I split my smallest hive into 4 nucs to which I added queen cells this spring. I have since robbed quite a few frames of bees to supplement other splits from the original queen/hive who is still in a now 5 over 5 over 5 nuc. I just added the top deep 5 frame box this week and I put 5 of the green plastic drone frames in it. Once they get them drawn out, I am going to remove them and split the remaining 10 frames into 4 more nucs.
I want to try fall queen making and am going to try and get queens to lay drones late this summer in the green frames.
I want to try fall queen making and am going to try and get queens to lay drones late this summer in the green frames.