Got one !!!

I GOT A QUEEN!!!!! I was finally able to check out my hive a week ago and I saw some eggs. As soon as I saw that I probably had a qyeen I put the hive back together so not to disturb them. I knew I would have to open it back up and mark the queen. The following is the color you mark your bees based on the year:

Years ending in 1 or 6 = WHITE
Years ending in 2 or 7 = YELLOW
Years ending in 3 or 8 = RED
Years ending in 4 or 9 = GREEN
Years ending in 5 or 0 = BLUE

My strong hive has been moving right along, I just added another super to it so it now has a deep and 4 supers. I can't wait to pull some honey off. I should be able to pull 2 supers off which gives about 30 to 40 pounds per super. So that should be atleast 60 pounds!! I wish my other hive wouldn't of swarmed!!!!

Waiting on a Queen

Well It has been a weak+ and I have no Queen. I have an option to go buy a Queen or wait and see if they produce one? I see that there are at least 2 Queen cells but I do not know when they will hatch. It takes 16 days (from egg to adult) to produce a Queen. It do not know when the queen cell was produced but I am going to check again in about 10 days. That should be plenty of time. Again, I could go out and buy one but I need to learn how this all works and get practical knowledge vs. a book knowledge. This will probably hurt my chances on getting any honey on the next honey flow but I need to learn. I did take a frame of brood from the strong hive and switched it with the weak hive. I hope this will help some and maybee keep my strong hive from swarming. At least I should get some honey from my strong hive.

I also put a bid on an honey extractor on ebay. This bee hobby/biz iz getting expensive!!