Hi, John,
If you have capped queen cells on multiple combs in one hive you can move an entire comb from one colony to the other. You just have to be sure the queen isn't on the comb you are moving.
Another option is to move a frame with eggs and very young larva from the strong hive to the weak. They will make a queen from that.
No matter what option you take, it gives the weak hive some balance to move a frame or two of open brood from the strong to the weak but not more than two.
John you can place the queen cells in your failing hive. Double check that you see the queen in the good hive. So in the apiary we have queen cups, it’s like a cup to hold the cell with prongs in the back to insert into the comb. You should remove at least 2 cells. You can borrow the cups from the apiary or google a work around. If you use the clubs let me know so I can can give you the code for the lock.
We are new beekeepers and bought 2 nucs. After checking them yesterday and I can admit it had been a while since we looked closely, one hive is not doing well at all. There are both workers and drones, but no capped brood. We didn't see a queen when we installed but there were signs she was there. I'm guessing she died or failed.
The other hive is growing fast, with all signs of a queen (once again, we never found her when we installed and haven't seen her), however this hive has several capped queen cups. We don't think they made these for space reasons; they have lots of space: 2 deep boxes and not all combs made yet. We are not sure if we should do anything but let nature take its course - maybe their queen failed and they were able to replace her. We just have no idea.
My question here is are we able to move one of the queen cups to the queenless hive? Is that a thing? If so, how do we do this?