Beekeeping | Raise & Hold Your Own Queens In Limited Space
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- Beekeeping becomes easier when you can raise your own queens. Limited in space or hives? No worries. I'll share how to start small and raise quality queens.
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David the reason I started bee keeping was to help keep the bee population up and healthy. This is the best information that I am lacking to do this goal. Keeping God's creatures going. Thank you so much. Mark
Thanks Mark
David, I came for the bee knowledge but I keep coming back for your personality (and the great information and instruction) and I just like your style. Thank you for doing what you do.
You are always so helpful with pertinent information in your videos. Thank you for your efforts, I so appreciate you doing this!
Thanks David, You're the best. I'm inspired again!
Well, I'm humbled and thank you so much.
Great idea David , teaching us all in the winter months 👍👍hope for great queens in 2023
Fingers crossed!
Excellent and valuable. You are answering the key questions. Thanks for doing this. Much appreciated.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks! Following these closely and plan on using these techniques this Spring!
Great to hear George
Stay in the game - best advice ever to queen rearing. Thank you David
Absolutely
Thanks. Looking forward to try this.
Thanks for the idea on queen excluders between the boxes to find the queen. Brilliant!
Glad it was helpful!
I have been watching your videos. and they have been so informative. I was initially planning honey production but after all the videos, I can see that hive management and queen rearing is the way to go and the honey will be the bonus. Thank you for what you are doing. I cannot wait to put all I've learned into practice starting this spring. And learn as I go.
Great video Dave. Thanks.
Great video, David, very knowledgeable and very understanding the way you explain it
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks David! I appreciate your videos! You inspire me to try!
Glad to hear it!
I'm loving this series! I printed you gueen rearing book and I'm ready to try this in the spring! I've always wondered how and for how long you can bank queens. You really helped! I'm really looking forward to the next video David. Thank you!
I'm so glad!
Very good presentation!!!!!
Outstanding video. I think I can do it....raise my own queens!!!
Great tips.. thanks for sharing your knowledge..
So nice of you
Great info about Queen Banking!
Glad it was helpful!
Decided to jump in head first in to Bee Keeping. Bought 5 books and read them all, including yours. Lots of RUclips and just wanted you to know how helpful you are. I am in my 4th week with 2 langstrom hives. Appears to be going well but still very early. Thank you for your info and dedication.
Great information and no nonsense instructions! It was great to meet you and Sheri at HLC!
And very nice to meet you as well!!
Thanks you teach me a lot. Love it.
Glad to hear that!
Yep, I've had bad queens. You've got my attention.
Any living animal is bound to have issues and queens are no exception. Even the best of queens will fail. We need a plan, a way to replace her quickly. Good luck Angela.
Thank you David
My pleasure Bob
Looking forward to the next videos on queen rearing. After loosing several queens this summer and as you noted the setbacks, this is definitely something I need to know about. ]
Thanks for the videos David.
Yes Duane, I am convinced that if I can encourage people to raise queens it will change the landscape of beekeeping in the US. What good is it to keep mite levels under control and feed bees tons of sugar but not be able to keep a queenright hive!
Thanks for that David, a very Happy Christmas to you and your family. Roll on the spring! Peter
Same to you!
Good strategy Mr. D Burns.
Thanks so much, glad you understand it now too.
Nice Job David! Hoping next year to try to do some Queen Rearing. Just depends, Thanks for sharing David! Have a wonderful Holiday! Take care!
Thanks so much. Yes, queen rearing kept me from giving up on beekeeping. If all you are after is honey, and you have a bad year it's easy to give up. We need to have more than one pole in the pond to increase our changes of a catch!
Thank you so much for your videos, I'm hoping to start my first hive this spring in South Carolina 🥰🍯🌞
Hi Melissa I’m happy for you.
A recent inspection we did of our two backyard hives revealed the Queen from each hive was located on the end frame. So, they can be found on the ends. We are in Canberra, Australia. Love your videos.
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Hi David, Thank you for this episode. I understood or felt that I needed three or four colonies before I could start queen rearing. You have encouraged me this spring to give it a try. Right now is not a good time 20 degrees and dropping with snow. Haha
But it is a great time to start learning and becoming familiar with it.
Thanks a lot from Madagascar
Thank you so much! valuable information 😊 have a merry Christmas
You have yourself a Merry Christmas as well and glad you enjoy my channel. Good to have people like you part of my very growing RUclips Channel Community.
I sure hope I can learn how to do my own queens. It sure would help out and you are a very good professional from what I see so hopefully I can hang and grasp this.
Thank you
Yes, happened twice in my first year of beekeeping in 2022. Had to requeen one colony then had a feral queen and colony take over another hive (they overwintered well but not sure what they will look like in late March. So yes, managing queens is a challenge but worth being better educated on rearing queens this year.
One thing a person can do is split a 2 story hive .at five days go through the queen less one and pick out the best cells cutting out all the small ones. the ones raised from the youngest larva you'll find some that won't be capped yet. no grafting required. having some sort of mating box that you can just drop in the frames. that's what I did my first time but with grafting you have more control
Hi Dan, good point.
Great video David.
I look forward to your forthcoming series on Queen rearing. My retirement intention is to raise Queens next year. Only 2 Hives however, as you stated, you only need one!
Thank you very much, from Western Australia, for this video and others to date. Cheers.
Thank you Rick, and I hope I can continue to clarify and shed light on how easy it is to raise queens and how with minimal effort it can transform your queen rearing intentions.
Hi Rick - queen breeder from the NT - the MOST important thing you need to be able to do is breed Drones ! If you dont have any drones or insufficient drones your queens will be crap
It has taken me 3 years to be able to grow drones 12 months of the year - in numbers (20k per week) you may not be able to do that ALL 12 months however Drones are King
Well done buddy
This is one skill that I have yet to learn. I’ve wanted to try, but traveling for work limits what I can do. Maybe this next season as I’ll be semi close to home. Look forward to meeting you at Hive Life, I’ll have to get a book from you. Cya tomorrow David.
Indeed Brian, nice to hear from you.
I either rolled a queen or she was superceded in my weakest colony. I'm going to combine that colony with another but now I have to make a split to keep the status quo. If I had a queen I wouldn't have to risk a walkaway split or buy a queen. Great video, thank you.
Enjoying this David, thanks. I've been making splits with mated caged queens for multiple seasons and making up in spring when it's consistently mild enough, in 5 fr nuc boxes -2 frames capped brood, one honey 1/2 full, one drawn and one new foundation, add the caged queeen and just enough bees within the time it takes to make it (no waiting 24 hrs just make a simulated swarm, they will realise within 10 mins and when they are moved they are queenless), smoke them well, move a mile or two and add a bag of syrup 1:1, around 90% success rate if conds are good. Even with some very angry bees. I'm hoping to start grafting and do the same process with un hatched cells. I hope you cover the criteria for selecting grafting stock, presumably brood pattern, calmness, productivity etc
I am excited to follow this series. Thank you David! p.s. I like the bobble head 'David' 🙂
Thanks Tony. It's funny how the bobble head keeps moving the whole time.
Thank you for all the info, David. I thoroughly enjoyed your online queen rearing class. I also purchased the booklet from the University of Arkansas (home state plug) that you and Jon Zawislak wrote. I have 2 nucs ordered for April and this will be my first bee colonies. I am excited to start raising my own queens. Thank you, once again, David for all your efforts and hard work. You are certainly appreciated.
Eddie, this is so nice to learn and have a goal isn't it. Sometimes, something like venturing into queen rearing can distract us from worry or tension in life and get our minds off of wrong things and focused on improving our own skills. Right there with you brother!
What part of the state are you in.I am in El Dorado and we have two bee clubs in this area and I go to them and I help people with getting started with,keeping and even raising queens.We have some Burchfield's here and was wondering if you were one of the.
I'm not a Burchfield and I live in central Illinois near Champaign/Urbana, Illinois
@@MrSnapper1d I'm in central Arkansas. Many Burchfields in LA, MS, AL and of course south Arkansas
This is the first video of your iv watched and I really enjoyed and learned from them we started raising bees last year and it's been hard to figure it all out thanks
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What a great video, subscribed and eager to learn from ya.
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I like how you said that Mr.David
"Don't wait to become perfect before you start"
Right, otherwise we will never start, because none of us are perfect.
Always appreciated hearing some Queen rearing tips from you. In your online course, you didn't talk too much about how to set up the mating nucs. Would you mind covering that a little bit more in this series, please?
Indeed
I'm going to raise 40 queens this year. Double my apiary. Positive thinking. I just need to perfect making cell starter/ finisher hive.
Good for your Walter. I'll make a video on the perfect starter hive! That would be a great video!
Enjoy watching your videos from Australia. Broke my leg in October, falling off a ladder getting a swarm out of a tree. 🤣🤣
Oh Glen, I'm so sorry!! So many beekeepers have been injured retrieving swarms. Years ago I had a very frightening even when trying to cut a swarm out of a tree, and I gave that up fast! You're probably mostly recovered, hopefully by now, so I am glad you enjoy watching my videos. Thank you Glen for being part of my expanding RUclips Channel Community. I appreciate you.
@David Burns no worries mate. It's a good use of my time on my hour drive into work. I'll be doing my first inspection in a couple weeks so be interesting how they are doing. Hopefully queeny has been a good girl. Still bees going in and out, so that's a good sign. 😆
I have raised bees with my great-uncle for about 4 years now. The bees keep dying off in the winter (Michigan). He decided to stop raising bees, however, I still really want to continue. You are a huge reason that I'm confident I can do it independently. I'm 16 now and can't wait. Do you have a good video for surviving the winter? Thank you!!
I'll see you at Hive Life. Save me a Queen rearing book!
Hi Pat, look forward to seeing you at Hive Life. Queen Books are first come, sorry can't save any.
Hello David I had three of my hives year before last that was massive an I COULD NOT FIND THE QUEEN AT ALL .Here is another little quicker way I found to find a queen an yes it is a lot of work but it works great an you probably David have done this one before is getting a empty deep box an put a queen excluder on top an shake all your frame of bee thru the excluder till you find the queen. Ya I found all three queens an got them marked to help down the road to find her . Maybe this will help your people also . As always thanks for all you share with all of us. I have plans this year to try my old hands an eyes at raising some queen. I think it will be a little easier on my pocket $$$. THANKS
Yes, It's labor intense anytime we shake numerous frames and sometimes if shaken hard enough we can damage larvae. But it does work as you described.
101K now! Yayy! Headed for 200K LOL
6:10 Since I don't have spare queens around, I'll give them a frame of eggs from another hive. That usually works... but it takes up to a month to get a laying queen... Yes, it is handy to have queens around. This is my 9th year of beekeeping and I get most of my queens from making walk-away splits, but this year I am focusing on raising "reserve" queens.
That's why I am here...
You're awesome
Well thank you Dale.
There's a slim chance I'm gonna be in a lot of trouble here in the new year, so I've been trying to figure out what I can do in whatever land I might be able to afford a down payment on on my little fast food check and tax return. We're rural and there's plenty of market in the area for honey and wax, so I'm trying to educate as much as I can before I might not have the resources to do the research.
So thank you, genuinely, for sharing your art.
Well I'm sure sorry to hear about your possible trouble. Sounds like you are on the right path to figure things out. Remember the best investment you can make is to invest in yourself. You are the only person that determines your future.
Hi. Please tell me what is the tendency of the queen to laying eggs. If we got 2 brood chambers where she prefers to stay? In the top box or the one on bottom board? I ask this question to know better how to reverse a double deep brood hive. Thanks for your videos!
So when you pull the queen out of the nuc,then do you have a ready queen cell ?
Is it possible to reliably detect from bees roar if queen bee is missing?
Was wanting to go to hive life but when i looked the tickets were sold out. Sad I'll be missing seeing you! I live about 30 minutes from there and it's pronounced 'severe-vull'
Yup Hive Life is like Beatlemania!
Dave I just had a hive swarm twice. I caught both. I went into the original hive that swarmed and there were swarm cells everywhere as well as 3 queen cells. I found two queens flitting around in the hive. I took the swarm cells and the queen cells off and away from the hive and set them aside. Low and behold two other queens emerged from the dismantled cells. I don't know what to do with them.
Do you use a horizontal style hive? I’m interested in this style and raising queens. Thx
Good
Enjoying the Queen rearing episodes. Can you walk us through from a day or two before she hatches and how long after hatching will she take the mating flight and when can we expect her return. Also, would you introduce another virgin queen to the same box in case the first fails to return?
Added to my bucket list of videos to make 😄
Hello Sheri and David, It's now turned cold in Georgia ! Wanted to wish you both a Merry Christmas. Really enjoy listening and still learning over and over. Thank you and Take Care !
Thank you Sharie, it is turning cold for everyone in the US
Feel intimidated in starting this. Looking forward to the challenge. Where is best place to purchase a startup kit?
Hi Hayden, I'm going to talk about that in an upcoming video
Oh and fyi.. sevierville is pronounced like severe weather.. Ive lived about 30 mins from there all my life..
Yup, I'm learning. And I'm even from Tennessee 😃
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Hello David;
What do you do with the Bees in the matting nucleus that you remove the queen from?
Can you combine them with the hive that you put there queen in?
Thank You for all of your great videos, and your time teaching us newbees!
Thanks Courtney I'll answer this in a future video
Hello from România,, i m a beeginer beekeeper
I have a good friend from Romania. Nice to meet you.
Hello David. I intend to start my beekeeping experience when I retire to SEA. I had a question. I will graft as you do queen rearing following your methods. My question is about the number of nurse bees needed to raise a queen. I thin, as my hives in the tropics will be a good distance apart and my transportation will be a scooter, OTS queen rearing may be included in my tool kit of queen replacement. Could I use a two or three frame Nucleus hive?
David, what are the dimensions of the shelves on your queen banking frames? Thanks
Hi Cathy, I think I just used my California mini cages as my guide and made my shelves so they fit tightly in, so you want to start with your queen cages first that you'll be using.
Sir, is it ok to introduce queen bee to a queenless and hiveless swarms?
Thank you kindly for the free download. It will be an intersting and very informative read. I will try this summer to graft a queen providing my bees are well coming out of winter. Do you need a liscence to sell the queen bees ? Are there any requirements?
Check with your local state and county.
Which video explained the cup maker your father-in-law created? Thank you and have a Merry Christmas!!
This one Steven: ruclips.net/video/9-YprNsz29g/видео.html
It’s “severe ville” Tennessee lolx I’m excited because I have a queen in mind that I definitely want to replicate/duplicate her genetics because wow her colony is just amazing! I’m scared to death to try though.
Got it Severe Ville, thanks. Yes, you want to use that queen. I hope you will!
Mate - queens last 2 or 3 ears - if you dont get off your arse "She" will swarm and you will have lost those genitics . . . Just saying
I only have two hives. Should I raise queens or instead do splits using nucs?
Maybe try both
Wheres the link to the pdf?
D how long can I store a mated queen.
The problem we have in the north is that around may 10th the colonies want to swarm but its too early to start raising queens. so we buy the first batch of queens just to delay the colonies before raising our own queens. Im tihnking of using the nicot system starting April 25 to see if i can get them earlier...
Yes makes sense. The Nicot system was not something that I could ever make work.
Boy I’d love to do this, but I'm hesitant because I'm in Southern California and we have Africanized feral bees. I was considering doing green drone frames to flood the local area with Italian drones and maybe influence the temperment of local bees over time. Thoughts?
Yea Steve, you are wise to be hesitant. Africanized bees are nothing to play with for sure.
what do you think of the nicot system?
I explained my experiences in this video 😉
David, You mention dispatching the old queen and waiting 24 hours before introducing a new queen in cage. I am told there are 3 schools of thought on Introducing queens. 1. dispatch old queen and immediately install new queen in her cage. 2. Dispatch old Queen. Wait 24 hours then introduce new queen in cage. 3. Dispatch old queen. Wait 7 days. . shake bees off frames and check carefully for Queen cells including sides of comb. Remove all queen cells then introduce new queen in cage. (some folk suggest waiting a further 24 - 48 hours after removing queen cells). Would you care to comment or perhaps do a vid on these methods?
I've tried all the methods you've described or some variation, but I'm in love with seeing the most success in waiting 24 hours and then introducing a new queen.
David, would you share your queen cell maker info?
Ha Davi9d good video, The queens I bought was always rejected in a month they were destroyed and the hive had made q cells it is a waist of money to but bees
David hope u have a Merry Christmas to you and your family
yes, many times beekeepers can't see their queen so they buy a new one but their bees are in the process of making a new one and so they kill the pricey one you bought so they can keep raising their own.
What is the safest way to mark your queen. Acrylic cahalkpaint?
I find the easiest for me is the queen marking pens.
David can you talk about walk away split are they good are bad to do
Hi George I made a few videos on my channel on walk away splits. I like doing it that way.
Hey David, I’m interested in buying this queen reading course but why buy the course if you are going to be turning out RUclips videos about queen rearing? What does the course offer that your RUclips videos don’t?
Good question, I can only give the basic start up concepts on RUclips as the class goes into more depth and I cannot show how to graft since I'm in winter, and that's the most important aspect of success. The online course actually spends time on explaining grafting. The class goes deeper into each aspect of queen rearing. I'm hitting the surface on RUclips. If I went deeper on RUclips I would lose my audience and their interest quickly. So I'm trying to present an introductory aspect of queen rearing, simplifying it so beekeepers can wrap their minds around it and dive into it and learn as they go. But the big thing about my online course is, all the courses are in order, easily accessible where here on RUclips a video might be missed or hard to go back and find. Good question.
Do you use the plastic queen excluder
In the old days, I used metal, but now I use plastic.
Kinda lost on what kind of marker to buy for Queen Marking. Tku!
I prefer the queen marking pens as I have demonstrated in my most recent videos.
@beek l must have missed it. Could you tell me what brand you use please? Looking forward to see you Thursday.
Is there some kind of playlist you made with all the videos about queen rearing .. like part 1,2,3,4 ?
Not sure but I do have an online queen rearing course: www.honeybeesonline.com/online-queen-rearing-course-online/
Hey Dave< hope you're recovering from the "Hive" event:0 Anyway, I would like to Ox Vape my bees but I recently installed a Winter Bee Kind board from you. Must I remove the candy board during treatment? thanks for everything bees you do. richard
I love your videos! I watched several today. I saw how you bank queens, and then heard you answer Kim’s question. I accidentally put a caged queen into a hive that had a queen but I thought it was queenless. They killed my caged queen quickly through the screen. Why don’t they kill your queens that you are banking? I know the queen is in the deep box below, but it seems like the bees upstairs might want to kill the queens in cages?
In some cases they might but so far it has worked well for me.
David, Wrapped my smaller hives this past week with the polar vortex…. Some have said this is not needed…. Thoughts?
I have no idea where on the planet you live but for me I do not have to wrap strong colonies but it’s just good insurance or maybe it makes me feel better. But a small hive, yes, when it drops below 20 (f)
@@beek Thank you David…. That is what I was thinking…. Sorry…. I live in Huntington WV…. I hope you are going to the Hive Life Conference…. I will be going there with the wife…. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year…. Chris
Yes, Sheri and I will be at Hive Life.
@@beek Great we hope to meet you there
what is the process to get the queens mated?
Upcoming video Dana
Thinking of adding honey bees to go along with my Mason bees. If I follow you right, getting too many banked queens in nukes isn't a problem cause you would just sell the excess nukes and go make more? Is selling a nuke more profitable than just selling a mated/banked queen?
I would not sell a mated queen for less than $39. But a nuc includes either a new overwintered queen or a new spring queen that is laying on two or three of the 5 frames. The nuc also has 5 drawn out frames filled with brood and resources. Our 5 frame nucs are inspected by the State of Illinois and have a health certificate and a moving permit, so alot of work goes into our nucs and yes you want to ask for about 7x as much for a nuc with a mated queen already working hard.
How close can I put a nuke to a hive? I have two, one is failing. I did print the pdf of the queen rearing project and will read it to keep my mind to task. I could not a specific link in your notes to taking the queen rearing course ... I wanted to check the prices.
Very close especially if you make the entrances face different directions. I usually have 4 on a pallet.
@@beek Neat. I have two hives, #2 I think s failing and I think I know why after your Queen Even video. Each hive is on a hive stand 2 feet off the round (about 10' apart). Each stand I made to be able to place two full hives (future someday), thus, I should be able to nuke the first one (as I learn) and point it 180 degrees). It will go directly into one of the garden areas but I find that my bees get use to seeing me around and I am not disturbing them,, .. but rarely. Anyway, I'll read the pdf and be looking to see where I need to go ... and learn and prepare in advance, material wise.
thanks for the upbeat... more the merrier.
DavidPatrick... Failing Nuc.*
Tip :
If you think it's Failing due to its Queen, you could use the "Great Hive" as a phremone Chimney... until Spring comes.
Why you ask ? 🤔
Well the Great Hive has a good Queen (emitting Phremones through her whole Colony !)
By Adding that Failing Nuc in a Central position above this good Hive By :
Adding two Queen Excluders between each Colony : with a Space between these QE's
[Make a Simple Shim Frame] so Workers can come and go between these Colonies : AND this moves Queen Phremones into that upper Nuc Box. 👏
But because you gave x2 QE with a GAP between each Colony : Those Queens can't Fight and Sting each other !
If you used only x1 QE.
(You don't say why the Nuc is Failing : So my assumption its Queen related. Most things do come back to Queen status, but by Feeding, Treating for VM, Adding Drawn Frames, Adding Stores, and or Bees can get a Failure turned around to a Success ! 🥳
Get the Nuc use idea, right ?
As the QMP is passed up into, and through that upper Nuc Colony, it stops Workers becoming 'Drone Layers.'
And, that Colony may be OK, and 'keep going': having that QMP waft up, the think they have a Queen again ! Evenvif she is in the Basement ! 😆
They also get the rising Warmth from the lower Colony. This to helps a Failing Colony, 'Heat' takes Bees, and Feed. Probably these are also in short supply. [You don't say how Nuc is on Resources etc.]
Remember, that Nuc above will need its own Upper Entrance, and lots and lots of Feeding with eg Sugar Bricks.
Make sure that Nuc has good Insulation either side of it (make some side Dummy Boxes out of Scrap Timber. Add an Inner Cover, that Sugar Brick in a Nuc Shim, then a Nuc Roof, and additional Roof covering that whole top Box Structure.
Hope this helps your situation.
* By keeping that limping Nuc Alive, and still going until your Spring (and you have active Drones for Mating purposes)
You could take a Frame of Eggs, and Bees in all Stages, off that Great Colony ! 👍
Separate both Hives again.
And let that Nuc raise a great Queen. 👍
Hope this helps. 😎
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If that Nuc still has a Queen, either Mash her (Deceased.)
Or by that Phremone rising below, this might, make that Hopelessness Queen 'walk' her Frames, and keep the Hive in a 'kind of Queened Status, (but that QMP is not from her ! But from the other Great Queen.)
I would think its best to have an awful Queen, over no Queen in this situation, until you can Breed a Replacement or Buy a Mated Queen when the Bee Season starts up again. 😉
What if you get 10-15 virgins at one time and don’t have the boxes or nuc to place them in before the mating flight?
Yes, as I have said, it is all about timing. In that case, many people sell virgin queens or 14 day old queen cells. But I just plan for it and have my queenless hives ready or my nucs or splits ready to receive the queens I've made.
Only the booklet isn't free to download anymore, is it?
I just tried it and IT IS FREE! Maybe you had the wrong link: Here's the link: www.uaex.uada.edu/publications/PDF/MP518.pdf