BT Beekeeper
New Bee
- Joined
- Aug 12, 2010
- Messages
- 20
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- 0
- Location
- West Devon
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 2 on double brood boxes
Intending to double-up on brood space, I added a second brood box to each of my two national hives a fortnight ago with frames of foundation on narrow plastic ends. Both hives had 6 frames of brood at the time and were doing well. I looked in today and found very little drawn foundation in the new BBs but a lot of brace comb with mainly capped drone cells, some built in slabs parallel and in between the sheets of foundation and some at right angles joining adjacent frames. I have cut it out and replaced the frames with foundation that have been spoilt. Brood is now covering 7/8 frames in the first BB so colonies are doing well.
What did I do wrong? Should I have spread the brood from the first BB into the new box above? Risk of chilling? Hopefully the colonies will soon recover from this early set-back.
What did I do wrong? Should I have spread the brood from the first BB into the new box above? Risk of chilling? Hopefully the colonies will soon recover from this early set-back.