First check of the three new hives

This video came out a bit later than it was recorded. I was working between these hives and also doing our first extraction.

The three new hives are doing great. We're waiting for the new queen on one of our first hives. There are plenty of queen cells and hopefully, we'll have a laying queen soon. One of the cells was opened and the rest were still closed. Perhaps I should have been a little more daring and used the additional cells to create a split.

The honey is taking forever to be capped. I'm getting a refractometer this week and I'll be checking the water content throughout the hives. If it's low enough, I'm going to pull the supers. I'm needing to get in there and treat the hives for mites and also check for small hive beetles soon.....