hi folks. i think i need some custom advice on this. i have 14 hives, 11 full hives and 3 nucs.
past year i de-queened 3 very agressive hives. requeening was to make more gentle offspring. i waited 24 hours and after exposing the candy, installed the NWC queens. only 1 of 3 took. The successful one initially was balled by the colony, and i could see them inserting their stingers, could smell the alarms smells. this is the one that would eventually be accepted and do fine. The other two - one was agressive, the other ignored her. Neither of the second two took.
fast forward to today - i am still stuck with 2 hot hives. what did i do wrong? we recently had a financial setback we did not expect, so i feel like i need to be more careful with these queens if i am going to try again. thanks.
past year i de-queened 3 very agressive hives. requeening was to make more gentle offspring. i waited 24 hours and after exposing the candy, installed the NWC queens. only 1 of 3 took. The successful one initially was balled by the colony, and i could see them inserting their stingers, could smell the alarms smells. this is the one that would eventually be accepted and do fine. The other two - one was agressive, the other ignored her. Neither of the second two took.
fast forward to today - i am still stuck with 2 hot hives. what did i do wrong? we recently had a financial setback we did not expect, so i feel like i need to be more careful with these queens if i am going to try again. thanks.