Has anyone experimented with using a double stacked nuc and cut comb frames above a queen excluder ? Or possibly a side by side double stacked nucs with QE and divided cut comb super ? ......or have I had too much coffee while waiting for this snow to go away ....Thanks Rick
From what I understand, you can super the double (Palmer Style) Nucs over a queen excluder and both sides will work it. I have not tried but I'm sure someone that has will chime in with the results.
No, I don't. Management shouldn't be difficult, but probably a bit more time needed with each compared to single production colonies. My brood factories make a 4 frame box or two of honey by the end of the season that we do extract. Couldn't imaging running them as two queen colonies for honey production. Think lifting off the supers every time I wanted to harvest brood. My regular nucs are just building up on the flow, and I wouldn't bother trying to make honey with them.
Besides brood factories, how do you utilize these during the season? I have thought about using them as housing for breeder queens as well as brood factories. Any thoughts on keeping them set-up to house breeder queens for grafting?
I use a different setup for housing my breeder queens. Queen is confined to 3 combs in a 10 frame box by a vertical excluder. By rotating combs out of her chamber, replaced with a grafting comb 5 days before graft, I have plenty of grantable larvae when I graft.
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