The Honey Factory

ColtHandorf · May 4, 2022

duluthralphie said:
I opened my bees finally. I was pleasantly surprised with the brood and number of bees I have.

How did they do in the house?

duluthralphie · May 4, 2022

ColtHandorf said:
How did they do in the house?

They did fine, but we’re only inside one night.

R2elk · May 6, 2022

Hive set up and waiting nuc arrival this weekend. I built 2 deep bodies out of 2x lumber.

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duluthralphie · May 6, 2022

I am thinking of buying a new queen and making a nuc. Any thoughts on that? It would save me a couple weeks of hatching one,

BirdsBeesTrees · May 6, 2022

R2elk said:
Hive set up and waiting nuc arrival this weekend. I built 2 deep bodies out of 2x lumber.
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That looks really nice.

R2elk · May 6, 2022

BirdsBeesTrees said:
That looks really nice.

Thank you.

jerryse · May 6, 2022

duluthralphie said:
I am thinking of buying a new queen and making a nuc. Any thoughts on that? It would save me a couple weeks of hatching one,

I will tell how I did mine . I took 3 frames of brood put them in a deep with drawn comb from a dead out . Put a queen excluder on top of my strongest hive and put the new brood chamber on top . Nurse bees come up to cover the brood . A day or 2 later I set this new hive on a bottom board plus inner and top cover . 24 hours later I added my new queen . So nurse bees accept a new queen easier as do queen less hives . Coming up on three weeks this coming week . Nice weather predicted so I will open them up to check .