Overwinter queens in mini Nuc

[beebreeder]

Likewise, both kielers and apidea doing well, only did it for spare queens but some are too big for their small home now so I am going to put the whole box over the feed hole in a Nuc box and close their own entrance, hopefully they will move down to the drawn frames with a small amount of stores in the nuc. Its either that or use the queen and shake the bees in the air at another apiary.
kev

 

[Mike a]

Kev

How about turning a nuc into a giant kieler?

Using blocks of wood in a rough U shape to reduce the nucs width and depth so you can hang the top bars in the space, then add more frames to suit the nuc.

Sorry for the crude drawing.

Entrance shown with arrow
Yellow is the U shaped filling
Blue is the kieler bars (U shaped filling blocks them from extending the mini combs downwards)
Green - predrawn normal frames


This is how I intend to build up two colonies later this year using the polish mini hive I bought last year.


Polish frame mini mating hive frame compared against BS National

 

[Hombre]

Thanks MikeA, good to hear details of the different approaches people take to solving problems that many of us might have to contemplate sooner or later.