I just checked two of the five (the last two I did in the video) and they were both queenless with emergency cells present. I've left the cells there for now. I'll update when I check the other three.
When it's warm enough Brad. We have had good luck with a newspaper merge. Putting the Nuc on top in a second deep super. I spray the paper with sugar spray. A mild bribery perhaps? :) A bit faster without the thump hitting the cardboard landing.
I bought 20 Deep, 8 frames with a feeder hives this year. They all had queens introduced before i got them. One died out during transfer, due to it being too strong and limited air flow for 3 hours. The one colony mostly died out, but after removing the dead’s, and adding a couple strong combs of brood, the hive recovered.
🤣Shaking bees in shorts.😂 I actually like OTS best when it works, it is about the easiest method. I like that shake out method, I have sprays them down with sugar water and slotted them but I like the method you used. Next door is gona get a bump off it too, kind of a nice way to do a little balancing. Blessed Days Brad...
This spring Ive been thinking about the ratio of queenless bees to the bees in the queen right colony you’re shaking bees into. I don’t know the answer, but I typically would shake bees in front of a couple of different newly queenright small nucs, just to not push the issue.
I just checked two of the five (the last two I did in the video) and they were both queenless with emergency cells present. I've left the cells there for now. I'll update when I check the other three.
Everyone finds a home. Most important quote of the year.
When it's warm enough Brad. We have had good luck with a newspaper merge. Putting the Nuc on top in a second deep super. I spray the paper with sugar spray. A mild bribery perhaps? :) A bit faster without the thump hitting the cardboard landing.
I bought 20 Deep, 8 frames with a feeder hives this year. They all had queens introduced before i got them. One died out during transfer, due to it being too strong and limited air flow for 3 hours. The one colony mostly died out, but after removing the dead’s, and adding a couple strong combs of brood, the hive recovered.
Roughly 2 gallons of dead bees.
After adding the 2 full frames, of brood and bees, they cleaned out all of the dead brood and are starting to flourish as a new colony.
I stopped closing entrances when moving colonies after cooking bees. The nucs I'd placed here were never locked in. Thanks for watching !
@@ThatBeeMan Good info to know.
I will be interested in your queen acceptance rate of the shake out combinations. I hope it turns out to be a very good option.
I will follow up on the success of this manipulation.
Did the same thing yesterday for the first time. Anxious to see how yours turn out.
Thanks for watching!
This was really good and a good idea as well glad everything is going good for u.. Hope you have a very blessed week'.
Good job Brad, I'll be pulling honey next week and checking hives. To hot this week for bee stuff. 34 to 35c
I have done the newspaper method a couple of times and it worked but I also am very interested to see the outcome of this thanks for sharing
I've had good luck with push in cage on frame they can't attack her and work great
I have two halves that will lay up all the frames and then won't lay until they hatch I always got to remind myself for them
🤣Shaking bees in shorts.😂
I actually like OTS best when it works, it is about the easiest method. I like that shake out method, I have sprays them down with sugar water and slotted them but I like the method you used. Next door is gona get a bump off it too, kind of a nice way to do a little balancing. Blessed Days Brad...
Interesting, when I shake bees off frames the majority seem to go airborne. And not happy.
Old bees will fly. Young bees will not. Thanks for watching!
This spring Ive been thinking about the ratio of queenless bees to the bees in the queen right colony you’re shaking bees into. I don’t know the answer, but I typically would shake bees in front of a couple of different newly queenright small nucs, just to not push the issue.
I agree with you. I will follow up on the success of this manipulation.