Double Brood In The Spring
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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Lawrence, what I see as a compromise is to take some of the frames from the original box and put them in the middle of the second box creating a chimney effect. Then they can expand out as they grow.
I've had a couple of colonies on double brood overwinter, had them on some syrup and there really starting to get active.
If it is to cold to add another brood box, then it's best not to do it, either on top or the bottom. I find the queen moves up readily, down reluctantly. The only reason to add another brood box is to create more laying space for the queen. I would rather remove a honey frame and replace it with an empty drawn frame x2 and feed the hive more syrup, then just plunk on another brood box on the top. The single brood box, needs to be filled with bee's first, and until its has seven or eight, or lots of fuzzy young bee's, frames of active brood, then add another brood box on top. I would even take two frames of brood, mostly uncapped and move it up to the top brood box. This will make the nurse bee's to move up, and it tends to pull the queen up as well.
@blackmountainhoney would you recommend this way if I want to do splits having the bees make their own cells.?
My Smith hive does not need space yet but Im going to under super this year with no queen excluder to see what happens as I hope having the brood up top they will benefit from not losing the heat upwards into the space when supers are added.
To see how big the expand the brood and if they create a crop.
Thanks for that Laurence. Having got my two nucs thru the winter ok, i am still surprised how warm to the touch the clear perspex crownboards are and can see how heat could be lost to any void above.
Bother! I placed a brood box on top last week! I am off tomorrow to reverse the boxes!
Try wintering on two brood boxes.then give third brood box under the boxes. End year remove top brood box..
Thank you Lawrence for the excellent video. I'm going to put an additional brood box for a strong family and wasn't sure how to do it. So now thaks to you I know:)
@BlackMountainHoney have you tried having 2 nucs that Share honey supers, does it work? I've watched a few videos on it and they claim it produces a lot of honey. They had to fudge but with the 2 in 1 bs hive you reviewed it should be easier