My four frame Nuc

[BrentX]

Saturday I pulled a beautiful frame of eggs and a frame of sealed brood from a strong hive.  The egg frame had everything from brand new tiny dot eggs to large larvae about to be sealed.  These went into a little four frame nuc with a frame of honey and an empty frame.

Today, day four there are 6 queen cells being built, and the small colony is pulling from the honey frame.  This nuc is only 50 feet from the original hive, but apparently didn't lose a great number of bees to migrating back to the home hive.  There is a steady stream of foragers coming and going. 

Interesting enough, the eggs selected for queen cells were not the youngest eggs.  The chosen eggs were about 2-3X the size of the youngest eggs.

[G3farms]

queen cells are made from hatched eggs which are 3 to 4 days old

[hankdog1]

if you have wax foundation you can cut out some of those cells and do more splits with them if you wish