I need nuc understanding

[ajm]

  Do I understand this correctly?  Can I make a five frame nuc by taking 5 drawn frames and of that five have two frames frome another hive with nurse bees and some brood.  Purchase a queen and start a small hive?

ajm

[Apis629]

You can do many things with a nuc, but, if you're aiming for a small split, it seems to me like you have the idea.   Give them a couple frames of brood, a frame or two with pollen and honey, a young queen or leave them to make their own, and the split should be on it's way to becoming a new colony in no time.

[Ross]

I would shake more bees into it.  Some of them will return back to the original hive.  You could also let them make a queen.  In that scenario, I would take the original queen and the open brood and place her in the nuc.  Leave a frame of eggs and let the stronger original hive make a new queen.  Done right before a flow, you can increase your honey production and end up with a second hive.

[TwT]

anytime you are going to make a split with a nuc and let them raise a queen, of the 5 frame in the nuc you should have a frame of eggs and young larva, 2 frames of capped brood, and a frames of honey and pollen and at least a frame of foundation, shake plenty of bee's in the nuc, whether you have a flow going or not it is good to add a top feeder and feed 1-1 suyrup until the cells are capped so you will have good big healthy queens. workers need a flow or feed to make enough royal jelly for good queens. it is good to have a feeder on because most of the foragers will fly back to the big hive and it might take a day or 2 for the nuc to get some foraging going.

[Kirk-o]

All this advice is good if you want more go to Michael Bush's site and read about the differnt splits you can do
kirko