Janet, a major reason why observation hives must be baby-sat is that they have way "too much" queen.  Instead of having 10 or 20 frames in which to lay, in OH's they only have two (hopefully not just one!).  Thus they tend to overpopulate and brood must be switched out to a full sized hive or they will swarm.     Dan



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