Trials and tribulations of a beginning beek

[VolunteerK9]

Long post so bear with me. On April 17th, I hived my first three packages. After a week, I checked and all queens had been released. At two weeks, eggs and larvae were in two hives, spotty drone brood in the third. No queen. Bought new queen, built a queen introduction cage, placed frame of brood and eggs in hive and waited a week and a half and opened the queen intro cage. Checked yesterday on all three hives and my new queen was hard at work so whew...problem solved.  I popped the top on the last  hive, and holy smokes it was boiling over with bees-two mediums with all frames drawn-over half of them foundationless.  Now enters another hiccup.  On the 16th of May, I installed four more packages. Checked on them yesterday, and found out the reason why I had a huge population increase in the other hive. One of my recent packages apparently liked the living arrangements of the other hive better so they left and joined it. All that was left was a two fisted handful of bees with released queen. So, I took a frame of brood and a frame of capped/uncapped honey from the boomer hive and placed the handful of bees in a nuc. Good grief. All in a months time.

[FRAMEshift]

Very exciting!  You are clearly paying attention and giving your bees what they need.  And you are getting important experience pretty early in your beekeeping career.  May you live in interesting times.  :-D

[Irwin]

I'm glad thing's worked out for you :-D

[VolunteerK9]

I'm glad thing's worked out for you :-D

Yup, and thanks for all your help.