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The hive smells wonderful when they collect the nectar.

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Has anyone tried and/or use 1 1/2" frame spacing in the brood chambers?

Are you using Dadant's & Quinby's 1 1/2" spacing?

Are you using Dadant's hive dimensions (width) or Lang?

I would assume the 10 frame Jumbos perform better than the 12 frame?

[QUOTE=odfrank;914684]These are the seven shimmed up Jumbos I made this winter. Redwood siding off a house with white paint turned inside and redwood stain. Ooopps, picture only show five.
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I use Rite-Cell for them to start drawing straight comb, then install foundationless frames between drawn Rite-Cell.;)

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The stand is purpose built for 8 frame and 10 frame hives... Picture of an 8 frame Jumbo brood chamber and nuclei.

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Custom frame; 1.125" wide, .875 thick top bar and .500 thick end and bottom bar.

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Purchased Jumbo frame, thin end bars...

I am trying these fly tying beads for spacing. C.C. Miller, Eugene Killion and Brother Adam used a hob nail for spacing.

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I make my Jumbos from two deeps. Cut one deep to a shallow, glue and screw cut section to the other deep.

eight frame Jumbo brood chambers...

I do not screen my feeders. I pull them if there is going to be a twenty degree difference in day and night time temps.

Another jar feeder set-up....

My Jumbo nucleus hive with division board in center. Lower entrance for one side and top entrance for other side.

Feeder board, can feed both nucleus.
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Look at Jay Smith's nucleus and feeders (page 48), they work very well!!!

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I have great success with Miller style feeders with screen, no problems with bees drowning!!! Also use jar feeders...

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What strain of bee?

And educational. That same hive in the late summer I moved the supers above the brood chamber and installed three empty combs in the middle of the second super. The queen moved up and started laying....

Acebird,

Every high-fecund bright yellow queen bee (heavy laying italian from Georgia) has "always moved up instead of down" if she has a path, no nectar or capped honey to cross. I feared swarms...

Yes, get them started storing above the nest and then move the super under them. The queen will lay wall to wall and to the bottom bar! They will store and cap under the nest.

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Specialkayme,

I feel that Michaels overwintering nucleus would bee advantageous to our climate in the Piedmont-Triad area! My strongest colony in a double ten frame deep hive was on five frames in...

I have tried locating local AMM's for two years and no luck.... Long time friend has started beekeeping at the NC coastal region, maybe another start to a find!?!?

Thanks! I installed the frames back into the hive and the house bees are cleaning the cells out.:thumbsup:

Do you have both top and bottom entrances? What other SHB control do you use?

Through the winter the bottom board (screened) has had only 5 to 10 bees on it through the weeks and cleaned on warm days. Now there are more bees covering the bottom board; they have stores, queen...

Is this the time of year when the winter cluster (bees) start to die off as new brood emerges? I am noticing there are more dead bees on the bottom board in the past several days...

One year old comb with SHB eggs in cells, the combs have been frozen. Will bees clean these eggs from the cells if installed into hive?