had to much on my plate this year fixing this place up. yard is almost done. Let me know next year. I would swap with a buddy up here a 10 frame brood box with 5 frames in it with bees and give him the a new box with new frames in it. thats what he liked to do but ill work whatever you want to do out.
I'll probably run 5 frame nucs. Move the nuc frames to a portable box or the box someone brings. If I do it it will be with a laying queen of that box instead of a mated queen added to mixed colony bees. Some move nucs that way. I think it's bad practice. If your doin that might as well be a package of bees and drawn comb. I like a nuc to be what it should be: an established small colony.
I made a double layer fence out of masons twine before and it had decent success
I guess the question was looking for positive reinforcement of my hopes.
I felt like it worked. The rational made sense, the multiple layers throw off the deers depth perception and they can't determine how far to jump, so they don't.