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Title: piggy back split?
Post by: Kirk-o on May 03, 2006, 09:42:41 AM

Hey what is a piggy back split and how do you make one?
kirko

Title: piggy back split?
Post by: Jerrymac on May 03, 2006, 11:43:34 AM

Well first you get a pig.... :lol:

Sorry, couldn't help myself. I don't know :wink:

Title: piggy back split?
Post by: Michael Bush on May 03, 2006, 12:25:56 PM

Don't know for sure. Maybe one that is on top of the old hive? On a double screen board?

That would be my guess.

Title: piggy back split?
Post by: Summerbee on May 03, 2006, 02:52:44 PM

A piggyback split is when you take the top super of a two or three super colony and put a queen excluder/screen between the top one and the one below it. Then you requeen the top super, making a two queen colony.

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