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An egg laid the day you installed will take 20 days (about) to emerge. After that, expansion will vary greatly with conditions and the queen. Capped brood will give you advanced notice.

Just saw this week. Hive had been building up nicely 2 weeks ago. Next inspection more eggs than nurse bees, as many SHBs as bees. Queen and maybe 20 bees left. Rats abandoning ship and drifting next...

If you had more bees I would just add the one new frame a week for the 3 weeks. With only a few bees to work with I am suggesting a work around, mostly to not weaken your package hive. Get your queen...

Getting ready to draw comb.

Put it does not speak as loudly.

LW is laying worker. If you have LW you will see multiple eggs and or eggs on the sides of the cell. If you see eggs on the bottom of the cell you have a drone laying queen. The queen cells were your...

It is the shipping that kills. The more you look at feeding the more complex it gets. Much easier to supplement than substitute. Still, you only know how much the bees are supplying for themselves...

If I have been reading between the lines in prior posts correctly, adding a little egg yoke fills in some of the holes. Inedible eggs for a bulk source.

A piece of scrap cut to any lenghth you like works. Unless you get skunks or mice pulling it off, just set against the side works as well as cut to fit and under the edge. I keep a bunch of 3/4...

Not enough bees to keep the brood warm and still have a surplus force to travel over to the honey. It is a spring thing.

May be outdated but I found the difference of feedpro with some pollen and without interesting;
http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?seq_no_115=222757

That is a firm depends. Before the bloom the one I but in a nuc, against advice, took off much better. Without comb I would strongly vote for the nuc. During a bloom a month may be too long. That is...

Ben Little,
How did your 2 lb packages do with the cold?

Radar Sidetract,
Now that is a post that needs a sticky.

In the eyes of the IRS both should also be the truth. Hobby income is taxable, a hobby loss is just a loss.

Farming and self employment; the only legal ways to earn less than mimimum wage.

There are a lot of available options to crush and strain. There are a lot more extractors sold every year, not many wearing out. If those options still are not for you, may I suggest trim and strain....

I drive old cars too, but I don't crush them every year!
Yes you can do c+s, yes it is fine to do , but why would you?

I do not know your season but this late in the year capped comb is wasted space. Remove and store for splits or extract. I think they are not taking syrup because they are running out of space. Give...

4-6 frames of capped? how much open comb and how much full of syrup but uncapped?

If they are too low on stores they will not build up either. Feed and add at least a little brood/eggs to hedge your bet. If queenless may get a queen, if not, no harm.

For results of quick install or delayed install read this link;http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?280859-Package-cold-weather-install-Results

There was a post (last week?) that compared multiple installs at cool temps and holding for nine days after receipt. Favored hold but hived worked also with a higher mortality. Anybody find that...

That is not too cold, but you will enjoy a warmer install with less worry. Should be fun not a stress.
squirt bottle and syrup. They will keep for more than a week, cool dark and fed a little.

Does to me. A frame for 3 weeks to try and save the hive is the same investment as three frames at once to start over. I would not say a failure, it happens.

Deer are smart. What they eat and what they fear are very much family based and depends upon what they have been taught. Lots of things will work until the first deer ignors it. Then they all will.