Absolutely love your simplicity on making queens Bob. You are an absolute treasure of knowledge and I've been doing this for 7 years and learn something new from each of your videos. I truly appreciate your time and effort of your crew to show things! God bless you and yours!
Hi Bob, there’s a reason why so many people appreciate your videos. You are an excellent source of knowledge and have many years experience that shows by your work. Thank you for sharing as always.
Love the added drone brood frames. Personally a lot of people like to yank them out these days and destroy the brood or give it to the chickens, but even though that does help against varroa. I really believe that having loads of drones is way better in the long term in terms of sperm quality in terms of well mated tQueens in terms of longevity of the Queen laying . I agree with you completely. Lovely to see the crew grafting again I can see you’re all got that spring buzz about you. We are dogged down with the weather, system after weather system at the moment and I’m struggling to get boxes out onto Bees. Thanks for the video it’s give me a bit of encouragement LOL.🫶🙌😎 🐝
$275 for one of those singles is a great deal! Slap on a few supers and any of them can easily make enough honey to pay for themselves. Great work, Bob! I just came back from Las Vegas. It sad to see that so much hard work went into each hive and they are only $275 each. A stupid drink from a bar can easily be $20 each. Stupid hand bags? thousands!! What's wrong with this world?
When you said that other video of yours had 350+k views at least a dozen of those views are mine I rewatch it numerous times when I’m attempting queen rearing.
You could start your cells with the queen excluder, no need to block pheromone with a double screen board. As long as the queen is not walking around the frames surrounding the graft , I’ve seen no difference in take. It’s saved me a lot of workload in the cell builder yard.
I really like how you prep your singles for sale/travel, gives them lost of air. 😂I'd love yo buy your singles Bob, feel like taking a trip back to the NW for a visit.😁Have a great Easter Bob and Crew.
Rather interesting and another definite learning process as to Bees and Queens and Beehives. As always Thank You for sharing in your wealth of knowledge!
I recently ordered 5 open mated Caucasian queens from Mr. Shibu. Not sure I’m ready to bite off buying a breeder just yet and grafting, especially with my crazy work schedule but I definitely want to trend towards the heavier Caucasian genetics in my operation. I really appreciate all the videos and information you have put out, it has been a huge help in learning to keep bees. I owe you and several others on here a huge thank you!
Hello Bob. I'm glad to see Jesse in the bee yard. The queens I bought from you last July. Are some of the most gentle bees I've ever worked, In my opinion. That's a good price on those singles. Happy Easter.
Thanks Bob, for the video. It certainly is important to check for rogue queen cells in your cell builders during the process. I must have missed a frame and I watched one of my cell builders from a previous round of grafts swarm yesterday! Luckily, I was able to capture the swarm fairly easily.
@user-um6vp8th4f g Bob, your simplicity in teaching queens is treasured. I've learned from your videos for 7 years and always find something new. Thank you and your crew for your efforts. God bless you
We are finall breaking free of winter Feed and pollen inside of the winter wraps are the plan for the next week The Weatherman has promissed 2 weaks of beautiful weather 😅
I tried using your methods queen rearing worked pretty good. Had the queen crawl back once think I took to many bees from her . Going to try it with 3 food frame and feeder only see that works as well..
Another great video! I must admit that probably 10,000 or so of the views on the Queen Rearing video are from me! I have seen some weather forecasts for the next several days predicting some significant snow in my area and as far south as the northeast corner of Georgia, not sure if you will see much of wintery weather as some of us in south-central Kentucky, but how would that affect your queen rearing? I had planned to graft this week but have postponed due to the threat of severe weather and then the wintry snap. Thanks for the wealth of information!
I don’t rear many queens, I only run about 20 colonies and try to raise 10-15 nucs during the summer. I absolutely love this method of queen rearing and have to review the video each year before starting.
Bob, in using those frame feeders, and the various manipulations that you do with colonies, making splits, building nucs, finding deadouts, etc, do you ever end up with a feeder with a significant amount of syrup in it and no hive to put it on? If so, what do you do with it? They are not very easy to transport, store, or even pour into something else. I've resorted to just setting them out for open feeding, which isn't always the best thing to do.
Happy Easter Bob & Blue Ridge Honey Co, and thanks for the video! Have you considered a handheld battery powered strapping tool? There are some pricey versions out there, but also some eBay knockoffs as well. Not sure how much you use it and if it would be worth the investment for your situation, but it would sure beat having to hump 50+ lb boxes to a machine!
Hey Bob, your spacing between frames must be off, I never had problems with 36mm wide Hoffman spacing frames and drone brood, however, I only use wax foundation and the strong colonies usually modify the foundations so that they can build drone comb on the edges of their nests, I guess with plastic foundation they have to fill the worker foundation and draw it farther out.
Hi, Bob.I'm getting 2 packages of bees on saturday. I have a lot of small critters here in northern california and I was wondering if I can put my beehives in a ten by fifteen foot dog run that is chain link fence five feet high with no roof. With this obstruct the bees flight.
Hey Bob looks like some good success with the first graft. I am in Maryland and am trying to decide when will be a good time to graft I will be using your method with the double screen board. What type of temperatures at night do you like to see before you graft or is it mostly the size of the colony and the drone population that decide the time when you will graft?
Good morning, Bob I have been watching ur program from a longtime.i have been doing bees for 5 years we have 200 hives,so one of my question is when u feed bees sugar syrup do u have to alway have pollen patty
275. wow I wish I lived close to you. Nukes here now are that price. Enjoyed your video. 1 question if you do not mind, why do u put the queen on the bottom is that more for convince. Thanks, Happy Easter have a Blessed day
I think I've watched the queen video at least 20 times myself. I've also sent the link to lots of people curious about the process. I like your hive stands in the queen yard. What do you use to make them? are they landscape timber? What do you do to keep the wood from getting eaten by termites etc?
We do them all so any one of them could be used on the ground. These typical landscape timbers tend to rot in a short time unless we dip them, even though they are pressure treated. @@brianchrisman4331
Good morning Bob,my name is Keith. I'm from Caribbean Island of Jamaica. I do bees my question is how can i store comb without damaging them. I don't have a cooler
I've done both. Grafting into a queenrite double deep with the queen below an excluder will work but using a strong queenless starter box full of young bees or the method we use tends to give better cells in my opinion.
Bob, You think its ok to go ahead and make my cells builders and graft even though we're going to have 3 or 4 nights in the 30's at the end of this week? After that little cold spell it looks to be warm weather. Southeastern Ky
Bob, are you still selling queen cells in 2024? Last year required payment 2 weeks in advance, so you could plan for the extras. Was looking at picking up on the 17th….so getting close to the deadline :). Office didn’t seem sure when my wife dropped in. Thanks
I got queens from Chris for making nucs and packages but John isn't producing queens this season. These cells will be for our own increase and replacement.
Every year is less as we slowly decrease our colony numbers. At on time it was 4 semi loads of granulated sugar that we mix ourselves. This year I expect to use less than 2.
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Absolutely love your simplicity on making queens Bob. You are an absolute treasure of knowledge and I've been doing this for 7 years and learn something new from each of your videos. I truly appreciate your time and effort of your crew to show things! God bless you and yours!
Thank you.
Hi Bob, there’s a reason why so many people appreciate your videos. You are an excellent source of knowledge and have many years experience that shows by your work. Thank you for sharing as always.
AND his delivery of this knowledge is concise!! That's very important in these days with fewer hours.
Love the added drone brood frames. Personally a lot of people like to yank them out these days and destroy the brood or give it to the chickens, but even though that does help against varroa. I really believe that having loads of drones is way better in the long term in terms of sperm quality in terms of well mated tQueens in terms of longevity of the Queen laying . I agree with you completely. Lovely to see the crew grafting again I can see you’re all got that spring buzz about you. We are dogged down with the weather, system after weather system at the moment and I’m struggling to get boxes out onto Bees. Thanks for the video it’s give me a bit of encouragement LOL.🫶🙌😎 🐝
Thanks and good luck this season.
$275 for one of those singles is a great deal! Slap on a few supers and any of them can easily make enough honey to pay for themselves. Great work, Bob!
I just came back from Las Vegas. It sad to see that so much hard work went into each hive and they are only $275 each. A stupid drink from a bar can easily be $20 each. Stupid hand bags? thousands!! What's wrong with this world?
Your queen rearing video is by far the best on RUclips. I send all my Nuc customers a link to watch all of your videos before they pick up nucs
360,000 views .. Im guilty of for about 50 of those views 😂 I watch it just before I make queens each time…. Happy Easter Sunday
Same here!
When you said that other video of yours had 350+k views at least a dozen of those views are mine I rewatch it numerous times when I’m attempting queen rearing.
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Your queen rearing video is what got me to take the plunge and produce queens, Thank you for your knowledge.
I use your method and it works amazingly!!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge Bob!!!
Excellent price on those singles. Thanks for sharing Bob!
No idea how many times I’ve watched the queen rearing video. Went to that method this year and my queens are looking great.
Always good to see bob and the gang.
You could start your cells with the queen excluder, no need to block pheromone with a double screen board. As long as the queen is not walking around the frames surrounding the graft , I’ve seen no difference in take. It’s saved me a lot of workload in the cell builder yard.
Hello Your videos are the best. Look forward too next weeks video every week.
I really like how you prep your singles for sale/travel, gives them lost of air. 😂I'd love yo buy your singles Bob, feel like taking a trip back to the NW for a visit.😁Have a great Easter Bob and Crew.
So easy. No cloak board. No grafting box. Easy Peasy.
Happy Easter everyone
Happy Easter to you and your family and your crew. Thanks for sharing Bob!
Rather interesting and another definite learning process as to Bees and Queens and Beehives. As always Thank You for sharing in your wealth of knowledge!
I recently ordered 5 open mated Caucasian queens from Mr. Shibu. Not sure I’m ready to bite off buying a breeder just yet and grafting, especially with my crazy work schedule but I definitely want to trend towards the heavier Caucasian genetics in my operation. I really appreciate all the videos and information you have put out, it has been a huge help in learning to keep bees. I owe you and several others on here a huge thank you!
Hello Bob. I'm glad to see Jesse in the bee yard. The queens I bought from you last July. Are some of the most gentle bees I've ever worked, In my opinion. That's a good price on those singles. Happy Easter.
Thanks Mark and Happy Easter to you.
I look forward to ordering queens in the next few weeks.
Your cool dude 🎉 I want to start soon will get evidence
Thanks Bob, for the video. It certainly is important to check for rogue queen cells in your cell builders during the process. I must have missed a frame and I watched one of my cell builders from a previous round of grafts swarm yesterday! Luckily, I was able to capture the swarm fairly easily.
Always great videos 👍
Happy Easter Bob and crew.
Happy Easter To you Guys Bob. I’m going to try some Queens this season. Thanks for all your time and thoughts.
Great video and demo Bob.
@user-um6vp8th4f g Bob, your simplicity in teaching queens is treasured. I've learned from your videos for 7 years and always find something new. Thank you and your crew for your efforts. God bless you
We are finall breaking free of winter
Feed and pollen inside of the winter wraps are the plan for the next week
The Weatherman has promissed 2 weaks of beautiful weather 😅
I tried using your methods queen rearing worked pretty good. Had the queen crawl back once think I took to many bees from her . Going to try it with 3 food frame and feeder only see that works as well..
Good Morning Bob and Happy Easter to you and your crew !
Good morning sir and the same to you!
Good morning Mr Binnie and crew, happy Easter.
Hi Bob, Thank you for another great video.
I'm looking forward to meeting you at our April bee club here in Haywood county.
See you tomorrow night. Looking forward to it.
97% take that's great work.
Sounds like good price
Another great video! I must admit that probably 10,000 or so of the views on the Queen Rearing video are from me!
I have seen some weather forecasts for the next several days predicting some significant snow in my area and as far south as the northeast corner of Georgia, not sure if you will see much of wintery weather as some of us in south-central Kentucky, but how would that affect your queen rearing? I had planned to graft this week but have postponed due to the threat of severe weather and then the wintry snap. Thanks for the wealth of information!
It sounds like you made the right choice. Cool weather works but what you're describing in your area probably won't work to well.
I don’t rear many queens, I only run about 20 colonies and try to raise 10-15 nucs during the summer. I absolutely love this method of queen rearing and have to review the video each year before starting.
Bob, in using those frame feeders, and the various manipulations that you do with colonies, making splits, building nucs, finding deadouts, etc, do you ever end up with a feeder with a significant amount of syrup in it and no hive to put it on? If so, what do you do with it? They are not very easy to transport, store, or even pour into something else. I've resorted to just setting them out for open feeding, which isn't always the best thing to do.
That’s a good price for a single, a nuc is 225$ by me I was thinking i want to sell 5 over full singles but I want to keep my box lid and bottom
I’d like to buy some singles next year.
Contact us in December.
Happy Easter Bob & Blue Ridge Honey Co, and thanks for the video! Have you considered a handheld battery powered strapping tool? There are some pricey versions out there, but also some eBay knockoffs as well. Not sure how much you use it and if it would be worth the investment for your situation, but it would sure beat having to hump 50+ lb boxes to a machine!
We have considered it. Might get one.
Hey Bob, your spacing between frames must be off, I never had problems with 36mm wide Hoffman spacing frames and drone brood, however, I only use wax foundation and the strong colonies usually modify the foundations so that they can build drone comb on the edges of their nests, I guess with plastic foundation they have to fill the worker foundation and draw it farther out.
I grafted yesterday.
Beaut graft frame
Great video! Is the roof so high bcs of otherwise the bees get sort of stuck underneath it?
It gives us more light.
Hi, Bob.I'm getting 2 packages of bees on saturday. I have a lot of small critters here in northern california and I was wondering if I can put my beehives in a ten by fifteen foot dog run that is chain link fence five feet high with no roof. With this obstruct the bees flight.
Hey Bob looks like some good success with the first graft. I am in Maryland and am trying to decide when will be a good time to graft I will be using your method with the double screen board. What type of temperatures at night do you like to see before you graft or is it mostly the size of the colony and the drone population that decide the time when you will graft?
Mostly the colonies and the drones. A strong cell builder will do it in cool weather.
It's not a easy process to get things like those in Jamaica, sometimes I watch utube to get a home made patty ,but I still haven't found one yet
Bob what do you do to keep skunks out.Thank you,good cell take
Email me that question. Address is on the "about" page.
Good morning, Bob I have been watching ur program from a longtime.i have been doing bees for 5 years we have 200 hives,so one of my question is when u feed bees sugar syrup do u have to alway have pollen patty
I rarely use pollen patties. It can be problematic with hive beetles in our area.
On the hives under roof, were they mean because you worked on them on a rainy day? Thanks
They weren't as bad as I expected.
275. wow I wish I lived close to you. Nukes here now are that price. Enjoyed your video. 1 question if you do not mind, why do u put the queen on the bottom is that more for convince. Thanks, Happy Easter have a Blessed day
Yes. Once she's on the bottom it's easy to work the top.
I did mine last week small business 7 👑 queen's birthday today OK one love sir Bob you and your wonderful working team for 🧓 senore
I think I've watched the queen video at least 20 times myself. I've also sent the link to lots of people curious about the process. I like your hive stands in the queen yard. What do you use to make them? are they landscape timber? What do you do to keep the wood from getting eaten by termites etc?
Thanks. Yes, they're landscape timbers and we also dip them in a combination of diesel fuel and used motor oil to get more life out of them.
@@bobbinnie9872 is that a 50-50 blend?
Yes@@brianchrisman4331
@@bobbinnie9872 ok Bob one more question (I swear). Do you do all the boards? Or just the bottom one that touches the ground?
We do them all so any one of them could be used on the ground. These typical landscape timbers tend to rot in a short time unless we dip them, even though they are pressure treated. @@brianchrisman4331
Good morning Bob,my name is Keith. I'm from Caribbean Island of Jamaica. I do bees my question is how can i store comb without damaging them. I don't have a cooler
Wax moth crystals can be purchased from most major beekeeping supply catalogs. Dadant and Mann Lake should have them.
Why do people use seperate starter boxes when grafting? Whats the reason for not just doing the whole process in a strong double deep?
I've done both. Grafting into a queenrite double deep with the queen below an excluder will work but using a strong queenless starter box full of young bees or the method we use tends to give better cells in my opinion.
Are you scheduled to come to Greenville Tn in August
Yes, looking forward to it.
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That’s a good price on singles surprised you don’t have more orders
We turned down many potential orders even though we're selling about 450 colonies this spring.
@@bobbinnie9872 that’s quite a few to move
Bob, You think its ok to go ahead and make my cells builders and graft even though we're going to have 3 or 4 nights in the 30's at the end of this week? After that little cold spell it looks to be warm weather. Southeastern Ky
If it's strong enough it will work.
2 is 1 and 1 is none.
Bob, are you still selling queen cells in 2024? Last year required payment 2 weeks in advance, so you could plan for the extras. Was looking at picking up on the 17th….so getting close to the deadline :). Office didn’t seem sure when my wife dropped in. Thanks
Sorry, we are sold out of queens for this season.
Bob you're not getting your Queens anymore from John Knox and Chris Warner.
I got queens from Chris for making nucs and packages but John isn't producing queens this season. These cells will be for our own increase and replacement.
Bob i really want to know how much syrup you have to produce for an operation of your size
Every year is less as we slowly decrease our colony numbers. At on time it was 4 semi loads of granulated sugar that we mix ourselves. This year I expect to use less than 2.
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what is bee bread??
Bee bread is what the bees process pollen into. When you see what looks like pollen packed into a comb it can be called bee bread.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you soo much sir
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Great video hope you have a wonderful Easter god bless everyone