>But when do you hit the queen laying limit? She can lay a maximum of 1400 eggs per day.
Between 1,000 and 5,000 depending... but what do I care. I just want to give them room. As long as they keep using up that room, I want to give them more. Whether they fill it with brood or honey I still want to give them plenty of room...
> If the deep frames are 2/3 brood, that would be about one frame every three days? So she can lay a maximum of 7 frames in 21 days and then the brood is emerging and more space is opening up. How do hives ever get to 20 frames of brood?
A really good queen lays a lot more than 1,000 eggs a day. 3,000 is much more likely. I'm sure someone has tried to count on more than one occasion, but I'm also sure it varies greatly. More than 4000 wouldn't surprise me but try a google search on:
bees queen "2000 eggs per day"
and you'll get 131,000 hits. If you do the same with:
bees queen "1000 eggs per day"
you get 25,000 hits...
bees queen "3000 eggs per day"
gets 18,000 hits...
bees queen "4000 eggs per day"
gets 39,400,000 hits
bees queen "5000 eggs per day"
gets 36,000,000 hits and quite a few are studies...