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Do I extract or leave for winter feed?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bron" data-source="post: 10110" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>I’ll just jump in and say, we run double brood full depth boxes all year round. They swarm! Sometimes just because rather than the lack of space. In the days when 3 of us ran single full depth broods, it was a lot of work. Make life easy for yourself. 2 3/4 make a good brood space as everyone else has suggested. </p><p></p><p>Make your bees happy and your bee keeping enjoyable and your neighbours happy by not having to retrieve your bees when they run out of room, they will if they don’t have enough room in the spring. 2 broods + 1 honey super with an excluder in between.</p><p></p><p>Let them keep their honey box they made it, you don’t need it. Why would you feed them sugar if they’ve already made their own winter tucker.</p><p></p><p>Get your strips in the brood boxes ASAP. Or you wont have any bees come spring. Check your strips are working & they still have food then leave them alone, they don’t need bee bothering when they’re hunkered down for winter.</p><p></p><p>Good luck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bron, post: 10110, member: 59"] I’ll just jump in and say, we run double brood full depth boxes all year round. They swarm! Sometimes just because rather than the lack of space. In the days when 3 of us ran single full depth broods, it was a lot of work. Make life easy for yourself. 2 3/4 make a good brood space as everyone else has suggested. Make your bees happy and your bee keeping enjoyable and your neighbours happy by not having to retrieve your bees when they run out of room, they will if they don’t have enough room in the spring. 2 broods + 1 honey super with an excluder in between. Let them keep their honey box they made it, you don’t need it. Why would you feed them sugar if they’ve already made their own winter tucker. Get your strips in the brood boxes ASAP. Or you wont have any bees come spring. Check your strips are working & they still have food then leave them alone, they don’t need bee bothering when they’re hunkered down for winter. Good luck [/QUOTE]
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