Queen introduction issues

[sean-a]

Right, early start this morning.
Two frames with big slabs of capped brood into a new broodbox over a queen excluder with the poor white dot queen in the cage between them.
I have moved the old nuc so they will bleed away to beg into two other hives.
This evening I will add the two frames and adhering bees to the old nuc and try again.

She will survive!

 

[rook66]

I have a colony with nine frames of brood, hell bent on superceding the queen, I now have a nuc with a young queen that has just started laying, how long should I wait before uniting the two?

 

[Hebeegeebee]

Right, early start this morning.
Two frames with big slabs of capped brood into a new broodbox over a queen excluder with the poor white dot queen in the cage between them.
I have moved the old nuc so they will bleed away to beg into two other hives.
This evening I will add the two frames and adhering bees to the old nuc and try again.

She will survive!

So are you saying that you will add 2 frames to the remaining bees in the old nuc? The old nuc that could have had laying workers in?

 

[sean-a]

Nope!
I need the nuc box that the laying workers are occupying
Shook them all out into the nettles a way away from the original site of the nuc box.
Put the two frames of brood in with some new nurse bees and shook some more bees in from the hive, then put back the frames of nectar that were in the nuc and moved it to a new location with the caged queen in situ.

The laying worker crew were back to the pallet where there were a couple of other hives, but their nuc was on a different site.
Going to leave well alone for a few days and then see whether it is safe to pop the tab

 

[North End Bees]

Is she still in the original cage? I thought you were going to try a push in cage? Cut down on the time she is unable to lay.