>I am not sure you can tell very much from the first round of brood in any
case.

The above is a good observation for the inexperienced.  When a new queen
first lays in a comb from which the previous queen's brood is emerging, the
pattern is often quite irregular.  It's not until the queen moves to start
laying on a frame free of remaining brood that her true pattern becomes
evident.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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