Last week after check my brood box it had 7 /10 full, so I went ahead and added a q/e and shallow honey super. After a week I check again and there might have been 100 bees in the super but they hadn't done anything. I took the super and q/e off, so now do add a brood box or wait until they fill out a few more fames on the brood box :? :? :?
The queen excluder is the problem. You need to entice them to go up.
I got interrupted. Sometimes just moving a drawn out frame up will do the trick. But if you don't use the queen excluder and make sure they have the room, you will get more bees to make more honey
Quote from: Jerrymac on June 27, 2008, 12:21:02 PM
I got interrupted. Sometimes just moving a drawn out frame up will do the trick. But if you don't use the queen excluder and make sure they have the room, you will get more bees to make more honey
Kattz:
Since you have a shallow super you probably can't move a drawn frame from the brood box as Jerry suggested (one reason why some beeks use all mediums). Just ditch the excluder for now. If they draw out the super and the queen comes up it's not the end of the world. Once it's drawn out - even if there's brood - you can put on the excluder (just be sure the queen is below!).
Quote from: indypartridge on June 27, 2008, 02:17:21 PM
Since you have a shallow super you probably can't move a drawn frame from the brood box as Jerry suggested
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I guess one reason I had put the excluder was that I had hoped I could get some honey and not have any brood mixed in with it. :)
Most of my frames in my deep have a combination of brood and honey I guess I can put the super back on without the excluder once they start filling the super up. I can move on frame up with a new super and hopefully I can get a jar of honey before winter sets in. :evil:
what you can do is move some of the frames from the bottom box up into the super and replace them with drawn/undrawn(dpending on what you have available) frames.