Third year beekeeper with three strong hives in three different locations with plenty of irrigated gardens. All three queens are laying well and bees are bringing pollen. Drones present in all three yards. I want to add hives. Don't know if this is technically a walk away hive procedure but wanted to run this by everyone to see if I am on the right track.
1. Take frame with queen and bees on it and put in nuc (open or closed?) along with sealed brood/unsealed brood. Add food stores (maybe syrup?). Move this nuc to another yard where another strong hive resides.
2. Follow this procedure at other two yards so all three queens are taken away from mother hive.
3. Queenless hives would have plenty of bees, stores, egg to make a new queens along with drones in other hives to mate with.
This way I would end up with nuc hives containing strong queens to build up those hives.
The three established hives would be strong with bees, brood, and egg to start over.
Anything wrong with my plan?
Anything I am missing?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Soapy
1. Take frame with queen and bees on it and put in nuc (open or closed?) along with sealed brood/unsealed brood. Add food stores (maybe syrup?). Move this nuc to another yard where another strong hive resides.
2. Follow this procedure at other two yards so all three queens are taken away from mother hive.
3. Queenless hives would have plenty of bees, stores, egg to make a new queens along with drones in other hives to mate with.
This way I would end up with nuc hives containing strong queens to build up those hives.
The three established hives would be strong with bees, brood, and egg to start over.
Anything wrong with my plan?
Anything I am missing?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Soapy