Many ffolks have asked to see more about turning pairs of nucs into honey producers, well I had a lot of extra nucs to play with now so here goes! This is how I do it.
I've invested in double nucs like Michael Palmer resource hives. Fantastic resource hives and I get a good honey crop from them. Usually run them 4 over 4 and then qe and supers. Basically running a 2 queen hive. With the shared heat they overwinter great. If I had the $ I'd convert most of my operation to them.
I use this method alot .. this year honey flow was so heavy was impossible to make nucs without suppers on them right away.. only thing I'd add need to use mated queens so you requeen one side or sell a queen out of one side don't think you can just let them make a queen or give them a cell . I'll save your viewers the time... Could bust them apart and requeen with a cell but not pushed together..
Plastic qe will keep the queens from being able to cross over. I learned that the hard way with my double nucs. I don't like honey in brood frames, just a personal preference.
What's funny is if one nuc is stronger than the other the bees work up and the 5 frames over the strong nuc will be capped and the other hardly touched. They seem to stay in their lane😅
@@paul484848 few know this but you can set up a hive to hold two queens in one hive. This happens naturally on a small percentage. Some bee keepers manipulate their hives with two queens during the honey flow for larger population increase honey production.
Hi - wouldn't it be normal 'professional' procedure to NOT put the brood boxes directly on the ground level? Wouldn't it just be right and healrthy for both your human workers and your bee colonies? At least 50 cm / 20 inches high cheap saw horse like stand? Less brood deseases, less risc of spinal disc herniation and such .. ????????
@@T0tenkampf yes : in EU on palettes if you have heavy moving gear -- cheap muscles instead in US :( -- and also: inspection ground zero is also nor professional ist just cheap
I've invested in double nucs like Michael Palmer resource hives. Fantastic resource hives and I get a good honey crop from them. Usually run them 4 over 4 and then qe and supers. Basically running a 2 queen hive. With the shared heat they overwinter great. If I had the $ I'd convert most of my operation to them.
I use this method alot .. this year honey flow was so heavy was impossible to make nucs without suppers on them right away.. only thing I'd add need to use mated queens so you requeen one side or sell a queen out of one side don't think you can just let them make a queen or give them a cell . I'll save your viewers the time... Could bust them apart and requeen with a cell but not pushed together..
Thank you very much for the demonstration. Does it happen often that the bees will choose one queen and eliminate the other ?
MORE BEES!!!!! I always feel bad after I sell them......
Plastic qe will keep the queens from being able to cross over. I learned that the hard way with my double nucs. I don't like honey in brood frames, just a personal preference.
What's funny is if one nuc is stronger than the other the bees work up and the 5 frames over the strong nuc will be capped and the other hardly touched. They seem to stay in their lane😅
Aside from just not having the extra nuc box's, why not just make 5 frame honey supers to run on top of the nucs?
Or even two wooden nucs on top.
Mike palmer shows a much better way of doing this. He runs multiple nuc boxes under honey super so he can have brood factory and larger hive
Do u have to check the bottom brood chambers periodically in case they become congested and begin to show signs of swarming?
Many thx.
What stops the bees from the 2 colonies fighting as they now have 2 queens in the hive?
@@paul484848 few know this but you can set up a hive to hold two queens in one hive. This happens naturally on a small percentage. Some bee keepers manipulate their hives with two queens during the honey flow for larger population increase honey production.
Hi - wouldn't it be normal 'professional' procedure to NOT put the brood boxes directly on the ground level? Wouldn't it just be right and healrthy for both your human workers and your bee colonies? At least 50 cm / 20 inches high cheap saw horse like stand? Less brood deseases, less risc of spinal disc herniation and such .. ????????
normal is putting them on pallets if you have seen commercial business. my back likes how you think though as I have herniated discs
@@T0tenkampf yes : in EU on palettes if you have heavy moving gear -- cheap muscles instead in US :( -- and also: inspection ground zero is also nor professional ist just cheap