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<blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 7358" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>in my experience that typically doesn't work in this sort of situation.</p><p>the queen right hive will soak up almost all the bees, leaving next to nothing in the nuc, the brood will hatch out and they all end up back in the first hive.</p><p></p><p>the fix, put it all back together, let them all drift back in. give it a few days and then you can redo it.</p><p></p><p></p><p>if you do it right, they will not need extra boxes.</p><p>one will have a lot of bees at the start but it has no queen. by the time a queen is laying the numbers will have come down.</p><p>the other will have less bees to start with, but with a laying queen they catch back up.</p><p>unless they start getting honey bound, i would wait a month or so before putting another box on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tristan, post: 7358, member: 30"] in my experience that typically doesn't work in this sort of situation. the queen right hive will soak up almost all the bees, leaving next to nothing in the nuc, the brood will hatch out and they all end up back in the first hive. the fix, put it all back together, let them all drift back in. give it a few days and then you can redo it. if you do it right, they will not need extra boxes. one will have a lot of bees at the start but it has no queen. by the time a queen is laying the numbers will have come down. the other will have less bees to start with, but with a laying queen they catch back up. unless they start getting honey bound, i would wait a month or so before putting another box on. [/QUOTE]
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