This is the 1st year making up overwintering nucs. I'm using the 4 over 4 MP nuc boxes. I have 4 setup as brood factories that have a third four frame deep on top. The problem is the bees are filling comb I put back for queen laying with honey after I put frames back in after removing brood frames for making up the nucs. I'm going to start extracting honey from combs and pull capped honey frames and hold them for overwintering and put foundation in place of the capped frames. The process has been slowed greatly as I had planned on overwintering 16 nucs and I'm about halfway there.
Any thoughts on managing this?
Any thoughts on managing this?