New bees

finally got the queen installed and brought them to the house until we move. as you can see they're doing well. Will check on  the queen probably saturday to make sure she got out of her cage okay.
we will also be checking the other hives to make sure the queens are released from their cages.

Later:
We were able to check all 4 hives ( not the split) and all the queens were out. We found that 3 of the frames in one of the Washburn hives were not stapled on the top and were falling apart when we picked them up! The bees were drawing raw  foundation on those frames. It will be like a top bar hive! Also on the other hive they were coming in through the inspection board slot in the rear. Had to tape that one up. the Washburn hives had not taken much of the sugar syrup so we did not put any more. We did find both queens.

The Tazewell apiary: the new bees are russians. Queens were found. Bees were very busy drawing foundation. Very impressed with the progress.

We inspected the main hive since Sterling did not see the queen when he did the split. Finally found her. Saw quite alot of drone brood, not many eggs, but larve and capped brood.

the challenge with the frames and some of the foundation not wanting to stay in the frames because we did not use pins a lot of lessons learned today a lot of progress made we're  pleased