Ideally you want to prevent swarming and not have to split. But if there are queen cells I usually put every frame with any queen cells in it's own nuc with a frame of honey and let them rear a queen. This usually relieves the pressure to swarm and gives me very nice queens.~Michael Bush, see last post.
When I went into the hive today I found several queen cells so I made two splits with the cells. One hive has the medium frames w/ the queen cells and the other one has all the queen cells on deep frames. I also moved the original hive down and put the splits original hive was. This should catch the returning field bees to the splits.
I'm hoping this will keep the original hive from swarming. We'll see.
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