DOUBLE Stacking NUCS of Bees | Why would I do that?

We made some splits recently with queen cells and most of the have done well. In this video I show how I double stack them in preparation for upcoming weeks and explain why I do it.

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[Lsmith-lycm]

thank you for your quick response Bruce.

[donbearden]

Bruce, I did the same thing with 5 frame boxes on Tuesday. Definitely an easy way to make splits. On those deep frames of honey in the brood boxes about the middle of May I rob a few of them where I’ve put new frames and haven’t treated for mites yet. That is just to get some fresh honey for immediate family and a couple of friends. You channel has really grown this spring and I think you are getting better and better with your videos. I wish that you were located closer. Thanks for the video.

[LarryLeesBees]

Nice looking hives Bruce. Enjoy your content. Thanks for sharing.

[Tyler-B-ie]

I just started using nucs for honey production and splits. Very underrated system.

[mattsara]

It looks like you will have honey 🍯 bees are looking good

[noahriding]

I like to do those kinds of lids also with a tiny space there, so I can put in patties and sugar when its dearth.

Thanks very much for this.

[jamesnovinger]

North of you in Randolph County. Our privet is not blooming yet but Blackberry is going wild. Had a hive draw out a deep foundation and half filled out with honey in about two weeks.

[dadu]

I double stack my nucs too Bruce. I love doing that. Thanks for sharing longsnapper. Roll Tide!

[massachusettsprepper]

Yes sir my friend, you will have to keep boxes on those bees to stay ahead of them for sure. And I don't think I'm going to get any honey every year as well LOL. But the girls always seem to pull through. Thanks for sharing.

[brianboe]

I had a nuc last year that went 4 high ...survived a Montana winter and is now a double deep.

[Matt-dclp]

I've had decent luck overwintering 5 frame nucs triple stacked in the great white north. Multi-stacked nucs are comb drawing machines!

[matthewmccormick]

Hello my friend. Next Saturday busy day, Splits in the morning checking to see how many of the 28 came back mated and install them in 10 frames from the 6 framers. Put the original hives of mine in the 24 Horizontals and that evening drop cells on the 26 splits we will make. The Horizonatal i over winter exploded. Pulled a couple honey frames and put in frames for them to draw as it had almost all 30 frames full with brood and honey. They are looking good my friend. Your Girls are rocking the flow. The one Nuke i looked at today of the 28 came back mated and is Black just like the Queen from mother hive. I cant wait till saturday. Take care. Note as for me feeling better. still have some pain but a sting here and there helps that

[russellkoopman]

Looks like honey supers very soon or they will be in the trees. It is amazing what bees will do when you are in a sustained flow. Thanks for the video Bruce. Hope you had a good weekend.

[cluelessbeekeeping]

Heck...I've had some nucs 5 boxes high!

[mathgasm]

I was thinking using nucs to put my swarms in and then stacking extra boxes for them to work and draw out comb for other hives.

[rickhermann]

NC is starting to get a flow. 2 hives (I only have 2) have capped honey in their brood area. my girls are reluctant to build comb

[hootervillehoneybees]

Bees are jamming now. Easy to get behind really fast strong flow hits. We should have strong dandelion flow this week. Cold front passing finally

[larryschoenberger]

Looking good Bruce oh, we just got some 80 degree weather here and the bees are on fire LOL I have seen some checking out a couple of my swarm traps. I tried to use some butyric acid to remove a colony yesterday in a tree. I did not get the Queen but I did scalp a bunch of bees. My friend is going to give me a couple frames of brood and try to make a queen. I moved my ladder to another tree today and vacuumed up a few more bees. First time I have use it and it works awesome. So we are going to take them a distance and try to combine from three different hives. Hopefully it will all work out

[arlopowell]

Can you make a video on how you make those nucs? Good luck this year!

[HaselorHoney]

Great video as usual Bruce, keep up the good work :-D