclosure, Premier 1 supplies sent us the electric fence for free. I think its a good product.

    Beekeepers: what methods do you use to safeguard your hives? let us know below

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    Comments

    1. Lee Michaels

      March 29, 2013 at 8:40 am

      I really liked the idea of a solar fence. However, the one you demonstrated had to be one of the most expensive on the market. Amazon has several that would serve well. Protecting the relative small area does not require a unit designed to power 5 - 10 acres.

    2. Eric Gunnar Rochow

      April 01, 2013 at 2:51 pm

      we like the Premiere 1 fence because it has good power, dissuades bears, and the solar panel and charger box is really well made of heavy duty metal. i think it looks like something you could send into space. thx, eric.

    3. Curt

      July 15, 2016 at 5:20 pm

      I was looking at another site on bear proofing the hive and it looks like you made a fundamental error. The solar powered unit should be inside the fence to keep it out of harms way too. Food for thought.

    4. Eric

      September 14, 2016 at 4:56 pm

      @Curt, i can see it working both ways. Bears don't seek out the fence charger, they just try to get through the fence.

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    1. New beehives in our second beeyard, bearproofing the beehives - GardenFork.TV | GardenFork.TV says:
      June 1, 2011 at 12:11 pm

      [...] We use a few techniques to bear proof our beehives. First we have a solar powered electric fence made by Premier 1 Supplies. Premier 1 gave us the electric fence they sell to protect beehives from bears. So far it has worked. Its also very easy to set up and move. You can watch our how to bearproof beehives video here. [...]

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