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  • From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
  • To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] questions
  • Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:59:32 -0400

Dave,

Brood in the honey supers is easy to take care of. Like many issues in beekeeping, this one just requires a little patience. Put a queen excluder under the supers, make sure the queen is below, and just wait 3 weeks for the brood to mature and emerge. Problem solved and everybody is happy.

Randall Austin


On 3/31/2012 6:32 PM, Dave Gould wrote:
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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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  • [ocba] questions, Dave Gould, 03/31/2012
    • Re: [ocba] questions, Randall Austin, 03/31/2012

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