Iv seen dozens of different ways of splitting hives from stupidly complicated snelgrove 4 way door splits to walk away ones.
I have one hive that was exceptional last year and still is. They are very hygienic to an ocd level and got a great crop of honey out of them. You could work them in shorts and tshirt if it took your fancy. So i really want to breed from her.
My other hive is less pleasant to work.... yes its one of those. lol
So I figure on requeening that one one way or the other this year.
My main worry is diversity is the key to good genetics. So having 3 or 4 hives of a given lines daughters in a small yard may not be a wise move.
I bought a very very cheep notnicot set and figured on giving it a try possibly even using grafting rather than the little queen cage laying cup section. I considered just doing a walk away spilt and maybe saving a few of the better queen cells and dropping them in my little quadratics to mate then building them up into nucs.
Any advice for a newbee would be gladly accepted.
I have one hive that was exceptional last year and still is. They are very hygienic to an ocd level and got a great crop of honey out of them. You could work them in shorts and tshirt if it took your fancy. So i really want to breed from her.
My other hive is less pleasant to work.... yes its one of those. lol
So I figure on requeening that one one way or the other this year.
My main worry is diversity is the key to good genetics. So having 3 or 4 hives of a given lines daughters in a small yard may not be a wise move.
I bought a very very cheep notnicot set and figured on giving it a try possibly even using grafting rather than the little queen cage laying cup section. I considered just doing a walk away spilt and maybe saving a few of the better queen cells and dropping them in my little quadratics to mate then building them up into nucs.
Any advice for a newbee would be gladly accepted.