Are Our Bees Ready For Winter?

[@calebowenby7118]

What was the justification for 8 frame equipment? Liking the videos. Kinda has like an office farm vibe lol.

[@blitzbee]

Well we take that as a huge complement! We read some reports that 8 frame equipment might be a slightly more efficient size for the bees and may help them overwinter a little better. Also we decided to use all deeps, at least for now as we're growing our operation. So 8 frame supers are at least a little lighter to lug around than a 10 frame deep full of honey. For the foreseeable future we'll be toting our colonies around by hand, loading our little truck by hand, etc. So with no forklift, slightly lighter seems slightly better. We're trying to grow to around 500 colonies this season. With all that said, we do have some 10 frame boxes and like them for building really strong queen rearing colonies.

[@calebowenby7118]

Oh yeah definitely a compliment! Good luck and looking forward to keeping up. Nuc making video was what caught my attention 1st. Have now watch almost all of them.