Hive #1 is still going strong. The bees are starting to draw out the comb in the upper 10 frames of the new hive body that I put on last week. They probably consumed about 2-3 quarts of sugar syrup in the last six days.
Hive #2 still has the new queen. She's been there two full weeks now so I'm guessing she's been accepted. Still can't tell if there is any worker brood in that hive. There is so much drone brood that it's hard to say. I found the queen wandering around in a fairly new frame of comb that had no brood at all on it yet. Wondering if she just gave up on the junk drone frames and is waiting for a new spot to start laying.
I also removed a full frame of capped brood from Hive #1 and placed it into Hive #2 in an effort to keep the population from dieing off before the new queen can start laying. I pulled one of the junk drone brood frames from the bottom and put it into the top hive body to make room for the frame of worker brood. I brushed all the bees from Hive #1 off the frame before transferring it. This was the first time I used a bee brush and it was very effective.
I'll be checking the hive in a few days to see how that frame looks. Hoping that it will indeed bring some new bees into that colony because it is very week. They barely took any sugar syrup all week.
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