goodbobby
House Bee
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2009
- Messages
- 104
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- 0
- Location
- Sanderstead Surrey
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 5+
I am sure the answer to my query is somewhere on the forum but despite searching I cannot find it!
2 weeks ago I hived a standard 5 frame nuc in a 14x12 national hive and added 6, 14x12 frames and foundation. All is going along well with the new frames starting to be drawn out and populated, but obviously the girls are now extending the original 5 standard frames from the nuc with wild comb. I know that I can at the appropiate stage cut out these additions which are potentially highly populated with drone brood as part of my varroa control BUT is there an accepted/ recommended procedure to switch over to the correct size frames (14x 12) throughout without doing a shook swarm later in the year?
Advice from a wiser head would be appreciated
2 weeks ago I hived a standard 5 frame nuc in a 14x12 national hive and added 6, 14x12 frames and foundation. All is going along well with the new frames starting to be drawn out and populated, but obviously the girls are now extending the original 5 standard frames from the nuc with wild comb. I know that I can at the appropiate stage cut out these additions which are potentially highly populated with drone brood as part of my varroa control BUT is there an accepted/ recommended procedure to switch over to the correct size frames (14x 12) throughout without doing a shook swarm later in the year?
Advice from a wiser head would be appreciated