All three survived the winter.
I've been putting off doing an inspection, and decided to do one on Sunday morning (4-5-15). I was not expecting what i found:
Small hive: 4 frames of eggs, larva, and capped brood in the super, none in the deep, but there were lots of bees. This hive should start taking off soon.
Big hive one: As soon as i opened the hive, i found some comb that had been build in the candy board. This made me think they were getting nectar from somewhere. I looked in the super and found 3 full frames of newly capped honey
along with a couple frames of eggs, larva, and brood. The deep below it had 8 frames of eggs, larva, and brood, and one frame of honey next to a frame feeder. This is the first time i have seen brood against the side wall of the hive. The center frames of the bottom deep looked like they had been cleaned, but no eggs yet. I decided to rotate the bottom deep up and put the upper deep on the bottom, added a super, and moved 2 of the full honey frames up to the new super with a frame of undrawn foundation in between them.Big hive 2: Lots of bees, lots of eggs, larva, and brood, and 2 frames of new honey. This hive is slightly behind the other big hive. I rotated the bottom deep up and put the upper deep on the bottom, added a super and moved 1 of the full honey frames up to center.
So, if you have Burdell's from last year that overwintered, and haven't checked them...might want to do so soon. I now need to finish getting equipment ready so that i can continue to add supers and hopefully prevent swarming!!!