technically its my second attempt at a first hive, my first one was a weak swarm and then the queen died about a month ago and the colony died out. in regards to the re-queening, we have a few people who are rearing queens so i will get in touch with them soon, my mate whos property the hive is on has been sending me almost daily updates, so far very positive, lots of activity around the hive so they seemed to have settled in well, i will try to inspect them in the next week or so. thanks for the advice, the weather is starting to warm up down here so more activity is expected.