Being a loyal viewer of Brad’s, it’s fun to see who he has been making all the mini frames and boxes for in his videos. I like your videos as well. You do a good job of explaining what you’re seeing and what you’re intentions are. I aspire to get to the point of queen rearing and having loyal customers as well. Thank you again for your time making your videos! Lorie 😁🐝
Queen rearing is labour intensive, but one of my favorite parts of beekeeping now. Thanks for following along, I hope I can provide some value or entertainment.
@@BeekeepingInCanada I’m sure you will Josh. I haven’t had a chance yet to go back and watch all your videos, but I will. Few nights ago I was cleaning out the cow barn at 10:00 listening to your spring shopping video. That’s definitely one I need to sit and watch. I think your spreadsheet could be very helpful for me. Thank you again and keep up the great videos!!
Those nucs look good. I have yet to dig into mine. If I do many of these, I'll have to go three-high so I can insure them. My pleasure to help with the equipment. Thanks for the support of my business.
looks good. The hardest part of those small nucs is getting them established. That brood will really get you going good. Next step is to put excluders between each unit so that you can overwinter a queen in each nuc so you'd have 12 to sell before you set your first round of cells.
That's an idea, I am thinking you would end up with alot of 2 out of 3s due to a tightening cluster and abandonment of either the top or bottom queen in favour of survival, still better than 1. Double screened hardware cloth may be a better answer but the single depth ones I have tried in the past without feed in the shed, starved out before they came out of the shed. Wheels are turning on this now, time to ponder and perhaps do a few more experiments over winter.
I use same design only in poly boxes. Those lyson mating nucs I can winter outdoors ... Kinda expensive think I'm going to build some molds start making my own using EPS expanding beads ..
It looks like those mating nuc bodies require a special bottom board to make the entrance dial useful. Can you explain what type of bottom board you have for these nuc bodies?
Those little hives are so cute and yet quite a resource for your Q rearing. Do you pull the queen out and put them in a split or production hive or do you sell them? As little as they have laid you could call them 2021 queens really. Have a good week Josh.
The plan is for the queens running these mini power towers to go into my own early splits, or to replace any slow queens, once I break these down to begin the first queen mating cycle. Extra's could definitely be sold as winter proven late 2020 queens, these would sell easily at $40 each.
Being a loyal viewer of Brad’s, it’s fun to see who he has been making all the mini frames and boxes for in his videos. I like your videos as well. You do a good job of explaining what you’re seeing and what you’re intentions are. I aspire to get to the point of queen rearing and having loyal customers as well. Thank you again for your time making your videos! Lorie 😁🐝
Queen rearing is labour intensive, but one of my favorite parts of beekeeping now. Thanks for following along, I hope I can provide some value or entertainment.
@@BeekeepingInCanada I’m sure you will Josh. I haven’t had a chance yet to go back and watch all your videos, but I will. Few nights ago I was cleaning out the cow barn at 10:00 listening to your spring shopping video. That’s definitely one I need to sit and watch. I think your spreadsheet could be very helpful for me. Thank you again and keep up the great videos!!
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Hello sir who is this Brad guy? I would like to make me some of these mini boxes
Thanks for sharing, I like this idea.
Thanks for watching! I obsess over efficiencies and time and resource ROI.
Looks like you were successful, good plan
Those nucs look good. I have yet to dig into mine. If I do many of these, I'll have to go three-high so I can insure them. My pleasure to help with the equipment. Thanks for the support of my business.
If this reply is incoherent, its because I have not mentally recovered from the cost of lumber.
@@BeekeepingInCanada I hear ya, brother! I still suffer from mild PTSD since my last visit to the lumber store!
Interesting .
Where in Canada .
Im looking to winter nucs in Sask and wondering if anyone else is
We are in Manitoba, been doing nucs for 10 years, but we winter indoors.
looks good. The hardest part of those small nucs is getting them established. That brood will really get you going good. Next step is to put excluders between each unit so that you can overwinter a queen in each nuc so you'd have 12 to sell before you set your first round of cells.
That's an idea, I am thinking you would end up with alot of 2 out of 3s due to a tightening cluster and abandonment of either the top or bottom queen in favour of survival, still better than 1.
Double screened hardware cloth may be a better answer but the single depth ones I have tried in the past without feed in the shed, starved out before they came out of the shed.
Wheels are turning on this now, time to ponder and perhaps do a few more experiments over winter.
I use same design only in poly boxes. Those lyson mating nucs I can winter outdoors ... Kinda expensive think I'm going to build some molds start making my own using EPS expanding beads ..
Have you noticed which pollen sub they prefer?
Can you do a video showing the measurements of the frames and the boxes? Or maybe even do a video making the boxes and frames that would be awesome
Hey were did you get those front entrance twist deals ? I need some of those
our local bee supplier carries them, not sure where they get them.
@@BeekeepingInCanada do they have a website?
@@NevadaBeeMan-nq3po www.beemaidbeesupplies.com/
@@BeekeepingInCanada cheers!
So behind on my queen rearing, weather has been crazy
It looks like those mating nuc bodies require a special bottom board to make the entrance dial useful. Can you explain what type of bottom board you have for these nuc bodies?
Hi, just wondering how you made out this winter with these mini mating nucs?
Those little hives are so cute and yet quite a resource for your Q rearing. Do you pull the queen out and put them in a split or production hive or do you sell them? As little as they have laid you could call them 2021 queens really. Have a good week Josh.
The plan is for the queens running these mini power towers to go into my own early splits, or to replace any slow queens, once I break these down to begin the first queen mating cycle. Extra's could definitely be sold as winter proven late 2020 queens, these would sell easily at $40 each.
How many of those units did you overwinter?
20 of them went into the shed (60 mini boxes), not yet ready to confirm how many are still rolling, but I am happy with what I saw a few weeks ago.
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He gone.