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  • From: "Dave Gould" <dave.gould AT da.org>
  • To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [ocba] questions
  • Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:32:18 -0400

g'day all,
so here's my problem (s) and i 'm looking for some advice from those more wiz'end than I:
-put on 2 supers with already drawn comb on 2 weeks ago b/c hive was boiling with bees.  unfortunately did not put on queen excluder.  today, all frames in both supers were almost fully drawn with capped honey.  in one super 4/10 frames were fully drawn with pure capped honey, other 6 frames were, on average 70% drawn with fully capped honey - the other 30% of the frame had a combination of uncapped honey and capped brood; queen catherine, bless her lovely soul, had been wandering around in super-land.  similar situation in other super: 3/10 frames fully drawn with capped honey, the rest a combination of capped and uncapped honey and capped brood.  so what to do now?
- spin off the honey only in fully capped frames?
-or, spin off most of the frames including those with the least amount of capped brood? [question here as well:  when you spin off frames with capped brood does the capped brood compromise the integrity of the honey or does the filtration system keep it out of the finished product?]

my other question has to do with splitting this still boiling hive.  does it make sense to split the hive using some frames from the upper deep [most of which have a combination of capped honey and capped brood and one of which has a well developed swarm cell] and some of the partially drawn frames from the supers, or does it make more sense to take off the swarm cell and merely add another super [and a queen excluder this time].

ah the choices in beekeeper land . . .
thanks,
dave













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