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Hi There,
My question is about introducing a deep super. I was taught by a beekeeper to use medium supers rather than deeps (not the traditional way of beekeeping). Now, I would like to start to introduce deeper supers for the brood chamber. Over the winter, I had 2 full mediums supers with a pretty strong colony. It was my first beekeeping season, took no honey but have some left over from a lost colony.
My question is should I add a 3rd box to the bottom of my hive (1 deep with only empty frames, or mix with some medium honey frames and empty)?
OR
Since my packaged bees didn't arrive this year due to Covid 19, I should place my saved drawn comb in check boarding style on top of the two mediums.
My bees are alive and the look like they are bringing in pollen. They do look like they are clustering closer to the sides of the boxes. I saw some splatter of what looks like dysentery on the inner cover but I can't inspect properly yet because it's still too cold here. I have opened the boxes and taken a peak and I have feed 1:1 sugar water using a top feeder and then added pollen substitute patties but it doesn't look like they are taking as of yet. I'm not sure if I should add a new deep or just add the extra drawn code at some point this week. I'm in Quebec and temperature is still cold. This is my first spring beekeeping and want my bees to be survive. I was hoping to split my hives later on this spring.
Any suggestions on what I should do?
My question is about introducing a deep super. I was taught by a beekeeper to use medium supers rather than deeps (not the traditional way of beekeeping). Now, I would like to start to introduce deeper supers for the brood chamber. Over the winter, I had 2 full mediums supers with a pretty strong colony. It was my first beekeeping season, took no honey but have some left over from a lost colony.
My question is should I add a 3rd box to the bottom of my hive (1 deep with only empty frames, or mix with some medium honey frames and empty)?
OR
Since my packaged bees didn't arrive this year due to Covid 19, I should place my saved drawn comb in check boarding style on top of the two mediums.
My bees are alive and the look like they are bringing in pollen. They do look like they are clustering closer to the sides of the boxes. I saw some splatter of what looks like dysentery on the inner cover but I can't inspect properly yet because it's still too cold here. I have opened the boxes and taken a peak and I have feed 1:1 sugar water using a top feeder and then added pollen substitute patties but it doesn't look like they are taking as of yet. I'm not sure if I should add a new deep or just add the extra drawn code at some point this week. I'm in Quebec and temperature is still cold. This is my first spring beekeeping and want my bees to be survive. I was hoping to split my hives later on this spring.
Any suggestions on what I should do?