Carniolan bees have explosive brood rearing in spring. If you want to prevent swarming, it's necessary to use queen excluders and regularly put the capped brood above excluder. If there is more capped brood than open, they're going to swarming mode and onto the branch... It's tedious work, in my area, from mid March till mid June, but if you do it right, you'll have a monster hives with great working force.
I've probably listened to a thousand hours of beekeeper talks I'm listening to two of you interact with just delightful now you need to add Ian and Cayman Reynolds and the dirt rooster into the mix with Fred Dunn moderati and a surprise pop-up by Jeff H
His shed has really come on. Thinking of the future and thinking of your back as well. Humping equipment and supers around really takes it out of you long term.
The thing about Carniolan, it's all about management. Yes they'll swarm hard if the management is hands off, but with good management, that problem becomes insignificant. The benefits imo, vastly outweigh that one potential headache.
They are made to grow them in double deeps, keep providing the queen with drawed frames to lay and get a big colony fast. They will never swarm if the beekeeper has frames to give for more brood. And then when the flow starts you take an excluder and prepare the bottom box for single brood.. that's the short version of carnies single brood box management. There are variations on it for the area where they are.. some draw a couple frames to slow them a bit. They are not the same. Slovenian mountain carnies are much different from mine down at sea level, or the Serbian carnies from the flat land and black locust forest
That is amazing shed a farmer I know has built a shed like that.cost well over 1 million and he said he will never pay for it in his life. The debt will be passed on to his son. He needs to do UA-cam channel, hard to believe Richard Noel, was doing garden maintenance now he is a celebrity on UA-cam.❤
Here in the USA South we always say a woman looks better if she owns a boat and a hunting dog! Richard does look great. He looks even better with that sweet a$$ honey house!!! Hahahaha!
Will there be a Heather flow up there this year ? I just got a lot of rain after two months of drought and 35-40c days. It usually takes 50 days for the flow after the rain but l'm not sure.. it looks burned too much this year
Romanian beekeepers are one of the best in Europe. They produce high quality honey and get very little for it!! Apis Doneau has been around for some time now and it really a great beekeeping company. High quality queens!
Over 20 years ago when I used to work summers around Europe.. Denmark, Germany, Italy... 50 - 70% of workers were Romanian, the rest were x Yugoslavia, mostly Serbian and Croatian. I never had to teach a Romanian like a beginner. They always came with enough knowledge to have to learn only the specific jobs of the work place. They really are good beekeepers
Brilliant thank you Richard
A different level of beekeeping! I have four hives
Looking great
Brilliant Gruff! Am adloniant! Dau ddyn parchus, gonest, gweithio'n galed - mor wahanol i weddill y byd! Pob lwc i chi'ch dau.🙂🙂🙂
This is my first year beekeeping in SE England, and I saw my first wasp yesterday, not seen any hornets yet.
That she'd is wonderful, how exciting.
Carniolan bees have explosive brood rearing in spring. If you want to prevent swarming, it's necessary to use queen excluders and regularly put the capped brood above excluder. If there is more capped brood than open, they're going to swarming mode and onto the branch... It's tedious work, in my area, from mid March till mid June, but if you do it right, you'll have a monster hives with great working force.
Great content Griff… wow Richard’s honey house is amazing. I like Richard, seems like a really nice genuine guy.
Good to see you old boys catching up good vid boys 😅
Thanks Colin
Awesome! I really like Richard
Congratulations Richard from East Tennessee! It’s been a ton of work but well worth it! I have watched your progress since you broke ground!
Great Video. I needed cheering up today. Thanks
Best beekeeping vidove seen in a while.
The ONE BIG PROBLEM with the SHED.... It's NOT IN YOUR BEE YARD- LOL... Funny!!
shed!........ SHED!!!!...... looks more like a honey house to me...... 😃😃
I've probably listened to a thousand hours of beekeeper talks I'm listening to two of you interact with just delightful now you need to add Ian and Cayman Reynolds and the dirt rooster into the mix with Fred Dunn moderati and a surprise pop-up by Jeff H
Looking Good.
His shed has really come on. Thinking of the future and thinking of your back as well.
Humping equipment and supers around really takes it out of you long term.
The best content, you both know bees and business. Looking forward to seeing you all one day till then blessings to you both.❤️❤️❤️❤️
The thing about Carniolan, it's all about management. Yes they'll swarm hard if the management is hands off, but with good management, that problem becomes insignificant. The benefits imo, vastly outweigh that one potential headache.
They are made to grow them in double deeps, keep providing the queen with drawed frames to lay and get a big colony fast. They will never swarm if the beekeeper has frames to give for more brood.
And then when the flow starts you take an excluder and prepare the bottom box for single brood.. that's the short version of carnies single brood box management. There are variations on it for the area where they are.. some draw a couple frames to slow them a bit. They are not the same. Slovenian mountain carnies are much different from mine down at sea level, or the Serbian carnies from the flat land and black locust forest
I'm right between Carniolan and Italian Ligustica bees. In my opinion the carnies are much better for the weather conditions we have these days
That is amazing shed a farmer I know has built a shed like that.cost well over 1 million and he said he will never pay for it in his life. The debt will be passed on to his son. He needs to do UA-cam channel, hard to believe Richard Noel, was doing garden maintenance now he is a celebrity on UA-cam.❤
The compressor arm is awesome!
Has to be the best honey house in Europe. You can see how much head room there is what with Griff being 6ft2 that fork lift goes very high.
I’m 5,8 😂
Here in the USA South we always say a woman looks better if she owns a boat and a hunting dog! Richard does look great. He looks even better with that sweet a$$ honey house!!! Hahahaha!
Will there be a Heather flow up there this year ? I just got a lot of rain after two months of drought and 35-40c days. It usually takes 50 days for the flow after the rain but l'm not sure.. it looks burned too much this year
Ah queens from Apis Donau! Are they any good? I was unsure if they would have good genetics?
Romanian beekeepers are one of the best in Europe. They produce high quality honey and get very little for it!! Apis Doneau has been around for some time now and it really a great beekeeping company. High quality queens!
@@richardnoel3141 thank you very much for the answer. Maybe I will get one of the more „exotic“ options for next year.
Over 20 years ago when I used to work summers around Europe.. Denmark, Germany, Italy... 50 - 70% of workers were Romanian, the rest were x Yugoslavia, mostly Serbian and Croatian. I never had to teach a Romanian like a beginner. They always came with enough knowledge to have to learn only the specific jobs of the work place. They really are good beekeepers
120 per queen!!! Im assuming thats euros. Here in the states, $500.00 minimum.
Yes euros. That’s about normal for a good quality inseminated queen. ( with full pedigree card)
When will the Hive alive syrup be available in the uk?
Hivealive is already available, not sure about the premixed bags like you saw in the video
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Wrong person thank you gruffydd