Well, I thought that I'd bite the bullet and start my bee blog.
The nuc was collected on Friday 28th May 2010 left to rest for 48 hours and hived on Sunday 30th. 4 frames of brood at various stages and two heavy frames of stores.
I have to say I was a little disappointed with the quality of the frames, DN1s, at various spacings but we're sorting that out and transferring to DN4s.
They were hived with with a further 6 frames of foundation and fed with a gallon of weak syrup.
As of Friday 11 June, virtually all of the foundation has been drawn and there is 5 full frames of brood all in a good pattern.
A super was added on the 11th without the QE and hopefully they will have start to draw this.
Next Inspection Friday 18th.
The nuc was collected on Friday 28th May 2010 left to rest for 48 hours and hived on Sunday 30th. 4 frames of brood at various stages and two heavy frames of stores.
I have to say I was a little disappointed with the quality of the frames, DN1s, at various spacings but we're sorting that out and transferring to DN4s.
They were hived with with a further 6 frames of foundation and fed with a gallon of weak syrup.
As of Friday 11 June, virtually all of the foundation has been drawn and there is 5 full frames of brood all in a good pattern.
A super was added on the 11th without the QE and hopefully they will have start to draw this.
Next Inspection Friday 18th.
