Double brood or not

[Bryanthebee]

Hi folks
Has any one gone to double brood (large frames) and kept it Double brood through the winter?
Just wondering because our new second genaration queens are not half laying. wall to wall bottom to top its amazing, and only fed our bees at the beggining of the year nothing since.
We just feel its going to be a big hive to condence it down to one broad box for the winter.

 

[alanf]

Hi folks
Has any one gone to double brood (large frames) and kept it Double brood through the winter?
Just wondering because our new second genaration queens are not half laying. wall to wall bottom to top its amazing, and only fed our bees at the beggining of the year nothing since.
We just feel its going to be a big hive to condence it down to one broad box for the winter.

Plenty around here use double deep brood over winter. Variations in when/if you swap boxes around but the basics work.

 

[Bryanthebee]

That was the flip side to be able to swap the broad up and down to combat congestion, and keep the Queen busy for anti swaming, i think there are more pro than cons.

 

[Andy Duff]

Just gone permanent double brood national deep, 11 frames per box.We have learned through experience that there is nowhere near enough room in single deep with 10 frames, to the cries of "Told you so". Trying one triple brood next year.

 

[For want of a better word]

Just gone permanent double brood national deep, 11 frames per box.We have learned through experience that there is nowhere near enough room in single deep with 10 frames, to the cries of "Told you so". Trying one triple brood next year.

time for langstroths with that line of supabee then?

 

[Andy Duff]

time for langstroths with that line of supabee then?

I want some of them 14x12inch bees

 

[Tdf]

sometimes you mite get a few mouldy combs but thats really only with smaller colonies if they are very strong theyll be fine

 

[Poly Hive]

Works well.

PH

 

[Andy Duff]

Helps to prevent this sort of thing

 

[Bryanthebee]

double brood it is then.... thanks all

 

[scuttlefish]

Going to try it myself next year, there're one or two of mine that could have down with it this year (if I'd known what I was doing and had enough spare brood boxes - there's something else for my Santa list )

 

[Bryanthebee]

yes the double broad looking to have qwenched the queen laying, looks like there is room for here to lay, when i inspect the hive now.

 

[Finman]

Going to try it myself next year, there're one or two of mine that could have down with it this year (if I'd known what I was doing and had enough spare brood boxes - there's something else for my Santa list )

douple brood in Santa's list!
Does Santa nurse your hives?
Santa has no beehives in North Pole.

 

[Andy Duff]

yes the double broad looking to have qwenched the queen laying, looks like there is room for here to lay, when i inspect the hive now.

So that's another convert then.