I just did a cut down split. When you do so, the new hive might have foragers and the idea is that they’ll go back to the old hive.
And they did.
And also told their sisters where to go get some fresh syrup and they started robbing the new hive. So I added a robbing screen to try to prevent the robbing. Works for the most part. Here’s what it looked like when I first put the screen on:
I used a simple design from UC Davis, the PDF file can be found here: