I didn't get to split my hives in time this year because we had so much rain that I didn't want to split and then have the new queen hatching during the week-long rain-a-thon. But it looks like that is what happened anyway. I think both hives swarmed. One hive looks like they have little to no capped brood and no eggs and a few queen cells. I saw a queen so I don't know if they will rebound or not. They were honey bound so I gave them some empty frames. The other one was in the same condition but had more capped brood.
My first instinct when I saw the first hive was to take some eggs from the second for them to make a new queen if they needed one. But then the second had no eggs either. I'm going to order queens, but I would prefer to get a few frames of eggs.
Is anyone selling a nuc? And shipping it? I live in the very north of Missouri (Unionville) and can drive up to 3 hours for them too.
Thanks!