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<blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 160" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>what size is the brood box?</p><p></p><p>returned the frames one at a time ??</p><p>no need to drip feed frames or boxes back on. put them all back on at once. the less interruption of a hive the better and also less honey smell generated the better.</p><p></p><p>for a hobbyist what you can do is simply take one box off at a time, extract it and return it when you take off the next one. unless its robbing season.</p><p></p><p>taking all honey boxes off all depends on what size the hive is and what is happening.</p><p>if honey is still coming in (most likely at the moment) they will start packing honey into the brood box (nowhere else to put it) which is not a good thing as it will reduce lay space and start reducing the hive population.</p><p>once the honey flow is over, the bee numbers will reduce and you can reduce the hive size to suit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tristan, post: 160, member: 30"] what size is the brood box? returned the frames one at a time ?? no need to drip feed frames or boxes back on. put them all back on at once. the less interruption of a hive the better and also less honey smell generated the better. for a hobbyist what you can do is simply take one box off at a time, extract it and return it when you take off the next one. unless its robbing season. taking all honey boxes off all depends on what size the hive is and what is happening. if honey is still coming in (most likely at the moment) they will start packing honey into the brood box (nowhere else to put it) which is not a good thing as it will reduce lay space and start reducing the hive population. once the honey flow is over, the bee numbers will reduce and you can reduce the hive size to suit. [/QUOTE]
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