Capped Brood Frames

[Millet]

In one of the hives the bees have fully filled four outer brood frames with honey and capped them, this Queen has been on double brood boxes through winter.

What i am wondering would it be wise to extract these four frames and give them back to the bees to clean up which would obviously give the Queen more space to lay a bit quicker than the bees having to draw fresh foundation.
Cheers
Steve.

 

[colinc]

Or remove them and store them and if we get a nectar gap and a big hungry colony give them back. Both solid options


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[Millet]

It's a new learning curve for me, the last bees i had could barely fill nine frames with brood and stores let alone wall to wall brood and honey in a full deep and in the process of filling the second brood box.

 

[colinc]

I had two hives do that last year but they have had a slow start for some reason. Getting going now, hoping the swimming HM pulls through, the oldest queen has lots of stores and a small colony so interesting to see what she does next few weeks as colony grows. She has been prolific but possibly on her way out


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[linoleum bonypart]

Take out and keep for later
Put above a cb in a dearth they will take down

 

[Millet]

Thank you all.. .

 

[Eyeman]

In one of the hives the bees have fully filled four outer brood frames with honey and capped them, this Queen has been on double brood boxes through winter.

What i am wondering would it be wise to extract these four frames and give them back to the bees to clean up which would obviously give the Queen more space to lay a bit quicker than the bees having to draw fresh foundation.
Cheers
Steve.

Removing those stores and replacing with drawn comb is one of the ways I try to delay swarm preps. I can extract the 14x12 & Nat brood so I take the honey off. I've got close to 300lb off them so far, and that doesn't include the 20 supers that are currently being filled.

 

[beeno]

Removing those stores and replacing with drawn comb is one of the ways I try to delay swarm preps.

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[Millet]

Thanks again, i have had a suggestion what to do and i am going to do it at the weekend, i will put two of the frames on the outside of the brood nest and remove the other two for later on when i make up a Nuc, i will replace the two i take out for fresh foundation, if i had more than four i may well have extracted them but i do not want to mess the extractor up for so few frames.
Thank you again.