Before I had purchased my hives I was strongly leaning toward Langstroth - simply because the numbers worked - ie how much a queen can lay vs how many cells per type (National, Langstroth etc.). I get the strong feeling that if every beekeeper started again from scratch and could set a new standard, Langstroth would probably be it here in the UK. I can't imagine Nationals would be the mainstream thing. That is strictly from my newbie point of view.
Then I thought about 14x12 - which will be easier for me to move to if I need to.
I'm in a position where, if I have a really good queen, I'll be on probably double brood - that's double the amount of frames to look at each inspection and seems time consuming to me.
But getting back to what you're saying Adam, ignoring that National is the UK standard, would you not feel more comfortable with a Langstroth setup in terms of queen laying space and stores space?
And finally, what I did today was check on syrup levels that were topped up (2 litres each hive) only 20-21 hours prior and found the two poly nationals were near dry and the nuc took a good dent out of theirs too.
I noticed a few days ago the cone on my feeder won't click into place. That's annoying, but is even worse when I don't put the feeder lid on properly!
Then I thought about 14x12 - which will be easier for me to move to if I need to.
I'm in a position where, if I have a really good queen, I'll be on probably double brood - that's double the amount of frames to look at each inspection and seems time consuming to me.
But getting back to what you're saying Adam, ignoring that National is the UK standard, would you not feel more comfortable with a Langstroth setup in terms of queen laying space and stores space?
And finally, what I did today was check on syrup levels that were topped up (2 litres each hive) only 20-21 hours prior and found the two poly nationals were near dry and the nuc took a good dent out of theirs too.
I noticed a few days ago the cone on my feeder won't click into place. That's annoying, but is even worse when I don't put the feeder lid on properly!
Jazz