I love nucs , easy to handle , not heavy and fantastic for resources I agree , it’s definitely not just about the honey for me , I make more money selling bee nucs than honey gets me , I make my own foundation from wax collected , and I make my own boxes as well to save on costs where I can . Great video . 👍
Good job. I bought 2 full colonies in July 2020. Sitting at right around 40 (started with 22 this Spring). I catch alot of swarms. I finally made a decent amount of honey this year, at least by my standard- approximately 700 lbs. Good luck as you try to level out and start making some money. IMO, thats harder than growing numbers.
I don't think I've seen hives this close together outside of commercial operations, you must get tons of drift. Drift spreads diseases and also makes it less clear which hives are really doing the best work so less clear which ones you want to make new queens from. Do you think that's a problem?
Bees know which hive is theirs, I feel most drift comes from when you move a hive around or new foragers. As for Diseases, keep them clean and health and there won't be any to share. 2021 - 23 I worked as a commercial beekeeper and they kept their this close. When you have as many bees as I do, you work them the easiest way. There are almost 60 in this yard and after they get inspected I'm moving about 20 - 25 out of here. You can keep the diseases down by keeping the mite count low. My bees were in a national study last year and only got to a 5 after 8.5 months. Not perfect but not bad either. my loses were only 13% this year. It may also teach them to respect their Neighbor being right up against them, they are a community bug.
When adding a queen to a different colony from your 2 frame nuc's do u cage her and then add her so the new colony has time to get used to her?... or do u just put her right in? Thx
There are 3 stages of Queens, Virgin, Mated & Laying. The queens in a 2 frames don't get moved until they are Layers. If I need to add one to a Queenless hive I just add her. if you cage her for more than 6 hours I consider her a Mated queen and she will have to be introduced thru a time release method. But if you get her in a hive under that time she will just keep laying. Bees always accept a laying queen but they aren't laying queens after so many hours. Thanks for the question.
I've been trying to get back to what boxes I have for supers for the last 2 months by selling bees. Hoped I'd sell enough to buy New boxes and frames but I fell Waaaay short of my goal. lol I did spend 1,000 dollar towards frames but that was a drop in the bucket. Now I'm trying to decide how to proceed to the fall and get ready for winter with nuc I can sell in the spring of 24. I've totally given up on making honey. I'm just trying to keep them in the box, lol I think I'm going to sell queen from my hives to create a brood break and let them requeen themselves.
@@Warren76317 Two to four the first year and grafting Q's, four to twelve, then twelve to twenty eight. With mentees I'm overseeing 50+, age and health caught up with me now downsizing, was able to drop 10. It's really hard seeing those empty boxes sitting there when I could fill them,,,, Need to drop four more, six hives and eight to ten nucs is what I'm shooting for. I do enjoy the nucs and selling bees! Fun stuff, don't burn out or get injured, happy beekeeping!!!
I went from 2 hives to 11 in 4 years and donated about 50 swarms to the wild..lol.
3 more years you'll have enough for an alcohol wash 😀 NIce setup👍
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Awesome. I would like to go along with you the next time your checking you hives. I like that 2 frame nuc idea.
I love nucs , easy to handle , not heavy and fantastic for resources I agree , it’s definitely not just about the honey for me , I make more money selling bee nucs than honey gets me , I make my own foundation from wax collected , and I make my own boxes as well to save on costs where I can . Great video . 👍
Me too. I'm going to make more box and get into more nucs.
Good job. I bought 2 full colonies in July 2020. Sitting at right around 40 (started with 22 this Spring). I catch alot of swarms. I finally made a decent amount of honey this year, at least by my standard- approximately 700 lbs. Good luck as you try to level out and start making some money. IMO, thats harder than growing numbers.
Nice looking yard, Hello from Kajun Homestead, I'm Brad nice to find your channel.
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I don't think I've seen hives this close together outside of commercial operations, you must get tons of drift. Drift spreads diseases and also makes it less clear which hives are really doing the best work so less clear which ones you want to make new queens from. Do you think that's a problem?
Bees know which hive is theirs, I feel most drift comes from when you move a hive around or new foragers. As for Diseases, keep them clean and health and there won't be any to share. 2021 - 23 I worked as a commercial beekeeper and they kept their this close. When you have as many bees as I do, you work them the easiest way. There are almost 60 in this yard and after they get inspected I'm moving about 20 - 25 out of here. You can keep the diseases down by keeping the mite count low. My bees were in a national study last year and only got to a 5 after 8.5 months. Not perfect but not bad either. my loses were only 13% this year. It may also teach them to respect their Neighbor being right up against them, they are a community bug.
When adding a queen to a different colony from your 2 frame nuc's do u cage her and then add her so the new colony has time to get used to her?... or do u just put her right in? Thx
There are 3 stages of Queens, Virgin, Mated & Laying. The queens in a 2 frames don't get moved until they are Layers. If I need to add one to a Queenless hive I just add her. if you cage her for more than 6 hours I consider her a Mated queen and she will have to be introduced thru a time release method. But if you get her in a hive under that time she will just keep laying. Bees always accept a laying queen but they aren't laying queens after so many hours. Thanks for the question.
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Pls show us the details practically how you make it ,thanks.from Africa,Ethiopia,Tigray
THAT'S the easy part,,,,, try going the other direction back to nine and see how that works for you, haha. DON'T ASK !!!
I've been trying to get back to what boxes I have for supers for the last 2 months by selling bees. Hoped I'd sell enough to buy New boxes and frames but I fell Waaaay short of my goal. lol I did spend 1,000 dollar towards frames but that was a drop in the bucket. Now I'm trying to decide how to proceed to the fall and get ready for winter with nuc I can sell in the spring of 24. I've totally given up on making honey. I'm just trying to keep them in the box, lol I think I'm going to sell queen from my hives to create a brood break and let them requeen themselves.
@@Warren76317 Two to four the first year and grafting Q's, four to twelve, then twelve to twenty eight. With mentees I'm overseeing 50+, age and health caught up with me now downsizing, was able to drop 10. It's really hard seeing those empty boxes sitting there when I could fill them,,,, Need to drop four more, six hives and eight to ten nucs is what I'm shooting for. I do enjoy the nucs and selling bees! Fun stuff, don't burn out or get injured, happy beekeeping!!!
It may work better to keep the mating nukes in a separate location from your honey producers
Sometimes but these do good here.
You never said how you went from 9 to 160 in 3yrs.
Sure I did. Nucs