Hi Richard, there re hundreds of vids about beekeeping your vids are outstanding absolutely fantastic made with passion and great quality. I could learn so much out of these videos. Whenever you come to NZ pop in for 1 or 2 ....bottles of wine.
Another great video Richard!!! The extra effort and commitment to making videos about bee keeping is wonderful. You are so very correct. Time is always struggle. I work 50-60 hr work week and two dozen colonies in two apiaries keep me extremely busy building equipment and tending to the bees in two apiaries.
How long do you need lo leave the nuc queen less before adding queen. Or can you add it as soon as you pull it. I made a nuc and added queen in cage straight away left them 2 days but they kept balling queen when I released her.
Those metal lids , it would be a good idea to paint them a white colour to help reflect the heat, the metal won’t hold to much heat when there painted , just sayin. 👍
Do you not use Palmeresque double nuc resource hives with mini-supers to create nucs as I thought the appeal of using them was to avoid weakening mature honey production colonies such as the one in this video?
No because they aren't strong enough to make the best Queens... Better to take the queen out of strong hive and bank her... Let them raise cells then nuc them and return queen
Love your videos, I have a question about queen matting. Ask 10 beekeepers and get 12 different answers, I know but do queens mate with drones in the same yard? I have read queens will fly up to 10 miles away on their matting flight and drones just can’t do that. Idea being they would rather not mate with those drones close to them, just something I’ve read, really stuck with me after Canadian Beekeepers Blog said it in one of his videos.
Thanks for taking the time to make these videos! The detailed explanations of how and why you are doing things is so helpful and is fantastic for training purposes.
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog interesting thought. I can’t say that these particular poly nucs would fare better than wood (outside) in your severe cold weather and temperatures. For me, a lot of the positive is the lightness of the box and the fact it’s actually 6 frames and not 5. That extra 1 space does give a fair bit of leverage next spring when it all kicks off, whereas 5 frames really is unmanageable for any length of time in spring. They seem to perform really well for us here and being completely universal in size and weight as the one next door, you can easily assess the stores instantly. I suppose you could say”what works for you “ And I was very sceptical about them in initially! Cheaper and easier to prepare too!
@@richardnoel3141 Exactly what I've been doing these past few years making more 6 framers. Well actually could hold 7 but I either keep a masonite frame feeder or division board for side by side 3 framers for queens. So much easier for me to run my queens in 3 deeps frames and at the end of season I leave 1 queen in and pull my divider up. I am also trying some foam nucs for queen rearing I made up with all free material and so far has been working beautiful, but time will tell come the end of the season on how well they hold up. Good video brother.
jeremys bees yes indeed, trying to divide up a 5 framed nuc is a dilemma, cutting a strong 6 framed nuc in half is just easy! That’s another reason why I’ve gone over to mostly 6 framed hives!!
Bub hello, their an insulation material from the building and construction industry. You have to buy a roll of the stuff and then cut it up to your requirements,
Paul Gerry if you want them to make their own be sure one of the frames has lots of young larvae or eggs. Then they will make their own. You may consider a more specific technique instead when you don’t havé queens available. One like this : ua-cam.com/video/9KEsJEmv2_c/v-deo.html
Very informative as usual and just in time, on making up nucs can i take a frame of brood and eggs/larve no bees from a placid hive and nurse bees from my strong aggresive hive to look after them without the aggresivness transfering to the new brood, i would like them to raise a queen from the placid hive larve but to do it in this years nucs would mean sacrificing thier queen. i would obviously put frames of brood from the aggresive hive to replace the ones i put in the nuc so as not to make them weak. As you know i'm short on resourses to pick and choose. I do not want to make queens from the aggresive hive queen. thanks
Derek Greenhalgh you can make a new nuc from another colony and just give that queen to the agressive colony after the flow has finished. Just making a queen from existing genetics dosent always mean you willgets more agressive queen. It’s what’s flying around that makes the difference. Kill her at the end of the season, divide the agressive colony up equally and give each colony a frame of eggs, that way you get the use of the colony all summer then you get to use her resources wisely for next season! Do what would suit your needs!
Brilliant video as usual Richard, love the energy you put into every video! They look like nice nucs, I've tried a few makes and each of them have their pros & cons. Hard to find the perfect one
Good looking nuc, very strong.
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4:48 that Drone is HUGE know wonder people think they are queens.
Hi Richard, there re hundreds of vids about beekeeping your vids are outstanding absolutely fantastic made with passion and great quality. I could learn so much out of these videos. Whenever you come to NZ pop in for 1 or 2 ....bottles of wine.
Manfred Hirsch thanks very much you might regret offering that! Thanks for your kind comments too!
Regards
@@richardnoel3141 wine tastes always good in good company
How to order queens from you your buckfast quees I’m in Florida US
Another great video Richard!!! The extra effort and commitment to making videos about bee keeping is wonderful. You are so very correct. Time is always struggle. I work 50-60 hr work week and two dozen colonies in two apiaries keep me extremely busy building equipment and tending to the bees in two apiaries.
Corey Matheson Thanks Corey, you know!! 😉! But it’s all work we love, let’s face it, no one could afford to pay us to do it!!🙄😂! Have a great season!
How long do you need lo leave the nuc queen less before adding queen. Or can you add it as soon as you pull it. I made a nuc and added queen in cage straight away left them 2 days but they kept balling queen when I released her.
Those metal lids , it would be a good idea to paint them a white colour to help reflect the heat, the metal won’t hold to much heat when there painted , just sayin. 👍
Do you not use Palmeresque double nuc resource hives with mini-supers to create nucs as I thought the appeal of using them was to avoid weakening mature honey production colonies such as the one in this video?
When dividing a bee hive into a nuc without the queen how long do you leave the entrance closed before letting the bees fly
Really good explanation of how to make a good nuc. I might be doing this next spring!
I know I'm kinda randomly asking but do anyone know of a good website to watch new movies online?
@Mekhi Finn I would suggest FlixZone. Just search on google for it :)
@Bryce Joshua Definitely, I have been watching on flixzone for since march myself :)
@Bryce Joshua thanks, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there =) I really appreciate it !
@Mekhi Finn You are welcome =)
Can you let the nuc bees build their own queen, if you make sure there are fresh eggs in the frames?
No because they aren't strong enough to make the best Queens... Better to take the queen out of strong hive and bank her... Let them raise cells then nuc them and return queen
linoleum Bonypart ok, thanks for that info.👍
Love your videos, I have a question about queen matting. Ask 10 beekeepers and get 12 different answers, I know but do queens mate with drones in the same yard? I have read queens will fly up to 10 miles away on their matting flight and drones just can’t do that. Idea being they would rather not mate with those drones close to them, just something I’ve read, really stuck with me after Canadian Beekeepers Blog said it in one of his videos.
Hi Richard very good vid as usual common sense and practical skills I know your ease of operation I have seen you in action 😎👍
Colin Edwards it was good to have you over Colin, glad you were able to teach me new skills!
Any time Richard glad your learnt something your a great pupil 😎🐝
The French bees love you two 😂
Hi Richard where do you get the clear plastic covers. Awesome videos.
Plastic for Poly tunnels but you can use lighter plastic, it just dosent last as long.we like the 300 microns thickness in our pastil frame cover.
Thank you ))) Nice video!
Hi Richard, at 5:11 what is that aluminium sheet you put on your hives? Do those go on all year round? Love how you do things!
The metal sheet at 5.11 is Insulation (eg place behind heating radiators etc...)
Think it's called Reflectex.
Amazing video subbed
Thanks for taking the time to make these videos! The detailed explanations of how and why you are doing things is so helpful and is fantastic for training purposes.
Stephen Biggers thanks Stephen, I enjoy sharing what I’ve learned!
That bee was Very interested in You.. LoL 😁...
Very cool man I can't wait to get started
Wonder why North America hasn’t caught on to poly hives,?
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog interesting thought. I can’t say that these particular poly nucs would fare better than wood (outside) in your severe cold weather and temperatures.
For me, a lot of the positive is the lightness of the box and the fact it’s actually 6 frames and not 5. That extra 1 space does give a fair bit of leverage next spring when it all kicks off, whereas 5 frames really is unmanageable for any length of time in spring.
They seem to perform really well for us here and being completely universal in size and weight as the one next door, you can easily assess the stores instantly.
I suppose you could say”what works for you “
And I was very sceptical about them in initially!
Cheaper and easier to prepare too!
@@richardnoel3141 Exactly what I've been doing these past few years making more 6 framers. Well actually could hold 7 but I either keep a masonite frame feeder or division board for side by side 3 framers for queens. So much easier for me to run my queens in 3 deeps frames and at the end of season I leave 1 queen in and pull my divider up. I am also trying some foam nucs for queen rearing I made up with all free material and so far has been working beautiful, but time will tell come the end of the season on how well they hold up. Good video brother.
jeremys bees yes indeed, trying to divide up a 5 framed nuc is a dilemma, cutting a strong 6 framed nuc in half is just easy! That’s another reason why I’ve gone over to mostly 6 framed hives!!
Awesome looking brood nest, nice slabs of brood
Another great video, thanks for making
Hello. Swedish beekeeper hete. Where do you buy your soft aly foil covers?
Bub hello, their an insulation material from the building and construction industry. You have to buy a roll of the stuff and then cut it up to your requirements,
Hi Richard
Doing it this way will the Nuc create queen cells ie a new queen ?
Paul Gerry if you want them to make their own be sure one of the frames has lots of young larvae or eggs. Then they will make their own.
You may consider a more specific technique instead when you don’t havé queens available.
One like this : ua-cam.com/video/9KEsJEmv2_c/v-deo.html
Can you work bee's at night, not flying around so much..
Very informative as usual and just in time, on making up nucs can i take a frame of brood and eggs/larve no bees from a placid hive and nurse bees from my strong aggresive hive to look after them without the aggresivness transfering to the new brood, i would like them to raise a queen from the placid hive larve but to do it in this years nucs would mean sacrificing thier queen. i would obviously put frames of brood from the aggresive hive to replace the ones i put in the nuc so as not to make them weak. As you know i'm short on resourses to pick and choose. I do not want to make queens from the aggresive hive queen. thanks
Derek Greenhalgh you can make a new nuc from another colony and just give that queen to the agressive colony after the flow has finished. Just making a queen from existing genetics dosent always mean you willgets more agressive queen. It’s what’s flying around that makes the difference.
Kill her at the end of the season, divide the agressive colony up equally and give each colony a frame of eggs, that way you get the use of the colony all summer then you get to use her resources wisely for next season!
Do what would suit your needs!
@@richardnoel3141 Thanks Richard, your help is always apreciated
that bee is good listener
Thanks for the video. Again very informative!
Good video Richard
I think that bee wanted to get up your nose 🐝
They instinctively go for the nose, and up it, it is how they made bears back off.
Hi Richard
Shouldn't be eating a honey
Hi Richard
No idea how you make time to do these videos on top of everything else, but once again Thank you
I glue an inch of poly in my metal lids 😎
That bee 😂😂
That bee😂😂
Brilliant video as usual Richard, love the energy you put into every video! They look like nice nucs, I've tried a few makes and each of them have their pros & cons. Hard to find the perfect one
Ollys Farm thanks for your kind words!!