If the following is indeed correct..... why do beekeepers choose to use more than 1 brood box?
1500 eggs X 21 days to emergence = 31,500 cells full of brood for a good queen laying full out every day.
31,500 divided by 6,500 usable cells per frame = 4.85 maximum possible full frames of brood per normal single queen hive
Is it to combat backfilling of the brood nest?
If a average queen will only have up to 5 frames of brood at any given time, that leaves 5 additional frames in the brood box to hold pollen and nectar for the brood.
I know some start the year with 2 boxes then knock them down to 1 box just before the flow.
For those who use this technique, what do your comparisons look like doing this to just running one brood box straight through the year?
1500 eggs X 21 days to emergence = 31,500 cells full of brood for a good queen laying full out every day.
31,500 divided by 6,500 usable cells per frame = 4.85 maximum possible full frames of brood per normal single queen hive
Is it to combat backfilling of the brood nest?
If a average queen will only have up to 5 frames of brood at any given time, that leaves 5 additional frames in the brood box to hold pollen and nectar for the brood.
I know some start the year with 2 boxes then knock them down to 1 box just before the flow.
For those who use this technique, what do your comparisons look like doing this to just running one brood box straight through the year?