This is one of them moments UA-cam is worth it, the privilege to hear someone share a life time of knowledge and experience. Just wish I had someone like him living next to me.
I think this is an awesome video. The two comments below just disappoints me. I truly appreciate the information that is being shared. I am planning to utilize this method this coming season. It's clear to me Mr. Davis has a wealth of knowledge and I can learn allot from him. Thank you for the awesome video.
very interesting technique. im already committed to a different way of queen production this year (my first year of serious queen breeding) but next season im on this for sure.
Some good stuff here. Nice tidbits that come from ages of beekeeping. I especially like the "keep them in a production (wax making) profile". One of the things I like most about beekeeping AND beekeepers is ALL the different set-ups and systems devised for certain purposes. Beekeepers truly are the original MacGyvers!
Thanks for all of the comments. Keep in mind, we are not advocating that this is the only way to raise queens, it is just one way and it is the way used by The Sustainable Honeybee Program (SHP) www.sustainablebees.org/ . I personally use a queen rearing process promoted by Mel Disselkoen called "On The Spot" (OTS) Queens that is, in my opinion, much simpler for a smaller apiary. You can see his book @ www.mdasplitter.com/index.php
Fascinating plan for a queen castle. I'm very curious to see the process for the starter and finish colonies. Are there any closer looks at the construction of the queen castle? This looks like it could be easily incorporated into my current plans for queen rearing.
Great video. Seems more like a queen JAIL than queen castle LOL. Anyhow, I use the same system for my queen rearing but I have always called it a "timing box." Thanks for the great videos.
Parks, two more questions...I see that Billy is using all shallow frames in that 10 frame box. Is the box sized for deep frames or shallow frames? For nuc sales I would need to use all deep frames. Q #2: did last year's plan to get proper plans made up for Billy's woodenware come off? I would love to have a set. Many thanks!
Is there another video to supplement this one? It's very open ended and I can't tell what your end goal is. What frames eventually constitute a NUC? When is a queen raised ... once a week? It looks interesting but I just can't make heads or tails out of it. Can someone explain what's next, after frames are moved?
I wanted to ask how stable the queen castle can be? Will bees in a queen castle have as much overwintering survival ability as other hive structure choices? (And for a northern climate?) Thanks so much. The queen castles do look interesting and fun to try.
I just watched another video where ants were a problem and having the hives off the ground with a barrier on the legs was their solution. How do you deal with ants with a ground level hive?
Hey young man; Good tibits info from your yrs of keeping. I was wondering - in this vid you have screen holes on both chambers. Later with bees you have the holes on the queen side covered with looks like foil -solid cover. Is there a need at some point to change this? Best; Newbee Tom
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Really trying to understand the reason for this concept.....super nice man, I can tell...but it honestly is clear as mud as to the intent....maybe some of the video never got cut into this .... Is this for grafting? or is this for walk away splits? I'm guessing I'm missing the part as to what he does with the frame that goes with him.....I mean....yes...position one goes to two and two goes to three and three goes to four........but there seems to be a step missing.... both grafting and splits require 3 day old larvae....and since this runs on a 1 week schedule, it loses me.
Well, this queen castle is for producing frames of larvae to be grafted at exacty the right age. The "Target" (the frame you want to graft from) is put in on friday, to be cleaned till saturday - when the queen hopefully starts to lay eggs. Grafting day (as mentioned in the video) is the following wednesday.
@@ludgermerkens appreciate you taking the time for the explanation. thank you. Makes sense...I figured it out after watching a Mike Palmer video. The term "grafting" was never used in this video that I ever heard. He used the term "transferred". I noted other comments below had the same difficulty. Also, the term "queen castle" is ubiquitous......queen castles generally refer to a 10 frame hive separated into 4 compartments with 4 entrances for queen rearing/mating. Now to find a video on how to make one of these...haven't found one yet....the queen excluder separation appears unique.
@Kevin McMahon Go to about 5:10 where he explains whicht work is done when (friday / wednesday). He doesn't use the term 'grafting', but the term "transfer the larvae", wich in this context means grafting. The vertical queen excluder confines the queen on three combs only. This means, you have fewer frames to investigate, when searching for the queen, plus the queen is restricted in laying eggs. If a queen has to lay fewer eggs, those eggs usually are bigger and healthier. Best preriquisites for healthy young queens.
Great video as far as videos go, but I am confused. I want to understand this process greatly, But I am confused. And it's too bad. Maybe I need More experience. I only have 5 years of beekeeping.
I understood, maybe you should try listening also doing a little research you need to understand the basics of beekeeping to follow what he is saying. Also why are you so rude? He posted the video to teach he didn't charge you a dime. He shared a technique that he took time and resources to develop and you are learning for free and then criticize him when you can't follow. Seems like a problem with the student rather then the teacher.
I do NOT learn anythink ! He is talking detales, detales, detales, detales, but he does NOT explain what he is doing.As a teacher, lector he is ZERO ZERO, ZERO.. I may watch it 10 times, and I sil DON`T know wath he is talkin about. He is talking like communist. Like Fidel Castro. Talk 5 hours, and say NOTHING
Brzeczyszczykiewicz Trzetrzopszczulski He's just telling you how to control where the queen lays. She lays in the target... 3 days later the eggs emerge as larva. You have 12-24 hours after they emerge to graft the young larva so that they can be placed into a starter hive to create queen cells. This video is only about controlling the age of your larva.
to Brzeczyszczykiewicz Trzetrzopszczulski This is a specialized and continuously manipulated hive made for the specific purpose of making larvae of the right age to be made into queens. Because of that it requires specialized manipulations for the other areas of the hive which cannot be left unattended because those manipulations must be well orchestrated to keep the whole hive viable. Otherwise the hive will deterorate and fail. Many of the details given weren't meant specifically for raising queens, but those details are helpful to the proper care of the queen castle hive as a whole. Under standing the whole concept requires circular thinking and an understanding of what is taking place in the hive as a whole over a long period of time. The explanation given does not cover all aspects of queen rearing - just the use of this particular box. to Billy Davis Thank you for the video. I just found 18 to 20 queen cells on one frame in a trap out box. I set a frame of brood in the trap out hoping to help lure the queen into the box out of the tree, but they bees - knowing they were queenless - started making queen cells on the frame with young larvae. I hope to be able to make half a dozen queens from those cells. If I had seen this video sooner I may have been better prepared. However- I'm a beginner and I'm not sure I could handle keeping the box you show in operation very long. Anyway, thanks again for the video and the helpful details.
This is one of them moments UA-cam is worth it, the privilege to hear someone share a life time of knowledge and experience. Just wish I had someone like him living next to me.
Thank you so much for making this teaching from Mr. Davis available. I wish he was still around to teach us.
Great information. Billy sure will be missed. R.I.P.
I think this is an awesome video. The two comments below just disappoints me. I truly appreciate the information that is being shared. I am planning to utilize this method this coming season. It's clear to me Mr. Davis has a wealth of knowledge and I can learn allot from him. Thank you for the awesome video.
Very good video, and very interesting queen castle method. Thanks for sharing.
This is an excellent video! I’ve learned so much.
This was an excellent video. I am interested to see the nucleus hive you use as a starter as well. The full queen rearing process would be great,
very interesting technique. im already committed to a different way of queen production this year (my first year of serious queen breeding) but next season im on this for sure.
Some good stuff here. Nice tidbits that come from ages of beekeeping. I especially like the "keep them in a production (wax making) profile". One of the things I like most about beekeeping AND beekeepers is ALL the different set-ups and systems devised for certain purposes. Beekeepers truly are the original MacGyvers!
Thanks for all of the comments. Keep in mind, we are not advocating that this is the only way to raise queens, it is just one way and it is the way used by The Sustainable Honeybee Program (SHP) www.sustainablebees.org/ .
I personally use a queen rearing process promoted by Mel Disselkoen called "On The Spot" (OTS) Queens that is, in my opinion, much simpler for a smaller apiary. You can see his book @ www.mdasplitter.com/index.php
Parks Talley
Fascinating plan for a queen castle. I'm very curious to see the process for the starter and finish colonies.
Are there any closer looks at the construction of the queen castle? This looks like it could be easily incorporated into my current plans for queen rearing.
Excellent, thank you so much for posting...an ancient Aussie amateur beek
Nice video ❤
Great video. Seems more like a queen JAIL than queen castle LOL. Anyhow, I use the same system for my queen rearing but I have always called it a "timing box." Thanks for the great videos.
Thank you for video!
Thanks for that interesting video! Are there plans for making a queen castle setup like this? They would be very helpful.
Parks, two more questions...I see that Billy is using all shallow frames in that 10 frame box. Is the box sized for deep frames or shallow frames? For nuc sales I would need to use all deep frames. Q #2: did last year's plan to get proper plans made up for Billy's woodenware come off? I would love to have a set. Many thanks!
Is there another video to supplement this one? It's very open ended and I can't tell what your end goal is. What frames eventually constitute a NUC? When is a queen raised ... once a week? It looks interesting but I just can't make heads or tails out of it. Can someone explain what's next, after frames are moved?
I wanted to ask how stable the queen castle can be? Will bees in a queen castle have as much overwintering survival ability as other hive structure choices? (And for a northern climate?)
Thanks so much.
The queen castles do look interesting and fun to try.
I have a queenless hive so they have 12 queen cells
I want to split them. What is the least amount of bees you would use to start them off?
thanks for making this! I really want to learn how to make my own queens. Can I buy a Queen Castle already assembled somewhere?
I just watched another video where ants were a problem and having the hives off the ground with a barrier on the legs was their solution.
How do you deal with ants with a ground level hive?
Hey young man;
Good tibits info from your yrs of keeping.
I was wondering - in this vid you have screen holes on both chambers. Later with bees you have the holes on the queen side covered with looks like foil -solid cover. Is there a need at some point to change this?
Best; Newbee Tom
how well does the On The Spot(OTS) Queen rearing method work for you.
Where can I buy a jacket and veil just like that one?
What do you do about drones that can't get through the queen excluder?
You can add a drilled hole to the queen side for the drones to use.
Wondering why they never put them on top of the beehives
Thankyou for this video! Very interesting and well filmed. Parks, what equipment did you use to film and mic Billy?
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howcan you over winter these in iowa
Really trying to understand the reason for this concept.....super nice man, I can tell...but it honestly is clear as mud as to the intent....maybe some of the video never got cut into this ....
Is this for grafting? or is this for walk away splits? I'm guessing I'm missing the part as to what he does with the frame that goes with him.....I mean....yes...position one goes to two and two goes to three and three goes to four........but there seems to be a step missing.... both grafting and splits require 3 day old larvae....and since this runs on a 1 week schedule, it loses me.
Well, this queen castle is for producing frames of larvae to be grafted at exacty the right age. The "Target" (the frame you want to graft from) is put in on friday, to be cleaned till saturday - when the queen hopefully starts to lay eggs. Grafting day (as mentioned in the video) is the following wednesday.
@@ludgermerkens appreciate you taking the time for the explanation. thank you. Makes sense...I figured it out after watching a Mike Palmer video.
The term "grafting" was never used in this video that I ever heard. He used the term "transferred". I noted other comments below had the same difficulty.
Also, the term "queen castle" is ubiquitous......queen castles generally refer to a 10 frame hive separated into 4 compartments with 4 entrances for queen rearing/mating.
Now to find a video on how to make one of these...haven't found one yet....the queen excluder separation appears unique.
@Kevin McMahon Go to about 5:10 where he explains whicht work is done when (friday / wednesday). He doesn't use the term 'grafting', but the term "transfer the larvae", wich in this context means grafting. The vertical queen excluder confines the queen on three combs only. This means, you have fewer frames to investigate, when searching for the queen, plus the queen is restricted in laying eggs. If a queen has to lay fewer eggs, those eggs usually are bigger and healthier. Best preriquisites for healthy young queens.
@18:00 he says grafting
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Great video as far as videos go, but I am confused. I want to understand this process greatly, But I am confused. And it's too bad. Maybe I need More experience. I only have 5 years of beekeeping.
Adding a Vent between the thermal barrier and the hive is useless.
candler n.c. blueridge mts. well goes ta show ya theres more than one way ta skin a cat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are wonderful !! You were talking all time , and you did NOT say anything.. Mute person would explain better what he is doing
I'm sorry that you didn't understand, but he explained the process fine.
I understood, maybe you should try listening also doing a little research you need to understand the basics of beekeeping to follow what he is saying. Also why are you so rude? He posted the video to teach he didn't charge you a dime. He shared a technique that he took time and resources to develop and you are learning for free and then criticize him when you can't follow. Seems like a problem with the student rather then the teacher.
I do NOT learn anythink ! He is talking detales, detales, detales, detales, but he does NOT explain what he is doing.As a teacher, lector he is ZERO ZERO, ZERO.. I may watch it 10 times, and I sil DON`T know wath he is talkin about. He is talking like communist. Like Fidel Castro. Talk 5 hours, and say NOTHING
Brzeczyszczykiewicz Trzetrzopszczulski He's just telling you how to control where the queen lays. She lays in the target... 3 days later the eggs emerge as larva. You have 12-24 hours after they emerge to graft the young larva so that they can be placed into a starter hive to create queen cells. This video is only about controlling the age of your larva.
to Brzeczyszczykiewicz Trzetrzopszczulski
This is a specialized and continuously manipulated hive made for the specific purpose of making larvae of the right age to be made into queens. Because of that it requires specialized manipulations for the other areas of the hive which cannot be left unattended because those manipulations must be well orchestrated to keep the whole hive viable. Otherwise the hive will deterorate and fail. Many of the details given weren't meant specifically for raising queens, but those details are helpful to the proper care of the queen castle hive as a whole. Under standing the whole concept requires circular thinking and an understanding of what is taking place in the hive as a whole over a long period of time.
The explanation given does not cover all aspects of queen rearing - just the use of this particular box.
to Billy Davis
Thank you for the video. I just found 18 to 20 queen cells on one frame in a trap out box. I set a frame of brood in the trap out hoping to help lure the queen into the box out of the tree, but they bees - knowing they were queenless - started making queen cells on the frame with young larvae. I hope to be able to make half a dozen queens from those cells.
If I had seen this video sooner I may have been better prepared. However- I'm a beginner and I'm not sure I could handle keeping the box you show in operation very long. Anyway, thanks again for the video and the helpful details.