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I refer to my earlier post
I like it! its simple keeps the hive as one gives you plenty of options for making increase or not, all you need extra is a brood box. Switching the frames isn’t a bother as you are checking them anyways as part of the inspection
I like it too ... my only issue is that sometimes you get a stray egg layer in the top bb which is/was confusing to newbie like me !
I refer to my earlier post
It may have been your thread I read I was thinking as long as I did a rolling demaree there would always be enough pheromones throughout the hive. I just didn’t anticipate them filling the replaced frames as quick as they did. So hopefully she’s got enough room to lay!
That is always the big problem with Demaree...stick a Snelgrove board (or whatever variation) between and you are rocking....
They cannot fill the frames above...you get same result and your honey where you want it.
Can also be used as vertical pagden etc etc.
Ye it’s my mistake really as she had filled 7 frames so I swapped all 7 when ...
You only learn from "mistakes", when you do something new.
That is always the big problem with Demaree...stick a Snelgrove board (or whatever variation) between and you are rocking....
They cannot fill the frames above...you get same result and your honey where you want it.
Can also be used as vertical pagden etc etc.
supers above once the topp brood box in place - all bees move freely so they'll just use that
Can you just put a snelgrove between the two brood boxes with 2 different queens? will they not attempt a ruck through the gauze or QE?
The Demarree boards I have made are basically just a crown board with a 10mm rim on the top surface as well as the bottom, this has a forward facing entrance and a 3"x2" hole in the middle of the board covered by a queen excluder.
If you are running a snelgrove on a two queen hive following swarm control, do you super between the two brood boxes or run supers above the top brood box as well as the bottom? do bees from the top box move down to bottom fairly freely considering the small queen excluded gap in the board... I've been pondering this.
I don’t have the means to extract them.
What other options are on the table?
Well next thing I suppose is how to empty these brood frames of honey
I don’t have the means to extract them.
What other options are on the table?
If I put the brood box below the current bottom box without an excluder she will move down
into it and I’ll be running double brood but have previously overwintered in brood and a half
but was hoping to end that this season so was probably going for single brood box
At least Demaree will not help you in this situation. The hive will be filled with honey, as you have seen. And you try to move the honey to "another place".
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