>He has a failing queen (poor brood pattern with a lot of drone cells) and
he's getting a new queen.  He would like to save the old queen (no heart to
kill her) as a back-up until the new queen has been accepted.


Kill the old queen.  She is failing, righ? then get rid of her for she is
of no further use to you now and will only pull the colony down.  She will
interupt the introduction of your new queen,
If you really wnat to keep the old one, split the hive in two, requeen the
top half, and after she is accepted and laying recombine the two bodies
with a queen excluder inbetween,
Kill the old queen and save yourself the bother!!

Ian

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