14x12 nucs or Standard nucs.

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I was only asking how he had done his change over, it doesn't mean I was going to do the same. I have never done a shook swarm so was just enquiring.

I know, not having a poke, just preempting the usual advice

 

[banwee40]

I know, not having a poke, just preempting the usual advice

I know, I don't post very often purely because I can't be doing with all the bickering. Just me thinking here we go lol.

 

[BeeJayBee]

I have never done a shook swarm so was just enquiring.

There's a 'how to' on Dave Cushman's site http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/shookswarm.html and two thirds of the way down the list of Fact Sheets on Beebase http://www.nationalbeeunit.com/index.cfm?pageid=167

Some people swear by shook swarms and do one every year as soon as their colonies make swarm preparations, other people think shook swarms are the stuff of the devil.

 

[REDWOOD]

You can buy those converter extensions for your frames but personally it's a wast of time


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[oliver90owner]

Hi Rab, I see you have 14x12 hives, when you switched over from standard brood did you place them in 14x12 and switch to the 14x12 frames gradually or did you do a shook swarm changing them over all in one go?

I added an eke to the deep boxes and moved them in. Filled in under the deep frames to avoid wild comb initially, then later just dealt with any wild comb by changing out the frames as they were worked to one end, or some other ploy. Not difficult, whichever route is chosen.

RAB

 

[Queen Brenda]

We had this problem with wild comb under the 3 deep frames yesterday. They had built beautiful wild comb. What did you fill the space with? I was wondering if we should have removed the 3 old frames, which were jammed full of brood, although no eggs but we would have been sacrifying so much that I lost my nerve.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

We had this problem with wild comb under the 3 deep frames yesterday. They had built beautiful wild comb. What did you fill the space with? I was wondering if we should have removed the 3 old frames, which were jammed full of brood, although no eggs but we would have been sacrifying so much that I lost my nerve.

Just gradually move those frames to the edges of the box and remove them later on when brood has emerged (maybe in the spring when stores are depleted but the cluster is small)

 

[banwee40]

Thanks Rab for the feed back, will make some ekes and try a few to see how it goes. How do you find the frames to handle?