12 x 14 not big enough

[beebopalula]

Is anybody on 12 x 14 brood box finding that it is not big enough for brood expansion and is having add a super to compensate?

Met some girls like that.

 

[beebopalula]

Firstly, what type hive (might be a Warre?).

National, but a late friend used Belgium 12 frame

The method is similar to the rose hive method apart from you add the next brood box to the top, and you move frames up. If you didn't use a queen excluder the queen would lay in your super, because she needs more space to lay.

A picture of me with my friends hives last year

James

Finmans hives shirley

 

[Erichalfbee]

James

Must be all that balsam

 

[itma]

Firstly, what type hive (might be a Warre?).

National, but a late friend used Belgium 12 frame

The method is similar to the rose hive method apart from you add the next brood box to the top, and you move frames up. If you didn't use a queen excluder the queen would lay in your super, because she needs more space to lay.

A picture of me with my friends hives last year

James

Seeming photographed just after combining colonies --- or does the newspaper have a different function?

 

[TBRNoTB]

Is anybody on 12 x 14 brood box finding that it is not big enough for brood expansion and is having add a super to compensate?

Have done a split on one 14x12 and it now seems to be getting quite full again and now working a super (honey not brood) Could be a candidate for another soon! need to make up for winter losses.

 

[Illo]

James - have sent you a PM.

LJ