Your beekeeping course has more details and nuances than you can pick up by watching your regular videos,Both are great! I am really enjoying that I took advantage of your Black Friday sale. Thanks
Heck... your last live I got your a day in the apiary and watched all 3 videos one after another lol gonna go back through and watch them again and take notes! To keep the info on hand
I have raised queens sporadically throughout my beekeeping adventure, but your video has me thinking that raising queens in the manor your discussing would add financial diversity that is very important in agriculture. Honey sales are good, but adding queens could be the answer! Your a wonderful speaker, great explanations. Thankyou
27:42 G. M. Doolittle is often called the Father of Modern Queen Rearing, having developed the method of transferring young larvae from worker brood cells to special wax cups he fashioned from the rods of wooden rakes. Having spent over two decades to develop his methods, compare other systems, and evaluating the results, he finished the book on Christmas, 1888. In this book, Doolittle is very clear on shaking frames with queen cells on it: DON'T DO IT, or you'll get damaged queens / very low yields...
David, you have instilled me to raise my own queens this year…. I am going into year 4th year as a beekeeper and I believe the timing is perfect…. Just preordered everything I need to,pick up at the hive life conference…. Hope to see you next week…. Chris ECP
I’m going to hive life, especially happy because I got one of the sponsorships for young beekeepers. I’ve been to your shop a couple years ago to buy winter candy boards. Can’t wait to stop by booth 509!
Happy new year!! I'm going to make 2023 better. I'm a first year beekeeper. We had a day that was 50 degrees the other day I opened my hive and found my bees dead 😂 I can't lie David it was a pretty bad blow. I did everything you recommend. Here in Logan Utah we had -6° weather for 2 weeks. I left my bees 80 lbs of honey and put a 20 lb sugarboard on. My last check in November I had one Verona mite. But I'm going to make 23 better I'm going to start off with two more hives and hope for the best!!!
GREAT VIDEO DAVID! We had 5 days above freezing - some above 50 degrees, snow all gone, some bees are flying, Winter Bee Kind Boards are in good shape. Thanks for everything you do! Again Happy New Year!
Dave, thanks for the great information. I have raised a few queens using different methods including grafting. I greatly appreciate the explanation of the starter and finisher and the reasoning for no open brood in the starter. My excitement for raising queens at a larger scale is renewed, thanks buddy!
Great video David! Good news here in Niles, MI. My Carniolan colony, a package from Utah seems to be thriving & the Nuc colony developed from bees overwintered in Florida are alive as well. They had a major die off from the early cold rain. This little warm up we had gave me opportunity to provide them pollen patties & clear the entrance. I also improved chances with top escape holes before spending the rest of the long weekend splitting firewood... Thanks for your encouragement & wisdom. Hope your conference is fruitful. Happy New Year to you & your family~
Hi David great video quick question. You mentioned that if one Queen emerges first she'll stab all the other Queen cells. Well then how come in a normal Hive there are swarms cells and supersedure cells all over the place? Don't those Queens go around and just stab all the Queen cells too? I just took a couple frames of supersedure cells to start some splits for the first ever, how can I be sure the original Queen in Hive number one hasn't stabbed them already?
Thanks for showing your setup! This is the stuff I appreciate in addition to the content you produce! You are amazing! I really wish I could have made it to the Hive Life Conference this year! I will be sure to catch the next one!
Thank you Brandon, that's good to hear that you like my setup. It's a work in progress. That particular studio room is undergoing major improvements. There is the background everyone is familiar with, the one that faces west, then a new one in under construction that's on the north wall, and yet another new one that faces east. Which you could have made it to hive life.
Wow! What a great video. So glad I am enrolled in the Ultimate course! I am SERIOUSLY considering selling queens. I have every intention of raising my own (have all the equipment and location in garage planned) , but the selling was just kind of a "thought" in the back of my mind all this fall. May just try selling this year if my grafts go well! Gonna try for Hive Life next year. Looks like a wonderful convention. Kamon and his lovely wife are really precious folks.
Good to hear Micah! I bet you'd enjoy queen rearing and since you purchased my Ultimate Online Beekeeping Course, it came with the queen rearing course too! Here's a link for anyone reading this that wants to buy my Online Queen Rearing: www.honeybeesonline.com/online-queen-rearing-course-online/
I really want to try it but I don't need them till I do and you can't just have them on the shelf. However I did just us 2 Nuc's to save 2 bigger hives. 1 Nuc is making there own queen now
Hello I heard on a video that Queen returns are better if you have your mating Nooks separate from each other instead of on pallets. How do you feel about this? Obviously on a large scale you would probably need to be on pallets, but for the starters, how far apart do you recommend each colony be from each other? Thank you in advance! Gina
You can also fan them out into a large Crescent (Arc, Curve.) See Uni of Guelph YT Bee Channel. Think they are based up in Canada. Look like cute little Homes all in the Neighbourhood, without being right on top of each other. Who wants to be annoyed by Buzzy busy bodies. 😆 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2023 ! 🥳 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Where did you get the bobblehead I love. Thank you so much for the information. It was nice meeting you at hive life. I bought your signed book there along with being able to shake your hand and meet your beautiful wife.
Nice meeting you too. Sheri got that for me years ago. I'll ask her. It was a surprise when she gave it to me. She said she had to send them a bunch of pictures of me.
Watching your video of how to raise queens I fail the part on how you make the frames and set tdamn could you sometime give some more advice on that thank you
David, I am curious, how would someone market that many queens? If I were to raise 100 queens, where would I go to advertise? I am enjoying these videos, and I am learning a lot, thank you! I just wonder how would someone go about selling queens like you were able to do?
Yes Ruth, it's like Woodstock for beekeepers, sorry you can't make it. Glad you are interested in raising queens. Get your feet wet with it and see if it is something you can pursue.
You must have missed that recent video I made about how and why to bank queens. This is why I feel my Online Queen Rearing Course is the way to go so all the videos are together in one place. Here is my recent video link where I talk about banking queens. ua-cam.com/video/OY4w_JmIEf8/v-deo.html
I was thinking what you said about the queen pheromones taking at least a week to leave the hive. Shouldn't we wait that week before trying to introduce a new queen to make the colony more open to accepting her before we add her to it?
I do not remember saying a week, if I did I misspoke. Usually a large hive detects the lack of the queen’s pheromones less than 24 hours throughout the hive.
Would it be possible to add a frame of capped brood back to your starter hive in the time between frames of queen cells, to replenish the numbers of nurse bees of the proper age?
Sure, the problem is that not all the bees in the starter hive then would be nurse bee age. Only the ones emerging from your capped frame of brood in 6 days. And those nurse bees would only be able to produce ample amounts of royal jelly IF they are well fed which might be questionable in a starter hive.
I would replenish more Nurse Bees (not loyal, so don't fight) by Brushing Bees generally (not Queen !) Into a big Deep Tote ! All the Field Bees fly back to the Hive they came from. All those left at the bottom are : Nurse Bees ! 🥳 Gently tap Tote corner, get Bees in one place and tip these into that Starter Hive. Simples. 😎 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2023 ! 🥳 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 And don't forget to add a Frame of Pollen, Nectar / Stores at regular intervals ! No Bees (Workers / Capped Brood or Eggs, Larva in all Stages... or they have Stuff to make their own Queens ! 😵💫
The longer you are established with a company website presence and reputation, you'll have more orders than you can fill. But, it is tough starting out just like with any new business.
I just want my bee keeping hobby to put a little back into itself... that way I'm not always losing for keeping them going if I can sell a couple of queens or even a nuc or 2 that would put some new equipment in my yard or pay for supplement feeds
You cut it carefully from the Comb where its located : give it a good border of Spare Wax (as a barrier of protection : no error in dinging it, or it getting Mashed.) Place it so Queen Cell points Downwards like a Peanut ! Some use half a tooth pic, gently piercing that Wax above the Cell itself. Take an outer Frame out, move each other frame until the two in centre position. Carefully place Queen Cell against that Comb face ( can use above, or a bit of finger pressure to weld (QC) Wax area to set it on that Comb. Then carefully move the next inner Frame against its other side. Bees will also repair 'Wax' as one Structure ! Then add back those other Frames. Tip : If you make own Queen Cups. Make them so they can be glued (with hot Wax) onto say Small Tiles (like those in a Scrabble game*.) Think it's Uni of Guelph YT Bee Channel... that do this. So when placed between Frames, those 'Tiles' get pressed into both Frames : but Queen Cell just hangs down in the gap safely. Genius really ! Just need to find an eg Balsalwood (Fruit) Crate*, and make yourself umpteen Tiles ! Just need Scissors and time, this wood is thin, easy to cut, but strong enough to hold a Queen Cell (DIY Q Cup.) 😎 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2023 ! 🥳 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Hi David, new beekeeper here just about to go into my second season. I'm in western Canada. Is there anything about the queen rearing course that is specific to your part of the US?
Great series, but I have a couple questions. How early in the year do you start grafting? Also, how do you market your queens when you are just starting out? Lastly, I have VSH Italians, can or should I say these queens are overwintered VSH daughter queens? Oh, and I'll see you in Tennessee!!
Richard. You can start raising your own Queens : when you have Drones ! As without them, any Queen raised will not get Mated ! So many folk forget this important point. And, I guess it depends on your Weather. Do you have x3 Weeks of pending great conditions : warmth, moisture: re Floral availability ? Plenty of Pollen, Nectar, perfect Mating conditions. Or a month long wet Spell ? Get the picture. Do the planning, and Nature does the rest. 😎 In regards to VSH* genetics. Future Queens (Daughters) will have 50% Mother, 50% Drone Father.) Future Daugters will have, say, 25% (VSH) as Daughters daughter is Fathered by more Drones in each Generation... Think I got this right (?) Sure someone will state otherwise. I'm just a Hobby Beek, not a Geneticists. * I guess if the Queen is Artifically Inseminated from Drone (VSH stock lineage) then 'Mongrel' Drone Congreation random Mating doesn't occur. 🤔 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2023 ! 🥳 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Sorrey David but I have never seen a Queen fly on a mateing flyt after 4-5 days first after 7-10 days and then it takes 36-48 hours when she lays the first eeg
Hello David, Aleksandar here from Bulgaria, Europe. I have been following your channel with a pleasure and learning quite a lot from it! Our Beekeeping differs in many aspects compared to yours in US. Let's say that there is not much innovation coming along or at least that's my opinion based on my, not that big experience with bees... Since I am using only mediums (including for brood nest), may I setup a starter in 10 or 8 frames medium? My logic here is that they could keep warmer conditions due to the smaller space compared to Langstroth? I am planning to raise not more than 10 queens in two series (five each), so I will be using it also for finisher. Thank you in advance Best Regards, Aleksandar Boev
Hey David, Im loving the videos. Just to confirm. For every queen cell you make you will need a mating nuc for them, correct? so if you make 5 queen cells, 5 mating nucs?
I put all my queen cells in curler cages so I don't have any queens getting killed by any early emergers. My mentor puts cell protectors on her queen cells for the same reason. She grafts, I dont. Queens can emerge anywhere from 13-16 days. We did all our queen classes at our local club meetings
@@beek David - Please, genetics and drones are skipped by everyone. But it is 50% of the process - Im looking forward to your video on "How many hives" because this equals "Drones" BTW Im in a location where I only have 25 hives in a 40 mile radius. Factual !
@@beek Been using it on all of your videos.....this program posted is not allowing CC . Also.....I am a advanced student.....programs 4&5 does not have CC. Are you getting CC on your side? Hey.....thanks for the response....it means a lot to me. Regards.
Your beekeeping course has more details and nuances than you can pick up by watching your regular videos,Both are great! I am really enjoying that I took advantage of your Black Friday sale. Thanks
Thank you John. Glad you are enjoying both.
Look forward to saying Hi at hive life
You brag about your coffee all the time and I absolutely LOVE coffee! I wanna try some of your coffee!!!
Heck... your last live I got your a day in the apiary and watched all 3 videos one after another lol gonna go back through and watch them again and take notes! To keep the info on hand
WELL, MY FIRST YEAR WAS A SUCCESS! I DIDN'T GET MUCH HONEY, BUT MY HIVE IS STILL ALIVE!!!
👏👏
I have raised queens sporadically throughout my beekeeping adventure, but your video has me thinking that raising queens in the manor your discussing would add financial diversity that is very important in agriculture. Honey sales are good, but adding queens could be the answer! Your a wonderful speaker, great explanations. Thankyou
27:42 G. M. Doolittle is often called the Father of Modern Queen Rearing, having developed the method of transferring young larvae from worker brood cells to special wax cups he fashioned from the rods of wooden rakes. Having spent over two decades to develop his methods, compare other systems, and evaluating the results, he finished the book on Christmas, 1888. In this book, Doolittle is very clear on shaking frames with queen cells on it: DON'T DO IT, or you'll get damaged queens / very low yields...
David, you have instilled me to raise my own queens this year…. I am going into year 4th year as a beekeeper and I believe the timing is perfect…. Just preordered everything I need to,pick up at the hive life conference…. Hope to see you next week…. Chris ECP
Wonderful!
Have a great time at Hive Life!
Thank you !
You bet!
Mug up Dave! Awesome Intro! You got me laughing...got tears in my eyes, Awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it
I’m going to hive life, especially happy because I got one of the sponsorships for young beekeepers. I’ve been to your shop a couple years ago to buy winter candy boards. Can’t wait to stop by booth 509!
So good to hear John!
Happy new year!! I'm going to make 2023 better. I'm a first year beekeeper. We had a day that was 50 degrees the other day I opened my hive and found my bees dead 😂 I can't lie David it was a pretty bad blow. I did everything you recommend. Here in Logan Utah we had -6° weather for 2 weeks. I left my bees 80 lbs of honey and put a 20 lb sugarboard on. My last check in November I had one Verona mite. But I'm going to make 23 better I'm going to start off with two more hives and hope for the best!!!
GREAT VIDEO DAVID! We had 5 days above freezing - some above 50 degrees, snow all gone, some bees are flying, Winter Bee Kind Boards are in good shape. Thanks for everything you do! Again Happy New Year!
Thanks Jay, good to hear. Our bees are flying too but they won't be in a couple of days. Cooling off today. It's going to be chilly at Hive Life too!
Thank you for all the info on raising 🐝. I’m surprised that your award for 100,000 subscribers is only that paper weight.
Great Job David! Hope to see you at Hive Life and meet you! Take Care!
Dave, thanks for the great information. I have raised a few queens using different methods including grafting. I greatly appreciate the explanation of the starter and finisher and the reasoning for no open brood in the starter. My excitement for raising queens at a larger scale is renewed, thanks buddy!
Fantastic!
Happy and successful New Year.
Thanks Janis, and you too!
Great video, thanks for the content. Bob Binnie has another great video on how he makes his queen's. Your technique sounds very similar to his.
Great minds think alike
I like the logic behind your wise words.
Thank you!
Great video David! Good news here in Niles, MI. My Carniolan colony, a package from Utah seems to be thriving & the Nuc colony developed from bees overwintered in Florida are alive as well. They had a major die off from the early cold rain. This little warm up we had gave me opportunity to provide them pollen patties & clear the entrance. I also improved chances with top escape holes before spending the rest of the long weekend splitting firewood... Thanks for your encouragement & wisdom. Hope your conference is fruitful. Happy New Year to you & your family~
Thanks so much Calvin
Hi David great video quick question. You mentioned that if one Queen emerges first she'll stab all the other Queen cells. Well then how come in a normal Hive there are swarms cells and supersedure cells all over the place? Don't those Queens go around and just stab all the Queen cells too? I just took a couple frames of supersedure cells to start some splits for the first ever, how can I be sure the original Queen in Hive number one hasn't stabbed them already?
See you in Tennessee!
Awesome! Just a few days
Happy new year!
Happy new year!
Thanks for showing your setup! This is the stuff I appreciate in addition to the content you produce! You are amazing! I really wish I could have made it to the Hive Life Conference this year! I will be sure to catch the next one!
Thank you Brandon, that's good to hear that you like my setup. It's a work in progress. That particular studio room is undergoing major improvements. There is the background everyone is familiar with, the one that faces west, then a new one in under construction that's on the north wall, and yet another new one that faces east. Which you could have made it to hive life.
Great video David 👍🏼🐝 HL conference can’t wait 😊
Me too!!
Wow! What a great video. So glad I am enrolled in the Ultimate course! I am SERIOUSLY considering selling queens. I have every intention of raising my own (have all the equipment and location in garage planned) , but the selling was just kind of a "thought" in the back of my mind all this fall. May just try selling this year if my grafts go well! Gonna try for Hive Life next year. Looks like a wonderful convention. Kamon and his lovely wife are really precious folks.
Good to hear Micah! I bet you'd enjoy queen rearing and since you purchased my Ultimate Online Beekeeping Course, it came with the queen rearing course too! Here's a link for anyone reading this that wants to buy my Online Queen Rearing: www.honeybeesonline.com/online-queen-rearing-course-online/
I really want to try it but I don't need them till I do and you can't just have them on the shelf. However I did just us 2 Nuc's to save 2 bigger hives. 1 Nuc is making there own queen now
Great video David! Very informative. See you at HL Booth 509!!!!
Awesome Greg! Yup booth 509!
Hello I heard on a video that Queen returns are better if you have your mating Nooks separate from each other instead of on pallets. How do you feel about this? Obviously on a large scale you would probably need to be on pallets, but for the starters, how far apart do you recommend each colony be from each other? Thank you in advance! Gina
As long as you mark the entrance with shapes it is fine, but yes always further apart works better.
You can also fan them out into a large Crescent (Arc, Curve.)
See Uni of Guelph YT Bee Channel. Think they are based up in Canada.
Look like cute little Homes all in the Neighbourhood, without being right on top of each other.
Who wants to be annoyed by Buzzy busy bodies. 😆
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Happy Beekeeping 2023 ! 🥳
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Where did you get the bobblehead I love. Thank you so much for the information. It was nice meeting you at hive life. I bought your signed book there along with being able to shake your hand and meet your beautiful wife.
Nice meeting you too. Sheri got that for me years ago. I'll ask her. It was a surprise when she gave it to me. She said she had to send them a bunch of pictures of me.
@@beek That is so cool. I don't know if I have just overlooked it or what but it is neat. We should have them made to buy. 😁
this is cool
Glad you enjoyed it
Watching your video of how to raise queens I fail the part on how you make the frames and set tdamn could you sometime give some more advice on that thank you
I’ll be live-streaming this Thursday at 7 pm on Queen Rearing so join us and ask your questions and maybe if it isn’t too busy we can answer it.
Thank you for your video! Do you have a course online or a book that tells how to do this?
Yes, please watch my last video: ua-cam.com/video/n9IWe097XNA/v-deo.html
David, I am curious, how would someone market that many queens? If I were to raise 100 queens, where would I go to advertise? I am enjoying these videos, and I am learning a lot, thank you! I just wonder how would someone go about selling queens like you were able to do?
Great question to ask on my livestream tonight (April 20th, 2023) at 7pm central time. Here's the link: ua-cam.com/users/livebznQVxYar8c
I really appreciate all you do. I wish I could go to Tennessee but just really wasn't prepared. I do plan on trying to raise some queens this year
Yes Ruth, it's like Woodstock for beekeepers, sorry you can't make it. Glad you are interested in raising queens. Get your feet wet with it and see if it is something you can pursue.
How do you go about keeping them
Can you talk a little bit about banking queens and at what point is best to bank them, thank you, sure am enjoying this series.
You must have missed that recent video I made about how and why to bank queens. This is why I feel my Online Queen Rearing Course is the way to go so all the videos are together in one place. Here is my recent video link where I talk about banking queens. ua-cam.com/video/OY4w_JmIEf8/v-deo.html
How are you marketing all those queens, I am having problems with Google over the "no live animal sales" which I doubt is legal
I was thinking what you said about the queen pheromones taking at least a week to leave the hive. Shouldn't we wait that week before trying to introduce a new queen to make the colony more open to accepting her before we add her to it?
I do not remember saying a week, if I did I misspoke. Usually a large hive detects the lack of the queen’s pheromones less than 24 hours throughout the hive.
@@beek Thank you sir.
Does the queen rearing course have any printable? I’m such a paper girl :/
Would it be possible to add a frame of capped brood back to your starter hive in the time between frames of queen cells, to replenish the numbers of nurse bees of the proper age?
Sure, the problem is that not all the bees in the starter hive then would be nurse bee age. Only the ones emerging from your capped frame of brood in 6 days. And those nurse bees would only be able to produce ample amounts of royal jelly IF they are well fed which might be questionable in a starter hive.
I would replenish more Nurse Bees (not loyal, so don't fight) by Brushing Bees generally (not Queen !) Into a big Deep Tote ! All the Field Bees fly back to the Hive they came from. All those left at the bottom are : Nurse Bees ! 🥳
Gently tap Tote corner, get Bees in one place and tip these into that Starter Hive.
Simples. 😎
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Happy Beekeeping 2023 ! 🥳
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
And don't forget to add a Frame of Pollen, Nectar / Stores at regular intervals !
No Bees (Workers / Capped Brood or Eggs, Larva in all Stages... or they have Stuff to make their own Queens ! 😵💫
I know the market to sell queens is there, but how do you find people to sell to
The longer you are established with a company website presence and reputation, you'll have more orders than you can fill. But, it is tough starting out just like with any new business.
I just want my bee keeping hobby to put a little back into itself... that way I'm not always losing for keeping them going if I can sell a couple of queens or even a nuc or 2 that would put some new equipment in my yard or pay for supplement feeds
How do you drop a queen cell into a hive? How do you secure it?
That's a good question I'll answer on my next video George.
You cut it carefully from the Comb where its located : give it a good border of Spare Wax (as a barrier of protection : no error in dinging it, or it getting Mashed.)
Place it so Queen Cell points Downwards like a Peanut ! Some use half a tooth pic, gently piercing that Wax above the Cell itself.
Take an outer Frame out, move each other frame until the two in centre position.
Carefully place Queen Cell against that Comb face ( can use above, or a bit of finger pressure to weld (QC) Wax area to set it on that Comb. Then carefully move the next inner Frame against its other side. Bees will also repair 'Wax' as one Structure ! Then add back those other Frames.
Tip :
If you make own Queen Cups. Make them so they can be glued (with hot Wax) onto say Small Tiles (like those in a Scrabble game*.) Think it's Uni of Guelph YT Bee Channel... that do this. So when placed between Frames, those 'Tiles' get pressed into both Frames : but Queen Cell just hangs down in the gap safely. Genius really ! Just need to find an eg Balsalwood (Fruit) Crate*, and make yourself umpteen Tiles ! Just need Scissors and time, this wood is thin, easy to cut, but strong enough to hold a Queen Cell (DIY Q Cup.) 😎
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Happy Beekeeping 2023 ! 🥳
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Hi David, new beekeeper here just about to go into my second season. I'm in western Canada. Is there anything about the queen rearing course that is specific to your part of the US?
Nope, queen rearing is the same
Great series, but I have a couple questions. How early in the year do you start grafting? Also, how do you market your queens when you are just starting out? Lastly, I have VSH Italians, can or should I say these queens are overwintered VSH daughter queens? Oh, and I'll see you in Tennessee!!
Richard.
You can start raising your own Queens : when you have Drones ! As without them, any Queen raised will not get Mated !
So many folk forget this important point. And, I guess it depends on your Weather. Do you have x3 Weeks of pending great conditions : warmth, moisture: re Floral availability ? Plenty of Pollen, Nectar, perfect Mating conditions. Or a month long wet Spell ? Get the picture. Do the planning, and Nature does the rest. 😎
In regards to VSH* genetics. Future Queens (Daughters) will have 50% Mother, 50% Drone Father.) Future Daugters will have, say, 25% (VSH) as Daughters daughter is Fathered by more Drones in each Generation... Think I got this right (?) Sure someone will state otherwise. I'm just a Hobby Beek, not a Geneticists.
* I guess if the Queen is Artifically Inseminated from Drone (VSH stock lineage) then 'Mongrel' Drone Congreation random Mating doesn't occur. 🤔
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Happy Beekeeping 2023 ! 🥳
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Sorrey David but I have never seen a Queen fly on a mateing flyt after 4-5 days first after 7-10 days and then it takes 36-48 hours when she lays the first eeg
Hello David,
Aleksandar here from Bulgaria, Europe. I have been following your channel with a pleasure and learning quite a lot from it! Our Beekeeping differs in many aspects compared to yours in US.
Let's say that there is not much innovation coming along or at least that's my opinion based on my, not that big experience with bees...
Since I am using only mediums (including for brood nest), may I setup a starter in 10 or 8 frames medium? My logic here is that they could keep warmer conditions due to the smaller space compared to Langstroth? I am planning to raise not more than 10 queens in two series (five each), so I will be using it also for finisher.
Thank you in advance
Best Regards,
Aleksandar Boev
Hi Aleksander, if that's what you have, you can make it work!
Is there a species of honeybee that does not make a lot of propolis? My hives are so messy because of it.
Hey David, Im loving the videos. Just to confirm. For every queen cell you make you will need a mating nuc for them, correct? so if you make 5 queen cells, 5 mating nucs?
Correct unless you place them in queenless splits, nucs or hives.
What does your 3 frame mating nuc look like?
I show it in this video, 3 of them together at 14:23
I put all my queen cells in curler cages so I don't have any queens getting killed by any early emergers. My mentor puts cell protectors on her queen cells for the same reason. She grafts, I dont. Queens can emerge anywhere from 13-16 days. We did all our queen classes at our local club meetings
It looks like space station
How many hives do you need so you don't have to worry about inbreeding. Keep good genetics.
Perfect question for my next video!
@@beek David - Please, genetics and drones are skipped by everyone. But it is 50% of the process - Im looking forward to your video on "How many hives" because this equals "Drones" BTW Im in a location where I only have 25 hives in a 40 mile radius. Factual !
Grafting drone will raise real "Queen" 😉😂
Hey...no close captions :-( A student here
Close caption is a UA-cam option, can you use it?
@@beek Been using it on all of your videos.....this program posted is not allowing CC . Also.....I am a advanced student.....programs 4&5 does not have CC. Are you getting CC on your side? Hey.....thanks for the response....it means a lot to me. Regards.
sorry I Respect You I Want Start New Bees Keeper
Did you say bee-ology at one point?😂
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