I did one split this spring and caught 5 swarms, 4 of my own and 1 that came from somewhere out in the world, thus doubling my hive count from 5 to 10. This is the most hives I've ever had, and 10 hives is the goal I've been working towards since I got my first two packages 5 years ago, which was the only time I purchased bees. I'm letting myself have one extra stand for manipulations' sake, but I don't plan on continuing to increase next year, so my management is going to significantly change (unless of course I lose a lot of hives over the winter for some odd reason, but I typically don't). All the swarms and splits got queens mated without struggle, with the exception of the fact that the parent colony that was swarming the most ended up queenless, which finally stopped them from casting swarms, so I recombined their last small swarm with them. All the colonies built up nicely except for one, which has been slow to grow all year. They may get a super on Saturday which would bring them up to 4 boxes.