I just finished making up my wintering nucs. I break up existing colonies into
four frame nucs. Each nuc gets a frame or a frame and a half of brood. These
parent colonies are in three deep brood chambers, and were nucs I overwintered
last year. The queens were raised in July of 2000. Many of them had full "slabs"
of brood, and have had since spring. I don't believe this is a indicator of the
colonies stage, but rather the prolificness of the queen. These queens seem to
maintain this brood nest as long as the conditions are right.
                                                                            Mike

"Practice only on the days that you eat"  Suzuki

What insrument does your child play John?

Lucinda Sewell wrote:

> Hi
> Karen Olands' remark about slabs of brood has me wondering: how often does
> the whole frame seal like that? Once a season? Twice with no swarming? It
> seems to me that with my small (14 X 9 inch approx) broodframes in England I
> only really see this once a year on any given frame:

> " In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities" Suzuki.