Bee Installation Day -- Final Prep

After squirting & mounting waxes since 7am this morning, I decided I'd better get going on finishing up the hives...

Time to wax the top bars of the foundation-less frames.. I melted some of the wax harvested from the original, wild hives (see earlier post for wax pics)... Hope I did this right!

Then jotted down which frames had foundation (W) & which did not -- so I'll know when harvesting which ones to later expect to have wires in them...

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Several hours later (~4pm)... Had to get some work done, ya know....

Time to get the hives back together & get them outside... My father set up a wind-break for them early this morning.

Also time to take off all of the wood supports from the bee-hives. Man, they really packed these up nicely! I decided to keep the top crosspiece in place to make transport down to the hive location easier...

Installation coming up...

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Caught my dad in the act of talking to the chickens...