On thursday the three new hives were put into position, to the left of the red Q from the back, with the yellow hive brown roof on the right between the mini plus shelf and the old aflegger with a red Qcell.
Splits were taken from the new green Q in the brussels swarm, the red Q and Etiennes swarm.
A combi of two foundation frames, four honey frames and five brood frames were split off and replaced with foundation. Etienne's swarm only had a couple of duits norm frames in it the rest are the simplex frames with the wood and metal castellation, so i had to shake five frames in to the new hive with just foundation and one frame of honey and brood.
The order is Green, Red, Etienne, in terms of where the bees come from.
These become 5,6 & 8 hives in the numeric order of the big hives with 10 here in Tollembeek and 1 in Overboelare with oma.
5 gets a Buckfast Q from micro A, introduced with smoke only after 2 days without
6 has a yellow Q from micro B, introduced just with smoke.
8 has a Carnica Q from micro F, introduced with a sugar ended cage.
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