double brood boxes

[ladaok]

Double brood lang's V 2 x singles ... I know there are many variables, .. but .. can anybody comment on honey take overall. I normally run singles, but many of my sites, I could double up,

Instead of spring splits, thinking one box expanding into 2, cuts the chance of early swarm and hopefully gives a good volume of bees for late summer split. ...only downside is playing checkers with the upper / lower boxes through the season

 

[RaGeBe]

Personally I've found the size of the box doesn't seem to matter for yields, more the weather/location. As such, I'm gradually moving over to Jumbo Langstroths, with a normal-sized brood box on top, then supers. And I'll be replacing the supers as they wear out, with brood boxes. Got 35lbs off one hive last weekend.

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[Finman]

Leave the excluder off from hives. Then you learn what bees do naturally.
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Put the excluder on then later in yield season when you have seen how much each Queen lays.
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I run normally 3 langstroth brood boxes. I hate one box layers. Toys.

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[beesbeesbees]

I have a queen who can fill a 14x12 by mid May and am thinking of using double brood next year. Is this a good idea or will it not work.

 

[Finman]

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I wonder why you try it next year?
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[beesbeesbees]

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I wonder why you try it next year?
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Because my colony has swarmed a bunch of times and I am unsure whether they will exceed their brood box by autumn, if they do do you think I should try it.

 

[Anduril]

Because my colony has swarmed a bunch of times and I am unsure whether they will exceed their brood box by autumn, if they do do you think I should try it.

If your bees are prolific then double brood is ideal. How many frames of brood do you have now. I have a few hives on double 14x12, which isn't ideal due to the weight of the boxes, but they have nearly filled both boxes.

 

[Finman]

Because my colony has swarmed a bunch of times and I am unsure whether they will exceed their brood box by autumn, if they do do you think I should try it.

IT depends, how good layer your new queen is. All queens are not two box layers. IT is half of June now.
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[REDWOOD]

I have a queen who can fill a 14x12 by mid May and am thinking of using double brood next year. Is this a good idea or will it not work.

It works. can get a bit high with a few supers

 

[madasafish]

I run jumbo langs... With our unpredictable weather, brood breaks ( due to foul cold wet weather) mean the brood box is never full of brood except in early May. Then it varies..

If we had a summer of wall to wall sunshine with overnight rain ---- but pigs don't fly.

I hasten to add: 150 meters above sealevel on the edge of the Peak District - so better climes will do better..

 

[sherwood]

Because my colony has swarmed a bunch of times and I am unsure whether they will exceed their brood box by autumn, if they do do you think I should try it.

Perhaps if you had doubled up previously and given the queen sufficient laying space they might have swarmed in the first place I believe in the states Q/E's are a rarely used and the queen is allowed to expand into the boxes she needs to. I am not saying they have got it right but hey ho.