Thank You so much for this Video. Not sure if I’ll ever use this with my small backyard Apiary of eight hives. But if I’m ever able to make the jump to side liner this is definitely something I want to try.
Brilliant stuff richard thank you. Have you done a video on dropping these cells into nucs? I'm wondering about how many frames of brood and honey I need. Say two brood one honey and maybe two drawn comb. How far can I stretch this without cutting too deep into honey production.
Hi Joseph, Big question it’s all about getting a balance. At the start of the season you can make small nucs and they will probably give you some honey in the summer. By late summer your going to have to feed them well to build them up for the winter. What I am saying is only you will learn how much , how small , how far you can stretch your nucs snd the size they are in accordance with your own area! Local knowledge is key! It’s always better to give them more brood, and resources than not!!🤷🏼♂️
What a lovely sight, lots of future generations of bees in one box. I had to watch 3 times to take in the information, I know your in a hurry but you do go a bit fast with the explination, its difficult to take in in 1. Hope the weather stays fine till you get done, its raining here yesterday and today and from the forcast the same all week.
Richard, you stated you are banking virgin queens. How long can you do this? It is my understanding that if they remain virgins too long that they will not go on a mating flight. Are you placing the virgins directly in a queenless colony before they mate? Is there a benefit to Introducing a mated queen over a virgin queen other than eliminating the chance of the virgin queen not returning from a flight? I'm in the learning process here and appreciate any and all knowledgeable advice from any who have it 🙄.
Interesting question. I think it’s the queen but there are many determining factors. Age of the queen is one of the biggest together with congestion in the hive and no space fir her too lately. Their is a lot if others but those are the two main ones!
I'm with Joe Renta............slow down a bit. Very interesting and I halfway know what you are doing as I raise queens myself, but my ears don't hear that fast, either.
We generally know a date that if we graft after this date, the resulting open mated queen may not or have less chance of being successfully mated. Some years we do get a few more through but if you imagine, our last graft is mid to Late July, then two weeks after that, is when we might expect our queens to get mated, at the earliest. That’s early to mid August. Then colonies have to build up numbers before they can go in to the winter! There is never enough time!
Richard,WHY my Finisher tears cells down,I can't imagine it's not strong enough, and I KNOW there IS NOT A ROGUE QUEEN OR VIRGIN, I had it happen couple times, Everytime I use Queenless starter as a finisher I have no trouble,so when I HAVE to have Success that's what I do with a crazy strong hive,but I NEED to figure it out cause I understand Finisher purpose and know I need it, and I don't have trouble Everytime,but Alot of time? Everyone says u have Virgin.. But,No I don't,I even began queen excluding entrance for Rogue Queens.If anyone knows,it's you!
Sound like you don’t have enough resources, or a strong flow while trying to rear them I’ve had the same thing happen trying to graft without a decent flow on. Have you tried feeding pollen and sugar to the finisher a day or so before the grafting bar goes in? Hope you get it sorted 👍
BESHY’S BEE’S Bee tee vee No,I haven't fed a day BEFORE,buy I have honey In it and uncapped nectar,we have had a lot of rain though.BUT AS SOON AS THEY SMELL A QUEEN THEY START REMOVING Them, I had same problem with Cloake Board,start 30 finish none.. I don't waste my time with that anymore,3 times was enough for me...
Baddest Bees the other thing you can do is shake off two frames of open brood and emerging bees and put one each side of the grafting bar the nurse bees should smell brood and move up to it with the newly emerged ready to work on the graft, if they are queen right and been excluded for a while there is only dearth stores of honey in the top box, they need a pollen frame up with them so try choose some with open, emerging with pollen if you can
BESHY’S BEE’S Bee tee vee well what I use the Cloake Boardi actually had a frame feeder, I installed on day of graft, and then I sprayed all the bees with sugar water to stimulate them, a huge frame of pollen on one side of the graphs and open nectar on the other side, can a finisher be too strong? Because this was a double deep jam-packed with bees that I give a bunch of brood to a week before, and I used the same one that I had problems with all three times, I think that was a mistake as well..
You described the difference between cell starter and finishes perfect I finally understand thanks so much for taking the time to make these videos.
Thank You so much for this Video. Not sure if I’ll ever use this with my small backyard Apiary of eight hives. But if I’m ever able to make the jump to side liner this is definitely something I want to try.
Making my cell builder today and eating all this information up! Thanks for your time it takes for making these videos!
Richard has a cell builder explained video, go have a watch it’s the same method I use and have great success with it👌🤞
Nice complete vid great to see your Sustainability and use of apiary resources available to hand and variable techniques in bee craft 😉😎
Thanks for the Video Richard, another great one! Phillip Hall
Brilliant stuff richard thank you. Have you done a video on dropping these cells into nucs? I'm wondering about how many frames of brood and honey I need. Say two brood one honey and maybe two drawn comb. How far can I stretch this without cutting too deep into honey production.
Hi Joseph, Big question it’s all about getting a balance. At the start of the season you can make small nucs and they will probably give you some honey in the summer. By late summer your going to have to feed them well to build them up for the winter. What I am saying is only you will learn how much , how small , how far you can stretch your nucs snd the size they are in accordance with your own area! Local knowledge is key! It’s always better to give them more brood, and resources than not!!🤷🏼♂️
What a lovely sight, lots of future generations of bees in one box. I had to watch 3 times to take in the information, I know your in a hurry but you do go a bit fast with the explination, its difficult to take in in 1. Hope the weather stays fine till you get done, its raining here yesterday and today and from the forcast the same all week.
Looking great Richard! Looks like yer in high gear!
Great stuff, just the thing I want to learn next!
Richard, you stated you are banking virgin queens. How long can you do this? It is my understanding that if they remain virgins too long that they will not go on a mating flight. Are you placing the virgins directly in a queenless colony before they mate? Is there a benefit to Introducing a mated queen over a virgin queen other than eliminating the chance of the virgin queen not returning from a flight? I'm in the learning process here and appreciate any and all knowledgeable advice from any who have it 🙄.
Very good video, I heard that the bees were the ones that decided weather to swarm or not, which is right?
Interesting question. I think it’s the queen but there are many determining factors. Age of the queen is one of the biggest together with congestion in the hive and no space fir her too lately. Their is a lot if others but those are the two main ones!
nice sir
how old the Queen cells put in the inkubator?
Cells are harvested from builder 2 days before hatching, we call day 10, (day 13/14 of the normal 16 days)
Do you make queen cells to increase your hive counts or to replace queens?
Justin Tiemann both, but increases are really put in to place the following spring! Now I make mostly nucs and requeen production colonies!
@@richardnoel3141 thank you for continuing to share your knowledge.
I'm with Joe Renta............slow down a bit. Very interesting and I halfway know what you are doing as I raise queens myself, but my ears don't hear that fast, either.
Why do you stop queen rearing on the second week of July?
We generally know a date that if we graft after this date, the resulting open mated queen may not or have less chance of being successfully mated. Some years we do get a few more through but if you imagine, our last graft is mid to
Late July, then two weeks after that, is when we might expect our queens to get mated, at the earliest.
That’s early to mid August.
Then colonies have to build up numbers before they can go in to the winter!
There is never enough time!
That's a lot of cells!
Richard,WHY my Finisher tears cells down,I can't imagine it's not strong enough, and I KNOW there IS NOT A ROGUE QUEEN OR VIRGIN, I had it happen couple times, Everytime I use Queenless starter as a finisher I have no trouble,so when I HAVE to have Success that's what I do with a crazy strong hive,but I NEED to figure it out cause I understand Finisher purpose and know I need it, and I don't have trouble Everytime,but Alot of time? Everyone says u have Virgin.. But,No I don't,I even began queen excluding entrance for Rogue Queens.If anyone knows,it's you!
Sound like you don’t have enough resources, or a strong flow while trying to rear them I’ve had the same thing happen trying to graft without a decent flow on. Have you tried feeding pollen and sugar to the finisher a day or so before the grafting bar goes in? Hope you get it sorted 👍
BESHY’S BEE’S Bee tee vee No,I haven't fed a day BEFORE,buy I have honey In it and uncapped nectar,we have had a lot of rain though.BUT AS SOON AS THEY SMELL A QUEEN THEY START REMOVING Them, I had same problem with Cloake Board,start 30 finish none.. I don't waste my time with that anymore,3 times was enough for me...
BESHY’S BEE’S Bee tee vee thank you by the way, maybe I'll add frame feeder and try again ..
Baddest Bees the other thing you can do is shake off two frames of open brood and emerging bees and put one each side of the grafting bar the nurse bees should smell brood and move up to it with the newly emerged ready to work on the graft, if they are queen right and been excluded for a while there is only dearth stores of honey in the top box, they need a pollen frame up with them so try choose some with open, emerging with pollen if you can
BESHY’S BEE’S Bee tee vee well what I use the Cloake Boardi actually had a frame feeder, I installed on day of graft, and then I sprayed all the bees with sugar water to stimulate them, a huge frame of pollen on one side of the graphs and open nectar on the other side, can a finisher be too strong? Because this was a double deep jam-packed with bees that I give a bunch of brood to a week before, and I used the same one that I had problems with all three times, I think that was a mistake as well..
Whooo! Slow down Son. My ears can’t hear that fast
Ditto
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nickt it’s a Chaffich! Very noisy but delightful little birds!