Abelo queen excluder

[Ammerbee]

I'm in my first year of beekeeping and starting to think about swarm prevention - I have a couple of Abelo poly hives (one empty ready for spring) - but the hives didn't come with queen excluders - I have a feeling I'm might need one if I'm going to add a supa - any advice please?

 

[wightbees]

What bees have you (strain) as you might need double brood. How many supers have you?

 

[Ammerbee]

my hive is in west Essex so I suppose the ordinary apis mellifera - they were passed on to me by my association - I just have the one hive populated at the moment - no supers as yet - I just watched a video where the guy simply put four brood frames in a new hive (with some capped queen cells) with empty frames - but that looked way too easy

 

[Erichalfbee]

I just watched a video where the guy simply put four brood frames in a new hive (with some capped queen cells) with empty frames - but that looked way too easy

A walk away split.
It works
In the summer I like to make a nuc up with a frame of food, a frame of emerging brood and the rest empty drawn frames but I put in a mated queen rather than a queen cell.
As for excluders....just buy some framed wire ones

 

[Finman]

I just watched a video where the guy simply put four brood frames in a new hive (with some capped queen cells) with empty frames - but that looked way too easy

If they are swarm cells, you get the best swarmers in the world from those nucs.

I do partly same way. I take first generation larvae from newly bought queen. Then I change the the larvae of swarming cells. So theh are selected queens then.

But if you do not have where from to select , it is not breeding. Best choice is then to buy a laying queen.