Inspect Second Beehive and Plan for Splitting

honey. Once we get this burome off, everything so far looks pretty darn good. We don't want this burr comb in here. It just is useless for us. Okay, pop out one of the frames that looks the busiest. And what we're doing is checking our frame to see if that the queen is laying. So, we get this frame out. We already have capp brood in here. So, everything looks great. this hive. You can see that capped brood and then you can see the little worms in there and that's larvae. We have larvae in various stages. Right here we have larvae in various stages. This hive is healthy. This hive is doing great. We will add the honey super to the top of it. Give these guys all the food that they can handle. Slide our hive top feeder on just like so with the screen to the back. Our queen cage was stuck on here. Peel that off. Set it to the side. We got to get these bees off before we put the lid on. What we're going to do is just shake them off in front of the hive. Just like that. Boom. Guys, that's kind of it for the first check on the bees. This should be done about 3 4 days after you introduce your new package to your hive. Normally, we won't put another super on, but I happen to have supers full of honey. So, we're going to go ahead and put them on there because I don't want to harvest the honey. I'll use it for the bees and let them get a good healthy start. Good practice in your bee yard is to make sure you keep things all picked up and cleaned up. If you don't keep your bey yard all cleaned up, it'll look like a total disaster. And if you guys haven't been to beyards that are total disaster yet, and you're just getting into beekeeping, get ready. You're going to see it. We're going to go ahead and set out some cinder blocks to get started on another hive right here. We're going to do a split. Next week, we're going to split our big hive and we're going to make two or three little hives. Now, you might say, Josh, why are you going to do a split on a hive that's healthy and looks good? Well, if we don't do some splits, guys, we'll end up with swarms, and we may catch them and we may not. We need to build the population of bees here in our bee yard because we lost so many. So, we'll split early in the year, just before the big peak nectar flow, and give them a great chance of awesome survival, and that way we'll have more hives. Our goal here on Stony Ridge Farm was to have 100 hives within 5 years. We're on year number three and we only have three hives. So, we got to…