Kenyan Top Bar Beehive

These are the long sides.

Kenyan top bar beehive. Entering the beehive from one side means that only a small number of bees are disturbed at a time rather than thousands of angry bees reacting to just having their roof ripped off. Others are the log hives made from hollowed out tree trunks basket hives made from woven sticks which are smeared with mud and pot hives made of clay that are only used for small scale honey production. The kenyan top bar hive. As well as htbh such as the kenyan and tanzanian there are also vtbh vertical such as the warre.

Bevel the top long edge so that the outside height measurement of the board is 9. There are different types of hives used in beekeeping in kenya but the most important for commercial purposes are two the kenya top bar hive ktbh and the langstroth hives. Design intent the top bar hive is designed with the beekeeper in mind both in terms of the construction effort and the management of the hive once installed. Gordon townsend from the university of guelph in canada sponsored by the canadian international development agency cida under an initial four year overseas project which began in kenya in 1971.

Top bar hives are low tech old style configurations of hives. The kenyan top bar hive has a box with sloped sides whereas the tanzanian top bar hive has a rectangular box. Beekeeping naturally promotes the kenyan top bar hive as one of the most effective natural bee hives for backyard and small scale beekeepers bee carers. These are the leg posts of the stand.

A smoker to confuse the bees is rarely used and delicious raw honey can be taken out one bar at a time as needed. Rabbet 5 1 2 x 3 4 deep along one end of each post this. The example pictured above the one i built was a luxury version with all new pine timber. Cut a saw.

Cut list for a kenya top bar hive elevated hive stand.