Thanks guys.
I'm heading back up to my girls tomorrow morning. It's been in the 40's and raining there all week. My neighbor tells me the danelions popped up this week though, so I want to get one of those Ross Round supers on.
Temps are suppose to be a high of 57 degrees on Monday and 61 on Tues., hopefully the warm air will finally make it up that way.
I've got 3 deeps on that hive right now. I plan to check the brood situation, leave one deep on that hive with plenty of brood and bees (like 2/3 of the bees), move the other 2 deeps to a separate hive stand. Now, my question is where to put the queen? I've read 3 different scenarios...
1). to move the queen with the 2 deeps and let the 1 deep with the super and brood raise a new queen.
2). to leave the queen with the 1 deep and super using a queen excluder, and either buying (too late for that) or letting the 2 deep hive raise a new queen.
3). replace BOTH hives with new queens
The current queen is relatively new. She was a swarm queen last Aug. so I wouldn't feel a need to replace her at this point, plus, the hive was thriving when it was last warm enough to open the boxes back on the 19th or so of April - she seems to be doing a good job. So, that leaves options 1 or 2.
Any thoughts?
tia,
sherry