The race of bees is Apis melifera carpatica.
I cannot do crush and strain and I don't know how capped brood behaves into an extractor (in case I can find one to borrow).
We're talking about backfilling(open nectar) the brood nest because of my lack of resources and knowledge.
I had made some nucs with the old queens('12) and left most of the hives queenless. At the same time I started a batch of cells from my breeder queen. I destroyed almost all of their cells and will further break them apart and give nucs my cells Wednesday... leave only 2 hives for later production of queen cells.
So far I gave them foundation /less by breaking the sides of the brood nest and have some drawn frames, but not enough.
How does my plan sounds:
Code:
1 nuc = 1 backfilled brood frame(~3 kg open nectar) + 1 foundation (the weather is warm enough)
or
1 nuc = 1 backfilled brood frame + 1 foundation /less + 1 open nectar
or
1 nuc = 1 backfilled brood frame + 1 foundation /less + 1 backfilled brood frame + 1 open nectar
Too much nectar for one nuc? Is this an advantage or not? Should I extract? If I don't extract I don't need to feed and thus no robbing... no fuss, no muss as FatBeeMan says.
This is like swing across a large river for the first time - you don't know what to expect.