Natural Beekeeping International Forum

[mumiyoo]

Hi, I have a few colonies in conventional 10 frame hives and want them to place them upon Warré-boxes, so they can build downwards.
When is the best periode to let them start to do this.
wat do i have to keep in mind ?
I worry a little to start to early javascript:emoticon('')

[zaunreiter]

You better make swarms (artificial shook swarms or natural swarms) and install those into your Warré. That will be more successful than "growing" them downwards. They stay in their original broodnest and swarm anyway, before growing into another hive type. The better results you get by installing swarms.

[rmcpb]

Here we have to have our Waree comb moveable so side frames are attached to the topbar so when I was asked to help a couple of friends I simply screwed the Waree frames into my lang frames. The bees built them into brood frames as I had used them to expand my brood nest in spring. Also put some in a honey super and got lots of drone brood that they finally used to store honey. It was then a simple matter of taking out the screws and putting the frames in the Waree hive with some house bees and a queen.

Cheers
Rob.