---- "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
This year I put my excluders
> aside and gave each colony a 3 deep nest with 4-5 medium supers. The result was an
> average yield of 225 lbs of honey per hive. I had never had this with excluders and 2
> deep nests. Not even close - I'd be lucky to get over a 100 lb of honey.
Is it possible that the thing that made the difference was the three deep broodnests and not the excluders? A big ol broodnest like that, if properly expanded could make for loads of bees, and lods of bees means more honey.
I guess I would be more convinced if you compared three deep BN with excluders to 3 deep BN without, or two deep broodnests with excluders vs two deep broodnests without excluders.
Otherwise how do you tell the apples from the oranges?
Me, I have not noticed a difference with or without excluders, if one uses drawn comb.
Keith
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