Hi all,
I'm Nate from Carson City Nevada. I built a top bar hive in January and in February a friend called saying a tree blew over and the bees are laying on the ground, so my first bees. I kept them in the garage for the first week and fed them lots of sugar. They have struggled, swarmed once, and struggled some more. I think they swarmed because they were honey bound. I think now they are on the right track.
I have been reading about tbh management and it says the hive should have 8 to 10 brood combs. How do you do that? Do you just add a top bar when it looks like they have built out all the brood? Can I just move all the comb to the middle and they will build brood one way and honey the other? Can I move individual combs? I want to move one that has honey and add an empty bar for brood?
Thank you,
Nate
welcome to beemaster. my brother just moved to sparks. NV is one of my favorite states :-)
try putting your questions either in the general forum or the TBH . more people will see it and hopefully help you out.
Welcome to the forum.
Welcome to the forum. :cheer: -Mike
yes you can move it, just slide it back and insert a new frme and keep a new frame added to the brood nest
Hi and good luck with your TBH. I didn't have very good luck with mine.. :-x