Early Summer Check

A good day for inspection. Two colonies survived the winter, Hive 2 and Hive 4. Hive 2 very busy and increasing as expected. Drone brood in abundance as well as worker brood. No sign as yet of any queen cups/cells. Hive modified to brood and a half system. Hive 4 Queen spotted and isolated to check for any queen cells. No queen cells as yet. Loads of worker brood and to a lesser extent drone brood. Removed 3 frames of brood at various stages of development and placed these in empty Hive 5. Gave this hive loads of food in honey stores. An experiement to see if this hive can be viable by raising new queen cells from the eggs. Will re-visit this hive in a week's time. Hive modified to brood and a half system.