The Layens Horizontal Hive is growing in popularity. With the Layens hive, the bees are able to build their hives more naturally, which keeps the bees alive, and it creates a lot less work for bee keepers who are harvesting honey.
With the Layens hive, the entire honey harvesting process can be reduced to two visits to the box per year. Due to how closely the Layens hive mimics the environment that bees would naturally live in, the bees build their hive and thrive well without all the extra work and upkeep from bee keepers that other models require.
The Layens Horizontal Hive also allows for wintering. With each purchase, our customers receive a free partition frame: a solid frame that allows keepers to protect their swarm during the winter months. Just slide the frame into the middle of the box allowing 9-10 frames for the bees to stay. The swarm will keep warm and feed off the food they’ve saved in the hive up to that point. Then, at the beginning of the spring, remove the partition, and open up the rest of the frames for a new harvest year!
The Layens hive is making bee keeping much easier for bee keepers, and we are confident that you’ll feel this way as well in no time at all. For other questions, please visit out support page!