Can You Harvest Honey from a Layens Hive with no Queen Excluder?

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  @patriciadouglass9972 · 1 year ago

  Your bees are so calm.  Amazingly calm.

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  @mosnart1085 · 1 year ago

  I never used a queen excluder in any of my hives and I never had an issue

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  @robertshorthill6836 · 2 years ago

  Those Layens frames are magnificent in their brood/ storage capacity.  I built several that size to catch a swarm or two one spring, but no swarms were to be had, so I sold 35 frames to another beek who was glad to get them.  I had to move so I didn't have any use for my hive body either.  Gave it to same fellow for a gallon of honey.

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  @erikhawkes2169 · 1 year ago

  This issue was my biggest concern about using Layens. It looks like your hive has many of the adaptations i built into my Langstroth hives. Now im all on board with the Layens. Thanks for the video. Excellent work.

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  @vickiswan9735 · 1 year ago

  I don&apos;t use a queen excluder on any of my 14 colonies, most of which are in 2-colony Supers-to-the-Side horizontal hives. Rather, I&apos;ve found - as you pointed out - the queens stay on the brood side of their colony&apos;s &apos;honey bridge&apos; (the first full frame of honey made). It&apos;s also typical for all of my first frames to contain mostly resources, while frames 2-5 are mixed brood and resources, and the rest (the farthest from the entrance) all honey - also as you pointed out. <br><br>If you haven&apos;t seen one yet, Supers-to-the-Side hives use big, beautiful 19&quot; wide x 16&quot; deep brood frames and standard deep &amp; medium Langstroth frames for honey harvesting. Designed by a NC veterinarian for beeks who want to go horizontal after investing in lots of Langstroth equipment, they give bees bigger brood frames than long Langs and topbar hives. The hives are also insulated against heat &amp; cold extremes, and they have some cool perks for beekeepers (like see-through inner covers). Two recent YT vids came out about them, and they can be found by searching for &apos;Supers to the side horizontal hive.&apos; Video 1 describes the hive and it includes 20 months of data from real world experience, and video 2 includes plans for building one. I&apos;m going to build two or three more in January...

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  @BeeDaddyThinker · 10 months ago

  Thanks for the video, an old one but still informative.

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  @sammyspade123 · 1 year ago

  Good followup to that basic compare and contrast video on the two types. Great video!

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  @maxliptack5404 · 1 year ago

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  @wendygrant2735 · 2 years ago

  Very well explained again. Thank you Sir.

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  @DaleBienusa · 1 year ago

  Great video. Very informative!

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  @LindyPierce · 2 years ago

  Thank you for this informative video. I am new to this and think of myself as a “bee host” rather than keeper as I the bees continue to reinforce that they know what they are doing and need very little from me! &nbsp;I am using two insulated Layens hives here in SW Missouri and on last inspection I suspect I will be harvesting some honey next month. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and experience!

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  @lambbrookfarm4528 · 2 years ago

  Great subject that many seem misinformed in. Still relatively new... 5th yr. Here in central New Hampshire, I found colonies wintered well on 8 Layens frames, 1-2 frames of resources on the ends and 4- 6 frames of brood nest, although I have successfully wintered over several small colonies in 6 frame boxes with 5 frames of bees and a frame feeder. Some colonies expanded beyond the # 10 frame but I suspect that it was because the frames were not completely laid to the bottom. Frames located farther that that from the entrance almost never have brood in them. Thanks Montie, take care, Brice