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Re: Oh Man, need a little help with this one.
« Reply #20 on: April 09, 2014, 05:56:38 pm »
When life hands you nucs.............................sell 'em!  :D

    Or even better if you want Honey.. KEEP the nuc's..  You will be pulling brood from those nuc's so they dont get over crowded and swarm.. what do you do with that brood?  You put it in the "new" production colonies so when that nectar flow hits they will be ready to pack your supers full!!!
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Re: Oh Man, need a little help with this one.
« Reply #21 on: April 09, 2014, 10:26:22 pm »
Ok, I got lucky and found the queen on the second frame I pulled (must be living right). I put her aside then I made 5 nucs with 2 frames of brood in each nuc. Honey and nectar. Then I put the queen in a deep with about 3 frames of brood and some empty comb. I left her in the original position so all the foragers would come back to her.There was also a medium full of bees I put back on top of her.

I took the nucs to an out yard about 10 miles away.

8 grafts in incubator due to hatch Friday.






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Re: Oh Man, need a little help with this one.
« Reply #22 on: April 09, 2014, 10:35:08 pm »
Friday?  Today is Wednesday...   in 48 hours they can have emergency queen cells ahead of you by 24 + hours, so Be careful they havent started their own cells when you put the cells you made in!!
   I also count 6 nuc's in that truck :P   You trying to sneak one past us?  No Sir! We have the Perry with his trusty Sidekick Blue to keep honest men honest!!!!   ;D
   Iddee is in case the first two fail.
   No, don't even ask about the Squirt, you REALLY don't want her coming after you!
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Re: Oh Man, need a little help with this one.
« Reply #23 on: April 09, 2014, 10:44:04 pm »
Ok, So, I put cells in tomorrow, Thanks Lazy,

Lol, yeah, I have a double deep that I pulled the queen out 10 days ago and it had several frames with capped queen cells. I pulled a frame and made and extra nuc while I was on a roll.

I'm gonna leave a couple in incubator and let them hatch.

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Re: Oh Man, need a little help with this one.
« Reply #24 on: April 09, 2014, 10:53:18 pm »
 ;D   A viable queen cell is as good as a queen if you ask the bees.
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