ENZO
House Bee
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2009
- Messages
- 139
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Jersey C.I.
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 16
Hello All,
A few people have asked me how my first year of trying to produce Round Comb Sections went, well not to bad but still have a lot to learn, I posted a few photos so that people not familiar with these will know what I am talking about. Overall I'm happy with the result but next year will be better due to the experience I aquired this year.
I just wanted to try something different than just producing cut comb as I have always done and after all, It's my favorite way to eat honey.
The finished article looks good, not all 100% filled but good enough and priced accordingly, these add something a little different to my stall, a talking point in fact at the farmers market and fairs where I sell my honey.
I read a great book by Richard Taylor, The new comb honey book,which helped as you have to compress the bees into a single brood chamber when they are at their largest hence increasing their urge to swarm, or shook swarming them into a super of foundation with the section supers on top. overall I placed four section supers on two hives, each section super holding forty round sections, 160 sections total, when complete I had 100 filled and capped sections as in the photos and about 20 nearly filled/capped which I used for chunk honey, the rest I placed above the crown board for the bees to bring down as stores so then nothing is wasted.
All Good Fun, Enzo.
A few people have asked me how my first year of trying to produce Round Comb Sections went, well not to bad but still have a lot to learn, I posted a few photos so that people not familiar with these will know what I am talking about. Overall I'm happy with the result but next year will be better due to the experience I aquired this year.
I just wanted to try something different than just producing cut comb as I have always done and after all, It's my favorite way to eat honey.
The finished article looks good, not all 100% filled but good enough and priced accordingly, these add something a little different to my stall, a talking point in fact at the farmers market and fairs where I sell my honey.
I read a great book by Richard Taylor, The new comb honey book,which helped as you have to compress the bees into a single brood chamber when they are at their largest hence increasing their urge to swarm, or shook swarming them into a super of foundation with the section supers on top. overall I placed four section supers on two hives, each section super holding forty round sections, 160 sections total, when complete I had 100 filled and capped sections as in the photos and about 20 nearly filled/capped which I used for chunk honey, the rest I placed above the crown board for the bees to bring down as stores so then nothing is wasted.
All Good Fun, Enzo.