Only watching this now, 6 years after you filmed it! I really like your videos as you come across as completely down to earth and you don't gild the Lilly, you simply appear to tell us how it is! Carry on the great work
Wow, this was the video I needed to understand the Michael Palmer method. I knew the information was solid but seeing it done makes all the difference. Cheers!
Great video. Much better explanation through hands-on video of Michaeal Palmer method than just the Michael lecture itself. Thanks for pulling this off so excellent!
This is absolutely the best video I've seen. I have watched Mike P and his videos and this one nailed it. I just started raising our own queens this season 017. Already for next year now and will do my best, to leave the queen rearing up to the "professionals. Thank you Richard for taking the time to make this video.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO MAKE THIS VIDEO. You sir are a natural for explaining things. I can't wait to get started. Blessings your way my friend
Hello Richards, I just returned from a workshop with Michel Palmer as our guest speaker and mentioned how I enjoyed your video on cell builder "explained" He spoke highly of you so keep up the good work!!
Richard thanks for the second follow up Q and A this answered my question and thanks for explaining this process so well. I am so excited about spring and thanks to you I know I will be ready to grow with lots of new queens
I’ve watched your videos countless times Richard and share your admiration for Michael Palmer, top beekeeper, I’ll be trying this method this season for the first time
Hello Richard I wave watched a lot of different video’s on queen building over an over and kind of for some reason did not totally understand it ( I guess being old has nothing to do with it) haha . After watching your video I think I have it now I guess I speak your language a little better haha . I will be trying it now as always thanks for your video’s and you taking the time to put out this information. It so great how all the bee keepers stick together and share info. Thanks from NC , USA
This is by far the very best video I’ve seen on setting up a cell starter. I heard Mike Palmer at the Texas Beekeepers Assn annual meeting a couple of years ago-excellent. Wish I could hear one of your presentations in person as well. Thanks again for the great & informative video.
The way you set up a cell builder, and crowd them into wanting to swarm and then giving them the intense need for a queen is the same way I set up my colonies for making excellent comb honey. You've got my mind busy thinking new things this spring for my beehives!
Richard, I can't say thank you enough for the awesome video, the best I've seen! Clearly, you are passionate about bees and beekeeping. You did a great job explaining "what" you are doing and the "why". I'm a second-year beekeeper with eleven hives. Next year I'd like to get my hive count up to around twenty five and start selling nucs and bred queens. Thanks again!
I agree, this is the best video on queen rearing I've seen. You cleared up a lot of my confusion from watching other videos on this topic. Thank you for this video.
I have watched many video's on queen bee production, this one tops them all. Well organized and just enough information. You have given me confidence in going forward in my own program, knowing these simple take a way's. Thank You! -Willj-
Great video! I'll try o follow a similar method here in PT for my small bee yard (4 colonies), my plan is to get double next year. Thank you for sharing!
Wow I loved the video, I am a bee keeper from Idaho USA and want to do some grafting and raising bees this Spring . I had questions on setting up a cell starter and I loved your method. Very helpful Richard, Thank You!
Thank you Richard for an excellent video your excitement shows through!!! I love all of Michael Palmer videos and am excited that he will be here in North Carolina next month.
Thanks Fin. I am doing a full presentation for Cambridgshire beekeepers end of feb so if you want a better presentation stay tuned! I will post it to you. Thanks for your kind words!
@@richardnoel3141 I’d love that please mate! I spoke to our club president yesterday about asking if we could ask you to do a zoom presentation for us? It would obviously have to go through the rest of committee but I thought I’d ask anyway. Hope that’s ok with you as not sure if you’re offering this to other associations or not?
Great video and a good solid method for raising quality queens. I never liked queenless cell builders because of the nurse bee issue when grafting cycle after cycle. This is a good solution. I have known queen breeders that keep two hives as one cell builder. One queenless and the other just for nurse bees, but when raising hundreds to thousands of queens this gets costly. We just went with queenrite builders and we did very well. 80-85% take consistently all season. I believe the main difference is the area we live in. Northern California is a great place to raise queens. We grafted 600 cells per day from February 15th to May 15th for over 30 years. Any other method would just take too much time and resources when operating on that big of a scale.
VERY GOOD RICHARD!! AND YOUR RIGHT MICHAEL PALMER IS A BEEKEEPING GENIUS U CAN WATCH OTHERS FOR YEARS BUT NOT TRULY LEARN MUCH THEN LEARN FROM MICHAEL AND YOU TRULY BLESSED ONCE YOUR TAUGHT.YOUR VERY GOOD ALSO I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS,I AGREE WITH U AND I LEARN FROM U.NORMALLY IM CUSSING AT PEOPLE FOR SPREADING FALSE INFO ,NICE TO BE ON A CHANNEL AND LEARN. THATS WHY IM HERE ,THAT AN I ENJOY UR VIDEOS!
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. I'm planning on starting beekeeping in 2021 (Retiring in April 😁🐝so we will have the time) and am watching and reading as much as I can in preparation. Have to say the way this video was presented and structured is brilliantly informative and just what we need 👍🏻🐝😁. Thanks again
really like your videos and the info on the drone production towards the end of this one ... a lot of videos leave that out, very informative thank you for taking the time,
This is absolutely the best video I've seen, finally someone that has explained Mike Palmer method in great detail. Please make a video on how you build your finisher hives. Also a video on how to graft if its possible.
Charles Thomas many thanks for your kind comments! I had it in mind to do a video on m’y finishers, but it won’t be until next spring now! Will see what I can do, but come spring you just have very little time until the fall! Regards.
Thank you Sir. Second year beekeeper here from Atlanta. Queen rearing is my next step. A sustainable apiary without buying Queens is my goal. Appreciate your information.
Richard ok here I go going to give it a try. I’ve just been packing them in a 10 frame box and doing it all in one but like the excluder idea. Put all the brood above excluder. That will prevent them from drawing cells. In 5 days I will flip the queen rite Box put her above double screened board. Above the builder keep her warm while her colony builds cells. Then I can put her box back after done building. We will see. Hope your well Richardson California is warming up. Love your shed by the way. Great work Richard. Read my message from 2 years ago lol, come a long way since then.
You are fun to listen to. I've watched tons of videos on beekeeping and most of the beekepers are droning on and on (No pun intended) about this and that and it is so boring you lose attention quite quickly. This is not your case, so thank you very much! :D
Such a great video. Thank you for the time and effort you have put into making this highly educational and inspiring tutorial. Hope all is well in Northern France.
Well produced and explained. This process can seem complicated when trying it the first time. I've seen Michael speak and you further simplified the explanation.
What an excellent video, thanks. QUESTION: I bought roller cages like the one you use that have a cup for the queen cell, how do you attached those cups to the frames? And how do you removed them once the cells are capped. Thank you.
I was in France last summer. We didn't go to Brittany, but we did have some Calvados from Brittany. Fantastic video. I have met MP and also used his methods, slightly modified to use Nicot cage, due to my poor vision. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Richard, thank you for this great video explanation! I think I would use it as both, cell builder and finisher as I am producing a queens just for my apiary. I am wondering how long can I use these generation of bees? How can I strength the cell builder to use it longer? Thank you
Great video! Your explanation of the process was very easy to understand. This video will be a great reference to help me grow my operation. Thank you for sharing.
you are a legend brother... This video is amazing and looks that you putted a lot of thought and heart into it. Im not into the bees bizz but I can surelly tell you that you changed my thought about it and I love it! Thank you again! Much Love!
Richard, that was absolutely fascinating. Thank u sooo much for sharing! Made me think that maybe this is something I could do and actually be able to retire someday!!! 😁
Great Video. I"m thinking about getting into bees. Trying to decide if we are going to change locations first. Have to admit your bees (the volume of them) were intimidating to me. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.
Hello Fred, this colony does look a bit intimidating, yes i agree, but its about the strongest you ever see a colony of bees, so dont worry about that. We make this artificially strong by adding more bees via unhatched brood, this then gives an even stronger response when we remove the queen. EWere maximising what the bees can do, only naturally!
This was a great explanation of how this system work. Good production quality. Selection of music added to the comfort of watching. Clearly your experience and knowledge is conveyed by your passion. Loved it! All the best. Robert
This is the best video on queen rearing I've seen so far! Thanks for taking the time to make it! I've watched a lot of Mike Palmer's presentations and this video shed more light on what he has been explaining. Getting my materials ready for next season now. What breed of bees do you have? They shake off the frames surprisingly easy. I have Italians and carnica, and neither let go of the comb that easily.
Hi, thanks for your kind comments. ok we use a F1 Buckfast cross, but as i said in the video they can be a little feisty at the start but generally they arent too bad. dont forget your getting a colony to swarming point. and your adding thousands of nurse bees that cant even fly yet! so their not that great at hanging on to the frames. Also i shake them hard lol Hope you have a good season.
Hello, you use a different box as a finisher because if you want to get another 4/5 rounds of cells in to the builder you can. Finishers finish the cells, starter boxes just start the cells. If you just one one load of cells you don’t have to move them to a finisher. You can just revert the colony back to how it was with this time the queens underneath the excluder and the cells above!!. Here is the link y to « the cell builder explained, questions and answers » ua-cam.com/video/yppRnZvn9oM/v-deo.html this should answer your questions. Thanks bée well!!
thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge, why you don't leave the queen cells in the builder hive what's the aim of removing them to nuc finisher and what do you do with the builder hive when you finish and when you remove the queen cells from the nuc .finally when you shake the majority of nurse bees into builder hive does this affect looking after the larvae in queen hive. sorry for my many questions. thanks very much
I like your videos. You have the right stuff. I see that you are true. Im in Dominican Republic with over 200 bee boxes and growing. Would love to speak or meet!
FIVE STAR VIDEO! Excellent content, organization and photography make this a valuable learning aid. Keep your eyes open, he shows several tricks he does not mention in the narrative, i.e., masking tape on the shaker box. Thank you for taking the time to share. :)
Great video - thanks for sharing your knowledge! Do you raise queen cells all through the seasons Spring and Summer - in other words, when would you do your first and last grafts? I'm interested in trying this out - would love to boost my colony numbers (6 at the moment).
Hi Paul, Normally from early to mid-May and last graft in end of July. ( Here in Brittany)This gives you more mature drones in Spring and also time for the new;y emerged queens in July to get mated and build up before the winter. you can graft earlier in the spring but mating can be poor if it goes cold. Don't forget every area is different and you need to firstly let the bees tell you, secondly, ask one of the locals who raises queens,
@@richardnoel3141 Thanks for making time to reply Richard, much appreciated. I'm in Netherlands with likely similar weather to yourself, although a different 'environment'. Will take your advice regarding local queen raisers - many thanks, big thumbs up!!
a horsley because they will attempt to Make anew queen with whatever they have before you put in your grafts! That’s why you remove the cells they try and use and graft from your selected stock! That’s what your missing buddy!!
Do they move eggs or larvae to a queen cell from a worker cell or maybe change the architecture of a worker cell? If they don’t, then the queen cup would remain empty without a queen to lay in it. Sorry for the density. Thanks for the answer. Love the videos!
a horsley no the make emergency cells in the frame wherever they find a larvae they think is the correct age. There are generally 3 types of queen cell. Swarm cells, emergency cells and superscedure cells. Look them up and it will help you understand why we do what we do and when!🤙🏼
This is the very best explained and examples given, on this subject that I have ever watched!! Thank you so much for posting this.. I do have a question and I am new to bee keeping. When you moved the queen right hive over and added the new base for the nurse bees, what type bottom board was that, that you used. Was that a queen excluder bottom or simply some type of screen bottom board? Again thank you for posting !! Sincerely, Phillip Hall
phillip hall thanks for your kind words! It’s standard Dadant base! In France the 10 frames Dadant hive is pretty standard! This is just a plastic vase made by “Nocot” (or Nicoplast) injection moulded and I have to say their fantastic! No rot, can be sterilised! Lightweight and cheap What’s not to Like ! 💥👌🏻🐝🐝🐝
Nice job! 👌
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Only watching this now, 6 years after you filmed it! I really like your videos as you come across as completely down to earth and you don't gild the Lilly, you simply appear to tell us how it is! Carry on the great work
got to hand to this guy for shoveling through so much bs just to share his important experience. thank you
Wow, this was the video I needed to understand the Michael Palmer method. I knew the information was solid but seeing it done makes all the difference. Cheers!
I have grown to really enjoy your videos. Your knowledge and enthusiasm is second to none.
I appreciate that! thanks, but i just do things differently. there is other equally good videos out there!
Like your enthusiasm. Keep it up! Also like your willingness to encourage others.
Great video. Much better explanation through hands-on video of Michaeal Palmer method than just the Michael lecture itself. Thanks for pulling this off so excellent!
Your passion clearly comes through starting at 1:40 and carries through the entire video. Well done! I learned alot in this 27 minutes. Thanks!
I have so very many questions, but for now, I just want to thank you for your excitement! It's so very contagious!!!
thanks you. the cell builder explained, questions and answer, has a lot of the questions you are likely to ask.
One of the best queen rearing videos I've seen to date. Nice thorough procedure. Thank you!
This is absolutely the best video I've seen. I have watched Mike P and his videos and this one nailed it. I just started raising our own queens this season 017. Already for next year now and will do my best, to leave the queen rearing up to the "professionals. Thank you Richard for taking the time to make this video.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO MAKE THIS VIDEO. You sir are a natural for explaining things. I can't wait to get started. Blessings your way my friend
Jaime Diaz thanks for your kind words!! Good luck!
Hello Richards,
I just returned from a workshop with Michel Palmer as our guest speaker and mentioned how I enjoyed your video on cell builder "explained"
He spoke highly of you so keep up the good work!!
Honeysuckle thank you!
Wow! You are not only a beekeeper but a great videoproducer.
Richard thanks for the second follow up Q and A this answered my question and thanks for explaining this process so well. I am so excited about spring and thanks to you I know I will be ready to grow with lots of new queens
This is probably the most satisfying beekeeping video I've ever watched
thank you!😃
I’ve watched your videos countless times Richard and share your admiration for Michael Palmer, top beekeeper, I’ll be trying this method this season for the first time
Absolutely the best video on queen rearing on the internet, bar none. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and zeal. Absolutely infectious.
Those compelte bars full of queen cells look beautifu, don't they?
From the quality of the video I assume you have done this for a living! Excellent guidance; you've given me confidence to give it a go.
Hello Richard I wave watched a lot of different video’s on queen building over an over and kind of for some reason did not totally understand it ( I guess being old has nothing to do with it) haha . After watching your video I think I have it now I guess I speak your language a little better haha . I will be trying it now as always thanks for your video’s and you taking the time to put out this information. It so great how all the bee keepers stick together and share info. Thanks from NC , USA
This is by far the very best video I’ve seen on setting up a cell starter. I heard Mike Palmer at the Texas Beekeepers Assn annual meeting a couple of years ago-excellent. Wish I could hear one of your presentations in person as well. Thanks again for the great & informative video.
The way you set up a cell builder, and crowd them into wanting to swarm and then giving them the intense need for a queen is the same way I set up my colonies for making excellent comb honey. You've got my mind busy thinking new things this spring for my beehives!
Backyard-beehives can u explain how you get your bees to make comb honey Thanks
Brilliant! Really informative, clear and most useful video, thanks!
Thanks, hope it helps you. 🙌😎🐝
Richard, I can't say thank you enough for the awesome video, the best I've seen! Clearly, you are passionate about bees and beekeeping. You did a great job explaining "what" you are doing and the "why". I'm a second-year beekeeper with eleven hives. Next year I'd like to get my hive count up to around twenty five and start selling nucs and bred queens. Thanks again!
Wonderful video, so well shot and explained ....thanks for posting. An ancient Aussie
I agree, this is the best video on queen rearing I've seen. You cleared up a lot of my confusion from watching other videos on this topic. Thank you for this video.
I have watched many video's on queen bee production, this one tops them all. Well organized and just enough information. You have given me confidence in going forward in my own program, knowing these simple take a way's. Thank You! -Willj-
And again I needed this information to do it the right way. Thank you! What an inspiration
Bert Berghoef, beekeeper in the Netherlands
Thanks for your kind words.
Thank you for this. I’m looking into Queen rearing for 2021. The Cell Builder is one key piece.
Great video! I'll try o follow a similar method here in PT for my small bee yard (4 colonies), my plan is to get double next year. Thank you for sharing!
Wow I loved the video, I am a bee keeper from Idaho USA and want to do some grafting and raising bees this Spring . I had questions on setting up a cell starter and I loved your method. Very helpful Richard, Thank You!
Fantastic video
Thank you Richard for an excellent video your excitement shows through!!! I love all of Michael Palmer videos and am excited that he will be here in North Carolina next month.
One last comment...
I have not begun my own bed keeping yet, but this video is certainly encouraging.
Thank you!
Hello,
Sir, you made my day. best video ever. Thanks a lot for this material! Big Love from Romania.
You are very welcome. wishing you a great season in 2021 with lots of big juicy queen cells!
Brilliant video Richard, I am going to try this this year for my first go and Queen rearing.
Thanks Fin. I am doing a full presentation for Cambridgshire beekeepers end of feb so if you want a better presentation stay tuned! I will post it to you. Thanks for your kind words!
@@richardnoel3141 I’d love that please mate! I spoke to our club president yesterday about asking if we could ask you to do a zoom presentation for us? It would obviously have to go through the rest of committee but I thought I’d ask anyway. Hope that’s ok with you as not sure if you’re offering this to other associations or not?
Awesome tutorial! Very encouraging too. Thanks for the insight.
Loved the step by step instructions! Going to give it a try in the spring!
Great video and a good solid method for raising quality queens. I never liked queenless cell builders because of the nurse bee issue when grafting cycle after cycle. This is a good solution. I have known queen breeders that keep two hives as one cell builder. One queenless and the other just for nurse bees, but when raising hundreds to thousands of queens this gets costly.
We just went with queenrite builders and we did very well. 80-85% take consistently all season. I believe the main difference is the area we live in. Northern California is a great place to raise queens. We grafted 600 cells per day from February 15th to May 15th for over 30 years. Any other method would just take too much time and resources when operating on that big of a scale.
wow what a beautiful frames of brood !!!
thank you.
VERY GOOD RICHARD!! AND YOUR RIGHT MICHAEL PALMER IS A BEEKEEPING GENIUS U CAN WATCH OTHERS FOR YEARS BUT NOT TRULY LEARN MUCH THEN LEARN FROM MICHAEL AND YOU TRULY BLESSED ONCE YOUR TAUGHT.YOUR VERY GOOD ALSO I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS,I AGREE WITH U AND I LEARN FROM U.NORMALLY IM CUSSING AT PEOPLE FOR SPREADING FALSE INFO ,NICE TO BE ON A CHANNEL AND LEARN. THATS WHY IM HERE ,THAT AN I ENJOY UR VIDEOS!
Thank you for your kind comments!! best wished for the coming season.
Richard Noel you as well my friend ,keep em coming !
Well done Richard,
Thanks for sharing.
I really like your video on cell builder explained thanks.
thank you.
This has helped me so much thank you. This tape saved me so much money, it is simple enough for anyone to understand. Please put out one on treatment.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. I'm planning on starting beekeeping in 2021 (Retiring in April 😁🐝so we will have the time) and am watching and reading as much as I can in preparation. Have to say the way this video was presented and structured is brilliantly informative and just what we need 👍🏻🐝😁. Thanks again
really like your videos and the info on the drone production towards the end of this one ... a lot of videos leave that out, very informative thank you for taking the time,
jonathan walker thanks for your kind comments!🐝🤓👍😎
Great video Richard!
This is absolutely the best video I've seen, finally someone that has explained Mike Palmer method in great detail. Please make a video on how you build your finisher hives. Also a video on how to graft if its possible.
Charles Thomas many thanks for your kind comments! I had it in mind to do a video on m’y finishers, but it won’t be until next spring now! Will see what I can do, but come spring you just have very little time until the fall! Regards.
Thank you Sir. Second year beekeeper here from Atlanta. Queen rearing is my next step. A sustainable apiary without buying Queens is my goal.
Appreciate your information.
Richard ok here I go going to give it a try. I’ve just been packing them in a 10 frame box and doing it all in one but like the excluder idea. Put all the brood above excluder. That will prevent them from drawing cells. In 5 days I will flip the queen rite Box put her above double screened board. Above the builder keep her warm while her colony builds cells. Then I can put her box back after done building. We will see. Hope your well Richardson California is warming up. Love your shed by the way. Great work Richard. Read my message from 2 years ago lol, come a long way since then.
Great video, i watched it 3 times already and will watch again no doubt.
Gave me homey bee boxs
You are fun to listen to. I've watched tons of videos on beekeeping and most of the beekepers are droning on and on (No pun intended) about this and that and it is so boring you lose attention quite quickly. This is not your case, so thank you very much! :D
thanks very much, glad you find it interesting. i like to keep it informative.😃
Such a great video. Thank you for the time and effort you have put into making this highly educational and inspiring tutorial. Hope all is well in Northern France.
Very good and informative video 👍
Well produced and explained. This process can seem complicated when trying it the first time. I've seen Michael speak and you further simplified the explanation.
Thank you for the video. You made a great presentation! Wish you all the best.
Great video. I'm allergic to bloody bees but i found this fascinating. Cheers from Melbourne Australia
Well explained i love watching mike palmer, i will be trying to raise my own for the first time this year as last year i expanded from 2 hives to 20
What an excellent video, thanks. QUESTION: I bought roller cages like the one you use that have a cup for the queen cell, how do you attached those cups to the frames? And how do you removed them once the cells are capped. Thank you.
Great information and well presented. Thanks
This is an outstanding video in every way!! Thank you for sharing!!
I was in France last summer. We didn't go to Brittany, but we did have some Calvados from Brittany.
Fantastic video. I have met MP and also used his methods, slightly modified to use Nicot cage, due to my poor vision.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice.... Watching here in the Philippines
Great source of information! Thank you for sharing.
Hi Richard, thank you for this great video explanation! I think I would use it as both, cell builder and finisher as I am producing a queens just for my apiary. I am wondering how long can I use these generation of bees? How can I strength the cell builder to use it longer? Thank you
Great video! Your explanation of the process was very easy to understand. This video will be a great reference to help me grow my operation. Thank you for sharing.
Flatwoods Bee Farm thank you. Good luck with this season ! 👍🐝🐝🐝
great video! learning so much from you and Michael Palmer. A lot to grasp
Great job, Richard. I will be doing something very similar next year, so thanks for the tips!
Very good video thank you for sharing
Just found your channel richard. Bloody great video, very informative mate. Thank you 👍
you are a legend brother...
This video is amazing and looks that you putted a lot of thought and heart into it.
Im not into the bees bizz but I can surelly tell you that you changed my thought about it and I love it!
Thank you again!
Much Love!
Richard, that was absolutely fascinating. Thank u sooo much for sharing! Made me think that maybe this is something I could do and actually be able to retire someday!!! 😁
Very good video, lots of good information, thanks..
Well done Richard good video thank
you
Outstanding! Master beekeeping!
thank you!
Great. Video! Thank you for the hard work!
Love your system.Thanks so much for sharing.
Whatta energy! Thank you for the detailed explanation!
He is like the Gordan Ramsay of beekeeping
Very well explained, great video!
Great Video. I"m thinking about getting into bees. Trying to decide if we are going to change locations first. Have to admit your bees (the volume of them) were intimidating to me. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.
Hello Fred, this colony does look a bit intimidating, yes i agree, but its about the strongest you ever see a colony of bees, so dont worry about that. We make this artificially strong by adding more bees via unhatched brood, this then gives an even stronger response when we remove the queen. EWere maximising what the bees can do, only naturally!
Extremely helpful explanation, thank you
Brilliant - thanks for sharing this video - Preparing for 2019 now ....
Edevaldo apicultor ✌️✌️👍👍👍👍👍👍
Should have prepared for 2020
This was a great explanation of how this system work. Good production quality. Selection of music added to the comfort of watching. Clearly your experience and knowledge is conveyed by your passion. Loved it! All the best.
Robert
Thank you Robert. I try and share what i was luckily taught by the best!!
This is the best video on queen rearing I've seen so far! Thanks for taking the time to make it! I've watched a lot of Mike Palmer's presentations and this video shed more light on what he has been explaining. Getting my materials ready for next season now.
What breed of bees do you have? They shake off the frames surprisingly easy. I have Italians and carnica, and neither let go of the comb that easily.
Hi, thanks for your kind comments. ok we use a F1 Buckfast cross, but as i said in the video they can be a little feisty at the start but generally they arent too bad. dont forget your getting a colony to swarming point. and your adding thousands of nurse bees that cant even fly yet! so their not that great at hanging on to the frames. Also i shake them hard lol
Hope you have a good season.
Thank you so much a lot of info
thanks your welcome.
Why use a different box as a finisher? What is the difference in the setup for the finisher vs starter? Nice work and thank you!
Hello, you use a different box as a finisher because if you want to get another 4/5 rounds of cells in to the builder you can. Finishers finish the cells, starter boxes just start the cells. If you just one one load of cells you don’t have to move them to a finisher. You can just revert the colony back to how it was with this time the queens underneath the excluder and the cells above!!. Here is the link y to « the cell builder explained, questions and answers »
ua-cam.com/video/yppRnZvn9oM/v-deo.html this should answer your questions. Thanks bée well!!
Great video! You mentioned an incubator. Can you give me some details on what you use for an incubator?
have a quick look at my other videos, you will find all the details there.
Absolutely fascinating.
thanks.
thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge, why you don't leave the queen cells in the builder hive what's the aim of removing them to nuc finisher and what do you do with the builder hive when you finish and when you remove the queen cells from the nuc .finally when you shake the majority of nurse bees into builder hive does this affect looking after the larvae in queen hive. sorry for my many questions. thanks very much
I like your videos. You have the right stuff. I see that you are true. Im in Dominican Republic with over 200 bee boxes and growing. Would love to speak or meet!
Uma maravilha de trabalho os meus parabéns
Amazing! I just subscribed and a follower now.
@@Acetop108 thank you
great video!! thanks Richard....I want to learn to make my own queens!
FIVE STAR VIDEO! Excellent content, organization and photography make this a valuable learning aid. Keep your eyes open, he shows several tricks he does not mention in the narrative, i.e., masking tape on the shaker box. Thank you for taking the time to share. :)
but he did mention the masking tape on the shaker box.
THUMB UP for the Mike Palmer method!! Great video!
Thanq sir we are asking for more videos of grafting🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Great video - thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Do you raise queen cells all through the seasons Spring and Summer - in other words, when would you do your first and last grafts? I'm interested in trying this out - would love to boost my colony numbers (6 at the moment).
Hi Paul, Normally from early to mid-May and last graft in end of July. ( Here in Brittany)This gives you more mature drones in Spring and also time for the new;y emerged queens in July to get mated and build up before the winter. you can graft earlier in the spring but mating can be poor if it goes cold. Don't forget every area is different and you need to firstly let the bees tell you, secondly, ask one of the locals who raises queens,
@@richardnoel3141 Thanks for making time to reply Richard, much appreciated. I'm in Netherlands with likely similar weather to yourself, although a different 'environment'. Will take your advice regarding local queen raisers - many thanks, big thumbs up!!
Well Done Richard
Love the energy! Why look for queen cells. The box was queenless, there couldn’t be a laid queen cell. What am I missing?
a horsley because they will attempt to
Make anew queen with whatever they have before you put in your grafts!
That’s why you remove the cells they try and use and graft from your selected stock! That’s what your missing buddy!!
Do they move eggs or larvae to a queen cell from a worker cell or maybe change the architecture of a worker cell? If they don’t, then the queen cup would remain empty without a queen to lay in it. Sorry for the density. Thanks for the answer. Love the videos!
a horsley no the make emergency cells in the frame wherever they find a larvae they think is the correct age. There are generally 3 types of queen cell. Swarm cells, emergency cells and superscedure cells. Look them up and it will help you understand why we do what we do and when!🤙🏼
This is the very best explained and examples given, on this subject that I have ever watched!! Thank you so much for posting this.. I do have a question and I am new to bee keeping. When you moved the queen right hive over and added the new base for the nurse bees, what type bottom board was that, that you used. Was that a queen excluder bottom or simply some type of screen bottom board? Again thank you for posting !! Sincerely, Phillip Hall
phillip hall thanks for your kind words! It’s standard Dadant base! In France the 10 frames Dadant hive is pretty standard! This is just a plastic vase made by “Nocot” (or Nicoplast) injection moulded and I have to say their fantastic! No rot, can be sterilised! Lightweight and cheap
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