Splitting Using a Double Screen Board

A unique technique for making Splits or Nucs using a Double Screen Board or Snelgrove Board. Also discussed is good queen acceptance, feeding, comb rotation, equalization, swarm cells, raising your own queens and more. Discussion at the Coweta Beekeepers Association.
WHY WE PRODUCE NUCS AND HOW WE DO IT, Bee Culture Magazine

[Tacos_n_Nachos]

Everytime i feel like I'm ready to start, more info is presented. So overwhelmed at times. Been learning for two years. If there wasn't such a big start up cost I'd just learn as I go. But I dont want to mess up.

[johnniecarter]

I can not tell you how many times I have watched this video. So much information!!!THANK YOU BOB!!!

[pierreandresanon]

Thanks teacher, I wish I could attend your class one day. Watching since Haiti

[schammond]

I've watched this so many times. Finally made it a class making notes of the steps so I wouldn't forget anything out in the yard.
Thanks for the knowledge you share Bob.

[serhatdeliduman]

Greetings from Turkey, you share great information, I watch with admiration.

[Bruced]

This is kinda like a walk away split with purpose! Very good information on this technique. 👏

[aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I split much the same way, it works very well and it’s quick .
I’ve never seen the double screen board used before. Good stuff

[dannybowman]

I am memorizing this. I have made some double screen boards and I am trying it next spring. I hate not to "like" it but I sometimes watch on my television, iphone and computer, so I can't like every time I have watched. from me you should have dozens more likes than YouTube knows about. LOL Thank you.

[bub]

I did a replay of this video today, this is the best split/nuc video ever. The info about day 4 is so very good, to take down cells capped around day 4. Love this video once more.

[ronaldkoenig]

I am using one of your double screen boards that purchased from your store last winter to do a split also I’ve started with two packages i will have 9 colonies tomorrow when i install a queen cell in a nuc above a double screen board and in my second year of beekeeping haven’t lost a colony because of all of your u-tube videos. Thank you very much. And your sourwood honey is

[jimhegarty]

Excellent video! I will try this tomorrow using queen cups that haven't been sealed. Thank you.

[chrisbgarrett]

Your a very patient and smart man. Great teacher. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm glad I found you and will recommend you to my friends. Thanks, Chris

[randallmuir]

Hi Bob. Like many others I have watched this particular video of yours more times than I can count. I built a couple double screen boards, but considering making many more to expand their use next year. I’d like to read your comments about a change I propose to make to your process as to where the queen goes when the split occurs.

This year is an example of how my replacement queens arrived one or two weeks later than the decision for many of my colonies to swarm here at 2200 feet elevation in the mountains of southwest Virginia. The swarm decision occurred in early April, and the queens arrived in mid April. I’m not a big operation and so it impacts me greatly when a significant percentage of my 1 yr old productive queens and workers hit the trees despite doing all I know to relieve congestion. In retrospect I wish that at about 1 April, I had split out nucs using those queens, and let the mother colonies start queen cells. Then I could decide weeks later, when my replacement queens arrive, where to use them. Depending on timing, I may let some of the new queens they made themselves carry on.

Please comment on my idea of moving the marked queen into the nucs being created above the double screen board around April Fools’ Day (so hopefully I’ll be less of a fool). Pros and cons? Anything I’m perhaps not thinking of?

Thanks for all the help I have received from your videos in the past.

[bones]

That was a must see for any keeper. The rabbit hole just became cavernous!! Lol👍👍👍thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

[TinyTrailFarm]

Thanks Bob, this is soooo helpful. This year (even in Cashiers, NC) everything is about three weeks ahead of schedule. I am queen-right, well fed, and kept up with mites and full of happy bees. I'm betting I may have splits mid-late March. I'll be down to visit your store soon. Finally, Seth Hill's channel is great too (and I told him so). Thanks again! Kevin

[toddknecht]

Queen update, I have purchased 4 queens…. I’m happy to say all 4 are accepted and laying! Thank you Bob!!!

[eddieramos]

I have watched this video about 10 times, and I’m going to watch it 1 more time today before I try it tomorrow!

[dontannery]

Thank you for what you're doing in the mites. We really need something that's affordable and works in the US

[Retwak]

THANK YOU BOB FOR SHARING THESE INFORMATIONS. AS A NEWBEE I LEARNED A LOT FROM YOUR VIDEOS. GREETING FROM ALGERIA

[hollyrogers]

Thank you so much!! This is so helpful and will be sharing with our bee club❤!!