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Offline barry42001

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the tale of two hives part 2
« on: March 08, 2014, 07:15:13 pm »
took a detailed look inside of the two new hives,  what a difference, and is exactly the reason you need to hives instead of one. hive number one, is not drawing any of the foundation out there any meaningful degree. Queen will not cross over foundation to get to comb lay it.  hive number 2, actively drawing out the deep foundations, already sealed brood in them and actively expanding the brood nest area. I have been feeding them up hive 2 is obviously responding much better than the other one.

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Re: the tale of two hives part 2
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2014, 07:30:19 pm »
Quote from: barry42001 on March 08, 2014, 07:15:13 pm
took a detailed look inside of the two new hives,  what a difference, and is exactly the reason you need to hives instead of one. hive number one, is not drawing any of the foundation out there any meaningful degree. Queen will not cross over foundation to get to comb lay it.  hive number 2, actively drawing out the deep foundations, already sealed brood in them and actively expanding the brood nest area. I have been feeding them up hive 2 is obviously responding much better than the other one.

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Re: the tale of two hives part 2
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2014, 12:54:14 pm »
How are the bee populations in each of the hives? The brood area and comb building is more dependent of the quantity of bees in the hive and the age of the bees. wax is produced by bees that are 10 to 16 days old.
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Re: the tale of two hives part 2
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2014, 02:10:21 pm »
population for the moment is still rather small would suspect between three and five thousand bees, but there was two frames of sealed brood in each, and all stages of development in the rest of the five frames, it might simply be a matter of the one nuc has more bees of the right age

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