Re: help w splitting colony please

"Spooooool" <sasha42@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:g3gcq7$19a$2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I had two colonies, one died out last winter and I put the spare brood
box 
>on the full brood box to allow the good colony to grow, with a queen 
>excluder and a couple of supers on top.
>
> Had a look today and alas, the top super is full of brood. I didn't look

> any further. either the queen has got through the excluder, or the
supers 
> are full of brood and the brood boxes are used for stores.
>
> I'm assuming in a week or so I can separate the two hives, a brood box
and 
> a super on each and the one without the queen will make a new one. Is
this 
> a reasonable assumption?


Did this hive have a top entrance?  The other possibility I've seen is a
new 
queen moved into the box above the excluder - no need to buy a mated queen

unless you are particular about genetics.


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