Snelgrove Method 1, what to do about brood in super

[CosmoRossini]

The following outlines the early part of Snelgrove method 1. I’ve had brood and a half over winter and expect to find a small amount of brood in the super on first inspections today. Will put on my QX but that does mean I may have brood in the super for up to 3 more weeks. I will probably want to do Snelgrove method 1 within the next week because I can see the colony is building up quickly.

My question, should I make adjustments to the method when accounting for any super brood? Or possibly wait until there is no brood even if that means they will have started swarm preparations and I have to use method 2?

For a stock in any single-walled hive,-without queen cells.
1st Day - Separate combs and place them as follows:

In box A -
Combs containing the brood, with adhering bees.

In box B -
(a) Broodless combs, with adhering bees.
(b) One comb with a little unsealed brood.
(c) The queen.

Rebuild the hive in the following order -
Floorboard
Box B
Excluder Super
Box A

4th Day
Place screen-board under box A, with its edge without small entrances towards the front of the hive.

 

[Amari]

Looks to be identical to a Demaree?

 

[CosmoRossini]

Looks to be identical to a Demaree?

Similar but different in that a Snelgrove board/method bleeds off any flying bees from box A down to box B over a couple of weeks.

 

[Poly Hive]

If there is an excluder in there all that will happen is the drones are stuck up top AFAICS. Why then faff with a Snelgrove at all?

PH