You know I'm surprised you don't have zillions of subscribers. You have this amazing advantage of being able to open up and do bees year round. For most of us in the north bee season is ended already. And I can't open any boxes already. Plus, winter is early this year. Last year it wasn't cold until right before Thanksgiving. And its more than a month early. This is seriously cool that you can do videos almost year round. Thanks for the video! Lots of fun.
Thanks Noah💛 I appreciate your kind words, I do seem to be slowly climbing in subscribers. Share my videos! I do sometimes wonder what more I can do with the videos or is it that I am a woman ???? But shall continue to forge ahead✌😁
So...coming back to this one. I'm wondering if this 2 queen hive technique could help a colony that's too weak to get through a cold winter on its own by piggy backing on top of another one? Could this work? And have ppl tried this? (I have 1 colony that's really small, worried about it getting through winter. Most 2 hive techniques seem to be talking about spring.) But at the same time,...will this have increased chances of losing bees by having them together, and possibly losing bees to swarming? Thanks.
If you try to over winter the bees like this they must choose a queen when they cluster. You may make one weak or even kill her. You can share warmth if the hives cannot mix but share a screen divider.or stacked. I have not done this, my winters are mild. Insulate your small hive, feed it and watch for moisture( bad for hive) some bring the hive inside to a cold space but out of the elements. Good luck✌
Hi I enjoyed your video I am thinkng about doing some 2 queen hives this spring. If I have any hives survive this terrible winter we are having, Why is the diver board not good long term Thanks and have a blessed week
The divider that I was/am using has a sweep on the bottom of it to prevent crossover. The bees propolis it making it very hard to remove but good for crossover OR eat thru it. So if they eat through it I could lose a queen. If the hive is just one hive body the diver is ok but adding boxes the divers become more precarious, hence going into individual boxes as supers. If your diver is more permanent than mine then you may not have a problem. Hope that explained more!
I've just stumbled across the double queen method, and I'm curious how long you've been doing this, and I'd like to know more about the equipment. Did you perhaps modify anything to make this work? Thanks for the video!!
I'm still on the fence but I am leaning toward splitting the honey into four frame boxes and leaving them in place. Essentially taking off the excluder so they do not share any space and dividing them without moving a queen to a new area. Make sense?
You know I'm surprised you don't have zillions of subscribers. You have this amazing advantage of being able to open up and do bees year round. For most of us in the north bee season is ended already. And I can't open any boxes already. Plus, winter is early this year. Last year it wasn't cold until right before Thanksgiving. And its more than a month early.
This is seriously cool that you can do videos almost year round.
Thanks for the video! Lots of fun.
Thanks Noah💛 I appreciate your kind words, I do seem to be slowly climbing in subscribers. Share my videos! I do sometimes wonder what more I can do with the videos or is it that I am a woman ???? But shall continue to forge ahead✌😁
I don't think being a woman should matter. But you should be able to pull ahead in the winter as others won't be making videos then. :)
Excellent video about two queen hives. Thanks
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Thank you for the information, Youssef from Morocco
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So...coming back to this one.
I'm wondering if this 2 queen hive technique could help a colony that's too weak to get through a cold winter on its own by piggy backing on top of another one? Could this work? And have ppl tried this? (I have 1 colony that's really small, worried about it getting through winter. Most 2 hive techniques seem to be talking about spring.)
But at the same time,...will this have increased chances of losing bees by having them together, and possibly losing bees to swarming?
Thanks.
If you try to over winter the bees like this they must choose a queen when they cluster. You may make one weak or even kill her. You can share warmth if the hives cannot mix but share a screen divider.or stacked. I have not done this, my winters are mild.
Insulate your small hive, feed it and watch for moisture( bad for hive) some bring the hive inside to a cold space but out of the elements.
Good luck✌
@@buttsbeesllc4063 Thanks very much. its nice to talk to you.
Hi I enjoyed your video I am thinkng about doing some 2 queen hives this spring. If I have any hives survive this terrible winter we are having, Why is the diver board not good long term Thanks and have a blessed week
The divider that I was/am using has a sweep on the bottom of it to prevent crossover. The bees propolis it making it very hard to remove but good for crossover OR eat thru it. So if they eat through it I could lose a queen. If the hive is just one hive body the diver is ok but adding boxes the divers become more precarious, hence going into individual boxes as supers. If your diver is more permanent than mine then you may not have a problem. Hope that explained more!
I've just stumbled across the double queen method, and I'm curious how long you've been doing this, and I'd like to know more about the equipment. Did you perhaps modify anything to make this work? Thanks for the video!!
Where are you at? what state/ Just wondering for climate. Thank you for the video.
Mississippi gulf coast
Are you going to over winter in this hive or maybe split them? I know you said you will wait to see how they do.
I'm still on the fence but I am leaning toward splitting the honey into four frame boxes and leaving them in place. Essentially taking off the excluder so they do not share any space and dividing them without moving a queen to a new area. Make sense?
Where are you at
Mississippi