Post split - number of bees question

[Beagle23]

I carried out a split on Monday and have been rewarded with a newly hatched queen.
Of the bees present in the new NUC, some are engaged in foraging, others in domestic chores. There's a healthy mix of brood, pollen and honey stores. My one concern is the number of bees. I shook in several hundred but of this number all but 100-200 have returned to the original hive.
So the numbers are a bit thin and I'm concerned that the new queen may be in danger if I add more bees.

Thoughts please

 

[dn170221]

Were there any frames with emerging brood in the split?

 

[Erichalfbee]

I carried out a split on Monday and have been rewarded with a newly hatched queen.
Of the bees present in the new NUC, some are engaged in foraging, others in domestic chores. There's a healthy mix of brood, pollen and honey stores. My one concern is the number of bees. I shook in several hundred but of this number all but 100-200 have returned to the original hive.
So the numbers are a bit thin and I'm concerned that the new queen may be in danger if I add more bees.

Thoughts please

Your new nuc should have contained 2 frames of capped and emerging brood as well as a good shake of extra bees. I shake an extra 2 brood frames in or a whole super
You should be ok adding super bees or take out a frame of eggs and larvae wave it about a bit fir any foragers to disappear then drop those in

 

[Beagle23]

Yep, some emerging brood and I think we're OK on the frame balance. It just feels like there aren't enough bees in there and I'm worried about new bees attacking the just hatched queen.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Well then don’t do anything
One frame if brood is three seams of bees when emerged.

 

[Swarm]

Yep, some emerging brood and I think we're OK on the frame balance. It just feels like there aren't enough bees in there and I'm worried about new bees attacking the just hatched queen.

If you feel they could do with more bees, give them a frame of sealed brood from another hive. Shake the bees off and there will be no risk.

 

[Ian123]

If there’s that few bees in the nuc giving them another frame of anything other than emerging brood and by that I mean you want to see them hatching is asking for trouble.

 

[Beagle23]

If there’s that few bees in the nuc giving them another frame of anything other than emerging brood and by that I mean you want to see them hatching is asking for trouble.

This is my concern, the bees present have enough to do without giving them more brood. I think I'm just going to shake a few hundred in and see how it goes. They were only separated a few days ago so hopefully family ties still bind

 

[Swarm]

It really depends on just how few is few, the above method worked a treat on a small colony with only two frames of brood. They had another two frames when that one emerged and are now filling a super.

 

[Repwoc]

You could add a frame of emerging brood + bees - give them a quick squirt of air freshener on both sides + a squirt in the gap where they are going to ease them in.