Installed my first hive yesterday, only one sting in the juggler an hour after I put them in, but looking forward to the journey and am ordering a second hive.. I ain't scared! Thanks for your help
Hi David I will bee trying my hand at beekeeping in 2023. I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I have watched other beekeepers videos but keep coming back to yours. I am in New Brunswick Canada we have long cold winters and short summers. Thanks for the videos keep them coming.
Hi, David keep preaching the bee gospel ! Your so right , I had one hive I knew had a week qeen in the fall. That hive has 0 bees in it today. The rest of my hives were all out flying today 60 degrees . A few days ago - 30 degrees below zero wind chill. No isolation . they made it ! They were qeened right ! Thank you ! I'm taking notes !
Thank you David. After 4 years of losing hives due to lost queens and having to buy queens to replace them, I am taking your advice and trying to raise my own queens. I have lost 2 hives this fall due to lost queens and it makes me sick not to have a queen available to replace them. Hope this takes away some of that bad feeling of losing hives.
Excellent tutorial. Now I see why my current queen rearing attempt was so marginally successful. I had some brood in the starter, installed too many grafts and didn't have enough nurse bees. Thanks!
Good video David I enjoyed it. I saved some money well a lot of money this past year by not buying any bees at all. It was great to not depend on some one else and 99.9% of the time my bees replaced the store bought queen after a month or the queen was damaged and did not lay The started hive u made seems a hole lot eaiser then what I did last year I put 8 frames of capped brood in a hive with nurse bees and had to wait 10 days for them to emerge and had to go back to the starter and removing any queen cells they had made in the mean time. I am trying this way next year keep the videos coming they are great Thank you for doing them
Thank you so much David. You were such a great teacher. I'm from the islands of the south seas that are different from yours. We are tropical. How can you help me a new starter with my weather patterns.?
Fantastic my teacher👩 I really appreciate your efforts to encourage us beekeepers. It has been a challenge to me whenever I try to increase my colonies by taking hives on a catcher. Recently I started splitting so that I can attain more colonies fast but I ended loosing 10 colonies. Your subject today has really made me feel good about bees 🐝. Am gonna be a queen keeper now.
Are you planning to show what to do with all the nurse bees after the queens exit the starter hive? Do they transfer with the queens? Do you combine them with another hive? Newspaper method? Give them a queen?
Thank you David. I really appreciate your sharing your knowledge and making all of the informative videos. I'm looking forward to this spring and raising a few queens.
I’m watching your queen rearing series and also your online class I purchased a while back. Thank you for being so thorough. I feel very excited to try raising queens this spring. Thanks David!
Well thank you so much and thank you for purchasing my Online Queen Rearing Course. Here's the link for anyone else reading this that want to purchase the course: www.honeybeesonline.com/online-queen-rearing-course-online/
I'm not starting for the first time in 2023, but I am starting completely over and I wouldn't have thought to raise queens until at least 2024. Thanks for the videos and encouragement to raise queens first year
I have top bar hives. Can I devide them up as starter/ finisher hives. Planning on using the Nicot system. Was looking at mini mating nucs but was wondering what happens if I don't sell all the queens? Then put them in nucs to over-winter. I also don't have a lot of funds to start with. What is cheapest way to go to get queens mated in?
Glad you are going over this. I plan on trying grafting this year for the first time now that I have enough hives to make a good starter and finisher. Appreciate you taking the time.
*****David my 2 hives both died from this storm. I don’t know what to do with the hives and full resources. Can you make. Video on what to do with hives that you have lost for the new beekeepers?
So going into winter I had two hives . One hive was twice as productive as the other going into winter and had so much more resources than the other hive that wasn’t doing so well . But after this cold snap we had this time my more productive hive totally was gone and seemed like they left and went to the less productive hive. Have you ever seen this happen before .
My bees come from largely feral (well established colonies that have been there for multiple seasons) these bees have shown natural varroa tolerance. There are no keepers within range of my apiary that treat, (that i am aware of.) I will be looking at breeding in a season or two, some are still a little excitable and i need productivity comparisons.
If you do not have a frame of pollen, can you use pollen powder? If yes, would you shake a fair amount of pollen powder on an empty frame of comb to simulate collected pollen? I did not see a lot of frame of good pollen in my hive last year to use for the starter hive.
Hi David, amazing quality videos, feels like a high quality course. - How do you keep the cycle going for raising queens, does the starter hive receive a virgin queen ? If yes, can the 5 frame hive be used again after the queen is mated and removed from it ?
Thanks again for the knowledge you are sharing. I have a question about the starter hive. Do you need to close the entrance on the starter hive ? How close can it be to the donor hive ?
What do you think about using a cloake board to have you hive make queens? I am going to try my hand at grafting this year. Thought about using a claoke board for the first go around though.
Thanks for another great video You said to brush the nurse bees off of the uncapped brood frames. Could we just shake the frame (as the bees would fall into the Nuc) or is brushing better? I’m always scared to injure the bees with a brush so was hoping to instead do a quick shake of the frame and the bees fall down. I will do whatever you think is best so please advise. Thanks!
I have 4 hives at the beginning of fall and they was really strong but I checked them today and found out one hive has gone . I think the bees have gone too my other hives ? I’m totally lost on it . I have had maybe 70 bees at the bottom
I because a Certified Master Beekeeper in 2010 through the Eastern Apicultural Society of North American. Here is their website: easternapiculture.org/programs/master-beekeepers/
I can not find the video for the life of me but there was one of your videos that you had frames that had been made to put photos in of the bees life cycle for showing. I am almost positive it was you. Can you point me to the product or video of you remember this?
So David what you’re saying is the graphs will all develop at the same time say you have 10 graphs, and five and them hatch before the other ones the the other queens won’t survive Charlie PA
Great presentation on this video. Love the board. Backwards writing? Skills my friend!
It's raising queens that makes beekeeping so much easer. Everyone should at least try once.
So True Dan!!
With queens $30 to $45 it's time to learn. I'm enjoying these videos just what I need!
David is the KING BEE !
Installed my first hive yesterday, only one sting in the juggler an hour after I put them in, but looking forward to the journey and am ordering a second hive.. I ain't scared! Thanks for your help
Great video! But I have a question. Are you writing backwards on that board? That’s amazing!
Nice video for a person beginning to raise queens. Good job with the board. Hope to meet you at Hive Life. Happy New Year.
Yes, we are looking forward to being at Hive Life
Great 👍 video really enjoyed it starting 2023 spring can't wait
Hi Randal, that's great to hear
Hi David I will bee trying my hand at beekeeping in 2023. I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I have watched other beekeepers videos but keep coming back to yours. I am in New Brunswick Canada we have long cold winters and short summers. Thanks for the videos keep them coming.
Thank you, David so much for this video. Looking forward to the challenge this summer.
You can do it!
Hi, David keep preaching the bee gospel ! Your so right , I had one hive I knew had a week qeen in the fall. That hive has 0 bees in it today. The rest of my hives were all out flying today 60 degrees .
A few days ago - 30 degrees below zero wind chill. No isolation . they made it ! They were qeened right !
Thank you ! I'm taking notes !
Thanks for sharing Rodney
Just came from Dadant, got some equipment to start rasing Queens !
Thank you !
Dave can I throw drone inside the starter hive.
Thank you David. After 4 years of losing hives due to lost queens and having to buy queens to replace them, I am taking your advice and trying to raise my own queens. I have lost 2 hives this fall due to lost queens and it makes me sick not to have a queen available to replace them. Hope this takes away some of that bad feeling of losing hives.
You can do it.
Excellent tutorial. Now I see why my current queen rearing attempt was so marginally successful. I had some brood in the starter, installed too many grafts and didn't have enough nurse bees. Thanks!
Thanks so much
Good video David I enjoyed it. I saved some money well a lot of money this past year by not buying any bees at all. It was great to not depend on some one else and 99.9% of the time my bees replaced the store bought queen after a month or the queen was damaged and did not lay The started hive u made seems a hole lot eaiser then what I did last year I put 8 frames of capped brood in a hive with nurse bees and had to wait 10 days for them to emerge and had to go back to the starter and removing any queen cells they had made in the mean time. I am trying this way next year keep the videos coming they are great Thank you for doing them
Merci david tes vidéo sont vraiment intéressant tu fais une différence même au Québec 👍
Merci de me l'avoir dit.
Hi David great video again. Silly question does your 5 frame nuc box have a entrance?
Love the new tech!!
Thank you so much David. You were such a great teacher. I'm from the islands of the south seas that are different from yours. We are tropical. How can you help me a new starter with my weather patterns.?
5 year beekeeper and for some reason raising queens has been so intimidating
I am so excited about this series!Been following it along and cannot wait for the future videos. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
I'm so glad!
Fantastic my teacher👩 I really appreciate your efforts to encourage us beekeepers. It has been a challenge to me whenever I try to increase my colonies by taking hives on a catcher. Recently I started splitting so that I can attain more colonies fast but I ended loosing 10 colonies. Your subject today has really made me feel good about bees 🐝. Am gonna be a queen keeper now.
Are you planning to show what to do with all the nurse bees after the queens exit the starter hive? Do they transfer with the queens? Do you combine them with another hive? Newspaper method? Give them a queen?
Special thanks 🐝 🐝 🐝
Love your videos Dave . So much info and you tell it all very well . I’m a new beekeeper so everything you say is so helpful . Thanks
Great to hear!
Happy New Years
David, you're such a good teacher. I continue to learn so much from your videos. BTW: I'm enjoying your Ultimate Beekeeping course. Great stuff.
Thank you David. I really appreciate your sharing your knowledge and making all of the informative videos. I'm looking forward to this spring and raising a few queens.
Great Video David. Hope I get a chance to meet you at hive life.
Sheri and I will have a booth, you can't miss us.
This is a great video. I full intend to try Queen raising. I start my beekeeping journey March this year.
Best of luck!
Will pass this on to more backyard bee keepers.
I sure do thank you kindly!
Nailed it David! Another awesome video. You have inspired my wife and I to try queen rearing!! Thank you!
That is awesome!
This is such a cool video. Professor Burns
Thanks Christine. Pretty tough writing backwards 😃
@@beek lol. I was wondering about that. I figured you had a secret way of reflecting your image
Thanks for continuing this series on queen rearing. It may be in in store for my 2023 season. Have a happy new years.
Sheri and David, Happy New Year ! Look forward to all your videos ! We are back into the 70's. Glad the cold weather is gone for now. Take Care !
Same to you!
I’m watching your queen rearing series and also your online class I purchased a while back. Thank you for being so thorough. I feel very excited to try raising queens this spring. Thanks David!
Well thank you so much and thank you for purchasing my Online Queen Rearing Course. Here's the link for anyone else reading this that want to purchase the course: www.honeybeesonline.com/online-queen-rearing-course-online/
This was a very clear well presented video. I'm starting to make a list of what I need to learn/ do to make this happen
I'm not starting for the first time in 2023, but I am starting completely over and I wouldn't have thought to raise queens until at least 2024. Thanks for the videos and encouragement to raise queens first year
Good to hear Veronica
I have top bar hives. Can I devide them up as starter/ finisher hives. Planning on using the Nicot system. Was looking at mini mating nucs but was wondering what happens if I don't sell all the queens? Then put them in nucs to over-winter. I also don't have a lot of funds to start with. What is cheapest way to go to get queens mated in?
Thanks for doing this video. I hope to meet you at Hive Life in January.
I'll be there, you cannot miss us, me and Sheri will be there.
Great explanation of this process. Can’t wait for more. Thanks!
Thanks Clayton
David, thanks for the videos on queen rearing. Awsome. I'm going to start into this this year. Thanks again.
Thanks Duane and I'm glad you are pursuing queen rearing.
Keep the videos coming, learning a lot from you.
Thanks, will do!
Very nice David!! Great video!!
Thank you very much!
Gotta try it,, thank you for disseminating the knowledge needed to succeed..
Thank you Wes I'm glad you are enjoying it.
Glad you are going over this. I plan on trying grafting this year for the first time now that I have enough hives to make a good starter and finisher. Appreciate you taking the time.
Good to hear Peter!
Love this series David. Super fun!
Glad you enjoy it
WOW! I am learning a lot. Your videos are an information pack. Thank you. I'm going to start raising my own queens next year.
Great to hear Matthew
I can’t wait to try in the spring 😊
Good to hear
Nice job David!
Thanks
Many thanks David great series. Happy New Year to you and all your family
Same to you!
Great information!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing all your hard work with us!!
You are so welcome!
Thank you David. I am getting excited to try this summer.
Good to hear Neil
*****David my 2 hives both died from this storm. I don’t know what to do with the hives and full resources. Can you make. Video on what to do with hives that you have lost for the new beekeepers?
Another great video thank you and happy new year’s to you and your family
Thanks Rodney and happy new year's to you.
Awesome video David! This covered exactly a lot of the questions that I had about queen rearing.
Hi Jerry, glad my content is helpful.
So going into winter I had two hives . One hive was twice as productive as the other going into winter and had so much more resources than the other hive that wasn’t doing so well . But after this cold snap we had this time my more productive hive totally was gone and seemed like they left and went to the less productive hive. Have you ever seen this happen before .
Yes, many reasons for this. Viral loads are usually higher in more “productive” hives, and they eat more and can more easily starve out.
My bees come from largely feral (well established colonies that have been there for multiple seasons) these bees have shown natural varroa tolerance. There are no keepers within range of my apiary that treat, (that i am aware of.) I will be looking at breeding in a season or two, some are still a little excitable and i need productivity comparisons.
Grafts. not graphs. (8.06). Extremely well explained and presented.
And I knew that ☺️
Whoohooo..from philippines..🫶🫶🫶
Hey
David do you open breeding or artificial breeding ?
If you do not have a frame of pollen, can you use pollen powder? If yes, would you shake a fair amount of pollen powder on an empty frame of comb to simulate collected pollen? I did not see a lot of frame of good pollen in my hive last year to use for the starter hive.
I'll answer this in my next video.
Hi David, amazing quality videos, feels like a high quality course.
- How do you keep the cycle going for raising queens, does the starter hive receive a virgin queen ? If yes, can the 5 frame hive be used again after the queen is mated and removed from it ?
That's a great question that I will answer on my next video
Thanks again for the knowledge you are sharing. I have a question about the starter hive. Do you need to close the entrance on the starter hive ? How close can it be to the donor hive ?
I'll answer this in an upcoming video.
What’s the number of nurse bees that makes them feel crowded.
What do you think about using a cloake board to have you hive make queens? I am going to try my hand at grafting this year. Thought about using a claoke board for the first go around though.
I did try it but for me it was much more complicated that my way.
Thanks for another great video
You said to brush the nurse bees off of the uncapped brood frames. Could we just shake the frame (as the bees would fall into the Nuc) or is brushing better? I’m always scared to injure the bees with a brush so was hoping to instead do a quick shake of the frame and the bees fall down. I will do whatever you think is best so please advise. Thanks!
I'll answer this in the next video
Do u have to write on the board backwards?
You are the first to notice that.
Why do you 'not' want any developing brood? (larvae)
I'm going to answer that in my next video Dennis
I have 4 hives at the beginning of fall and they was really strong but I checked them today and found out one hive has gone . I think the bees have gone too my other hives ? I’m totally lost on it . I have had maybe 70 bees at the bottom
Sounds like a queen event took place in the fall.
12 I like this video ... let me know what to make and buy when ... so I can do okay.
78 degrees today, bees flying everywhere. Pollen feeder and sugar water were being hammered.
wow
Where did you go to schools To get your master certificate
I because a Certified Master Beekeeper in 2010 through the Eastern Apicultural Society of North American. Here is their website: easternapiculture.org/programs/master-beekeepers/
I can not find the video for the life of me but there was one of your videos that you had frames that had been made to put photos in of the bees life cycle for showing. I am almost positive it was you. Can you point me to the product or video of you remember this?
Yea that was one of my videos but I have no clue which ones or where I got them. Sorry
@@beek did you make them or purchase them? After a little digging I did see some on the mannlake website but was wondering if they were the same?
My staff bought them somewhere at my request. They do not remember.
So David what you’re saying is the graphs will all develop at the same time say you have 10 graphs, and five and them hatch before the other ones the the other queens won’t survive Charlie PA
I will answer this in my next video
Can I feed my honey to my bee see where u answer other questions
Bob, I've been answering your question for a week. YES as long as the honey isn't contaminated with a disease harmful to bees.
I am shocked you didn't say you was a master beekeeper
Surely everyone knows it by now 😃
Graft
Clever!! You're not left handed and you can't write backwards. Flipped your video, right?
Of course!