I’ll have to google vertical & pagden splits. I’m not fond of a walk-away split as a preemptive swarm prevention measure on account that I don’t want any of the older bees to go back to the parent hive, on account of SHB’s. My splits probably go unnamed. Sometimes I remove brood frames only. Then use them to bolster weaker colonies. Alternatively I’ll remove brood, bees minus the queen, combine them with brood, bees minus the queen from another colony into a single brood box, then take that away several k’s so that no bees return.
I’ll put 9 frames in a single 10 frame brood box. On occasions I’ll take 3 frames of brood, bees, minus the queen from 3 separate colonies, then combine them into one brood box before closing them up to take away.
This afternoon I took 4 frames of bees from a colony, then added a frame of brood from a high performance queen before bringing them home.
I’m keeping the high performance queen in a single brood box to use as a resource hive for brood to propagate from.
Things don’t always go to plan because the other day I either accidentally killed a good young queen or the colony balled & killed her. Anyway I have that colony split into 4 nucs making new queens. That was where those 4 frames 2 paragraphs back came from.