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I have a packed hive of two deeps and a super; all filled with brood and some honey. Can I take the queen, and a few frames of brood from one deep and make a new hive? Will the original colony make a new queen?
I never notchUsing this method to split, do you need to notch (OTS method) the comb to get a better queen, or will emergency queen cells made flat off the face still produce high quality queens?
I better clarify. I don't ever notch but I'm always starting nucs. I'm foundationless mostly and there's always a fresh drawn frame in my brood nest. This is the frame that will have the cells on it.I never notch