How many 8 frame brood bodies before super is added?

[MrGreenThumb]

For those of you using 8 frame. How many deep or medium brood bodies do you stack before adding a super? Also, do you find that the bees work more vertical in the smaller 8 frames...better for comb honey production?

THX

[shawnwri]

I was shooting for 2 or 3 medium boxes of brood. Haven't tore into it in over a month, but the last time I was in, there about 2 1/2 boxes of brood with about the same of honey on top of that., about 3 frames of honey/pollen on the outside of the boxes and 5 frames of brood

[Michael Bush]

Since all my boxes are eight frame mediums, and I don't use an excluder, which ones are the supers?

If it helps, two eight frame mediums equals one ten frame deep.

[Joseph Clemens]

All Langstroth boxes that hold frames of honeycomb are considered "supers", some are used by the bees primarily for brood, others are used by the bees primarily for honey storage. Where these are in the "stack" (hive) can vary depending on the bees and how the beekeeper manages them. I have recently converted the majority of my own hives to the use of all 6-5/8" deep medium depth supers, 8-frames wide (can hold 9 frames if their end bars are 1-1/4" wide rather than 1-3/8" wide). I have been using stacks of 3 and 4 supers for the basic hive and using queen excluder's and additional supers for honey storage during honey-flows.

[Dave W]

>How many deep or medium brood bodies do you stack before adding a super . . .

One of the problems w/ using "brood chambers" and "honey super" that are the same size, is knowing which is which :)

For a first-year hive started from a package, I would fill the first 3 deep-size "chambers" w/ the brood nest before adding "supers" to collect "my" honey.

Per MrBEE's comment, that would be about 6 medium 8-frame "boxes".
(One more reason I use deeps and shallows)