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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => REQUEENING & RAISING NEW QUEENS => Topic started by: JordanM on August 07, 2009, 09:07:32 pm

Title: First Year Splits and Raising queens Are a Success
Post by: JordanM on August 07, 2009, 09:07:32 pm

I made 2 one frame splits from one of my hives and had great success. I checked the hives today and found there to be queens in both of these hives laying good worker brood.

Can you find the queeen?:
(http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/5329/queeng.jpg) (http://img505.imageshack.us/i/queeng.jpg/)

Title: Re: First Year Splits and Raising queens Are a Success
Post by: alfred on August 07, 2009, 11:51:05 pm

Very Cool,
tel more on what you did?
did you just use one frame of bood and bees each?
Did you feed?
Were there already queen cells there when you split?
???

Title: Re: First Year Splits and Raising queens Are a Success
Post by: JordanM on August 08, 2009, 09:55:31 pm

I simply took one frame of open brood and one frame of honey and put them in a queen castle and put a feeder on them.The feeder you can see on my website. And i came back in 1 month and i had two beatiful fat queens. Now i have moved them into 5 frame nucs.