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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 10240" data-attributes="member: 30">just a little something i did a bit different this year at home.i needed to get honey off and also split a hive so i combined it all in one.i did a typical on site split, nothing fancy just move the old hive to new spot a few meters away.built my split in the old location. just letting them make their own queen as i forget to get cells from work.old hive back together but with bee escape and honey supers above.both split and old hive are two 3/4 broods.bees came out of the honey supers ok, probably somewhat easier due to less bees in the hive as most of them had flown back to the old hive spot and filled the split.the split was full, nice big beard out the front.over the last 4ish weeks the split has dropped in bee numbers, no more beard but as of yesterday its still full of bees and queen starting to lay.the old hive is still running brood and building back up ok.still got a little way to go, the split will drop a bit before it recovers and old hive will continue to recover hopefully before the wet sets in.overall a little surprised it work that well. the supers cleared really well, no doubt because of lots of room below that they can go into. thats often the problem i have with escape boards.</blockquote>

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