Hi,
I had a couple of questions on extracting honey. This is the first year my bees did good overwintering (lost 1 out of 7). Been averaging 50 % loss. Bee clusters are larger now than they were last fall. I will probably have to do couple of splits soon, or box to give more space?
If I get enough frames to extract, how can I make sure I'm not extracting the sugar water I feed bees in early fall to get food stores on the bees? Do you add a new box and only extract from the new box frames?
thanks
Tazz
Quote from: chickenwing654 on April 15, 2019, 09:46:28 PM
Do you add a new box and only extract from the new box frames?
That's pretty much what I do. All the honey that they have capped in the spring is theirs or gets used in splits or nucs. These hives are ones that I am not going to harvest any honey from.