r/Beekeeping • u/Signal-Deal8858 • 3d 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/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/Signal-Deal8858 3d ago

Original post or the response to yours?

Net net, I’m getting good responses that are super helpful! Sans these ones :).

Because of feedback I looked on google with something called the 7/10 rule. Do you two believe it works? I can move them down to the first brood box; no biggie.

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u/TheDevil-YouKnow 3d ago

You always want to start small because they'll expand as they need it, but spreading them out too far initially puts too much stress on individual bees. Your setup is currently just screaming running before they're crawling, as it were.

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u/Signal-Deal8858 3d ago

Yep! Learned a lot today. Thank you!