Hello all
I’m super new to beekeeping and I built myself 2 KTBH I’ve had one hive for maybe a month and the 2nd for maybe 2 weeks. They where both Lang nucs and that’s were the fun started! Lol so in both hives I ran the Lang frames the wrong way in my hive with each ear resting on a support bar. I placed empty top bars between the Lang frames so they would get drawn out. After I had 4-5 partially drawn bars I placed a queen excluder on the end of the lang frames with the queen behind it and gave the top bars. It’s working great in my 1st hive and I can probably pull the Lang frames in a few days. The 2nd hive is another story though as some how the queen found a way through the excluder and started laying in the Lang frames again. So I pulled the excluder and put my top bars in the front of the hive and placed the Lang frames behind them upside down on the floor of the hive. I was told the brood would still be cared for and would hatch and the queen would not lay in it because the cells were upside down. I did take a bar of brood from my other hive and placed it 2nd bar back from the front. Any advice is greatly appreciated. And Thanks for the add, Mike
I’m super new to beekeeping and I built myself 2 KTBH I’ve had one hive for maybe a month and the 2nd for maybe 2 weeks. They where both Lang nucs and that’s were the fun started! Lol so in both hives I ran the Lang frames the wrong way in my hive with each ear resting on a support bar. I placed empty top bars between the Lang frames so they would get drawn out. After I had 4-5 partially drawn bars I placed a queen excluder on the end of the lang frames with the queen behind it and gave the top bars. It’s working great in my 1st hive and I can probably pull the Lang frames in a few days. The 2nd hive is another story though as some how the queen found a way through the excluder and started laying in the Lang frames again. So I pulled the excluder and put my top bars in the front of the hive and placed the Lang frames behind them upside down on the floor of the hive. I was told the brood would still be cared for and would hatch and the queen would not lay in it because the cells were upside down. I did take a bar of brood from my other hive and placed it 2nd bar back from the front. Any advice is greatly appreciated. And Thanks for the add, Mike



