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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1576188" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>Packages are one of the worst investments you can make in beekeeping unless you can pick them up yourself and if you can do that nucs are the way to go. If your other hives are doing okay give them a frame of brood and it's a huge jumpstart. Open brood will help tremendously with absconding. If you can't spare the brood put a queen excluder in between the bottom board and hive body when you install them. That doesn't work for swarms but they ship fat queens with packages. I also keep the queen caged for a few days but sometimes they shake a queen in with the package and when that happens they'll abscond about 90% of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1576188, member: 14661"] Packages are one of the worst investments you can make in beekeeping unless you can pick them up yourself and if you can do that nucs are the way to go. If your other hives are doing okay give them a frame of brood and it's a huge jumpstart. Open brood will help tremendously with absconding. If you can't spare the brood put a queen excluder in between the bottom board and hive body when you install them. That doesn't work for swarms but they ship fat queens with packages. I also keep the queen caged for a few days but sometimes they shake a queen in with the package and when that happens they'll abscond about 90% of the time. [/QUOTE]
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