BEEKEEPING: Adding a Second Super- Before It's Too Late!

Blake checks on a hive that is PACKED full of honey! He also checks the brood boxes to make sure the hive hasn't become honey bound as a result of not being supered fast enough.
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[@LouiseRascoe]

Given that the upper brood chamber didn't have a honey band how do you keep the queen from moving up to the honey super? I didn't see an excluder.

[@thebeesupply]

Sometimes she does, sometimes she doesn't. We use excluders if there is a strong honey flow and a strong hive. Otherwise we don't. If she does lay in the super we would just consolidate all the brood from all the hives into one super and put it onto a week hive that needs a boost in strenght.

[@TheGoatMumbler]

What honey flow? Nothing much here in SE Dallas County. 😒

[@thebeesupply]

It's been a rough year in North Texas!:(

[@framcesmoore]

Ha Blake do u ever under supper thanks. and what if u have foundation only.

[@thebeesupply]

Hi! If we have foundation, yes, we do bottom super. If we have comb, we just top super.