Beekeeping: Stop Buying Bees Series Pt.3
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- Опубликовано: 19 фев 2023
- Hello and welcome back to our series on Stop Buying bees. This series will enhance the novice beekeeper's knowledge in queen rearing, making splits, feeding bees etc.. The list goes on and on. In Pt. 3 we show hive manipulations to afford us the ability to set up a cell starter and finisher. We also show grafting larvae and placing the frame back into the cell starter. We continue to try and save one of the original 2 colonies that came out of winter with a drone laying queen. You will certainly want to follow along if you are new to beekeeping or splitting colonies and raising queens. We appreciate you watching and Happy Beekeeping.
going into winter of 2023, see binge watching this series to be ready to expand in 2024. Im tired of buying coastal queens and only have half my starter hives make it to fall, then loose more over winter. Need my own Missouri queen cells!
Yes! If you can raise queens and control mites you will be self sustainable. Thanks for watching
Awesome information. You should add this series to a play list.
Great video...
Thank you
I have no idea, but I'm following along and trying to learn. Thanks So much!!
Thank you bud
Excellent!
Thank you 🙏
Did my first serious attempt at making queens and splits last year. Out of 16 nucs, 12 took off and are still alive as of this post, bringing my total number of hives to 15. I will probably buy queens for genetic variety, but for the most part its "buy your gear, build your bees" :)
Absolutely. Buy equipment and build bees it the best way
Looks like it will work to me. 👍
Thanks 🙏
Enjoyed the video. I think the cell will be the ticket to success. Thanks. Take care.
I think that’s going to be the only way. Fingers crossed
Haven't bought bees in 8 years. Went from 8 hives to 20 in 2 years.
Could've done it faster, but decided to be cautious.
Great video! Thanks for showing how to graft for just a few queens.
Thanks for watching
Great job, looking forward to the next video!!!!!!!! Glad I came across your series!!!!!
Thank you for watching! We have been wanting to do this for a while. We will hopefully have pt. 4 out tomorrow.
Yes, I have had to do that a few times
I think it will be the ticket
Hey, just Subbed!
Tip:
Brushing Bees...
Turn Frame upside down, Brush Bees off. Why you ask ?
Well, by doing this, Bees get brushed out of Cell Entrance(s) rather than Brushed/Bashed (into a correct way up frame : Cells are angled upwards to stop Nectar running out etc.)
Get the idea ! 😉
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Happy Beekeeping 2023.
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Saying Hi from a end of Winter here in Scotland 🏴
You made me laugh saying 65f was a 'cold' day. . .
That's our average daily Summer Temperatures almost ! My Bees fly in10C (55F.) 🙃
They are Native Black Bees and are as hard as Nails ! Need to be so with Cold Winds, lots of Rain etc. But they do great even if it isn't like N.C. 😎
Thanks! That’s an awesome tip! Nice to see someone from Scotland checking out our channel. Thanks for subscribing.
Let us know what you think. Do you think the colony will accept the cells even though we didn’t leave them queenless for 24hours?
I think so. They will just ignore it until they realize she is gone.
They accept cells very well
@@paulgroth5414 yes they do
I appreciate you taking us thru this process. I've had bees a couple years now and need to move on to a growth phase.
You’re very welcome. We enjoy it! Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks for watching.
Feed them good keep splitting them and you will get ahead of the game.
@@leandrozuniga5634 we hope so! It’s just going to be tough with the work to be done with all our other colonies
Hello George, I am around the Waterloo IA area, wheres abouts are you?
@@robertstwalley3662- Slater south of Ames not far from Tyler Holton
Great job brother!
Thank you and thanks for watching
Enjoying this process you are doing . I had a colony last season about like your problem hive I put frames of eggs an larva four times an in the fifth time they got it going. I was mostly just playing with it but after turned out that colony really did a great job thru the season . I keep forgetting to ask you what kind of bees do you run ??? . I have been going into all my colonies to see just how they are doing. I may have to start adding boxes on a few of them . I am not really wanting to add to many more colonies to my operation. Looking forward to the rest of your videos. Thanks
Thanks Kathy! Yea I bet they are building up like crazy. That one colony has been stubborn for sure. Hopefully we will get it straightened out soon. Thanks for watching and hope you have a wonderful season.
Yes I believe they will accept the grafted cells even though you didn't wait 24 hours. They will realize they are queenless really quick and when they do, the cells are in there and ready.
You are correct! They absolutely will. Check out the short we posted they are working them already. Thanks for watching.
I see US base 'Barnyard Bees' does this too. Must be a warm State thing.
Might give it a go here across the Pond (!) Most folk, do wait the 24hrs. I see an experiment trial come May. Fingers crossed. 🤞
There is something going on with the hive not raising a queen. Perhaps a virgin is running around? If not, I would combine them before splitting to get them straightened out. Then split and add a qc.
Yes! Not sure what? I’ve been through the colony over and over and can’t find a queen. No brood except what I give them. That would be a good way of doing it.
Thanks for this video. Where is th follow up of the results?
There is a snippet of the cell acceptance on our shorts. But Pt. 4 will be out tonight @ 5pm eastern time. Thanks for watching
PS : Question :
Saw you turn the Frame Upside Down 'to Graft from'.
Does this make Larvae transfer (process) easier ? Many YT Vids on Grafting have Frame regular way up... 👀
Want to increase my Skill set and "Graft" some Queens, this year, in May*, over Walk Away Splits.
*Here in Scotland 🏴 Drones are definitely Mature by May !
We still get cold wet weather even as late as end of April. Yikes. Boys in Kilts need warm days ! 😉
It helps me to graft easier without harming the larvae. But others keep the frame upright. Really just what suits you best
is there an advantage to putting the queen right side of the hive on top vs bottom? I would have expected that you would have put the new cells in the top box where the heat ends up. I split 9 to 17 last year just using the double screen board, hoping to begin the grafting process this year and get to 30 to 50 colonies if it goes good.
No real advantage for a small amount of cells. We used the lower box as a starter/finisher since we only needed 5. There were enough bees in each box to keep the brood and cells warm. Typically we would reverse them if we were using the colony as a starter/finisher.
They won't chill at 60 degrees.
how long do you leave the top box with no entrance. Its probably in the next video . Great video's this is just where im at with my bees. Im trying to build up my hive count .
The double screen board has an entrance on the back of the colony. It is open the whole time sorry I wasn't more clear on that.
Enterance Info :
Lower Medium White Box has full Wide Entrance (Front) on that Hive Floor.
Upper Deep Blue Box has a faux floor : "Double Screened Board with a Little Notch cut out Entrance at Back Right. This is an additional Entrance but for top Box use only !" By confusing the Foragers to go into the smaller Brood, it gets more 'population', until they make a Queen Cell. Get a Queen of their own, as she lays up new population !
Screen Board stops the Bees 'passing the Phremones by touch' aka Bee feet can't cross that gap between the Ceiling of lower Box, and, faux floor of that upper Box. That Board has Mesh, a Gap, more Mesh. If no QMP, Bees on side with no Queen, but have "x2 day Larvae" added : they start to make their own "new Queen(s) depending how many Graft Cups, or Notched Wax Cells, the Beek uses, or makes.
Simples ! 😎
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@@mmb_MeAndMyBees well said
How is your drone population for mating after the queen emerges?
We have drones walking on the frames. So we hope we will be ok. May have to repeat the process again, but I think we will be ok.
Do you leave frame feeders in each box all year round?
We do! But empty in winter
Why wouldn't u just pinch the queen and then put a frame of eggs? (In the colony that's queen is faultering)
What glasses are you wearing?
I can’t remember the name. I got them off Amazon for like 20.00 they have a light and multiple lenses.