What to do with deadout honey frames?

[Glen H]

So One of my three hives was a dead out.
There is still a deep 1/2 full of honey and a medium half full of honey frames.
Some of the frames are damp, I have them drying in the basement and some of the wax seal on the honey comb has poop on it. So I don't want to extract the honey due to the moisture and the bee poop and dead bees with their heads in the cells.
I'm planning on putting some each into the two hive. I also have a new 9 frame nuc deep coming soon and plan to to add some frames of honey to that new hive too. My understanding is the bees with clean off the wax dry out any damp open honey cells and reseal them!?!?? So if this is true, will I later be able to extract these frame of honey or should I just leave them for the bees?  Should they be put on the outward edges of the brood chambers or up above the brood chamber?

Thanks!
Glen

[Steel Tiger]

 I had 2 deadouts this winter. Both hives had plenty of honey in both the deeps and the mediums. After I cleaned out the bees, I just sealed the hives until my packages arrived. The first hive was installed almost 4 weeks ago and are doing fine. They used up most of the honey and cleaned up the frames.
The second hive was installed yesterday. When I released the queen today, the bees were all over the combs fixing up the hive as they wanted.
When I was cleaning out the dead bees, one of the honey comb broke and fell out of the frame. I kept the comb in a container until I could feed it back to the hive. I just sat it on a table about 50 yards from the hives. It didn't take long for bees to find it and clean it out.

If the frames had poop on them, you bees might have died from a disease. Unless you can determine what the bees died from, your best option may be to cut the comb from the frames and toss it. Then clean the frames, boxes, covers, and bottom board with bleach water.

[Glen H]

Thanks!
I believe they pooped inside, from being cooped up for too many month without getting a cleaning flight.
It was one heck of a winter here, colder and snowier then usual....

I have scraped off the frames that had poop on it and the box walls too. not much is on the wax, just in spots.
I could scrap those sections out.
If I'm putting the honey frame back into the new hive should i score the wax to expose the honey or let them rip open the wax if they feel the need for it?


Glen

[Steel Tiger]

 They'll uncap the honey themselves.