Split time

[psbeekeeper]

When you make a split, how long should it be until your have a laying queen?  Wheather if it were raining a couple of days or not?  4 weeks?  5 weeks?

[mwiehn]

If you let the splits raise their own queens you should have a mated queen sometime between two to three weeks. I usually go by the rule of thumb of roughly three weeks before you start seeing eggs. Some queens are faster, others take a little longer, but in about three weeks you should be able to either see her or see evidence of her laying.

[Michael Bush]

From the time you make them queenless it will be between three and four weeks.

http://bushfarms.com/beesmath.htm

[psbeekeeper]

From the time you make them queenless it will be between three and four weeks.

http://bushfarms.com/beesmath.htm

 
  Excellent!  I need to bookmark that!  Thanks Michael!