I've got a couple of these nucs and bees seem to do well in them. As the weather was good last autumn (good weather is something I vaguely recall from the dim and distant past), the two colonies that I had planned to over-winter in them were moved to bigger hives as they had done so well. I've just moved one colony on from a Paynes nuc - it had expanded really very well with brood on all 6 frames; just one side of one frame didn't have any brood as it was full of stores. I KNOW this lot will swarm quite early next spring as I know the queen's mother!
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