Hive Split distance from original Hive
I am getting ready to split a very strong hive before the temperature gets too warm. I would like to have the split hive 100 feet away from the original hive so should I
Split the hive and keep both hives close to each other (with in 3 feet) and then move the new hive 3 feet each day until I get it to the new location.
Split the hive and just move the split to the new location knowing that I would need many nurse bees because the foragers will go back to the original hive location
Split the hive and move the split 3 miles away to reallocate and then move them back to the new location. (this one is tough because I don't have some place to temporarily move them).
Any thoughts are welcome
Thanks
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Bill,
Thanks. My original approach was to move it 100 feet away with a barn in between the two hives and a pine bough across the entrance but I decided to ask for some advice.
Since I have a hard time finding the queen in the hive, I thought to do the split and see where she ends up. I figure that once I find which hive she is in, I can give the other hive frames with eggs if queenless hive is not producing a queen at that time. Is this a bad approach?
I will be splitting the brood and food between the hives as well as introducing some new frames to each hive. A week ago when I was in the hive, she had 6 frames with brood so I expect it to be more now.
I am leaning to do the split on Monday morning since the nights will be out of the 30s for a bit.