Changeover

[R.L. Bee]

I want to change over from deep brood chambers to meadiums, How do I go about doing this.

[Sundance]

My game plan is........

Place a couple of mediums over brood nest. After they are drawn out place the deep on top of the 2 mediums. Find the queen and isolate her to mediums with queen excluder. After all the brood is gone, cut your deep boxes down.

You can also do cutouts. Faster and messy.

[iddee]

>>>Place a couple of mediums over brood nest. After they are drawn out place the deep on top of the 2 mediums. Find the queen and isolate her to mediums with queen excluder. After all the brood is gone, cut your deep boxes down.<<<

Correct...Also, if you leave the deep on until fully capped, you can harvest the honey with your normal harvest..

The easiest way, tho, and one I would prefer, since you are in my neighborhood, is just give me the deeps and start anew with mediums...

:D :D :D

By the way, where in central NC. I'm in Randleman.

[sqkcrk]

Oh iddee, you are such a kidder. smile.gif And cheap too. You didn't even offer to buy them from R.L. smile.gif Why don't you just come on up here. I'll give you loads of deep supers. smile.gif For a price I will. Want any?

[ March 25, 2006, 11:34 AM: Message edited by: sqkcrk ]

[Michael Bush]

Brood is the hard part. You can always pull honey without a lot of loss. Personally, I'd cut two combs of brood out of the deep and tie them into medium frames and put them and the queen in a medium box on top of an excluder on top of the old brood nest. Put the empty deeps back in the old brood box. When all the brood has emerged, pull the deep and either extract it or uncap it and put it over an inner cover to get cleaned out.

You're probably thinking, why not just put the queen above? Because the bees will move to the brood and her but they probably won't move to her. When I've tried it without some brood with the queen they reared a new queen in the old brood nest.

[iddee]

No, Mark, I'm not cheap. If I was, I would have asked the condition before I agreed to take them... :rolleyes: tongue.gif :D
I mainly wanted to find out where he is from.

If you would come down 85 to 220 to get to SC instead of 95, you could stop by here for a breather and refreshments.

[Sundance]

I like your method better MB.

[sqkcrk]

Are there many scale houses that way? I'm used to the ones on 95.

If you see a 2005 F-450 Superduty pulling a trailer loaded with a Bobcat comin' in your drive, it might be me. i see by your photo that you have room for me to turn around.

Thanks for the invite.

[Joel]

It'd be a good visit too, I spent some time Jawin with Iddee. Knew I would stop and see him in the future, which I will! Tell Wayne I said Hey!

[Michael Bush]

There are many possible ways that will work. The one I proposed is reasonably quick but not as much work as a cutout. One additional thing you can do is flip the deep box upside down. This won't stop them from storing honey in it, but it will make it less appealing for that. It doesn't hurt the brood any.

The quickest is a full cutout. The slowest is just add boxes and wait for them to move up. They will all succeed eventually. smile.gif

[R.L. Bee]

Thanks everyone! iddee I live near Robbins.My grandpa was from Randlemen.

[iddee]

R.L. The Randolph county bkpers meet every tuesday night at 7. PM me if you want the details. We would like to have you.

Joel, thanks for the compliment. It's also returned. We both enjoyed the trip and the visit.

To all, the door's open. Welcome

[iddee]

Mark, same "tax collectors" on 85 as 95.

Room to turn around??? I can put your 500 hives out without being within 50 ft. of each other.

Best little cafe's east of the MISS. Country ham, eggs, hash browns, gravy & hot biscuits...$4.50.
Match that in NY. smile.gif

[sqkcrk]

WHAT!! NO GRITS? What kinda joint you runnin there?
Is that White Sausage Gravy or Red Eye Gravy on the biscuits?

Scale houses, not Toll houses. Sometimes they give me a hard time. Just wondering.

[iddee]

Yes, there's grits...I never tell a New Yorker about the grits. :eek:

Your choice, white sausage gravy or redeye... Fried balogna or brains & eggs, if you prefer.

Scale houses or toll houses, same difference except the toll houses are cheaper and don't keep lasting records on you.

Both are out to get money for the state, nothing more.

[ March 26, 2006, 02:06 PM: Message edited by: iddee ]

[sqkcrk]

"I never tell a New Yorker about the grits."

But you forget, I'm most recently from NY, but not FROM NY. I know grits. Mostly I like the slow cooked kind, not the instant.

Mom was from Iowa and grew up on a Hog farm. Corn, wheat and later, soy beans, chickens and beef cattle were all grown there.

Granma Mame, Mom's Mom, taught her daughter to make corn meal mush. Mom would put this mash into a ice cube tray without the dividers. Sunday morning, with the pancakes, she'd slice off some Cornmeal and fry it in the frying pan. Umm, um. Good. Especially with a little butter and syrup.

Anybody ever sprinkle sugar on your buttered pancakes, instead of syrup? I'm getting hungry again.

[iddee]

Sprinkled sugar, no...We made 3 to 1 sugar water and added home canned strawberry or blackberry juice. It was the only pancake syrup we ever had.

But it was good enough. I still make it at times.

[R.L. Bee]

So if I'me in no hurry to change over I can just add the mediums to the tops of the deeps and feed the honey in the deeps back to the bees after the brood is gone and the transfer is complete.If I want to go the extra fast way just give iddee the old hives and buy new ones,mabe he'll feed me breakfast.

[iddee]

Do you extract your honey? If so, I would just leave the deeps on the top and continue adding mediums under them until the deeps were fully capped with honey, then extract.

But I still like the extra fast way best. Heck, for that I'll buy you breakfast and lunch.