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This is our second year. Last years hive was great no issues. This year we tried a spilt everthing was going fine. They drew out and laid 7/10 of the frames and we added a another brood box, new...

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We took our strong hive and tried to split. We took 9 frames from the deep boxes and replaced them with non-drawn out new frames. We then...

We split our first hive the other day and are not sure that we did it correctly. We remove random frames from he brood boxes and replaced them with non-drawn frames. Replacing the full super on top...

Well today we tried our first split with a queen that we bought. We open our hive from a year ago and it was going strong. So we decided on trying a split. After a long look we finally found our...

OK well I thought I was doing the bees a favor by leaving a super on that had some honey in it last fall. But I made the mistake of not having a queen excluder. So now I have brood in the super. ...

Thanks for the plans. I do not have an inter cover. Just the top(other cover) made from 3/4 wood. Did not know I needed an inter cover.

@walibee-Thanks I will not use the bales.

@Micheal...

Thanks again. I am looking now on how to make and inter cover(cannot find) and I think I will put it in place and buy\build a feeder for them. I also think that I will place straw bales around the...

Thanks for the information. I wish I would have left them more honey. Newby mistake. Will they have enough honey in the two large brood boxes to last all winter?

So we got our first hive this spring and filled up two brood boxes and a med super. We took the honey off the med super and left the brood boxes alone. We placed a new undrawn med on top hoping to...