William Sharp wrote:
> Hi all,  I keep about 20 hives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.  I want to use a gatorade bottle as a feeder - stuck in a 1-3/4" hole in the plywood top.  Will that work?
>   Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>    
>   

I'd suggest testing your gatorade bottle by filling it with water, 
filling a bowl with water, then inverting the bottle in the bowl so that 
the water stays in it.  If the sides of the bottle collapse, it won't 
work very well, but if it is rigid enough to keep its shape under the 
suction, it should be fine.

Personally, I use mason jars.  That way, you can use feeders anywhere 
from about a pint, all the way up to half a gallon (although you might 
need to specially request the half-gallon jars from the store). You can 
get plastic lids for mason jars that you can turn into feeder lids, they 
are usually sold in the same part of the hardware store as the other 
canning supplies.

-- 
Tim Eisele
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