Hi Ian, many thanks. I do preemptive swarm prevention splits. Therefore I’m hoping to not find any queen cells. Bare in mind that it’s the start of spring, so even if we act a little too soon, it doesn’t matter because the colony has the rest of spring to rebuild. The main thing is to prevent swarms. I’m not letting my single honey supers get full of bees. I split before that happens.
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Update checked the two hives on Monday.
1 had a mated queen, the other a virgin queen. Hopefully when i check end of next week i should start to see eggs.
Sunday’s Activity
This Afternoon
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And here I was, thinking I was getting into this for the honey 
Looks like I was completely wrong. Thank goodness I like learning new things!
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Update::
Looks like the new queens are goung well.
This one above is a frame from the 5 frame nuc.
There is 1 and 1/2 frames that haven’t been drawn out yet.
Above is 2 frames from the 8 frame Flow hive 2+ there is still two frames not drawn out yet.,
The queens we estimate being 22 days old. “big guess”
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They are beautiful frames of brood Daz. Absolutely beautiful.
You can only guess the age of the queen, based on when the emergency queen cells were built. To my mind, they have a 6 day window with which to build queen cells. Anything from newly laid eggs to larvae on it’s 3rd day of royal jelly.
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Thanks Jeff
Well they are from your stock. 
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Just a check on the resources coming in to the nuc.
This was Monday
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