Florida Beekeepers Part 2: Queen Production with Chris Werner
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2021
- Part 2 in a series this video shows how they inspect, cull and incubate queen cells at Indian Summer Honey Farm. Part 3 will be about grafting and cell building colonies.
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Seeing someone open a queen cell to check and then close it back up is priceless knowledge!
Right?! 😳 I was blown away!
I’d have never thought you could do that. Knowledge is power.
@@sinisterhipp0 I would think just the opposite. If you only have a dozen queen cells you might as well put it in the incubator and see if it hatches out.
Awesome to actually see the process the queens we picked up yesterday. It was such a blessing to meet and talk with you. All the queens made it back to KY and are tucked away into their new homes. Thank you for taking the time to talk with us and share a little bit of your time. We had the most wonderful experience Mr. Binnie.
It was a pleasure to meet you. Good luck this season.
Bob the tone of your voice helps me to grab all info that you offer. Thank you for teaching your queen making process as far as Switzerland. Will start 1st of April my starter/finisher as per your video...hope it s not too early in the season!
We need more really good queen producers like this. Thanks for the video Bob.
As far as queen reading goes, your channel and Chris’ are the best. So much info!
What is Chris's channel called?
@@ReederBeekeeping following
Hey Bob! Thank you for sharing your experiences, insights, wisdom, and knowledge. I work for an urban beekeeping company in a major Canadian city, and our team refers to you as "The Bobfather". Your channel is a much appreciated educational resource. Personally, I have learned so much from you, and always look forward to your uploads. Thanks again!
I love the beekeepers business hours!! That's exactly how I feel, especially the last part!
The fact that they use wet rags and light bulbs instead of buying a climate cabinet is really admirable. No fancy, just wits. Great video, can't wait to have an operation like that myself.
I hope you are truly rewarded for all you are doing for beekeepers. Your information is invaluable. In this video,
I could immediately see how your friendship with Chris has lasted as long as it has.
This insight is golden. I love your content! Thank you Bob! ✌️🐝🐝🐝
That was awesome thank you to both of you big guys for sharing!!
That was a very interesting video with a lot of valuable information that's not in a book. Thanks Bob!!
Very good video bob. Thanks.i would have never got to see such a operation as that.greatly appreciate. Thank you. Thank you
Invaluable knowledge and experience with excellent video and audio. Thank you very much for your time, effort & attention to detail. 👏 more gems like this are warmly appreciated. You are a top mentor in every sense.
Thanks for great videos Bob, excellent information presented superbly, looking forward to seeing Chris's mating yard. Keep them coming.
Great tour Bob Thanks for sharing!
Bob, excellent subject matter...thank you so much for sharing...We pick up methods,and tips every time...
Thanks.
Bob, thanks for all the time and effort you are giving to help others with beekeeping!! I have incorporated lots of your practices into my operation. Nice stuff!! One of these days on my way to Florida, hopefully I can stop by and see your operation.
Ps: ordered 100 plugs from your store for my feeders!! I believe they will work good for me!! Vermont beekeeper!!
Awesome as usual! Great information.
Good video and seems like good people, a win win 👍
That's cool. Some good tips there, I will be trying to raise my own queens by grafting this summer for the first time.
Thank you Bob, very useful information
Great video Bob!
Thanks for this vlog Bob
Great video Bob 👍
Thanks for sharing this with us Mr. Binnie🍯🐝💨
Love ❤️ the videos.
c est vraiment un énorme travail ,merci pour le partage
great video Bob
U speak. I learn! Thx for the video.
Gold
“Not dropping these makes a big difference aswell” LOL
"BIG" difference.
Thank you again for sharing!
This is so good!! Thank you.
Priceless info. 🐝 👍
Hi Bob - I like that holder Chris and Jen are using to keep the frames upright while pulling the capped cells off the frames
Very simple.
👍 great video bob
Thanks a lot Bob.👍
Thank You 😊
Thank you.
It's a shame all breeders don't do this to minimize bad queens. I wasted 520. dollars on bad queens last year from one breeder. To be fair I didn't buy them directly from that breeder so the seller could have been pushing someone elses queen off as the well known breeders stock but none the less I don't have any of them. I'm making some of my own queens this year but I'm also gonna buy some to keep the inbreeding down. I see Chris is already sold out for the year. Thanks for sharing.
Good luck with your queen production. It's rewarding.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you
Nice to see how they work in memory of Gilbert M. Dolittle.
I recommend a wifi inkbird temperature controller will let you know if the power is out, I can see and set the temp on my phone. And it will alarm on over/under temp. They make humidity controllers too.
Great stuff
Interesting learnt something with this video, Need to devout a whole chapter on QUEEN CELLS in the said book.Peter Australia
great info thank you
Them there are some serious bee keepers
Thanks
Great people
Hi Bob I have a question unrelated to your awesome queen video I would like your thoughts on if the cold kills the mites I been going through dead outs from winter see ribber bees checking on piles of dead bees and other dead out boxes I know mites are similar to a tick on humans and I know you can freeze ticks solid and when they thaw out they take right off do you think the mites are all dead in the dead outs or do you think they start hitch hiking soon as warm up happens I see the beatles don't survive the cold in a dead out
That was a neat video Bob. I'll be 30 miles South of you tomorrow in Taccoa picking up a load. If time permits (and it's not too far out of route) I may stop by.
Hi Jeremy. I'll probably be out working bees.
@@bobbinnie9872 just left the store with a couple of deep boxes and frames with foundation. Maybe we'll catch you next time!
It would be an interesting experiment to raise the culled cells to verify the culling criteria.
Hello Bob. Been studying this series a lot. In this segment Jennifer W. Is placing the acceptable queen cells in a battery box that I know go into the incubator. But what about queens that emerge sooner than others. Are they stocking ripe queen cells into NUCs and not virgins? How do they manage emergence in the incubator?
Hi Dan. They are using cells and not virgins. They have an occasional premature cell hatch but not very often.
Excellent. Mr Bob, whats the device on Mr Chris’ shirt collar that says “RODE”? Just curious
A microphone.
Bob, what if I carefully take a cell directly from the finisher and put it straight in the mating nuc? Why leave them in the incubator?
That would work fine. The incubator is just for convenience and storage.
Bob, I'm trying to find the heated boxes that cells are transported in from incubator to yard. The ones I've seen look like a small tool or tackle box with foam in them and they plug into the power port. I've done several searches and can't seem to come up with them. Would you happen to have a supplier?
Sorry, I just spotted this comment. I'm not familiar with those boxes. We use a small egg incubator like the one shown in our "How We Produce Queens" video. ua-cam.com/video/c28O916sy48/v-deo.html. Check the links in the video description.
What is your opinion of buying dd colonies after almonds. Versus nucs. Same money for 90 nucs or 40 hives. Working on increasing numbers this yr.
Not sure were else to ask the question
Hives out of the almonds can be a good deal. It of course depends on the bees and equipment. If they are in good shape you can split to the number you want and also have the benefit of the equipment as long as it's all in good shape.
I’m need to queen rearing. I’m not at the point of culling them yet, just happy to be getting graft acceptance. Do folks reuse the JZ BZ cups? Or are they expendable? Thanks for your videos. I was at the High Springs Dadant the other day an saw you giving an interview, wish I could have met you.
Hi Dan. You can clean and reuse those cups but they are fairly cheap in bulk so many people don't do that.
What is the temp in the room they are culling cells? Seems like it might take a while. Is there a danger of getting the cells to cold?
It was 85°f. That temperature is OK for awhile.
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At 4.10 on the video is that a hatched queen on the left sidebar ?
No, that's a worker bee.
Thanks Bob grant info. Do you have any more nucs available for this spring?
Sorry, all sold out.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks
Hi, is it a problem, wenn the queen cells are quite small, because having too many cells on the bar?
It can be. It basically comes down to how small.
We don't use the force we use Kung Fu, Mind and Body one grasshopper. 🤣👍👍
how do you set up queen cells like that?
Check out our video "How We produce Queens" ua-cam.com/video/c28O916sy48/v-deo.html
I keep those same hours.
Many many queens, how many queens do you produce one time ?
They produce about 1800 queen cells twice a week and have about an eighty percent success rate with mating so an average of 2880 per week.
@@bobbinnie9872 That's a MIND BLOWING number to me. I mean, 2880 queens to manage on a weekly basis. A lot of preparation, timing and a lot of other stuff I don't know what's invoved in this whole operation. I'm really interested in Queen rearing, this is giving a little bit of sparks to start thinking getting my business around that specialization. Again, thanks so much for sharing.
Is there a way to buy one of those cell holders boxes ??Great video!!
Not that I know of. Thanks.
Someone should start 3d printing cell holders like that.
It would be cheap and easy.
@@ke6gwf I know someone who did. I've made quite a few of them(but not 3D printed)
We purchase the cell holder racks from JzsBzs. The boxes are just regular deep boxes.
Ha Bob what do they do with the cells do they have 1800 nucs to put them in this is massive Thanks
Hi Frances. They produce many queens to sell. I'll have a video on their nuc making in a few weeks.
They sell alot of the cells also. I bought a bunch from them this spring.
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Does he throw the cell cups away ot boil and reuse.
I forgot to ask that. We just use new ones each time.
We used to boil them but came to the conclusion that time and work to clean them wasn't worth it. We just use new ones now.
I enjoyed reading this and with the reply’s , I know this is extra work but will be ok for me , since useing new cell cups all the time I’m thinking making wax cell cups so there completely recycled back to wax for other things etc , more than likely time consuming for commercial use but as I’m a hobby bee keeper this has made my thinking and use of queen cell cups change to wax cups that can be made by myself easily enough. Awesome video , love the content as always . 👍
How much time after the queen is arrested they graft?
4 days.
Are those all queens flying about the room?
No, there just hitch hikers that come in on the grafting frames.
@@bobbinnie9872 is there any chance to see mating nucs in the next video? Thanks for your work on youtube Bob. Greetings from Poland :)
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hello bob. I'm Saban. I just came to America. I came here from Turkey. I was beekeeping in my country. I love this job very much, but I had to leave my country. Now I want to do this job in America, but I have no idea how to do this job here. While I was beekeeping, I produced honey, pollen and propolis, and I have enough experience in my profession. but my english is not enough so i am having a problem. As a father and wife, I ask you for help in this matter. Maybe you want to help me in this regard and you can give me a job so that I can continue my beekeeping profession in America. I wish you good work thank you
Bob do you sell Caucasian queens
We call our queens Caucasian, Carniolan mixed with a bit of Italian and yes we do sell a moderate amount.
For booking call the store at 706 782 6722.
Ok thank you
Thanks