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Tendency to swarm
Tendency to swarm is natural reproduction of honey bee. In Australia feral colonies swarm normally twice.
So do unselected stocks in Europe.
Non swarming tendency is anomalia produced by human selection. Instrumental insemination has been succesfull in this work. When beekeeper stops the selection, bee stock returns quickly to normal: 2 swarms per year. It takes only couple of years.
If you continue with swarm queens, they genes are normal and they probably swarm next year.
Only way to get nonswarming bees stock is to buy commercial queens.
Commercial queen has another tendency too, huge laying.
It means that you should use big hives.
When the hive swarms, it's worker age balance is ruined. The swarm gets allmots all foragers. After 4 weeks, when swarm gets new bees, half of foragers are dead. It cannot forage any more.
The brood hive have only nurser bees. It cannot forage for a long time.
NOrmally all brood have emerged before the new queen is at the age of laying. There is a huge gap in new bee production. When new queen starts to lay, all energy of foragers goes to feeding brood. - No honey yield.
To get honey yield the hive must be all the time in good shape. There is continuous flow of brood, new emerging and good balance between brood and foragers.
If for example chalkbrood kills 20% of bees, the hive get no honey surpluss.
If you take off 20% brood to nuc, it means that foraging power works not for a while.
The colony's ability to get surplus is very delicate system.
* A beekeeprs can spoil it easily.
* If colony is weak in sprng, it takes a huge time to get the hive in surplus condition.
* All kinds of early splitting spoils the opportunity to get yield.
If you do not want honey from beehives, it is the same how you nurse them.
It is wast of time to teach such beeholders, because they do not want to learn.
