Beekeeping | Raise & Hold Your Own Queens In Limited Space
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Beekeeping becomes easier when you can raise your own queens. Limited in space or hives? No worries. I'll share how to start small and raise quality queens.
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David the reason I started bee keeping was to help keep the bee population up and healthy. This is the best information that I am lacking to do this goal. Keeping God's creatures going. Thank you so much. Mark
Thanks Mark
Thanks David, You're the best. I'm inspired again!
Well, I'm humbled and thank you so much.
Thank you for all the info, David. I thoroughly enjoyed your online queen rearing class. I also purchased the booklet from the University of Arkansas (home state plug) that you and Jon Zawislak wrote. I have 2 nucs ordered for April and this will be my first bee colonies. I am excited to start raising my own queens. Thank you, once again, David for all your efforts and hard work. You are certainly appreciated.
Eddie, this is so nice to learn and have a goal isn't it. Sometimes, something like venturing into queen rearing can distract us from worry or tension in life and get our minds off of wrong things and focused on improving our own skills. Right there with you brother!
What part of the state are you in.I am in El Dorado and we have two bee clubs in this area and I go to them and I help people with getting started with,keeping and even raising queens.We have some Burchfield's here and was wondering if you were one of the.
I'm not a Burchfield and I live in central Illinois near Champaign/Urbana, Illinois
@@MrSnapper1d I'm in central Arkansas. Many Burchfields in LA, MS, AL and of course south Arkansas
Oh and fyi.. sevierville is pronounced like severe weather.. Ive lived about 30 mins from there all my life..
Yup, I'm learning. And I'm even from Tennessee 😃
David, Wrapped my smaller hives this past week with the polar vortex…. Some have said this is not needed…. Thoughts?
I have no idea where on the planet you live but for me I do not have to wrap strong colonies but it’s just good insurance or maybe it makes me feel better. But a small hive, yes, when it drops below 20 (f)
@@beek Thank you David…. That is what I was thinking…. Sorry…. I live in Huntington WV…. I hope you are going to the Hive Life Conference…. I will be going there with the wife…. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year…. Chris
Yes, Sheri and I will be at Hive Life.
@@beek Great we hope to meet you there
You're awesome
Well thank you Dale.
D how long can I store a mated queen.
Boy I’d love to do this, but I'm hesitant because I'm in Southern California and we have Africanized feral bees. I was considering doing green drone frames to flood the local area with Italian drones and maybe influence the temperment of local bees over time. Thoughts?
Yea Steve, you are wise to be hesitant. Africanized bees are nothing to play with for sure.
I'm loving this series! I printed you gueen rearing book and I'm ready to try this in the spring! I've always wondered how and for how long you can bank queens. You really helped! I'm really looking forward to the next video David. Thank you!
I'm so glad!
You are always so helpful with pertinent information in your videos. Thank you for your efforts, I so appreciate you doing this!
David, I came for the bee knowledge but I keep coming back for your personality (and the great information and instruction) and I just like your style. Thank you for doing what you do.
One thing a person can do is split a 2 story hive .at five days go through the queen less one and pick out the best cells cutting out all the small ones. the ones raised from the youngest larva you'll find some that won't be capped yet. no grafting required. having some sort of mating box that you can just drop in the frames. that's what I did my first time but with grafting you have more control
Hi Dan, good point.
This is the first video of your iv watched and I really enjoyed and learned from them we started raising bees last year and it's been hard to figure it all out thanks
Hey, glad you liked my channel. If you haven't subscribed yet, please do so soon so you won't miss a single video. It's free to subscribe. Here's the link: ua-cam.com/users/DavidBurnsbees
I’ve been successful with banking and generally do for up to 3 months. I’ve just made up 10 nucs for overwintering with queens that I’ve had banked since 10th June. This was a particular bad year to get queens mated in Ireland so I was well prepared. As regards honey, well that doesn’t pay the bills unfortunately but selling queens absolutely does. A very informative video 👍
Decided to jump in head first in to Bee Keeping. Bought 5 books and read them all, including yours. Lots of UA-cam and just wanted you to know how helpful you are. I am in my 4th week with 2 langstrom hives. Appears to be going well but still very early. Thank you for your info and dedication.
Hi. Please tell me what is the tendency of the queen to laying eggs. If we got 2 brood chambers where she prefers to stay? In the top box or the one on bottom board? I ask this question to know better how to reverse a double deep brood hive. Thanks for your videos!
I had to laugh over you trying to pronounce Sevierville.
And I'm from Tennessee!!
When i had 10 hives i would squish her and wait to aee of they made one and i would put a freshly layed frame from a different hive so they had eggs to start tje process
David, would you share your queen cell maker info?
Sir, is it ok to introduce queen bee to a queenless and hiveless swarms?
I'm too close to Africanized territory to raise my own queens. If I were big enough to flood the area with my own drones, it would be okay. But, the risk of Africanization is too high. So, every year, I buy queens from breeders big enough to control the mating.
Hi Blaine, yes, you have to do that for sure. Wise decision. And you have to regularly monitor that mark on her and if she is replaced, kill that queen and buy an new one.
The free download isn't available any longer? I tried and it it says download pending. Can I buy a copy somewhere?
That's a great question for me to answer on my livestream tonight, Thursday at 7pm central time. Here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/live
Is it possible to reliably detect from bees roar if queen bee is missing?
Is there some kind of playlist you made with all the videos about queen rearing .. like part 1,2,3,4 ?
Not sure but I do have an online queen rearing course: www.honeybeesonline.com/online-queen-rearing-course-online/
Old queen right? Gap bood...
So when you pull the queen out of the nuc,then do you have a ready queen cell ?
Hi David, Thank you for this episode. I understood or felt that I needed three or four colonies before I could start queen rearing. You have encouraged me this spring to give it a try. Right now is not a good time 20 degrees and dropping with snow. Haha
But it is a great time to start learning and becoming familiar with it.
David, should I replace the queen if the worker bees are very aggressive?
If you can do it safely and you want to be able to work the hive with more gentle bees in the future.
This is one skill that I have yet to learn. I’ve wanted to try, but traveling for work limits what I can do. Maybe this next season as I’ll be semi close to home. Look forward to meeting you at Hive Life, I’ll have to get a book from you. Cya tomorrow David.
Indeed Brian, nice to hear from you.
What is the safest way to mark your queen. Acrylic cahalkpaint?
I find the easiest for me is the queen marking pens.
Stay in the game - best advice ever to queen rearing. Thank you David
Absolutely
Thinking of adding honey bees to go along with my Mason bees. If I follow you right, getting too many banked queens in nukes isn't a problem cause you would just sell the excess nukes and go make more? Is selling a nuke more profitable than just selling a mated/banked queen?
I would not sell a mated queen for less than $39. But a nuc includes either a new overwintered queen or a new spring queen that is laying on two or three of the 5 frames. The nuc also has 5 drawn out frames filled with brood and resources. Our 5 frame nucs are inspected by the State of Illinois and have a health certificate and a moving permit, so alot of work goes into our nucs and yes you want to ask for about 7x as much for a nuc with a mated queen already working hard.
How much do you charge for teaching? Yes, I really love to learn.
All my beekeeping courses are online: www.honeybeesonline.com/online-beekeeping-academy/
Only the booklet isn't free to download anymore, is it?
I just tried it and IT IS FREE! Maybe you had the wrong link: Here's the link: www.uaex.uada.edu/publications/PDF/MP518.pdf
Yep, I've had bad queens. You've got my attention.
Any living animal is bound to have issues and queens are no exception. Even the best of queens will fail. We need a plan, a way to replace her quickly. Good luck Angela.
I have been watching your videos. and they have been so informative. I was initially planning honey production but after all the videos, I can see that hive management and queen rearing is the way to go and the honey will be the bonus. Thank you for what you are doing. I cannot wait to put all I've learned into practice starting this spring. And learn as I go.
Wheres the link to the pdf?
What’s done with the surplus’s queens that hase no use or function to you?
If I do not have a need for them in nucs or splits or replacements I can always sell them.
Kinda lost on what kind of marker to buy for Queen Marking. Tku!
I prefer the queen marking pens as I have demonstrated in my most recent videos.
@beek l must have missed it. Could you tell me what brand you use please? Looking forward to see you Thursday.
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Thanks for that David, a very Happy Christmas to you and your family. Roll on the spring! Peter
Same to you!
Also, how much do you sell your Queens for?
Usually around $40 plus shipping. We only ship UPS overnight.
David, you said that you put candy in the queen cage when you put her in there. Won't she eat through that and get out?
Actually she will not do that. She might eat a little of it, but the bees on the outside actually move it out of the way.
@@beek ok. So if they do that, she can get out. 🤔Im just curious about how you deal with that. Im getting an over winter hive this weekend. Trying to learn!
101K now! Yayy! Headed for 200K LOL
6:10 Since I don't have spare queens around, I'll give them a frame of eggs from another hive. That usually works... but it takes up to a month to get a laying queen... Yes, it is handy to have queens around. This is my 9th year of beekeeping and I get most of my queens from making walk-away splits, but this year I am focusing on raising "reserve" queens.
That's why I am here...
the amish i buy my queens from use candy corn to plug the cages.
Hopefully you can lean to raise your own queens soon.
@@beeki have a plan. but queens are supposed to be in another year. but i may change that plan
Always appreciated hearing some Queen rearing tips from you. In your online course, you didn't talk too much about how to set up the mating nucs. Would you mind covering that a little bit more in this series, please?
Indeed
Hello David. I intend to start my beekeeping experience when I retire to SEA. I had a question. I will graft as you do queen rearing following your methods. My question is about the number of nurse bees needed to raise a queen. I thin, as my hives in the tropics will be a good distance apart and my transportation will be a scooter, OTS queen rearing may be included in my tool kit of queen replacement. Could I use a two or three frame Nucleus hive?
Enjoying this David, thanks. I've been making splits with mated caged queens for multiple seasons and making up in spring when it's consistently mild enough, in 5 fr nuc boxes -2 frames capped brood, one honey 1/2 full, one drawn and one new foundation, add the caged queeen and just enough bees within the time it takes to make it (no waiting 24 hrs just make a simulated swarm, they will realise within 10 mins and when they are moved they are queenless), smoke them well, move a mile or two and add a bag of syrup 1:1, around 90% success rate if conds are good. Even with some very angry bees. I'm hoping to start grafting and do the same process with un hatched cells. I hope you cover the criteria for selecting grafting stock, presumably brood pattern, calmness, productivity etc
Hey Dave< hope you're recovering from the "Hive" event:0 Anyway, I would like to Ox Vape my bees but I recently installed a Winter Bee Kind board from you. Must I remove the candy board during treatment? thanks for everything bees you do. richard
I either rolled a queen or she was superceded in my weakest colony. I'm going to combine that colony with another but now I have to make a split to keep the status quo. If I had a queen I wouldn't have to risk a walkaway split or buy a queen. Great video, thank you.
Dave I just had a hive swarm twice. I caught both. I went into the original hive that swarmed and there were swarm cells everywhere as well as 3 queen cells. I found two queens flitting around in the hive. I took the swarm cells and the queen cells off and away from the hive and set them aside. Low and behold two other queens emerged from the dismantled cells. I don't know what to do with them.
I have raised bees with my great-uncle for about 4 years now. The bees keep dying off in the winter (Michigan). He decided to stop raising bees, however, I still really want to continue. You are a huge reason that I'm confident I can do it independently. I'm 16 now and can't wait. Do you have a good video for surviving the winter? Thank you!!
Thanks for the idea on queen excluders between the boxes to find the queen. Brilliant!
Glad it was helpful!
Do you use a horizontal style hive? I’m interested in this style and raising queens. Thx
Outstanding video. I think I can do it....raise my own queens!!!
Yes, happened twice in my first year of beekeeping in 2022. Had to requeen one colony then had a feral queen and colony take over another hive (they overwintered well but not sure what they will look like in late March. So yes, managing queens is a challenge but worth being better educated on rearing queens this year.
Thank you kindly for the free download. It will be an intersting and very informative read. I will try this summer to graft a queen providing my bees are well coming out of winter. Do you need a liscence to sell the queen bees ? Are there any requirements?
Check with your local state and county.
Good strategy Mr. D Burns.
Thanks so much, glad you understand it now too.
Nice Job David! Hoping next year to try to do some Queen Rearing. Just depends, Thanks for sharing David! Have a wonderful Holiday! Take care!
Thanks so much. Yes, queen rearing kept me from giving up on beekeeping. If all you are after is honey, and you have a bad year it's easy to give up. We need to have more than one pole in the pond to increase our changes of a catch!
A recent inspection we did of our two backyard hives revealed the Queen from each hive was located on the end frame. So, they can be found on the ends. We are in Canberra, Australia. Love your videos.
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David, You mention dispatching the old queen and waiting 24 hours before introducing a new queen in cage. I am told there are 3 schools of thought on Introducing queens. 1. dispatch old queen and immediately install new queen in her cage. 2. Dispatch old Queen. Wait 24 hours then introduce new queen in cage. 3. Dispatch old queen. Wait 7 days. . shake bees off frames and check carefully for Queen cells including sides of comb. Remove all queen cells then introduce new queen in cage. (some folk suggest waiting a further 24 - 48 hours after removing queen cells). Would you care to comment or perhaps do a vid on these methods?
I've tried all the methods you've described or some variation, but I'm in love with seeing the most success in waiting 24 hours and then introducing a new queen.
I love your videos! I watched several today. I saw how you bank queens, and then heard you answer Kim’s question. I accidentally put a caged queen into a hive that had a queen but I thought it was queenless. They killed my caged queen quickly through the screen. Why don’t they kill your queens that you are banking? I know the queen is in the deep box below, but it seems like the bees upstairs might want to kill the queens in cages?
In some cases they might but so far it has worked well for me.
Which video explained the cup maker your father-in-law created? Thank you and have a Merry Christmas!!
This one Steven: ua-cam.com/video/9-YprNsz29g/v-deo.html
Hello David I had three of my hives year before last that was massive an I COULD NOT FIND THE QUEEN AT ALL .Here is another little quicker way I found to find a queen an yes it is a lot of work but it works great an you probably David have done this one before is getting a empty deep box an put a queen excluder on top an shake all your frame of bee thru the excluder till you find the queen. Ya I found all three queens an got them marked to help down the road to find her . Maybe this will help your people also . As always thanks for all you share with all of us. I have plans this year to try my old hands an eyes at raising some queen. I think it will be a little easier on my pocket $$$. THANKS
Yes, It's labor intense anytime we shake numerous frames and sometimes if shaken hard enough we can damage larvae. But it does work as you described.
Was wanting to go to hive life but when i looked the tickets were sold out. Sad I'll be missing seeing you! I live about 30 minutes from there and it's pronounced 'severe-vull'
Yup Hive Life is like Beatlemania!
If you only wanted a single spare queen why would you bother grafting when you could just add a frame of eggs like you would do a walk away split?
You can certain do that, but if you have a mated queen ready, you do not lose any down time. Letting a walk away split raise their own will put you around 20-30 days back waiting for them to raise a queen and for her to get mated, and as I've explained in a previous video, that 30 day period sets you back 30-40,000 bees!
Hey David, I’m interested in buying this queen reading course but why buy the course if you are going to be turning out UA-cam videos about queen rearing? What does the course offer that your UA-cam videos don’t?
Good question, I can only give the basic start up concepts on UA-cam as the class goes into more depth and I cannot show how to graft since I'm in winter, and that's the most important aspect of success. The online course actually spends time on explaining grafting. The class goes deeper into each aspect of queen rearing. I'm hitting the surface on UA-cam. If I went deeper on UA-cam I would lose my audience and their interest quickly. So I'm trying to present an introductory aspect of queen rearing, simplifying it so beekeepers can wrap their minds around it and dive into it and learn as they go. But the big thing about my online course is, all the courses are in order, easily accessible where here on UA-cam a video might be missed or hard to go back and find. Good question.
Great information and no nonsense instructions! It was great to meet you and Sheri at HLC!
And very nice to meet you as well!!
Hello David;
What do you do with the Bees in the matting nucleus that you remove the queen from?
Can you combine them with the hive that you put there queen in?
Thank You for all of your great videos, and your time teaching us newbees!
Thanks Courtney I'll answer this in a future video
Ha Davi9d good video, The queens I bought was always rejected in a month they were destroyed and the hive had made q cells it is a waist of money to but bees
David hope u have a Merry Christmas to you and your family
yes, many times beekeepers can't see their queen so they buy a new one but their bees are in the process of making a new one and so they kill the pricey one you bought so they can keep raising their own.
Thank you so much! valuable information 😊 have a merry Christmas
You have yourself a Merry Christmas as well and glad you enjoy my channel. Good to have people like you part of my very growing UA-cam Channel Community.
David I downloaded your book on queen rearing but I would like a copy of the written book. How can I order one? Thank you!!
Good question. I plan to have 100 copies at Hive Life if you are there. If not, I'll consult with my website people to see if it is possible to have any that we do not sell at Hive Life placed online.
I like how you said that Mr.David
"Don't wait to become perfect before you start"
Right, otherwise we will never start, because none of us are perfect.
The problem we have in the north is that around may 10th the colonies want to swarm but its too early to start raising queens. so we buy the first batch of queens just to delay the colonies before raising our own queens. Im tihnking of using the nicot system starting April 25 to see if i can get them earlier...
Yes makes sense. The Nicot system was not something that I could ever make work.
I'm going to raise 40 queens this year. Double my apiary. Positive thinking. I just need to perfect making cell starter/ finisher hive.
Good for your Walter. I'll make a video on the perfect starter hive! That would be a great video!
I am excited to follow this series. Thank you David! p.s. I like the bobble head 'David' 🙂
Thanks Tony. It's funny how the bobble head keeps moving the whole time.
67: I am really interested in learning how to do this ... I say "ignorance of something simple or something difficult is the same to me"... Can I learn and be ready by Spring? I am in southern Oregon coast area. ....... pat
Hey Pat, you can do it! I am convinced that if more beekeepers begin raising queens it will change the landscape of beekeeping because I know there will be better survival rates across the board.
Excellent and valuable. You are answering the key questions. Thanks for doing this. Much appreciated.
Glad it was helpful!
Feel intimidated in starting this. Looking forward to the challenge. Where is best place to purchase a startup kit?
Hi Hayden, I'm going to talk about that in an upcoming video
I only have two hives. Should I raise queens or instead do splits using nucs?
Maybe try both
Great video Dave. Thanks.
Thanks. Looking forward to try this.
There's a slim chance I'm gonna be in a lot of trouble here in the new year, so I've been trying to figure out what I can do in whatever land I might be able to afford a down payment on on my little fast food check and tax return. We're rural and there's plenty of market in the area for honey and wax, so I'm trying to educate as much as I can before I might not have the resources to do the research.
So thank you, genuinely, for sharing your art.
Well I'm sure sorry to hear about your possible trouble. Sounds like you are on the right path to figure things out. Remember the best investment you can make is to invest in yourself. You are the only person that determines your future.
Good
What if you get 10-15 virgins at one time and don’t have the boxes or nuc to place them in before the mating flight?
Yes, as I have said, it is all about timing. In that case, many people sell virgin queens or 14 day old queen cells. But I just plan for it and have my queenless hives ready or my nucs or splits ready to receive the queens I've made.
David, what are the dimensions of the shelves on your queen banking frames? Thanks
Hi Cathy, I think I just used my California mini cages as my guide and made my shelves so they fit tightly in, so you want to start with your queen cages first that you'll be using.
I sure hope I can learn how to do my own queens. It sure would help out and you are a very good professional from what I see so hopefully I can hang and grasp this.
Thank you
Very good presentation!!!!!
Enjoying the Queen rearing episodes. Can you walk us through from a day or two before she hatches and how long after hatching will she take the mating flight and when can we expect her return. Also, would you introduce another virgin queen to the same box in case the first fails to return?
Added to my bucket list of videos to make 😄
What a great video, subscribed and eager to learn from ya.
Thank you so much!! Be sure and join our livestream every Thursday night at 7pm central time. Here's the link: www.honeybeesonline.com/live/
Thank you so much for your videos, I'm hoping to start my first hive this spring in South Carolina 🥰🍯🌞
Hi Melissa I’m happy for you.
Thanks! Following these closely and plan on using these techniques this Spring!
Great to hear George
Looking forward to the next videos on queen rearing. After loosing several queens this summer and as you noted the setbacks, this is definitely something I need to know about. ]
Thanks for the videos David.
Yes Duane, I am convinced that if I can encourage people to raise queens it will change the landscape of beekeeping in the US. What good is it to keep mite levels under control and feed bees tons of sugar but not be able to keep a queenright hive!
Great tips.. thanks for sharing your knowledge..
So nice of you
Thanks a lot from Madagascar
Great video, David, very knowledgeable and very understanding the way you explain it
Glad it was helpful!
I'll see you at Hive Life. Save me a Queen rearing book!
Hi Pat, look forward to seeing you at Hive Life. Queen Books are first come, sorry can't save any.
Great idea David , teaching us all in the winter months 👍👍hope for great queens in 2023
Fingers crossed!