brood in honey supers

eddiedlzn · August 03, 2007, 09:01:19 PM

My hive consists of one deep and four mediums. The queen is laying in the middle of all the supers. I was told not to use a queen excluder from a few people. now I am thinking I should have bought one. Could I just just take all the frames with brood and put them in there own box and put it above the deep. Please give me some advice

pdmattox · August 03, 2007, 09:47:15 PM

What is in the four mediums, honey or just brood and are all the frames drawn out. I would think if you moved the brood down just over the deep and put the honey on top of that.

eddiedlzn · August 03, 2007, 10:22:24 PM

Yeah all the frames are drawn out. its mostly all honey exept for the middle frames there's a bit of brood in them. So I should seperate them and put them below?

sean · August 03, 2007, 10:25:44 PM

if the middle frames have brood, place them in the box above the deep as pdmattox said. the other frames that are mostly honey should go on top.

rdy-b · August 04, 2007, 01:48:07 AM

whats in the deep/ arrange so honey over brood deep does not have to be on the bottom 8-) RDY-B

Michael Bush · August 04, 2007, 02:34:54 PM

>My hive consists of one deep and four mediums. The queen is laying in the middle of all the supers.

Maybe she's trying to tell you something.

michelleb · August 04, 2007, 04:42:40 PM

By the way, excluders don't always keep the queen out. Most of the frames in my comb honey super had eggs in them when I harvested them last night. :-x

buzzbee · August 04, 2007, 04:47:25 PM

2 queens maybe?

Michael Bush · August 04, 2007, 04:48:03 PM

If you use the smoker heavily queens often go through an excluder.

randydrivesabus · August 04, 2007, 06:10:39 PM

ouch.

rdy-b · August 04, 2007, 10:34:49 PM

what do you mean eggs? eggs go in empty cells :lol: harvest full &capped comb honey. smoke the queen down and keep going in till they get it right :) I fell your pain brood in honey suppers is extra work. RDY-B

Understudy · August 04, 2007, 11:56:31 PM

The temprature of the hive will decide where the brood goes. However in the middle is not unusual. Go out and look at a feral hive. The brood is in the middle and there is honey surronding it. So what if she has brood in the middle. You can remove the other boxes for your honey. If you have one or two rows of brood in the comb you won't ruin your honey. It will all come out when you drain the honey.

Sincerely,
Brendhan