Queen Extractor Info

If you mean queen excluder? This would trap the queen under the honey stores you have on top. The bees would not leave her thus you would lose the hive if they needed that honey store. In the winter give them no extra (empty) space, as much honey as you can. Letting your queen roam is not any issue at all.

Will the queen not lay eggs in the super and then when do I take off and put on the excluder?

I don't use queen excluders. I do check frames for brood before extracting honey but the queen mostly stays where she should and some people call queen excluders honey excluders because bees don't like to go thru them to fill the top box.
They usually do eventually. Not worth trouble for me

If you do not have a top vent the atmosphere in the upper box is not suitable for brood, so the queen will not usually lay in the upper box.

Rick_Bee said:

If you do not have a top vent the atmosphere in the upper box is not suitable for brood, so the queen will not usually lay in the upper box.

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That explains why my queens don't lay in the top - I don't have top vents

I just learned something new about not having top vents. I like it.

I had Queen Excluders on some of my hives and wondered why I was never getting any filled out frames in the upper boxes. It was slow going until one of my mentors told me that he doesn't use the QE so I went around and pulled all mine. Walla! In just a matter of days, the bees had the frames covered and working on them.