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Do to the poor winter and the losses that I have I am thinking of this plan for about twenty days or so. I have mated queens coming. I have some four frame nuc boxes. Pull a frame a frame or two per four frame nuc boxs. Put a queen excluder tween the main hive. With a filler strip on the excluder. After a hour or so put a inner cover in between Nucs and queen excluder add queens two the two nuc boxes after queen is released remove the inner cover. Then work as a three way hive.
My goal is to build up brood and get a better honey crop. Out of marginal hives at this time because of are poor spring. Once the Nucs get strong and hive is strong. Move the nuc to a different yard. Or am I loony.
Thanks for your wisdom
David
My goal is to build up brood and get a better honey crop. Out of marginal hives at this time because of are poor spring. Once the Nucs get strong and hive is strong. Move the nuc to a different yard. Or am I loony.
Thanks for your wisdom
David