5 frame nucs trial run

[beepro]

So either put the 5 boxes in the middle of the 10 box with 2 wooden planks on either side of the 10 or put the 5 box on the left side of the 10.  Give me a great idea Robo.  I could not of thought of that.  The 5 boxes are all honey supers.  Or you can add cap broods from other supporting hives into the top 5 nuc box.  What if you just want to graft into the 10 box after removing all the 5 boxes?  A bee bomb hive.  So much flexibility and control with this hive configuration.  Consolidation is the key!

[sc-bee]

Ok duhhhhhh.... not sure what I was expecting... I really over thought that one 

[Van, Arkansas, USA]

Robo {I knew a little old lady, who was a great beekeeper and always had a cart with an empty hive body.  She would move one frame at a time.}

Add one old man to that list, Hint He lives in Arkansas and uses a wheel barrel in lieu of a cart.
Blessings

[beepro]

An update:


Last week's inspection was a surprise.   90% of the cap broods from all the nuc boxes have emerged.  Now it is a
booming hive with lots of new bees.  The mature foragers are at the bottom box with the queen while majority of the
newly emerged bees are at the top boxes.  I manage to donate 2 frame of newly emerged bees back to the other weak
nuc hive.   Don't want the booming nuc hive to swarm this early in the season.   Imagine what you can do with a colony packed full
of bees:  1) To make splits that each 5 frame nuc hive has the potential to make another colony with a new mated bought queen. 2) Condense
the bees down into one nuc hive to make a bee bomb for queen grafting.  3) Take out the queen and let them make some queens for splits. Then
super up!  Wonder what else you can do with a booming hive?