PROBLEM HIVE- Spring Requeening | BEEKEEPING WITH TBS

Blake finds a hive that is growing too slowly and diagnoses the cause as a failing queen! This video shows some great shots of spotty/irregular brood patterns as well! Also discussed is how to help healthy, but small, spring hives grow more rapidly if they are falling behind.
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[@KajunHomestead]

Enjoyed the video, Thanks👍👍👍

[@lenturtle7954]

Holy smokes that colony is collecting pollen
1.3 water to 1 sugar may help its better for stimulating brood production and id put the brood on the top to help keep it warmer with less bees .
The workees want her to lay more judging by the amount of pollen .
Nice video

[@mmb_MeAndMyBees]

Tip :
I would combine this Colony to another Hive : using the trick of Newspaper between the Boxes (slowly unifies them as they chew the paper out !)
But before doing that : Your going to RIP that dud Queen (add her to a Bottle of Rubbing Alcohol to make : DIY Swarm Lure. 👍Don't waste ex Maj's!)
When those Boxes are added together (Combined) you will have. . .
1) Extended the life of those Workers (with that dud Queen) without those Workers becoming "Drone Layers."
2) You have a bigger Work Force having combined two Colonies together.
3) You can then do a Demaree Split. Use that better Queen : to be 'Larva Material' to do a Split, while still keeping the Colony Strong. And still get a decent Honey Harvest too.
Hope this helps. 😎
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Happy Beekeeping 2024
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Here in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 our Bee Season is quite short ! So doing a 'Split' but still keeping 'together' (kind of) means the "Warmth & Strength of a single Stacked Hive" aides the quick build up of that 'Split'
It requires the use of a Double Screened Board (with a deep gap between each Screen.) So the 'Bees' can't pass the Hives 'Queens Phremones' from Bee to Bee. It makes the 'Communication Signals' of the Hive 'think we don't have a Queen, when actually (they) do. You the Beek has just hidden her into the Basement while the Bees in the Attic 'must make a new one' ! 🤭
Suggestion :
Go through the whole Hive and find the Queen. Isolate her on one Frame in eg a Nuc Box. While you 'deconstruct' the Hive Boxes / Bees etc. . . so :
You can add the Queen into a Basement Brood Box with plenty of empty ready Drawn out Comb : she can lay it all up nicely (build up population !)
Add a Queen Excluder.
Then another Brood Box, and a Super. (Or two Supers.)
Above this add the Demaree Board (Double Screen with a Gap!)
Then a Top Box (Brood Box) and add a Frame of Brood with Bees in all Stages (BIAS) and a good Shake of Nurse Bees ! eg all the 'non flying' Bees : that will Feed and keep that Brood Warm and Cosy. 😁 And fill up with more Capped Brood Frames. And a Frame Feeder with 1:1 Syrup.
Raising 'Queen Cells' and feeding 'Baby Bees' is thirsty work. 😏
Demaree Technique :
As those Bees "Up Top" don't get the Queens Pheromones : they panic and 'think' (we are hopelessly Queenless - we must 'make' a 'Replacement' Queen !
Actually : you have Tricked "them" into making a Queen (or more precisely "Queen Cells" from any Larva of the correct age. As long as the Beek Cages ALL those Queen Cells BEFORE they Hatch (by Day 14 !) You can be sure to have plenty of Virgin Queens being 'born' knowing one isn't going to emerge first and Kill all her VQ Sisters.
Use Roller Cages : and add each 'Sealed Queen Cell' into each one. And have these Cages held in a Row within a Regular Frame (Wire / Zip Tie.)
Next : Make up little Mating Nucs to get these VQ's Mated.
Or Sell the Roller Caged VQ's on to Bee Club Members etc. . . Add to their own Mating Nucs quickly !!! (Virgin Queens are OK 'banked' for say x2 or x3 Days, but must go out to be Mated ASAP, to be Fertile !)
After Queens are made : Remove the Demaree Board.
Have all the Brood below a Queen Excluder. And your Honey Supers above. 👌
You will a single Hive
make you :
Lots of great Queens ! 🥳
(Split them into Nucs or Sell them on. £££'s $$$'s
Have a bigger Colony Bee Population wise ! 💪
And a lovely Honey Crop. 🍯

[@thebeesupply]

Lots of great info and suggestions there! Thank you!

[@Oxysheagirl]

I really wish I could see a video of this in action as I have no idea of some of these terms

[@mmb_MeAndMyBees]

@@Oxysheagirl
Hi there. . .
What Terms are you struggling with ?
Or is it a Across the Pond (Brit English over US English) that's confusing !?!
Ask, Here to help fellow Beeks. 😎
Meantime : Please send us some Warmer Weather, its was Snow and Hail this AM. Only the Bumble Bees in their Fuzzy Coats that 'Bumble about'. from one Dandelion to another.
No Orchard Fruit Flowering yet.🤭
(Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is having Artic Cold Air) even this late in April. Brrrr. . .
Wettest Month on Record, only
x95hrs of 'Sunlight' in nearly a
Month. 🥴
Honey Bees all cosy in their Hives, still eating Sugar Bricks or Fondant.
Apple Trees are closed tight Bud wise.
Phew. We need that Fruit without any Frosts. 🤞 Swarming is way off. 😏
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[@Oxysheagirl]

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