Ando
New Bee
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2009
- Messages
- 80
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Leicester, uk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 7
HI Guys
I inspected my hives yesterday and started a Bailey Frame Change last saturday. On inspecting one of the hives I was trying to locate and mark the queen, couldn;t find her and found 2 Queen Cells with royal jelly in and a grub, so came home got my nuc box went back and found the queen, marked her and took the 2 frames with the QC on and one of brood at different stages, one of stores and one part drawn out for with a bit of stores in from the bailey frame change BB.
I have not got another site so on a suggestion of a experienced beek, I have put mesh over the entrance, moved them about 12 feet from the original hive and will leave it like that til tomoz and then let them out.
Do you think this sounds about right, and do you think they might still swarm?
I would like to use the 2 queens, if they both hatch, to requeen 2 hives, how would you go about doing this? I was thinking of taking out some frames from the other hive I'm doing a BFC on and making up 2 nuc's with the old queens and put in the 2 frames with the QC on in the hives for them to look after till they hatch, then trying to replace the old queens in the nucs this year, with new ones and end up with a couple more hives.
Any suggestions will be great.
Cheers
Mark.
I inspected my hives yesterday and started a Bailey Frame Change last saturday. On inspecting one of the hives I was trying to locate and mark the queen, couldn;t find her and found 2 Queen Cells with royal jelly in and a grub, so came home got my nuc box went back and found the queen, marked her and took the 2 frames with the QC on and one of brood at different stages, one of stores and one part drawn out for with a bit of stores in from the bailey frame change BB.
I have not got another site so on a suggestion of a experienced beek, I have put mesh over the entrance, moved them about 12 feet from the original hive and will leave it like that til tomoz and then let them out.
Do you think this sounds about right, and do you think they might still swarm?
I would like to use the 2 queens, if they both hatch, to requeen 2 hives, how would you go about doing this? I was thinking of taking out some frames from the other hive I'm doing a BFC on and making up 2 nuc's with the old queens and put in the 2 frames with the QC on in the hives for them to look after till they hatch, then trying to replace the old queens in the nucs this year, with new ones and end up with a couple more hives.
Any suggestions will be great.
Cheers
Mark.