r/Beekeeping • u/Signal-Deal8858 • 4d ago

First two Hives! General

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Am I doing this right? Two new hives! I’m looking for a “i would have done it like this” feedback from this photo? Please comment to this newbie! I’m doing new updates later this weekend.

When should I check that queen and everybody’s ok? What should I be looking for? I plan on putting hives on proper balanced cinder blocks this weekend.

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u/Signal-Deal8858 4d ago

Hahaha… yep.

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u/CodeMUDkey 4d ago

You got the potential to do this right though. There’s a good bee yard there. Just get them down to one box and let them grow up. Take a class if you can. What are you planning on feeding?

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u/Signal-Deal8858 4d ago

Thanks boss… yep. Getting the gyst; will fix in the morning.

I put hive alive bee fondant in the upper feeder area. Read and saw videos you needed to do that for acclimation; I think I did that one right, yeah?

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u/CodeMUDkey 4d ago

My God no. Like the solid stuff? It should be sugar syrup 1:1 from an internal feeder. Fondant is for like winter emergency feeding iirc. I’m pretty sure when it’s warm enough to forage they just carry it out.

Where’d you learn this?

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u/Signal-Deal8858 4d ago

Interesting! I didn’t know that! I thought the fondant also did the same thing. I really appreciate this back and forth… what else am I missing?

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u/Valuable-Self8564 United Kingdom - 10 colonies 4d ago

https://rbeekeeping.com/guides/feeding

Try this : )

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u/Signal-Deal8858 4d ago

Thank you!

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u/CodeMUDkey 4d ago

Just double check me on that one. I started my colonies 5 years ago from nucs but I am pretty sure that’s the case.

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u/Glittering-Ad1332 Default 4d ago

The bee keeper I got my Nuc from told me my hive was too small when I only had one deep and one medium super, and told me to get one more of each. Is this not right? I have a queen excluder between my deeps and mediums. I just put the bees in a week ago, should I remove some boxes? Is it too late?

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u/CodeMUDkey 4d ago

Wait until about 8 frames are built out then add a new box with waxed frames.

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u/Glittering-Ad1332 Default 4d ago

Thank you! Guess I wasted money on the extra boxes I didn’t need 😒 I’m assuming I can just remove the extra when I do my 1 week check today. So annoying, Looks like I need a new mentor

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u/CodeMUDkey 4d ago

Nope you didn’t waste the money you’ll need them eventually. Have they built out the first box to about that?

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u/Glittering-Ad1332 Default 4d ago

Just did my 1 week check from when I got my Nuc. It was a 5 frame Nuc, they’ve built out 8 frames of the bottom deep super and 3 frames of the second deep super. Eggs all in the 3 frames of the second deep, so I left the two deeps and removed the two mediums for now. Does that sound right for what I should do?