HIVE SIZES explained - brood and hive supers - beekeeping 101

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HIVE SIZES explained - brood and hive supers - beekeeping 101
visit us on: www.mahakobees.com/blog/index.php.
Our new video is out for this week! We thought we would discuss the hive body sizes, which every beekeeper must consider sooner rather than later. The hive must be practical not only for the bees, but also for the beekeeper, so the size of your brood box or your honey supers will be essential.
We recommend to every new beekeeper or anyone looking into starting their first hive or two, to first seek assistance by reading beekeeping books (we have an extensive beekeeping library on our website www.mahakobees.com/store.html), and most importantly, to join their local beekeeping association, bee club or just seek a group of like minded people that have had experience and can share their experience with you in your geographical location. They will in most cases be happy to assist and guide you in the right direction. To get started in beekeeping though, you will need the basics: beehive, bee suit, beekeeping tools, bee smoker, and either a package or a nuc with bees and a new fertilized queen bee.
Your first bee hive will most likely be a small nucleus hive with 5 frames, with three to six thousand bees, colonized on 4 or 5 full depth frames. Brood boxes (the bottom box where the queen lays her brood) will in most cases be a full depth hive box. You may need one or two of these depending on your location. Then you may choose to use a queen excluder with honey supers above your brood hive boxes. These will depend on the size you are willing to carry. A honey filled full depth honey frame can weigh up to 3 kg (6lb), with 10 or 8 frames in the box. The frames plus the box itself can weigh up to 40kg (90lb). SO it gets HEAVY! You have been warned! But it is the most efficient ways to get excellent honey production if that is what you are trying to achieve. You can then use an IDEAL honey super, or the HALF honey super. What ever you do, find out which one suits you the most, and stick with that size. Standardization makes every beekeepers life much easier. The hive is much easier to manage as the bees expand, swarm, and shrink in numbers for winter.
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@Misssssysparkles 8 лет назад

thats wat i was thinking a couple of half supers cause i am impatient i have a fullsuper that i am using for the brood box

@TassieEV 6 лет назад

You are using 10 frame brood & supers, the ones I've been using are all 8 frame. Have never seen a half, only ideal and brood and lifting a full brood size box of honey would be really heavy, prefer ideal 8 frame for honey less weight about 10kg per box when full from what I've been told by another beekeeper.

@tdawg6348 4 года назад

TassieEV1 it can't be 10kg when full of honey though because a full depth 10 frame super ways 30-60kgs

@jljjoubert3611 3 года назад

Goodday sir. The Full deep super, what will the measurements of the wax sheet be in mm² I thank you,Cobus🐬

@sailingsolar 7 лет назад

I started watching the video. Next thing I know knew I woke up. My computer was shut down and 2 hours had passed.

@nitvid 9 лет назад

what is the difference between a brood box and honey box? which one should I use so the bees make honey instead of the queen pumping out eggs?

@MahakoBees 9 лет назад

nitvid Hi. THe full deep brood box at the bottom will be where the queen will lay her eggs in most circumstances. Not always though. She will also lay her eggs in a circular shape (imagine placing a large pool inflatable ball inside the hive and that is a typical shape of the brood the queen will create). So easily, the queen will lay up into the 2nd box directly above the bottom brood box. Some beekeepers place a full deep as the primary brood box, and then in summer, to strengthen the hive, they will add a second one, or a half to make the bee colony strong. Above those two boxes, it will mostly be honey. If you want the queen bee to not lay in the upper brood boxes, you can consider using a queen excluder, which is a steel or plastic wire grid that is just the right size for the worker bees to squeeze through, but not the queen bee. So the queen bee remains in the lower brood box, and your honey supers free of any eggs or bee larvae. There is much debate around the use of queen excluders though in the beekeeping circles. Some issues point out the reduced honey production as bees are slowed down as they have to travel through the wire mesh, the bee colony may also be limited by limiting the queens laying patterns, and so on. Hope this helps. Enjoy your beekeeping!

@guardiandogoargentinos1385 4 года назад

@@MahakoBees i have been searching for the knowledge of what size hole to drill that is big enough for worker bees to get through but too small for the queen to get through. Please help me figure this out.

@1lifeonearth Год назад

@@guardiandogoargentinos1385 its not just 1 hole or a few holes, it's like a thousand holes. imagine a sifter you use to drain spaghetti, it's like that

@technicaltrack5061 3 года назад

What is the width?

@downunderfulla6001 4 года назад

The 1/2 is a misconception as it’s 1/3 of a deep. Ideal is 1/2 of a deep.

@daphneblake7889 8 лет назад

how much weight are we talking about? can you estimate?

@MahakoBees 8 лет назад

+Daphne Blake Hi Daphne, it is very difficult to compare, as the weight varies greatly based on material used.Plastic vs timber hives, soft vs hard wood, and the frames you decide to use all contribute to the overall weight. For some indication, check out these videos: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TTU2VNcv3wI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f1WrHtghmJ8.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-00TydRGmm6U.html Happy beekeeping! www.mahakobees.com/store.html

@MahakoBees 10 лет назад

HIVE SIZES explained - #brood and hive supers - #beekeeping 101 visit us on: www.mahakobees.com/blog/index.php. Our new video is out for this week! We thought we would discuss the hive body sizes, which every #beekeeper must consider sooner rather than later. The hive must be practical not only for the bees, but also for the beekeeper, so the size of your brood box or your honey supers will be essential. We recommend to every new beekeeper or anyone looking into starting their first hive or two, to first seek assistance by reading beekeeping books (we have an extensive beekeeping library on our website www.mahakobees.com/store.html), and most importantly, to join their local #beekeeping association, bee club or just seek a group of like minded people that have had experience and can share their experience with you in your geographical location. They will in most cases be happy to assist and guide you in the right direction. To get started in beekeeping though, you will need the basics: beehive, bee suit, beekeeping tools, bee smoker, and either a package or a nuc with bees and a new fertilized #queen bee. Your first bee hive will most likely be a small nucleus hive with 5 frames, with three to six thousand bees, colonized on 4 or 5 full depth frames. Brood boxes (the bottom box where the queen lays her brood) will in most cases be a full depth #hive box. You may need one or two of these depending on your location. Then you may choose to use a queen excluder with honey supers above your brood hive boxes. These will depend on the size you are willing to carry. A honey filled full depth honey frame can weigh up to 3 kg (6lb), with 10 or 8 frames in the box. The frames plus the box itself can weigh up to 40kg (90lb). SO it gets HEAVY! You have been warned! But it is the most efficient ways to get excellent honey production if that is what you are trying to achieve. You can then use an IDEAL honey super, or the HALF honey super. What ever you do, find out which one suits you the most, and stick with that size. Standardization makes every beekeepers life much easier. The hive is much easier to manage as the #bees expand, swarm, and shrink in numbers for winter. We hope the video provides helpful information and we invite you to subscribe for weekly video updates. We try to be different to other generic beekeeping channels and present interesting videos in a new light. So click the thumbs up and join us! Have a great week everyone! MahakoBees •Website: www.mahakobees.com •Blog: mahakobees.blogspot.com.au/ •Blog kids: beekeepingwithkids.blogspot.com.au/ •RU-vid: ru-vid.com •Google+: plus.google.com/+MahakoBees •Facebook: facebook.com/mahakobees.mahakobees •Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/mahakobees/ •Twitter: twitter.com/mahakobees •Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/125372235@N04/ •Stumbleupon: www.pinterest.com/mahakobees/ •Reddit: www.reddit.com/user/MahakoBees/ •Tumblr site: mahakobees.tumblr.com/ •Tumblr blog: www.tumblr.com/blog/mahakobees Music composed, performed and provided by Groovey - Adam Kubát a Pavel Křivák. You can visit their website on: www.groovey.cz/