Hi all,

Here is a clip of USDA paper from beesource.com:

Extracting Honey from Brood Chambers
The practice of extracting honey from brood chambers, which is used in some areas, will increase the chance of contaminating honey with medicants that have been fed. Under such conditions special caution in use of medicants should be exercised. Well-managed strong colonies with large honey reserves will consume several times as much honey, but they will produce a surplus two to five times greater than small colonies kept on bare subsistence rations. More often, use of brood nests larger than are employed under some systems of management will increase the size of the surplus crop. Thus, it may be false economy to extract honey from the brood chambers to reduce the weight for moving.

Comments( keying in on the part about using larger broodnests)?

Clay