I've started doing small walk away splits with some colonies in apiaries.
I do it to test what daughters a queen will provide and to assess the daughters temperament in a given area once mated
It's simple and straight forward, a frame of eggs, frames of sealed brood and frame of stores, lock em up for four days and then open mic box 4 weeks later to look for brood.
It's makes assessing a queen and her daughter's straight forward. It can get applied to many colonies as long as a nuc boxis available, The queens produced appear to be of a good size with good laying patterns. It makes the apiary even with one colony self sustaining. Once a good queen has been identified who can reproduce daughters with similar attributes in a specific area, grafting can be done with that colony of required.
Does any one else do similar walk away splits and if so, what are there experiences
I do it to test what daughters a queen will provide and to assess the daughters temperament in a given area once mated
It's simple and straight forward, a frame of eggs, frames of sealed brood and frame of stores, lock em up for four days and then open mic box 4 weeks later to look for brood.
It's makes assessing a queen and her daughter's straight forward. It can get applied to many colonies as long as a nuc boxis available, The queens produced appear to be of a good size with good laying patterns. It makes the apiary even with one colony self sustaining. Once a good queen has been identified who can reproduce daughters with similar attributes in a specific area, grafting can be done with that colony of required.
Does any one else do similar walk away splits and if so, what are there experiences
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