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New beekeeper, using what appears to be 20+year old lang equipment. Heavily propolized, hard to get frames in/out.
When doing a split last week, I accidentally smushed three queen cells by simply pulling out frames. I had another, intact queen cell that I used in the split, so that's good, but I would have liked to increase my odds by giving the split more than one queen cell. Any advice/suggestions about how to better handle frames to avoid this destruction in the future?
And along those same lines, is it customary to use 9 frames in a 10 frame deep? That might solve my space issue, but it may create further problems. Thoughts?
Thanks very much
RMH
When doing a split last week, I accidentally smushed three queen cells by simply pulling out frames. I had another, intact queen cell that I used in the split, so that's good, but I would have liked to increase my odds by giving the split more than one queen cell. Any advice/suggestions about how to better handle frames to avoid this destruction in the future?
And along those same lines, is it customary to use 9 frames in a 10 frame deep? That might solve my space issue, but it may create further problems. Thoughts?
Thanks very much
RMH