place the travelling box on the roof of your hive, open the entrance, the bees can live in there until you get your kit, then you'll be able to hive the bees. Just make sure you put the nuc box on the roof of the hive, or take the hive away and place it there
I'm sure others will be able to provide you with a much better answer but you probably just have a virgin queen, you may not have found her because she was out mating, too small or just hiding! Give them some more time, you should see workers polishing cells ready for laying and if they get low...
I don't think it matters too much, but the entrance is parallel to where the frames are going to go rather than perpendicular. Nice hives though! I should really give building some hives a go sometime
Welcome to beekeeping and the forum!
TBH I can go a whole season and getting away with only a couple of stings and my seconds hive went together fine
Happy Beekeeping
last saturday I went through my hive which are on 7 frames of brood for queen cells. I only found one on the edge of a frame which I destroyed after finding eggs and seeing the queen.
My only thought is that when I saw the queen she looked different to how i remember the queen looking before...
If you're running deep frames, put one shallow frame in the hive and the bees will build drone comb on the bottom of it which you can cut off as and when you choose. It seems to me like a very long process destroying individual drone cells.....
I have 3 nationals and got a swarm call, didn't have the funds to buy another hive so knocked up a TBH in a day after planning on having one for a long time.
Prime swarm went in, had to wait a month or so for the them to build enough comb so I didn't break their cluster...... Despite using all...