To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Once they have started drawing comb, put the queen on her brood frame in the top box and continue to feed for, say, another week; her presence will encourage the bees to do more upstairs. Any timber has been cut, pierced, or drilled without a subsequent application of approved cut-end treatment.

Each component is one piece moulded so there are no weak joints and very minimal assembly needed before you add your bees. Spring nucs will have travel screens on them to keep them cooler in warmer weather when transporting. The cladding on this shed is Pressure Treated (Tanalised) 16mm (planed to to a 12mm finish) specially designed rebated shiplap. Additionally, we offer top-tier F1 Buckfast Queens and F1 Carniolan Queens, reflecting our unwavering commitment to breeding excellence. A tip would be to feed to help them draw out the foundation with a rapid feeder, miller feeder, contact feeder, frame feeder, what ever you like.The shed roof comes as standard with 11mm oriented strand board and is covered in Granite Grey Mineral Slate Ultrapol SBS Polyester Mineral Roofing Felt, and is finished off with matching fascias.

I have tried to force the colony to work upstairs straight away by putting the queen on foundation only above the excluder.

I faced the same dilemma last year and after talking to various members of my local BKA decided on 14 x 12.