order of brood

[Finman]

.long time ago I use to put an empty comb box over the brood box, as it has been a tradion to enlarge hives.
After a week I looked the lower box, what is happening there. The colony had destroyed 30% from ready brood because they could not keep brood warm. They rised succesfully to upper box , but the lost lots of brood.

 

[drex]

I generally run double brood and try to keep as much brood up against the excluder as I can. Does not matter whether it is open or capped. This encourages them to keep putting the honey up in the supers.

 

[Finman]

.I have Nursed hives without Explorer. I took years to learn now to kesä brood in there where I want. Amount of ventilation is the key.

 

[GuyNir]

Amount of ventilation is the key.

Finman, could you expand on this please?

 

[Finman]

Finman, could you expand on this please?

It is terrible to write with my new Samsung Galaxi, because machine changes words like hyper teacher.

 

[Ian123]

It is terrible to write with my new Samsung Galaxi, because machine changes words like hyper teacher.

But is it any good for ****!!!

 

[Beefriendly]

But is it any good for ****!!!

My wrist is aching since I got one...they are not light

 

[ericbeaumont]

I have not arranged brood, and I have not heard that anybody either does.

Working the brood box...works well and increases the populations by a marked percentage...Nothing new about it, been done for decades.

Its time wasted and a disturbance the bees don't need. If you put the box under they will expand into it when they have the requirement to do so. Too much messing about goes on.

Long time ago I use to put an empty comb box over the brood box, as it has been a tradition to enlarge hives.

When I add a 2nd BB I put it below and super above at the same time and leave them too it.

Every now and then I swap the boxes, that bees consume combs evenly.

I'd keep the brood in the middle of the two boxes.

You cannot encourage brooding.

Among all these madness variables, common to all ought to be Finman's point that heat economy is the most important when you add boxes. That factor alone should drive the decision to do what with what. He adds that Amount of ventilation is the key, which of course goes hand-in-hand with heat economy.

Management of combs and boxes need not be Madness advice!!! or a disaster model; it requires a little (not too much!) imagination and application to the colony open in front of the beekeeper, and not to a fixed recipe.

 

[Finman]

Double brood is actually a site of excluder in summer. But it is very different in spring when nights are cold .

 

[Finman]

My wrist is aching since I got one...they are not light

Save us from further details!

 

[JonnyPicklechin]

It is terrible to write with my new Samsung Galaxi, because machine changes words like hyper teacher.

Whatever you do don't get what Aussie Bill writes on....

 

[citrus]

Whatever you do don't get what Aussie Bill writes on....

well said Jonny !

jbm did mention the 'scrabble bag' a few weeks ago which made me chuckle