Hi Eric

> I saw in the archives mention of Brother Adam overwintering queens.
> Could anyone tell me about Brother Adam's methods?

Bro. Adam used special boxes that contained 4 nucs. Each nuc was five half
width dadant sized frames.

The nucs kept each other warm.

The method involves requeening full sized stocks in early spring, the queens
from these are placed back in the nucs to maintain egg laying and brood
production. (Any notable ones are then available for grafting.)

It works well, I used an identical method, (copied from him) but using nucs
that contained half width BS frames.
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/halfwframe.html

I stopped using the method about twenty years ago, in favour of
overwintering in 5 frame nucs set in pairs. My reason for the change was
that I wanted to get a better idea of brood laying capacity of the new
queens in their first spring.


Regards & Best 73s... Dave Cushman G8MZY
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman or  http://www.dave-cushman.net
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