An excellent way to build nucs and produce a bigger honey crop at the same time...since I winter everything with two brood boxes to accomodate more bees and allow for pollen storage in the bottom brood chamber- on the second honey pull which for me is sometime in the fourth week of July, I add the second brood chamber to give the queen 6 more frames to brood in...but anyway you slice it...these nucs working together build up well and produce lots of honey, my dual 6 frame two queen colonies going over 400 and some pounds last season...love the two queen system!
After many years of keeping bees and talking with other beekeepers I often have to ask myself how we all manage to keep upright. I mean with the enormous giant noggins we all have it's a miracle that we don't all fall over.
Hi Ian, I am wondering if you have ever put a queen cell in one of the nucs? Will the bees leave Her alone and let Her mate and return and start laying. I would put Her in the middle with the opening opposing the other two entrances. I am so excited to try this technique. Thanks Ian!!!
How do you overcome the swarm instinct? When you say "when she demands more room to lay, they move the resources up" why don't they simply decide, "We're out of space, let's go somewhere else?"
Ian, I am making some of these to try next season. I haven't built the bottom board yet, I see that your bottom board rim seems to be at least 2-3 inches tall. What is the reason for this and how big is it? Is it there because when you pull the honey there needs to be a place for the bees to cluster? Is it related to winter cluster/feed space? I very much appreciate these videos.
I realise that this was produced last year, but I can't find a follow-up for winterizing the nucs. How do you set up your multi queen hives for winter? Six frames isn't enough resources for the winter (at least not out East in Southern Quebec).
why do you not have any top entrances or any entrances in the full supers? no inner cover? not even the rona stuff is on those? wouldn't entrances allow the bees to get in quicker with the honey?
Interesting and novel concept...but I don't see the advantage over a multiple full size 10 frame colony...I've heard beekeepers in my area set up tandem colonies using the same honey supers and their yields weren't any bigger than our unlimited brood nest single stack colonies...
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog Thanks, I just wanted to know if u switch supers, to have empty space under brood nest! Still i got the main idea, again thnx for sharing info!
If I'm understanding you right, in a previous video "Supering up for the Honey Pull" there was a comment on this and Ian replied that he only adds to the top of the colony stack he doesn't put the empty super on the bottom brooding box and shift the other ones upwards. So not Brood, newly added Super2, existing Super1 but Brood, existing Super1, newly added Super2 and so on up …
An excellent way to build nucs and produce a bigger honey crop at the same time...since I winter everything with two brood boxes to accomodate more bees and allow for pollen storage in the bottom brood chamber- on the second honey pull which for me is sometime in the fourth week of July, I add the second brood chamber to give the queen 6 more frames to brood in...but anyway you slice it...these nucs working together build up well and produce lots of honey, my dual 6 frame two queen colonies going over 400 and some pounds last season...love the two queen system!
After many years of keeping bees and talking with other beekeepers I often have to ask myself how we all manage to keep upright. I mean with the enormous giant noggins we all have it's a miracle that we don't all fall over.
Mike Ries 😂I just thought you had swelled heads! Lol💝
Hi Ian, I am wondering if you have ever put a queen cell in one of the nucs? Will the bees leave Her alone and let Her mate and return and start laying. I would put Her in the middle with the opening opposing the other two entrances. I am so excited to try this technique. Thanks Ian!!!
How do you overcome the swarm instinct? When you say "when she demands more room to lay, they move the resources up" why don't they simply decide, "We're out of space, let's go somewhere else?"
Super smart method. I’ll have to build some 6 frame nucs and try it next season.
Please share what you've learnt adopting it.
Just amazing. I had a brain fart. If one colony decided to rob the other who gets the honey? Lol
Ian, I am making some of these to try next season. I haven't built the bottom board yet, I see that your bottom board rim seems to be at least 2-3 inches tall. What is the reason for this and how big is it? Is it there because when you pull the honey there needs to be a place for the bees to cluster? Is it related to winter cluster/feed space? I very much appreciate these videos.
Quiney Honey and Bee
These are sloped bottom boards. Not. Necessary but nice for setting Out nucs for mating and not needing to fuss over slope
I realise that this was produced last year, but I can't find a follow-up for winterizing the nucs. How do you set up your multi queen hives for winter? Six frames isn't enough resources for the winter (at least not out East in Southern Quebec).
How does the triple queen production over the year compare to the single queen hives you keep?
This technique is amazing...🐝
СПАСИБО ОТ ПЧЕЛОВОДОВ ИЗ РОССИИ. (THANK YOU FROM BEEKEEPERS FROM RUSSIA.)
So you have three queens one for each broad box? Thanks Tim
I double I'll get an answer on a 4-yr old vid! But how do you overwinter these?
Nice video sir.will you tell me.I can work in canada. I m experience bee keeper.beekeeping is my hobby.
why do you not have any top entrances or any entrances in the full supers? no inner cover? not even the rona stuff is on those? wouldn't entrances allow the bees to get in quicker with the honey?
Hi, appolgies for my ignorance but what happens in the middle bottom box?
I there a back entrance?
how do you get comb buildup?
Pretty slick idear
thanks Ian! is here any extra management/concerns during a dearth or do they continue to cooperate normally?
Ian - noticed when you replaced the upper box - you put it on the wrong stack. how did this effect the hives?
S Kel
Lol, I didn’t notice,
They are all mingled anyway do it would mean nothing but a bit disorientation
Interesting and novel concept...but I don't see the advantage over a multiple full size 10 frame colony...I've heard beekeepers in my area set up tandem colonies using the same honey supers and their yields weren't any bigger than our unlimited brood nest single stack colonies...
BeeFriendlyApiary you get quickly built up nucs and 33% more honey. What a mess during a cold winter
How do you make them accept plastic frames well?
Hello. This nucs were made last year?
Nice!
Only works like that on a honey flow... honey stops they will kill the 2 other queen's.
Are the nuc boxes standard size (mann lake)? Or are they custom built for you?
Bill Steely
www.lewisandsons.ca/
Why is entrance reducer so big
We need folder for multi queen in your channel *_please_*
3 queens per 2 hives would imply 33% higher yield would it not?
michael pearce
Consider these are June nucs, freshly mated, so whether they will produce more or not, I say yes, others say no
Quantas rainhas aí tem Bessa colmeia
How wide are your 6 frame nucs?
Am i correct, that you will replace super #1, so it will be nest-super#2-super#1, or i misunderstood you?
Good luck with honey crop
Алексей 127
Not with these nucs
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog but in general do u do this work with nucs?
Алексей 127
I don’t completely understand the question but I generally manage nucs only in its one brood box and share space uptop
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog Thanks, I just wanted to know if u switch supers, to have empty space under brood nest! Still i got the main idea, again thnx for sharing info!
If I'm understanding you right, in a previous video "Supering up for the Honey Pull" there was a comment on this and Ian replied that he only adds to the top of the colony stack he doesn't put the empty super on the bottom brooding box and shift the other ones upwards. So not Brood, newly added Super2, existing Super1 but Brood, existing Super1, newly added Super2 and so on up …
One ou tri rainhas na box
Beni anlayan varmi?bana bu duzeni anlatirsa super olurdu
3 tane 6 çerçeveli kovan altta. 3 analı sistem üzerinde ana arı ızgarası var. Ballıklar 10 çerçeveli standart kovan katı.
looks pretty weak ...