Well it's been since Oct. since I've had time to go through my hives today.My business grew exponentially almost overnight and have been so busy,I just haven't felt up to looking in on the bees.
Last Oct. I relocated the hives(20 ft. away) while I replaced rotted wood rails on the hive stand.Upon moving them back a week later(yeah it took that long told you I was busy
)I went through all hives and found one that was weak,had no brood,and was queenless.Gave them a couple frames of eggs,larva and honey.And today they were a lot stronger,but they were a little shy on population so I switched positions with another hive to give it more bees(by the way that works great).I also switched to solid bottom boards after reading Zookeep's thread that he was having so of the same problems I was,which was the bees being reluctant to do anything with the bottom super.Will see here in a month or so if that's helped the problem. I also noticed they've already started to bring in nectar and pollen,so I put a super on each to get ready for hopefully a good honey crop this Spring
I know some of you that know me from the other forum,that I haven't posted much(on this forum as well),but I was just too whooped even on the weekends to work my bees.