Caring for hatching queens in the incubator.
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2021
- Here’s how I try and give the next start to my queens that I prefer to hatch in the incubator. Its really important you understands these very fragile queens need help that they are not getting from their bees at this stage just after hatching!
Here is the link to Bob Binni's website.
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Nicot and an incubator were game changers for me. Lots of great queens! Brings back memories. Merci!
i'm so glad i just found this, i birthed a couple of queens today out of swarm cells and have them banked ontop of a hive. i never thought to put honey on the inside of the roller cage. the bees dont seem to interested in them, so i'm hoping if they are still alive in the morning i can give them a feed like that!
glad this might of helped you. there are many ways
best of luck
Thank you !! I really enjoyed watching and learning.
so glad I found this video tonight! I've got cells hatching and really needed this information. Thanks for all the valuable knowledge provide.
I don’t raise queens but I can see why it’s easier for you to mark them when they’re newly emerged. I always wait until they’re mated just so I don’t waste time marking ones that never come back. I definitely wasn’t afraid a drone would reject them. If I had them all locked up already I would mark all of them too.
I practiced grabbing queens with drones. If you accidentally squish them no big deal lol
Great videos Richard, cool to be able to learn some great techniques while waiting for spring to start here in NZ, thanks for taking the time
Thank’s for teaching once again 😊!
Your welcome! Thank you
Great video Richard. Having just started raising my own queens with limited success but getting better each time, this was extremely informative. This is the 1st of its kind I have seen. Thank you. I am in South Carolina and what you do in Brittany does work here.
Richard, thanks for the great video. I also working with the queens at the moment. I but the honey and water in at the bottom when we put the cages over queen cells. This results that the queens have directly feed and water. Keep up the good work. I really like you videos
Great information. Really like your setup. Thanks so much.
Thank you for sharing. 👍👍👍👍👍
Awesome demo!
Indeed, there is no difference in marking before mating flights. I mostly mark them right out of the incubator too, easy and they are still slow and don't try to fly off.....usually😊
To mark I use a bamboo barbecue scwer , not the pointed end but the blunt end, which I just touch the brush and then touch the thorax with it and it puts a nice round mark.
Awesome queens 😍😍😍
Brilliant video, thank you 😊
Fantastic video many thanks
I was so happy when I heard your explanation of queens going back into the cells.
I have lost a few by them going back up.
Thank you for your videos!
Bravo
How long can u store the queens in the incubator
I found, for whatever reason that my emerging virgins do not last long in the incubator, even if being fed a bit of honey/water....they last longer to bank them in a finisher...the nurse bees will feed them above the queen excluder.....
One time I lost every queen in one bank when I put small amount of honey in the bottom of the roller cage and they all got stuck at the bottom when they fell upside down and stuck wings on the bottom. was an odd sight to find them all stuck.....live and learn.....now, if I'm banking them in the finisher, I don't put any food in the roller cage.
Thanks for sharing
fantastic - AGAIN!
Brilliant more like this please
Good stuff. Thanks
Great stuff thankyou
So pinching the abdomen on unmated virgins doesn't seem to affect performance?
Without water they can consume honey undiluted ?
Why not dilute honey with water and add a pinch of pollen to the mix to ensure development when banked for more than a few hours?
We turn what you call top lid and place on bottom with the previously described mix.
Thanks for sharing an unpopular technique amongst the superstitious. Marking virgins makes no difference in mating or acceptance rates.
As usual excellent vid concise and informative. Hive on bro.
GREAT VIDEO
nice,thanks sir
Hi Richard As usual I am enjoying your videos!!!! For some reason I'm not looking at them all in order. Just finished Looking at the way You put the paint on the back of the Queens I gave up the posca pens , ( I just keep it to write down on the roof of the hive) And use the same type of paint that I find and most been keeping supply stores. Next year with my Bee Buddy We are going to start to make our own queens from A F 0 That we will get in the beginning of the season. We are so excited with this new project. Are your queens buckfast Queens ?? They are so yellow they almost look like Italian queens. Don't Queen's sting When I see you holding them bare handed I am kind of worried.. I've always used what they call cage de marquage And the job is good so I never thought about getting stung by a Queen.😂😂 Thank you for sharing all your experience And experiences ...Just looked at your last video about the ivy, yes this year is totally incredible I agree !!!! Bonne continuation !!!😁😁
Peter. 28 , Eure et loir
Thank you for the helpful video. What are the trays with the holes in them that hold the roller cages in the incubator and where to get them. They look much better than wooden blocks that I use.
Howdy from the Central Texas Richard. I am searching for the Lincu Avitec 24 egg incubator you are using in video. Can not find it yet. Do you have a trusted link? Thanks EggMan.
Amazing i would like this video
Why not place the honey in the brown disposable portion of the cell cup after removing the old cell, certan to simplify cleaning hair rollers
Hi Kevin, yes that is possible, but the area os too big and the young queens can get covered in there honey. you have to be really careful at this stage whilst the queens are on their own until they are in a colony.
How long can you leave the newly hatched & fed queens in the incubator before installing them into your nucs?
Hi Brady. You can leave them in the incubator for a few days but its very difficult to maintain health the best health after 24 hours, my advice is , get them in to the nucs of hives as soon as you can. acceptance is best and its where they should be. Best of luck.
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Great video. I'm always worried that I will squeeze the queen too hard and damage her, so I use one of those teloscopic devices with sponge in. There a bit fiddly though and I reckon easy to damage the queen when closing it. Will try my fingers next time though after seeing this.
I can assure you its solely practice! thanks for you comments.😃
Try practicing on drones for a bit. It will build up confidence in handling bees and you'll see how they can be handled.
Very good informative video Richard is the marker paint water based ?
No I thought it was because it said Acrylic on the side but it’s a solvent based car touch up paint! 🤷🏼♂️
What is the cup/cage/frame system you use?
How long with that small amount of honey hold them?
Wouldn't you say the Qs are going back into the cell because if they were emerging in a bank the workers may be feeding them. But in the incubator you are the worker that must feed them , until then they crawl back in to the cell looking for nourishment. Though, even in a bank they crawl into the cells sometimes.
Incubator for Eggs 🐣🦆🐤 is 37C aka Body Temp....
I have several that are Manual Operated (don't auto turn) ... Might try to raise some Queens next Year !
At least I won't get lots of Cockerels🐓 or Drake's 🦆 in adding Queen Cups into the Incu.... 😆
Happy Beekeeping 2021.
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Why not put the honey in before you put the cell in?
I thought they said, queen bee only eat royal Jell-O
Can I have a link for your incubator please.?
On a commercial scale, how often are you requeening your hives?
We always like to re queen every second year but in reality it’s difficult to me achieve that!
Nise
Well y question is why have all those pennys on top of incubator . Rob.
Hey well they have to go somewhere 😉 lol
That makes a lot of cents Richard!
I have a question what is the percentage of the humidity for the queens to hatch thanks.
you can spend a lot of time worrying about this, my advice would be to just have a shallow tray of water within the incubator that raises the humidity in the incubator, i never have any relatable issues because of this.
@@richardnoel3141 okay thank you. Can you tell me the heat temperature you set your incubator on
34degrees C
What day do you remove the queen cells out of the hive to be cage. I've heard day 9 or 10 but I'm not really sure what's your advice I would really appreciate it thank you
@@patrickbrewer2794 8/9 for me, sometimes I can be very close to hatching on day 10. They should go in the nukes on Deighton if they Queen sells anyway, so if you wanna just get them into the incubator just for 24 hours as they start to hatch, and then you can mark them etc etc but overall if you move them any earlier you can risk damage to the Queens and I’ve had a lot of duds one year when I move them on day six after they were capped over
sorry sir,would u like to write that youtub channel you rekomend?
The link is in the videos description, just click on the title and more info will drop down.
@@richardnoel3141 ok sir,I am from Indonesia,I am new beekeeper
You don't use queen candy (powdered sugar and honey) for feed? Why don't you put honey in the bottom with the royal jelly? Bob Binnie did a 8 part class in Florida but he has hives and works in Georgia.
no I don't use powdered sugar and honey, Honey from my own operation is perfectly fine and has everything the queen might need initially.Nothing wrong with putting the honey in to the base where she came from but the only draw back is she can get too much on herself and needs to be cleaned off by nurse bees. thats why I put a tiny amount in the small segments of the Nicot hair roller cage. she can not get too much this way.
Dont forget, this is only very temporary, they need to be in the nut within a few hours for their best chances!
ok I get it. and you wait 4 hours to put into the nuc. Good to know. I like adding cells to the hive but interested in getting an Incubator this year. Love the idea of marking every queen before she get's into the hive. Guessing you like adding virgins more than cells.
@@campdavidsonfunctionaltrai8583 yes at the moment i favour virgins that are hatched. It does bypass one obstacle, that being the odd one that dosent hatch! But if I have nucs just made and “just about to hatch queens” I use cells. Unfortunately with this beekeeping lark it’s very difficult to iron out all the variables and live a kind of normal life!! 🤔😉
You always emerge in incubator?
Not always, if the cells are ready to emerge and I can check heavy
One, cells are good, but I do
Prefer giving a hatched virgin queen!
@@richardnoel3141 you ever use minis? On the struggle bus….first cell is great then they either abscond or kill the virgin :(
Well ol buddy I for one realy enjoyed your ex on marking them . Rob.p
It is now 3rd of October and I have three Queens not laying yet, in minie nukes in lreland.
On a commercial scale, how often are you requeening your hives?
We aim to requeening every second year Stephen but in reality that isn’t always possible!