Only watching this now, 6 years after you filmed it! I really like your videos as you come across as completely down to earth and you don't gild the Lilly, you simply appear to tell us how it is! Carry on the great work
Great video. Much better explanation through hands-on video of Michaeal Palmer method than just the Michael lecture itself. Thanks for pulling this off so excellent!
Hello Richard I wave watched a lot of different video’s on queen building over an over and kind of for some reason did not totally understand it ( I guess being old has nothing to do with it) haha . After watching your video I think I have it now I guess I speak your language a little better haha . I will be trying it now as always thanks for your video’s and you taking the time to put out this information. It so great how all the bee keepers stick together and share info. Thanks from NC , USA
Richard thanks for the second follow up Q and A this answered my question and thanks for explaining this process so well. I am so excited about spring and thanks to you I know I will be ready to grow with lots of new queens
This is absolutely the best video I've seen. I have watched Mike P and his videos and this one nailed it. I just started raising our own queens this season 017. Already for next year now and will do my best, to leave the queen rearing up to the "professionals. Thank you Richard for taking the time to make this video.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO MAKE THIS VIDEO. You sir are a natural for explaining things. I can't wait to get started. Blessings your way my friend
The way you set up a cell builder, and crowd them into wanting to swarm and then giving them the intense need for a queen is the same way I set up my colonies for making excellent comb honey. You've got my mind busy thinking new things this spring for my beehives!
I’ve watched your videos countless times Richard and share your admiration for Michael Palmer, top beekeeper, I’ll be trying this method this season for the first time
Hello Richards, I just returned from a workshop with Michel Palmer as our guest speaker and mentioned how I enjoyed your video on cell builder "explained" He spoke highly of you so keep up the good work!!
This is by far the very best video I’ve seen on setting up a cell starter. I heard Mike Palmer at the Texas Beekeepers Assn annual meeting a couple of years ago-excellent. Wish I could hear one of your presentations in person as well. Thanks again for the great & informative video.
Richard ok here I go going to give it a try. I’ve just been packing them in a 10 frame box and doing it all in one but like the excluder idea. Put all the brood above excluder. That will prevent them from drawing cells. In 5 days I will flip the queen rite Box put her above double screened board. Above the builder keep her warm while her colony builds cells. Then I can put her box back after done building. We will see. Hope your well Richardson California is warming up. Love your shed by the way. Great work Richard. Read my message from 2 years ago lol, come a long way since then.
Wow I loved the video, I am a bee keeper from Idaho USA and want to do some grafting and raising bees this Spring . I had questions on setting up a cell starter and I loved your method. Very helpful Richard, Thank You!
Great video and a good solid method for raising quality queens. I never liked queenless cell builders because of the nurse bee issue when grafting cycle after cycle. This is a good solution. I have known queen breeders that keep two hives as one cell builder. One queenless and the other just for nurse bees, but when raising hundreds to thousands of queens this gets costly. We just went with queenrite builders and we did very well. 80-85% take consistently all season. I believe the main difference is the area we live in. Northern California is a great place to raise queens. We grafted 600 cells per day from February 15th to May 15th for over 30 years. Any other method would just take too much time and resources when operating on that big of a scale.
Great video! I'll try o follow a similar method here in PT for my small bee yard (4 colonies), my plan is to get double next year. Thank you for sharing!
I have watched many video's on queen bee production, this one tops them all. Well organized and just enough information. You have given me confidence in going forward in my own program, knowing these simple take a way's. Thank You! -Willj-
Richard, I can't say thank you enough for the awesome video, the best I've seen! Clearly, you are passionate about bees and beekeeping. You did a great job explaining "what" you are doing and the "why". I'm a second-year beekeeper with eleven hives. Next year I'd like to get my hive count up to around twenty five and start selling nucs and bred queens. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. I'm planning on starting beekeeping in 2021 (Retiring in April 😁🐝so we will have the time) and am watching and reading as much as I can in preparation. Have to say the way this video was presented and structured is brilliantly informative and just what we need 👍🏻🐝😁. Thanks again
I agree, this is the best video on queen rearing I've seen. You cleared up a lot of my confusion from watching other videos on this topic. Thank you for this video.
Thank you Richard for an excellent video your excitement shows through!!! I love all of Michael Palmer videos and am excited that he will be here in North Carolina next month.
Well produced and explained. This process can seem complicated when trying it the first time. I've seen Michael speak and you further simplified the explanation.
Thank you Sir. Second year beekeeper here from Atlanta. Queen rearing is my next step. A sustainable apiary without buying Queens is my goal. Appreciate your information.
Such a great video. Thank you for the time and effort you have put into making this highly educational and inspiring tutorial. Hope all is well in Northern France.
Thanks Fin. I am doing a full presentation for Cambridgshire beekeepers end of feb so if you want a better presentation stay tuned! I will post it to you. Thanks for your kind words!
@@richardnoel3141 I’d love that please mate! I spoke to our club president yesterday about asking if we could ask you to do a zoom presentation for us? It would obviously have to go through the rest of committee but I thought I’d ask anyway. Hope that’s ok with you as not sure if you’re offering this to other associations or not?
You are fun to listen to. I've watched tons of videos on beekeeping and most of the beekepers are droning on and on (No pun intended) about this and that and it is so boring you lose attention quite quickly. This is not your case, so thank you very much! :D
Great video! Your explanation of the process was very easy to understand. This video will be a great reference to help me grow my operation. Thank you for sharing.
I was in France last summer. We didn't go to Brittany, but we did have some Calvados from Brittany. Fantastic video. I have met MP and also used his methods, slightly modified to use Nicot cage, due to my poor vision. Thanks for sharing.
This is absolutely the best video I've seen, finally someone that has explained Mike Palmer method in great detail. Please make a video on how you build your finisher hives. Also a video on how to graft if its possible.
Charles Thomas many thanks for your kind comments! I had it in mind to do a video on m’y finishers, but it won’t be until next spring now! Will see what I can do, but come spring you just have very little time until the fall! Regards.
really like your videos and the info on the drone production towards the end of this one ... a lot of videos leave that out, very informative thank you for taking the time,
Richard, that was absolutely fascinating. Thank u sooo much for sharing! Made me think that maybe this is something I could do and actually be able to retire someday!!! 😁
This is the best video on queen rearing I've seen so far! Thanks for taking the time to make it! I've watched a lot of Mike Palmer's presentations and this video shed more light on what he has been explaining. Getting my materials ready for next season now. What breed of bees do you have? They shake off the frames surprisingly easy. I have Italians and carnica, and neither let go of the comb that easily.
Hi, thanks for your kind comments. ok we use a F1 Buckfast cross, but as i said in the video they can be a little feisty at the start but generally they arent too bad. dont forget your getting a colony to swarming point. and your adding thousands of nurse bees that cant even fly yet! so their not that great at hanging on to the frames. Also i shake them hard lol Hope you have a good season.
you are a legend brother... This video is amazing and looks that you putted a lot of thought and heart into it. Im not into the bees bizz but I can surelly tell you that you changed my thought about it and I love it! Thank you again! Much Love!
Great Video. I"m thinking about getting into bees. Trying to decide if we are going to change locations first. Have to admit your bees (the volume of them) were intimidating to me. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.
Hello Fred, this colony does look a bit intimidating, yes i agree, but its about the strongest you ever see a colony of bees, so dont worry about that. We make this artificially strong by adding more bees via unhatched brood, this then gives an even stronger response when we remove the queen. EWere maximising what the bees can do, only naturally!
I like your videos. You have the right stuff. I see that you are true. Im in Dominican Republic with over 200 bee boxes and growing. Would love to speak or meet!
This is the very best explained and examples given, on this subject that I have ever watched!! Thank you so much for posting this.. I do have a question and I am new to bee keeping. When you moved the queen right hive over and added the new base for the nurse bees, what type bottom board was that, that you used. Was that a queen excluder bottom or simply some type of screen bottom board? Again thank you for posting !! Sincerely, Phillip Hall
phillip hall thanks for your kind words! It’s standard Dadant base! In France the 10 frames Dadant hive is pretty standard! This is just a plastic vase made by “Nocot” (or Nicoplast) injection moulded and I have to say their fantastic! No rot, can be sterilised! Lightweight and cheap What’s not to Like ! 💥👌🏻🐝🐝🐝
FIVE STAR VIDEO! Excellent content, organization and photography make this a valuable learning aid. Keep your eyes open, he shows several tricks he does not mention in the narrative, i.e., masking tape on the shaker box. Thank you for taking the time to share. :)
We only have Killer Bees here in Arizona! They are meaner than hell! Killer Bee Guy here! Did you know that Killer Bee honey is the same as any other honey? It is the nectar source that matters.
Dear Richard, thank you very much for this compehensive way of putting Mike Palmers "Theory" in action. I learned a lot from your video and I also admire the committment (Herzblut = heartblood, as we say) you are showing when speaking about your work. Definitely subscribed to your channel! Just one question in the end: Would it be also Ok to use the starter as finisher (after giving back the broodchamber as to make it queenright and put a queen excluder in between?). Kind regards and hello from the Lüneburger Heide (heath) in germany, Chris
Hi Chris, thanks for your kind words. Yes of course you can, the whole process of making this video is to show the biology behind this so you can make changes to suit you if you wish! Once you understand the process there are many ways you can use this huge colony of nurse bees! I’ve done a follow up video called “the cell builder explained”questions and answers” It explains how you can use different configurations if you do wish. Here’s the link:ruclips.net/video/yppRnZvn9oM/видео.html Let me know how you get on! Have fun! If it isn’t fun your doing it wrong!!🤘👍😊🐝🐝🐝
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Nice job! 👌
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got to hand to this guy for shoveling through so much bs just to share his important experience. thank you
Only watching this now, 6 years after you filmed it! I really like your videos as you come across as completely down to earth and you don't gild the Lilly, you simply appear to tell us how it is! Carry on the great work
I have grown to really enjoy your videos. Your knowledge and enthusiasm is second to none.
I appreciate that! thanks, but i just do things differently. there is other equally good videos out there!
Great video. Much better explanation through hands-on video of Michaeal Palmer method than just the Michael lecture itself. Thanks for pulling this off so excellent!
Wow! You are not only a beekeeper but a great videoproducer.
Thank you for this. I’m looking into Queen rearing for 2021. The Cell Builder is one key piece.
Like your enthusiasm. Keep it up! Also like your willingness to encourage others.
Hello Richard I wave watched a lot of different video’s on queen building over an over and kind of for some reason did not totally understand it ( I guess being old has nothing to do with it) haha . After watching your video I think I have it now I guess I speak your language a little better haha . I will be trying it now as always thanks for your video’s and you taking the time to put out this information. It so great how all the bee keepers stick together and share info. Thanks from NC , USA
Richard thanks for the second follow up Q and A this answered my question and thanks for explaining this process so well. I am so excited about spring and thanks to you I know I will be ready to grow with lots of new queens
Fantastic video
Wonderful video, so well shot and explained ....thanks for posting. An ancient Aussie
This is absolutely the best video I've seen. I have watched Mike P and his videos and this one nailed it. I just started raising our own queens this season 017. Already for next year now and will do my best, to leave the queen rearing up to the "professionals. Thank you Richard for taking the time to make this video.
I have so very many questions, but for now, I just want to thank you for your excitement! It's so very contagious!!!
thanks you. the cell builder explained, questions and answer, has a lot of the questions you are likely to ask.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO MAKE THIS VIDEO. You sir are a natural for explaining things. I can't wait to get started. Blessings your way my friend
Jaime Diaz thanks for your kind words!! Good luck!
The way you set up a cell builder, and crowd them into wanting to swarm and then giving them the intense need for a queen is the same way I set up my colonies for making excellent comb honey. You've got my mind busy thinking new things this spring for my beehives!
Backyard-beehives can u explain how you get your bees to make comb honey Thanks
One of the best queen rearing videos I've seen to date. Nice thorough procedure. Thank you!
I’ve watched your videos countless times Richard and share your admiration for Michael Palmer, top beekeeper, I’ll be trying this method this season for the first time
Hello Richards,
I just returned from a workshop with Michel Palmer as our guest speaker and mentioned how I enjoyed your video on cell builder "explained"
He spoke highly of you so keep up the good work!!
Honeysuckle thank you!
Your passion clearly comes through starting at 1:40 and carries through the entire video. Well done! I learned alot in this 27 minutes. Thanks!
This is by far the very best video I’ve seen on setting up a cell starter. I heard Mike Palmer at the Texas Beekeepers Assn annual meeting a couple of years ago-excellent. Wish I could hear one of your presentations in person as well. Thanks again for the great & informative video.
One last comment...
I have not begun my own bed keeping yet, but this video is certainly encouraging.
Thank you!
This is probably the most satisfying beekeeping video I've ever watched
thank you!😃
Brilliant! Really informative, clear and most useful video, thanks!
Thanks, hope it helps you. 🙌😎🐝
From the quality of the video I assume you have done this for a living! Excellent guidance; you've given me confidence to give it a go.
Richard ok here I go going to give it a try. I’ve just been packing them in a 10 frame box and doing it all in one but like the excluder idea. Put all the brood above excluder. That will prevent them from drawing cells. In 5 days I will flip the queen rite Box put her above double screened board. Above the builder keep her warm while her colony builds cells. Then I can put her box back after done building. We will see. Hope your well Richardson California is warming up. Love your shed by the way. Great work Richard. Read my message from 2 years ago lol, come a long way since then.
Wow I loved the video, I am a bee keeper from Idaho USA and want to do some grafting and raising bees this Spring . I had questions on setting up a cell starter and I loved your method. Very helpful Richard, Thank You!
Loved the step by step instructions! Going to give it a try in the spring!
wow what a beautiful frames of brood !!!
thank you.
Great video and a good solid method for raising quality queens. I never liked queenless cell builders because of the nurse bee issue when grafting cycle after cycle. This is a good solution. I have known queen breeders that keep two hives as one cell builder. One queenless and the other just for nurse bees, but when raising hundreds to thousands of queens this gets costly.
We just went with queenrite builders and we did very well. 80-85% take consistently all season. I believe the main difference is the area we live in. Northern California is a great place to raise queens. We grafted 600 cells per day from February 15th to May 15th for over 30 years. Any other method would just take too much time and resources when operating on that big of a scale.
Great video! I'll try o follow a similar method here in PT for my small bee yard (4 colonies), my plan is to get double next year. Thank you for sharing!
Great video Richard!
I have watched many video's on queen bee production, this one tops them all. Well organized and just enough information. You have given me confidence in going forward in my own program, knowing these simple take a way's. Thank You! -Willj-
Richard, I can't say thank you enough for the awesome video, the best I've seen! Clearly, you are passionate about bees and beekeeping. You did a great job explaining "what" you are doing and the "why". I'm a second-year beekeeper with eleven hives. Next year I'd like to get my hive count up to around twenty five and start selling nucs and bred queens. Thanks again!
Outstanding! Master beekeeping!
thank you!
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. I'm planning on starting beekeeping in 2021 (Retiring in April 😁🐝so we will have the time) and am watching and reading as much as I can in preparation. Have to say the way this video was presented and structured is brilliantly informative and just what we need 👍🏻🐝😁. Thanks again
I really like your video on cell builder explained thanks.
thank you.
I agree, this is the best video on queen rearing I've seen. You cleared up a lot of my confusion from watching other videos on this topic. Thank you for this video.
Well explained i love watching mike palmer, i will be trying to raise my own for the first time this year as last year i expanded from 2 hives to 20
And again I needed this information to do it the right way. Thank you! What an inspiration
Bert Berghoef, beekeeper in the Netherlands
Thanks for your kind words.
Thank you Richard for an excellent video your excitement shows through!!! I love all of Michael Palmer videos and am excited that he will be here in North Carolina next month.
Well produced and explained. This process can seem complicated when trying it the first time. I've seen Michael speak and you further simplified the explanation.
Thank you Sir. Second year beekeeper here from Atlanta. Queen rearing is my next step. A sustainable apiary without buying Queens is my goal.
Appreciate your information.
Such a great video. Thank you for the time and effort you have put into making this highly educational and inspiring tutorial. Hope all is well in Northern France.
This has helped me so much thank you. This tape saved me so much money, it is simple enough for anyone to understand. Please put out one on treatment.
Awesome tutorial! Very encouraging too. Thanks for the insight.
Very good and informative video 👍
Great video, i watched it 3 times already and will watch again no doubt.
Gave me homey bee boxs
Absolutely fascinating.
thanks.
Brilliant video Richard, I am going to try this this year for my first go and Queen rearing.
Thanks Fin. I am doing a full presentation for Cambridgshire beekeepers end of feb so if you want a better presentation stay tuned! I will post it to you. Thanks for your kind words!
@@richardnoel3141 I’d love that please mate! I spoke to our club president yesterday about asking if we could ask you to do a zoom presentation for us? It would obviously have to go through the rest of committee but I thought I’d ask anyway. Hope that’s ok with you as not sure if you’re offering this to other associations or not?
Very good video thank you for sharing
Great video. I'm allergic to bloody bees but i found this fascinating. Cheers from Melbourne Australia
Thank you for sharing.
Hello,
Sir, you made my day. best video ever. Thanks a lot for this material! Big Love from Romania.
You are very welcome. wishing you a great season in 2021 with lots of big juicy queen cells!
You are fun to listen to. I've watched tons of videos on beekeeping and most of the beekepers are droning on and on (No pun intended) about this and that and it is so boring you lose attention quite quickly. This is not your case, so thank you very much! :D
thanks very much, glad you find it interesting. i like to keep it informative.😃
Well done Richard,
Thanks for sharing.
Great job, Richard. I will be doing something very similar next year, so thanks for the tips!
Great video! Your explanation of the process was very easy to understand. This video will be a great reference to help me grow my operation. Thank you for sharing.
Flatwoods Bee Farm thank you. Good luck with this season ! 👍🐝🐝🐝
Nice.... Watching here in the Philippines
Brilliant - thanks for sharing this video - Preparing for 2019 now ....
Edevaldo apicultor ✌️✌️👍👍👍👍👍👍
Should have prepared for 2020
I was in France last summer. We didn't go to Brittany, but we did have some Calvados from Brittany.
Fantastic video. I have met MP and also used his methods, slightly modified to use Nicot cage, due to my poor vision.
Thanks for sharing.
Extremely helpful explanation, thank you
This is absolutely the best video I've seen, finally someone that has explained Mike Palmer method in great detail. Please make a video on how you build your finisher hives. Also a video on how to graft if its possible.
Charles Thomas many thanks for your kind comments! I had it in mind to do a video on m’y finishers, but it won’t be until next spring now! Will see what I can do, but come spring you just have very little time until the fall! Regards.
really like your videos and the info on the drone production towards the end of this one ... a lot of videos leave that out, very informative thank you for taking the time,
jonathan walker thanks for your kind comments!🐝🤓👍😎
Richard, that was absolutely fascinating. Thank u sooo much for sharing! Made me think that maybe this is something I could do and actually be able to retire someday!!! 😁
This is the best video on queen rearing I've seen so far! Thanks for taking the time to make it! I've watched a lot of Mike Palmer's presentations and this video shed more light on what he has been explaining. Getting my materials ready for next season now.
What breed of bees do you have? They shake off the frames surprisingly easy. I have Italians and carnica, and neither let go of the comb that easily.
Hi, thanks for your kind comments. ok we use a F1 Buckfast cross, but as i said in the video they can be a little feisty at the start but generally they arent too bad. dont forget your getting a colony to swarming point. and your adding thousands of nurse bees that cant even fly yet! so their not that great at hanging on to the frames. Also i shake them hard lol
Hope you have a good season.
This is an outstanding video in every way!! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for the video. You made a great presentation! Wish you all the best.
Great information and well presented. Thanks
Good explanation
Great source of information! Thank you for sharing.
you are a legend brother...
This video is amazing and looks that you putted a lot of thought and heart into it.
Im not into the bees bizz but I can surelly tell you that you changed my thought about it and I love it!
Thank you again!
Much Love!
Awesome video!!!
great video! learning so much from you and Michael Palmer. A lot to grasp
Very well explained, great video!
Whatta energy! Thank you for the detailed explanation!
He is like the Gordan Ramsay of beekeeping
Love your system.Thanks so much for sharing.
Just found your channel richard. Bloody great video, very informative mate. Thank you 👍
Well done Richard good video thank
you
Great. Video! Thank you for the hard work!
Very good video, lots of good information, thanks..
Excellent!
thank you!
Great Video. I"m thinking about getting into bees. Trying to decide if we are going to change locations first. Have to admit your bees (the volume of them) were intimidating to me. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.
Hello Fred, this colony does look a bit intimidating, yes i agree, but its about the strongest you ever see a colony of bees, so dont worry about that. We make this artificially strong by adding more bees via unhatched brood, this then gives an even stronger response when we remove the queen. EWere maximising what the bees can do, only naturally!
Thank you so much a lot of info
thanks your welcome.
I like your videos. You have the right stuff. I see that you are true. Im in Dominican Republic with over 200 bee boxes and growing. Would love to speak or meet!
Uma maravilha de trabalho os meus parabéns
Fantastic Video,Thank You
This is the very best explained and examples given, on this subject that I have ever watched!! Thank you so much for posting this.. I do have a question and I am new to bee keeping. When you moved the queen right hive over and added the new base for the nurse bees, what type bottom board was that, that you used. Was that a queen excluder bottom or simply some type of screen bottom board? Again thank you for posting !! Sincerely, Phillip Hall
phillip hall thanks for your kind words! It’s standard Dadant base! In France the 10 frames Dadant hive is pretty standard! This is just a plastic vase made by “Nocot” (or Nicoplast) injection moulded and I have to say their fantastic! No rot, can be sterilised! Lightweight and cheap
What’s not to
Like !
💥👌🏻🐝🐝🐝
FIVE STAR VIDEO! Excellent content, organization and photography make this a valuable learning aid. Keep your eyes open, he shows several tricks he does not mention in the narrative, i.e., masking tape on the shaker box. Thank you for taking the time to share. :)
but he did mention the masking tape on the shaker box.
Thank you that was very interesting
glad you enjoyed it! thanks
great video
We only have Killer Bees here in Arizona! They are meaner than hell! Killer Bee Guy here! Did you know that Killer Bee honey is the same as any other honey? It is the nectar source that matters.
Excellent mate! Thank you!
Well Done Richard
Thank you
This was excellent! Thanks
Passionate!!
Very nice
Amazing! I just subscribed and a follower now.
@@Acetop108 thank you
Dear Richard, thank you very much for this compehensive way of putting Mike Palmers "Theory" in action. I learned a lot from your video and I also admire the committment (Herzblut = heartblood, as we say) you are showing when speaking about your work. Definitely subscribed to your channel! Just one question in the end: Would it be also Ok to use the starter as finisher (after giving back the broodchamber as to make it queenright and put a queen excluder in between?). Kind regards and hello from the Lüneburger Heide (heath) in germany, Chris
Hi Chris, thanks for your kind words. Yes of course you can, the whole process of making this video is to show the biology behind this so you can make changes to suit you if you wish!
Once you understand the process there are many ways you can use this huge colony of nurse bees!
I’ve done a follow up video called “the cell builder explained”questions and answers”
It explains how you can use different configurations if you do wish.
Here’s the link:ruclips.net/video/yppRnZvn9oM/видео.html
Let me know how you get on!
Have fun! If it isn’t fun your doing it wrong!!🤘👍😊🐝🐝🐝