About four weeks ago I created a shook swarm from a hive that was preparing to swarm. I shook between half and two thirds of the bees from the original hive into a shallow honey super/brood chamber containing nine frames of foundation only. I located the queen and moved her into the shallow super, to which I added a queen excluder and three supers containing round section comb frames. My goal in this maneuver was twofold: to prevent the hive from swarming and to harvest a crop of round sections. I placed the shook swarm on the original hive site so all field bees would return there. I cut out numerous queen cells from the original hive (all I could find), introduced a queen in a queen cage, placed the hive about four feet behind the original site and closed everything up. Two weeks later I moved the original hive about twenty feet away so the bees that became field bees in that time would drift to the shook swarm. Meantime, back at the shook swarm the queen has been doing a regal job producing a new generation. The shallow super brood chamber is filled with eggs, larvae and capped brood. The bad news is that the bees have not been that quick to move into the round section supers. Now while all this was going on, I captured a mid sized swarm of bees that I put into a shallow super brood chamber with two medium (Illinois) supers on top. Both this captured swarm and the shook swarm are progressing, but not as quickly as the honeyflow. I am considering uniting the captured swarm with the shook swarm and operating it as a two queen hive. I would do this by placing a queen excluder and a sheet of newspaper between both shallow brood chambers and place the round section supers above both. Anyone care to comment on what I'm considering? Does this sound like an idea with merit or does this sound like total folly? Anyone have any experience running a two queen colony? If I go for this, I'll do it this Saturday, so send those comments quickly!