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Today was a good day to raise brood above an excluder. Temperatures were up in the low 80s and nectar was coming in.
I went through a yard of 12 pallets of hives, 4 to a pallet. Most of the hives are a deep and a medium. I went through each hive and pulled three or four frames of brood, leaving two or three behind, replacing the removed frames w/ drawn comb. I put the frames of brood in a deep box, placed an excluder on the hive, put the box w/ brood on the excluder, and put the lid on.
Tomorrow morning I will pull the boxes of brood, taking them away to another yard on 4 way pallets, and install a queen cell in each of the 25 new hives.
All this to help replace the loss.
I went through a yard of 12 pallets of hives, 4 to a pallet. Most of the hives are a deep and a medium. I went through each hive and pulled three or four frames of brood, leaving two or three behind, replacing the removed frames w/ drawn comb. I put the frames of brood in a deep box, placed an excluder on the hive, put the box w/ brood on the excluder, and put the lid on.
Tomorrow morning I will pull the boxes of brood, taking them away to another yard on 4 way pallets, and install a queen cell in each of the 25 new hives.
All this to help replace the loss.