Hive check 7/8/17

In today's hive check, here are some of my observations.

1) Nuc has survived and I saw lots of comb building, larvae and enough capped and uncapped honey so I added half a sugar/crisco patty to the top and closed it back up.

2)

• Hive #1 continues to show lots of activity including many queen cells which I removed except for one frame that had a beautiful queen cell that I moved into another Nuc along with a few frames of capped and uncapped honey and some brood.  Just three frames into the new Nuc.  I just needed to remove some of the uncapped honey thinking this deep was low on space to lay eggs.
• The upper deep where I moved out frames last week is getting filled so all I did was remove extra comb and moved out one uncapped honey frame to the new Nuc.
• The lower deep showed larvae, capped and uncapped honey, capped brood, very little drone cells. Again I didn't need to do anything other than remove some extra comb and queen cells. The lower deep is very heavy so they are gathering enough honey to get them through the winter.
• I also checked the two supers...one is very heavy with honey but as I looked at a few frames in there, some was still uncapped so I left it all in there and think that in a few weeks, I can take honey out of this hive.
• The top super is being worked on but there's still plenty of space for them to store more honey

3) Hive #2 continues to build...the poor thing got such a slow start.  But I've watched the activity and lots of pollen is going in and comb is being built and eggs are being laid so I have a queen.  It looks like I have three queens  - one per hive - which is awesome...and maybe a fourth on the way in that new Nuc.

• I don't expect any honey out of this hive this year. If I can build up the population though, and keep it going through the winter, I would have a good start for next year.
• This might be a good hive to top with the first Nuc to winter over and it will help to keep the Nuc warm.

I'm going to order another hive kit to give me a complete set, hoping to put the Nuc into the new hive soon and hopefully giving it time to grow before the winter.  Once done, this will become Hive 3...hopefully!