What to do - Removing old BB with honey in

[Alabamaeee]

I have recently combined a commercial and 14x12 BB in order to transfer the colony into the new 14X12 hive. All went well and I was waiting until this week ( about 21 days) to check the old BB for hatched brood and then remove it.

I got caught out as they are now going mad on OSR and have filled most of the old BB with honey that is not yet capped. I want to get it off the hive now so I am thinking to clear it like a super and then replace it with two supers?

What to do with the uncapped honey or part honey? Should I extract it and feed it back in a feeder or just throw it away? Seems a waste to dispose of it but there is the possibility that some of it may contain syrup fed earlier when the weather was bad.

 

[enrico]

Save it till autumn and put it under a bb. They will use it for food for the winter
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[Finman]

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Hive works with good speed. Let them fill and cap the combs and then extract.
This my normal procedure. I extract frames and if those which are old, I remove aside.

Rob crystallized rape honey .....oh boy. It is like sand.

When I take off old frames, I use them as super, bees emerge off and bees fill combs with honey. What is wrong in that?

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[Finman]

Save it till autumn and put it under a bb. They will use it for food for the winter
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why?

Your harvest honey from rape to make winter food? And idea is....

 

[itma]

Extracting 'Commercial' (16x10) brood frames? Not every extractor is big enough ...

 

[Alabamaeee]

Yes, I don't have an extractor to suit them but I think a friend has one. At least they are supered on top which will give a breathing space.