Swarm Hive Split

On Tuesday, 5/21, Nice day in the middle of rainy cool period. Sunny and mid 70s for a high.

We have a plan to split all 3 of the drives that have survived, starting with swarm hive.

SPLIT (first split):

Starting about 1230 we began going through swarm hive looking for queen, supercedure cells, and swarm cells. The hive was packed with bees. No outward signs of swarming, however, over last week. Mix of frames with a lot of capped brood. Only a few super frames with larvae. Seemed to be a variety of larvae sizes. Did not see any cells with eggs, but they are hard
to spot, and there were bees all over the frames. Hard to see. No supercedure or swarm cells. Seemed like a lot of drones, but still they are only about 5% or less of population, and there were lots and
lots of bees. Could not find the queen.

Created a split hive containing the following: Took 6 deep frames, with bees,  containing mixture of honey, pollen, and capped brood. Added a couple of
honey deeps (no bees) to the hive box. To that, added one super box and took one super frame that seemed to have the most larvae uncapped, of various sizes, and 8 super frames with and without honey.

Took this split hive out to new farm location and set it up.

Split hive:

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top cover
inner cover
super (S)      <--- one frame with larvae and bees
hive body (H)  <--- bees and capped brood
bottom board
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Swarm hive:

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top cover
inner cover
super          <--- bees and misc frames
hive body      <--- queen should be in one of
hive body      <---   these boxes ?
bottom board
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Since we are in some doubt about eggs in the frame we moved to Split hive, considering buying a queen for this new hive. Also considering queening the
other two split hives.

Thursday, Chris went to Columbus and picked up 3 fertilized queens. These will go in the split hives.