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Brandon's Bees
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🐝 Welcome to Brandon's Bees! 🐝 I'm Brandon, your local beekeeper from Ohio. Our channel is all about sharing the fascinating world of beekeeping, honey harvesting, and everything in between. Join our buzzing community as we explore the ins and outs of maintaining healthy hives, creating sustainable environments for our bees, and producing delicious honey. 🍯🌼
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Don't Miss Out on the Buzz: Talking Queens 🐝 with Greg Burns! @NaturesImageFarmGregBurns
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In this interview with Ohio Beekeeper Greg Burns from Natures Image Farm, we get to learn all about Queen bees. This is a must watch interview if you want to learn more about queens, the future of Natures Images Farm queen breeding, and more. Watch as Greg Burns shares his experiences and knowledge about beekeeping with us in this amazing interview.
Pre-Winter Hive Inspection: A Beekeeper's Ideal Hive for Success
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Do you want to make sure your beehive is ready for the winter season? In this video, we'll show you how to inspect your beehives before winter in order to make sure they're ready! This video is for beekeepers who want to inspect their beehives before winter in order to make sure they're ready for the cold weather. We'll show you how to inspect your beehives in double deep, single deep, and 4-5 ...
September Beekeeping: and NEW Apiary UPDATE! 🐝
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We've got some exciting news for September beekeepers! We've recently added a brand-new apiary to the farm, so be sure to check it out! We've also got some exciting beekeeping tips for September, so be sure to check them out! From hive maintenance to September queens, we'll cover everything you need to know to manage your bees successfully in September! 00:00 New Apiary Update 00:39 Box of Bees...
NEW Apiary! A Short Journey
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In this video, I'm going on a small journey to set up a new apiary. It's been a long time coming to set up new apiaries, and I'm excited to finally be making it a reality! This is a small journey, but it's a journey that will have a big impact. I'm excited to be setting up a new apiary, and I hope that it can help to contribute growth for our bees. Thanks for watching!
Queens and Bees with @brucesbees at The Creator Convergence 2023
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Interviewing Bruce Jenne at The Creator Convergence 2023 hosted by Nature's Image Farm! Dive in as we talk about queens and the community surrounding beekeeping!
Upgrade Your Honey Bottling Game: A Must-Have Equipment Revealed
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Upgrade Your Honey Bottling Game: A Must-Have Equipment Revealed
Beat the Heat: Essential Beekeeping Tips for Summer Survival
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Beat the Heat: Essential Beekeeping Tips for Summer Survival
400+ Pounds of Raw HONEY: How to Harvest Honey 🍯 🍯
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400 Pounds of Raw HONEY: How to Harvest Honey 🍯 🍯
How To Make Queen Mating Nucs - Made SIMPLE
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How To Make Queen Mating Nucs - Made SIMPLE
How To Make A Queen Cell Builder - Made SIMPLE
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How To Make A Queen Cell Builder - Made SIMPLE
Doubled the Bee Population! Watch if We Transformed THIS Hive!
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Doubled the Bee Population! Watch if We Transformed THIS Hive!
How to Mark a Queen Bee Made SIMPLE - One Hand Cage Method!
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How to Mark a Queen Bee Made SIMPLE - One Hand Cage Method!
How To Equalize YOUR Beehives in Spring? - Beekeeping
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How To Equalize YOUR Beehives in Spring? - Beekeeping
🐝 Open The Loop: Get the Secret on How to Install an In Hive Feeder ! 🐝
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🐝 Open The Loop: Get the Secret on How to Install an In Hive Feeder ! 🐝
Bees: The Unseen Good, The Painful Bad - What You LIKE To See in March!
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Bees: The Unseen Good, The Painful Bad - What You LIKE To See in March!
How to Reverse Brood Chambers So Easily You'll Be Shocked - Here's How!
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How to Reverse Brood Chambers So Easily You'll Be Shocked - Here's How!
How to Make Your Colonies Strong Out of Winter! Part Two.
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How to Make Your Colonies Strong Out of Winter! Part Two.
Unbelievable Beekeeping Hack: Feed Your Bees THIS in Spring!
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Unbelievable Beekeeping Hack: Feed Your Bees THIS in Spring!
How to Give Your Bees the Perfect Spring Upgrade!
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How to Give Your Bees the Perfect Spring Upgrade!
Excellent, clear, step by step. I Just missed that you placed them In cup while the cup was facing up then placed the frame with jelly facing down with open cup facing the bottom. Correct?
Hi IAM Kelly Inae from Goroka Papua New Guinea. I am a honey farmer I am interested about your 1 minute honey bottle machine. How are you selling it for. Would help me through details how to get it working and trouble shorting too.
How do the bees know to put royal jelly in there?
If you heat the bucket it will fill faster cause the honey is thinner.. i use a bucket heater witch heat to about 90-100 which doesn't affect the honey
Thank you for another helpful tutorial. Next spring we will try this.
Can this fill gallon jugs?
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Thanks for the queen calendar. This is very helpful.
This is a great video. I have been watching queen rearing videos for over a week and none explained how it is done. Thank you for this video. I can not believe how easy it is.
Thanks for the step by step video.
Great info. I’m confused you said not to flip upside down but when you put in the hive did they not get turned upside down? I may have misunderstood how you were inserting the graft initially. Ty
He's talking about the larvae being inserted onto the bottom of the plastic cell. Slide the end of the tool under the larvae, lift, and push the larvae onto the bottom of the plastic cell. The larvae stays with the royal jelly, and is still on top, as seen originally in the comb.
Thank you I now understand after watching a few times. Next year I'm trying this. Ty
@@kiqueenbeesthanks for your help.
Thats really good and i live the transparency and honesty. I also love how clear this video is, i cant wait to try doing this myself, just gotta save some $ somehow lol.
Men your bees are gentle,,damn in Africa we deal with mad bees,,crazy!!
If your Breeder Queen is an Italian/Yellow; why is it that her daughters are not all yellow also This has always confused me as i’ve also bred from yellow Queens and Resulted in Hybrid yellow/ black Virgins
I totally love carny queens , fantastic bees ,great queen layers and temperament much better than Italians in my book.
I swear you had 2 queens in that hive , one walked from the centre out to the right top corner direction and the one in the centre you zoomed in on . Lol my bad she back tracked ,didn’t notice it till after a couple of looks at it. Awesome videos btw . I like the way other bee keepers work with their hives,there is always something we can learn from one another no matter how long we been beekeeping.
I have seen a few grafting videos , yours has the best footage of up close with larva and very clear of what they look like and actually getting them out of the cells , only a question probably many ask is why their take is not as good as it should be , seeing your larvae on what you picked out for the cells yet still approximately 50% take so that million dollar question why they didn’t accept the others has me stumped. Awesome video this one , 👍
I've been a bee keeper for a little over 25 years I've never made my own queens I've always bought queens. I rent for pollination so I ain't got much time to make queens. Nowadays the bees have mites and beetles to deal with years ago an old bee keeper told me start running Russians they can deal with mites and beetle better than any bee. He was right. Also Russian bees tent to survive winter much better than any bee. But they are alot more aggressive. Of course I rent for pollination that alone can stress a hive. Making my own queens would have saved me THOUSANDS of dollars. Any just getting into bee keeping I suggest Russians to many times a new bee keeper with purchase everything needed and the bee die over winter or from mites and discourage the new keeper. Russians also produce more honey. I can definitely see why a easy going bee is easier to work with while grafting.
31 fired out of 33 postponed larvae. Breeding my queen bees ua-cam.com/users/shortsGgp4DE6aeAA?si=WEqdKupwNHF3aQGv
hey nice job giving directions, we are in south eastern Ct.
I saw a video or read an article years ago where a guy intentionally flipped half of his larvae and the take rate was the same.
I need to test that out then!
Brandon ive just purchased the exact same spinner here in the uk but our honey frames are maybe half as deep so ive made a perspex plate in the bottom to hold and spin 12 frames at a time with no need to turn the frame half way through.
I need to look into that then for my medium frames! Would love to save me some time on the extraction!
I have a couple of questions How long does it take to emerge from the cell? Do we need to keep in a hive until it fully get matured?
From egg laid to hatching it takes 16 days for the queen to emerge on average. We graft when they go from egg to larvae around the 3- or 4-day mark so for me on average it takes 13 or 12 days for them to emerge after grafting. I keep my queen cells in individual roll cages in an incubator until they are about to emerge. If you keep them in the hive, I recommend something to keep them separated in case one emerges early and tries to get rid of the rest of your cells!
Makes me hungry for a peanut butter and royal jelly sandwich
where did u get your clear shield for your face. I found them overseas but can't get anyone to contact me to purchase one. i have bad eyesight and have a very hard time seeing thru the mesh
The screen is called "The easy see". Here is a link if that helps! www.theeasysee.com/
Thanks for the info. I appreciate it. I have one question is do you leave your cell builder closed in all the time? Thank you
You're welcome hope you enjoyed it! I always leave an entrance for these cell builders. For bees to come and go and to regulate heat I never completely enclose them without an escape. Thanks much!
Id go for a little younger larva.. I was told find moon shape.. not C shape.. They look like good queens though!
The younger you can go the better! Its easier for me to not "flip" the larvae with the C shaped! thanks for the comment!
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Awesome video. Really enjoyed very informative. Great job!!
Thank you so much I appreciate you watching!
One question on my mind is that the direction of the queen cell is towards the gravity (surface), the developing larvae that are grafted will not fell down ??
Good idea/ point but the cup is face down in order for the bees to draw it out. Im not sure why they do it that way but a queen cell going down vertically is how they make queen cells!
Cool
How?
That’s my dawg!
Sweet boy🤍
The man's tempting the wrath of God.
Pretty comfortable since it doesn't exist
Hey Brandon's Bees I've added your channel to my channel home page because I watched all three of your queen raising videos. Very well done. Thanks, I'm going to try grafting this season.
Please do and let me know how it goes if you get a chance! Glad you enjoyed it and keep up with the content as I continue to show things on here. Thanks much!
When you take the larva out can you press down on the adjoining cell to get the larvae out better. Great video on raising queens.
Great question. A lot of the times I do press down on the adjacent cell to see the one I'm trying to get from better!
So how long do you leave the cells before you go back into them to check if they are mated and laying?
The earliest if I know she will emerge in a day or two, I wait 14 days, usually like to wait longer around 21 days to give her a full week of laying and its easier to see if you have a successful queen or not!
Just what I was looking for. Going to try this next month (March 2024), This is my 6th season beekeeping.
Hey Richard, Glad it was helpful, and I hope you have a successful attempt in March! Best of beekeeping in 2024
Great interview with Brian from Castle Hives 🐝✌️💜🌼🍯 Thanks for sharing Brandon 😁👍
Thanks and thank you for the kind comment Jessica! 😁
Enjoyed this. That was a great day Brandon.
Always enjoy our chats Brian! Thanks.
Good video.. stop looking at the viewer on your camera.
So if I heard right you got 400 pounds of honey on your first year? Also how many hives do you have?
Just a handful of hives for honey production. The others are used to make more bees. Good question
Awesome info!!
Thank you !
Winter wonderland😍
Cool 👍
Are you using a lighted magnifier to film this and to see to do the grafting? This looks easy if one can see the larvae like that.
I don't use a magnifier when grafting as I can see in the cells with the naked eye. I know of other beekeepers who buy prescription glasses just for this process.
What camera did you use to film this?@@brandonsbees1
Any way great. . . . . we lost our . local bee becouse of swarm ...so .....my question it that if i have queen. just put in to that box then they creat colony or ?
sorry to hear about the swarm. The queen bee needs worker bees to help support the young as the queen doesn't take care of the young herself. Usually people buy packages of bees (3 lbs. of bees) with their queen. There are different routes I would look around in your area to see what works best for you.
Great vid. Are JZBZ cups reusable or do you toss them after a single use? Thanks for posting.
Thank you and I don't reuse the JZBZ cups. I have heard from other beekeepers that the take of the cells goes down and then I hear of others who use warm water to "clean" the cups to reuse them.
Best Close-Up Video Footage ! Awesome. . . So many Folk shake and wobble their Camera's: that will not Focus either ! Sure I couldn't do the Camera work either. Do want to try & attempt some Grafting over Splits (or Indenting Comb) to make a HQL Hive 'make' me some Queen Cells. . . 😎 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2024 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Thank you very much! You should try and try again... I don't think the technique will ever be perfect but yes, I do like the process of indenting the comb also! Best of beekeeping in 2024!