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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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