How to Split Bees - Splitting a Nucleus - How to Split a Beehive - Making Nucs
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- Опубліковано 10 кві 2020
- How to Split Bees - Splitting a Nucleus - How to Split a Beehive - Making Nucs
In this video I show you how to split bees with a mated queen, how to make a nucleus colony and how to make splits. Making splits with a mated queen is a great way to make increase in the apiary.
How to Split My Beehive is a really important skill as it allows you to make increase within the apiary without buying nucleus colonies. Splitting beehives allows you to turn one beehive into four/five beehives and you can increase numbers very rapidly.
Sometimes you need to make splits with posted queens. This is my preferred method as it allows you to add mated queens to colonies which then build up rapidly.
In this video I show you how to split beehives and my favourite method for splitting beehives. If you want to see how I split my beehives then watch this video.
Splitting beehives is an effective way to make increase in the apiary if you are looking to increase the number of beehives you manage.
Learning how to split beehives is an excellent use of resources as it isn't too detrimental to the donor colony. How to split a beehive is a common question asked when beekeepers are looking to make increase in their apiary.
Making splits with mated queens can reduce the amount of time taken to get the nucleus to maturity as it means you aren't reliant on good weather for queen mating.
In this video I show you how to split a beehive using a mated queen. Once you have split a beehive you need to add a queen or queen cell to the queen less part of the beehive split.
Making increase with mated queens is a great way to build numbers up very quickly as the nucs can build up to strength and can be split again before the season has finished.
Two frame splits made with emerging brood, should be mature within 4-6 weeks after releasing the queen and a single cycle of brood.
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Good stuff sir
Learnt a lot today, fantastic demo thanks, Top hair cut going for the easter egg look, mine is much the same Happy Easter.
haha! the resemblance to an Easter egg is 99.9% accurate!!! Glad you enjoyed it (and the video)
You sir are great! I have a few questions, The mated queens you added where from over wintered colonies? also do you over winter with a double brood box? looks like you have brood on the top box and stores underneath? Thanks!!!!
Thanks Tom. Yes - they were from overwintered colonies but they were dwindling. I sometimes overwinter on double but I depends on the bees. I think in most cases around here I can condense to a single box.
I am halfway through a manipulation here moving the brood downwards into the bigger (14 x 12 box). See the video before about converting to 14 x 12 brood box :)
I am planning to raise queens for the first time this spring. I will be making 3 frame mating NUCs and introducing a queen cell into each one. How far do you think the mating NUCs need to be placed away from the donor hives? My thinking is that the bees in the NUCs are mostly Nurse bees and they will likely stay with the brood. The emerging capped brood will orient to the mating NUC so it seems that they would be fine in the same apiary. What do you think?
Yes. Fine in the same apiary just over stock as necessary and allow for drift
Can you let them raise their own queen
Is it just the queen in the cage, have you got rid of the attendants?
Attendants as well
how does the queen feed for up to 8 days while in the cage?
The nurse bees in the colony and attendants feed her
@@BlackMountainHoney so they will feed her in the cage, but will attack her if she was released to soon
Can I recommend filming on a location away form a very busy road if at all possible as the noise from the road was very distracting. I would like to concentrate on the information you provide instead 😄
Yep. We no longer keep bees here and have upgraded our audio equipment ;)
Interesting. For a better video, set up the camera closer to the action and a lot less talking.