Need a bit of advice!

[fcderosa]

I have a hive that seemed to be doing well.  I was gone a month and rechecked the hive, at first I found no brood, no honey, no pollin, lethargic hive with many less bees, no queen and no queen chambers.  I put in a frame of brood from a strong hive and hoped for the best.  I went into it yesterday to see if any queen chambers were made - no, but I now know why, I found the queen.  I checked around to see if I could replace her and the answer is out for the season.  Is it to late to mush her and introduce a new frame of brood and then really feed them?  Should I mush her and join it with another hive?  Should I  split hives and join it with a strong hive or might that give me two weak hives?  Is the hive doomed?  Keep in mind they have absolutely no stores.

[abejaruco]

Why don´t you feed?

[Brian D. Bray]

fcserosa,

You hive is exhibiting typical dearth or drought behavior.  At this juncture is best to feed to provide stores to winter over and induce a brood build up sufficient to winter over.  
If this is the only hive in your yard that has this problem I would mark it for queen replacement.  Now would be a good time to do that if you know of a source of queens.

[Michael Bush]

Lots of people, including me, still have queens for sale.

http://www.bushfarms.com/beesqueens.htm