Following up on my ?no brood? thread I have a couple of questions about how to do a newspaper combine in case I decide to go that route. I?d like to be ready to do it this weekend when I get back home.
When I get back I?ll do another thorough inspection to make sure the main hive is queenless and also try the square of brood comb trick suggested in the other thread (in which case the combine will happen later after I know for sure the hive is queenless) but for the purpose of this thread let?s assume the main hive to be queenless.
Current situation: main hive has two 10-frame deeps, pretty full of honey, not a lot of free space. Weak hive has about 5 full frames and a laying queen in a 10-frame deep
Questions:
? can I move the queenright weak hive on top of the queenless main full hive? I read that you move the queenless hive to the location of the queenright hive and put it on top. Here it would be a lot easier to do the reverse
? do I leave frames as they are or do I move some of the full frames out of the main hive to make some space for the queen to lay there once the hives are combined? If yes, should I move those frames of stores up into the weak hive? Or should all,of that wait for after the combine is done when I consolidate everything to two deeps?
Thanks
Rosario