This is a video showing new bee keepers transferring a bee colonies from a framed hive into a top bar hive (TBH) and all the mistakes they can make. We do not have proper outfit but our local beekeeper mentor wears nothing, not even a hat! To cut the frames, Jacqueline wanted to get away from the hive so that we get less bees around us or make them angry. The original frames were nailed twice at their end so it made it quite difficult to cut, because so we broke one of the two frames we had to cut and format. We fixed the broken comb on a new top bar, and close the hive As you will see, we were lucky, my bees are very well mannered. Merci à Jacqueline for her help and thank you Motoko for being the camerawoman 
No Spring feeding or coddling for my girls… they can darn well go rustle up their own food! Next week i plan to remove the tarpaper winter hive wraps and go into the hives to arrange them with the brood area down below. In other words, if the bottom deep boxes are empty, I will reverse them to the top so the queens will have plenty of comb to expand up into to lay brood. I may put some supers on at that point if they seem ready. I also will transfer the 5-frame nucs each into their own new roomy 10 frame deep hive and let them grow.
