to move or not to move ??

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bigslinky64

June 13, 2007, 05:59:06 PM
Hi everone I am a Newbee with one whole hive. I started the hive with a nice local 4 frame nuc (2 honey and 2 brood). The bees have been doing well and now have 2 more frames of honey on eachside of the nuc the brood frames are packed with capped cells (as or saturday). So my questian is should I leave them alone or move some empty frames to the middle for my girls to start new brood cells or let them alone to handle it ?
Thanks for your advice. Rob 
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;

(Proverbs 24:13 HCSB)

doak

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June 13, 2007, 06:12:10 PM
Never put empty  frames in the center of the brood cluster.
If you have them in anything smaller than an 8 or 10 frame box. Then change them to which ever of these two sizes you are going to be using. When doing this put the brood in the middle of the bigger box just like they are in the small box. Then add the empty frames on each side.
doak

bigslinky64

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June 13, 2007, 06:20:34 PM
They have been in a 10 frame hive since may 26 2007 I've just been doing some reading on how they seem to keep the brood togather so it botherd me to see them surronded by the honey frames. when should I add the next super when the first one is filled.
Yhanks for your reply
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;

(Proverbs 24:13 HCSB)

doak

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June 13, 2007, 07:19:58 PM
Unless something drastic happens, I do not enter the brood chamber after I start adding honey supers till I have harvested and/or taken the honey supers off after season is over.
If a strong honey flow is on I add the 2nd honey super when the first is 1/2 to 3/4 full. Stay ahead of them, don't let them get ahead of you.

  In the early spring I reverse the brood chambers, if it is needed. When the queen and most if the brood is in the top brood chamber, I put it on bottom. Most times I only have to do this once.

   Some queens seem not to want to go back down, and keep going up into the honey supers.
  Reversing helps.
doak

Michael Bush

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June 13, 2007, 11:27:59 PM
They are just getting started. Let them.  If you have a booming hive an empty frame in the brood nest can be useful for heading off swarming.  If you do that to a struggling hive (and yours is still that small) you stress them out and possibly kill a lot of brood.
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