Super/BB

[peacoops]

I am running out of supers, but i have plenty of brood boxes. One of my hives is on brood and half, is it feasible to take the frames out of the shallow box and put into a deep box? so that i can utilise the super elsewhere.

 

[Angularity]

Buy another super. By the time you've messed about dealing with all the brace comb they will build under the shallow frames, you would happily hand over £30 to never have to do it again.

 

[bjosephd]

I'd put a 2nd brood box under the first.

They will move down and back fill with honey eventually. Or if you are in a hurry put a queen excluder under the super (making sure queen is below)

If you have a flow and good temperatures you could be a bit more brutal and put the new brood between the old brood and super, it will swiftly pull them up into the new box but might be a bit too mich for them unless they are a strong colony.

 

[Bee Bumble]

Just use the brood box with brood frames + foundation as a super. It will of course be heavy when full and will need to be extracted tangentially, but will then give you a full brood box of freshly drawn empty brood combs for future use. Works well on a flow and preferably in warmer weather if the hive is strong.

 

[MerryBee]

good drawn brood comb is a very valuable resource when splitting colonies or making up nucs

 

[peacoops]

Ok thanks everyone, i'll order some deep frames and foundation so if necessary i can use a spare bb as a super then I'll actually be prepared if I've used my last empty super. (perhaps i should start weight training in readiness)

If the weather was being kinder i may have tried a different method as suggested.

 

[Poly Hive]

Actually everyone should have spare frames, foundation and supers ON HAND.

And dinna forget the right frame nails either.

PH

 

[Quis Custodiet]

Ok thanks everyone, i'll order some deep frames and foundation so if necessary i can use a spare bb as a super then I'll actually be prepared if I've used my last empty super. (perhaps i should start weight training in readiness)

If the weather was being kinder i may have tried a different method as suggested.

Brood boxes are often used as honey supers. I have commercial boxes which are perhaps on the large side for doing so, but in recent times got poly langstroths as replacements and a brood box gets filled practically as quickly as a super.