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Re: beehive destroying bear
« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2019, 01:18:06 PM »
Looks like you took out a real trouble maker.  With the paint on him and the beehive shenanigans id be willing to bet he had a habit of raiding garbage cans too.  Hope the meat doesnt reflect that.  Bear up in valdez got into a garbage can and took off with a loaded diaper like he struck gold.  Theyll eat some real foul stuff.  I watched 11 grizzlies tearing into 3 rotten walrus carcasses that washed up on the shore near kivalina.  :puke:

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Re: beehive destroying bear
« Reply #16 on: October 29, 2019, 01:46:23 PM »
Nice bear! In the future an electric fence can prevent more hive losses, it’s worked for a few keepers I have spoken with.

Didn't work for me. Really their coats are so thick, they won't feel it unless it gets them on the nose or mouth. I was always told to hang some bacon off the hot wire, that way they'd get zapped for sure. I never tried that.

Depends on placement & the strength of the energizer as well, I wouldn’t use anything less than 2 joules for bear deterrent. The nets tend to work better than wires.

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Re: beehive destroying bear
« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2019, 05:45:26 PM »
Nice bear! In the future an electric fence can prevent more hive losses, it’s worked for a few keepers I have spoken with.

Didn't work for me. Really their coats are so thick, they won't feel it unless it gets them on the nose or mouth. I was always told to hang some bacon off the hot wire, that way they'd get zapped for sure. I never tried that.

Depends on placement & the strength of the energizer as well, I wouldn’t use anything less than 2 joules for bear deterrent. The nets tend to work better than wires.

My hog fence is more than double that, its a parmak mark 8 putting out 4.9 joules.  I use several of these parmaks actually.   I wouldn't use anything less for bear personally, they're persistent and determined buggers

https://www.amazon.com/Impedance-120-Volt-Electric-reflecting-livestock/dp/B0002YUWFC

and I would use netting for bears I think, possibly even with a few strands in front of the net a few feet and maybe above the netting too

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Re: beehive destroying bear
« Reply #18 on: October 29, 2019, 06:18:30 PM »
Nice bear Humptulips!
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Re: beehive destroying bear
« Reply #19 on: November 01, 2019, 09:39:14 PM »
Good deal getting even for the bees, hope no prized queens were eaten.
Do you think that was a trouble maker bear relocated from elsewhere? 
Reason I ask is that bear looks much lighter in color than most bears around the peninsula--most being dark black, with only a few having a dark brown around the muzzle.

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Re: beehive destroying bear
« Reply #20 on: November 01, 2019, 09:43:35 PM »
Good deal getting even for the bees, hope no prized queens were eaten.
Do you think that was a trouble maker bear relocated from elsewhere? 
Reason I ask is that bear looks much lighter in color than most bears around the peninsula--most being dark black, with only a few having a dark brown around the muzzle.
It looks lighter because it was covered in a light green paint which I have been working on removing. I got the last off today.
I do not think it was moved from anyplace but it was up to no good. Besides the green paint it had birdshot embedded in its front legs. Must have been giving other people problems.
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Re: beehive destroying bear
« Reply #21 on: November 01, 2019, 10:42:20 PM »
Here's what it looks like after cleaning.
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Re: beehive destroying bear
« Reply #22 on: November 02, 2019, 07:09:50 PM »
Nice bear! In the future an electric fence can prevent more hive losses, it’s worked for a few keepers I have spoken with.

Didn't work for me. Really their coats are so thick, they won't feel it unless it gets them on the nose or mouth. I was always told to hang some bacon off the hot wire, that way they'd get zapped for sure. I never tried that.

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Re: beehive destroying bear
« Reply #23 on: November 02, 2019, 08:44:15 PM »
Paint balls and birdshot, troublemaker for sure.

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Re: beehive destroying bear
« Reply #24 on: November 04, 2019, 08:04:21 PM »
We use farm store electric fence chargers and 2 strands of wire around the hives. Bears tend not to return after tangling with the fence the first time.

 


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