2nd inspection

Well its been 10 days since my last inspection. I wanted to replace the division board feeders with hive top feeders. My bee's from last year where not using theres and i was getting some drowning in the new hives. I also didnt want to have to open them up every time i want to feed them. So i took the division board feeders out and put a new deep frame in instead. Placed the hive top feeder on top and away we went.

My bee's from last year have not started moving up into the second deep but i think everything is very slow this year, even the clover is slow to bloom this year.

I picked up some second hand hive bodies and medium supers on saturday, 4 deeps, 8 suppers and some migratory lids. There old and passed there sell by date but will act as some good spares for this and next year for swarms. I burdned all the wodern frames most had rotted and gone moldy, and disposed of the plastic frames. I thin scourced the insides of all the boxes witha propaine tourch to kill of a bacteria or dieases. They all need paiting but i have also been thinking about treating then with some wood preservitive.

I finished paiting some other boxes and my queen castle tonight. so the queen castle will be ready for use in the next day or two.

All in all is been a very busy time of it on the bee front, i ahve some 9 frame spacers on order and some plastic front feeders that i cant wait to get hold of this week. I like the hive top feeders but there expensive at $18 a pop. So all in all i am in pretty good shape for the season.

The plan for the next few weeks is to keep feeding and to build up all hives , Im either looking to raise some of my own queens or to ship 5 queens in in the next month. 3 to go in the queen castle for the year and 2 to use on my splits.