Did my first splits today......

[DennisB]

Well, today was the day for the blind to lead the blind. A friend came up to help and I did my first splits today. All seemed to go well, I guess we'll see in a week. We used a couple of 5 frame nuc boxes that I built and placed 2 frames of broad, capped and uncapped and a good batch of bees from the two mother hives. Along with these frames we placed  a couple of partial frames of capped honey and a frame of drawn out comb. The queen cages were place in the center. There is a quart baggie of sugar water on top of the frames and a spacer box (about 2 inches tall to keep the top from squishing the baggie) and then the top. Did I miss anything?
All comments are welcome. Thanks

Dennis

[pdmattox]

It sounds like all is good. I like to make sure the brood is in the center part of the hive and have a full frame of pollen and honey. They will burn through the pollen very fast raising the brood and need a head start till the foragers are bringing in enough.

[Cindi]

Dennis, go, go, go!!!  Excellent, you have had an adventure, good for you. It sounds to me like you are doing just fine.  Good that you have done this.  I am going to be making 4 (or maybe more) nucs pretty soon too.  I have 10 queens coming around the 25 of April.  They are from California, from Strachan Apiaries, New World Carniolans, this will be my actual making of nucs too.  I have dabbled very lightly in this last year and need a refresher in my mind's eye.  Hopefully things will go good for me too, best of this great and wonderful day, Cindi