Inspecting the culls, why its best to merge your weakest beehives

This one really shows why you should cull your weak hives instead of trying too get them through winter them build them up.
I inspect 9 hives that did not get merged with stringer hives a month ago. Each of these hives was 1 to 2 frames of bees a month prior to this inspection. What did the hard freeze do to the bees? It showed us why weak colonies struggle in the winter.

[@KajunHomestead]

Great video

[@honeybeesunlimited]

Thanks!

[@kareneaton3395]

When your frames of worker cells have had drones produced in them, are the cells streached out? Can you use them again in a queen right colony and will the queen lay workes in those cells? Or are they ruined?

[@honeybeesunlimited]

I reuse them, unless it is majority camped. Most times it seems they rehab them. I don't like reusing mostly caps frames for fear of mites in all the drone comb.

[@russellkoopman3004]

Interesting. Everyone else only shows their strong hives so I don't get to see a hive that is struggling. Keep us informed how you fix/move on with these hives. You don't have enough bees there to donate frames of brood yet so it must be a waiting game.

[@honeybeesunlimited]

To be fair. These bees were meant to be merged but we ran out of time before we sent the rest to California for Almond pollination. This is a good example of why we merge the weak ones. Thanks for watching.