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Title: drone brood on a few of my honey supers frames. how can i extract the honey
Post by: adamant on June 24, 2013, 06:41:41 am
I have about a inch of drone brood on a few of my honey supers frames. how can i extract the honey with the drone brood there? I was thinking about to scratch the drone brood and place them back in to let the bees clean them out before I extract.
Title: Re: drone brood on a few of my honey supers frames. how can i extract the honey
Post by: 10framer on June 24, 2013, 10:03:37 am
let the honey settle and the brood will rise to the top.  it happens all the time.
Title: Re: drone brood on a few of my honey supers frames. how can i extract the honey
Post by: Michael Bush on June 24, 2013, 11:41:09 am
If it's only a little bit an uncapping fork works well to just pull them out.  If it's a lot I just put them back on the hives.
Title: Re: drone brood on a few of my honey supers frames. how can i extract the honey
Post by: Nyleve on June 24, 2013, 12:05:23 pm
I had something like that last year. Just didn't uncap the brood cells when we put the frames in the extractor. They stayed intact while the honey came out. It's creepy, though. But it works.
Title: Re: drone brood on a few of my honey supers frames. how can i extract the honey
Post by: Better.to.Bee.than.not on June 26, 2013, 06:46:47 pm
Quote from: Nyleve on June 24, 2013, 12:05:23 pm
I had something like that last year. Just didn't uncap the brood cells when we put the frames in the extractor. They stayed intact while the honey came out. It's creepy, though. But it works.

And when they come out of their cells they act all wobbly and crazy drunk for hours.... it is fun for the whole family, really. ;)
Title: Re: drone brood on a few of my honey supers frames. how can i extract the honey
Post by: Nyleve on June 26, 2013, 07:11:42 pm
We just let them sleep it off.