I have one hive that took several attempts to get a queen mated last year and then finally when they had a mated queen; attempted to supercede her 2 or 3 times - before her own bees were significant in numbers in the hive. I cut out the queen cells and they gave up supercedure in August. They have grown well this year in a 16 (!) frame National with 8 frames of brood and loads of space but have now produced several queen cells. I WAS thinking of breeding from this colony as they are the most gentle I have.

Here's the question,
Do I assume thay are a swarmy bunch and not worth breeding from or do I assume that they are infact OK and they have never liked the look of the queen for some reason and her offspring will be non-swarmy?
Opinions invited!