not a great queen purchase then!
Now, at page three you are telling us these were bought in laying queens?
Omitting useful information, if this was the case (ie if I am right), is akin to computer results. Rubbish in, rubbish out.
We appear to have moved on from two apparently thriving colonies, which were guessed as newly mated queens, to page two where all the analysis was pro a re-queen job, and now we find, on page three, this was a new queen purchase? And nearly another week gone by.
Please, please, tell us the whole story at the beginning - and the problem could be sorted in a much shorter time-scale.
RAB