I have good luck doing OTS on wax foundation pulled frames then cutting cells prior to emergence and putting them into nucs. Save me from having to graft, can't see very well anymore. I have gotten 8-10 new queens doing this.
I wanted to ask... let's say you do a few batches of this type of queen rearing with the frame going back to the original position it was in with regards to box order, and then compared batches of the queen rearing ots frame going to a different position within the box... Would the success rate differ on how many queens are successful between them? Thanks.
yes, you should only leave one or two cells. if you leave more than that then the virgins may swarm off. ive had this happen once or twice as its not hard to miss queen cells
Awesome 👍. I just figured out I have a hive with two queens by watching my video.
Great news!!
I have good luck doing OTS on wax foundation pulled frames then cutting cells prior to emergence and putting them into nucs. Save me from having to graft, can't see very well anymore. I have gotten 8-10 new queens doing this.
Nice job!
Awesome! Probably already know, I'm a big OTS fan. I'm not trying to do anything commercial and it still makes more queens than I need.
I need to do a video on how i get extra queens via ots. It works pretty good
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I wanted to ask... let's say you do a few batches of this type of queen rearing with the frame going back to the original position it was in with regards to box order, and then compared batches of the queen rearing ots frame going to a different position within the box...
Would the success rate differ on how many queens are successful between them?
Thanks.
Will notching work with a queen in the hive, like the vids.
No it wouldn’t as they don’t have the emergency need to replace her
Will they swarm if you leave the cells on the frame?
yes, you should only leave one or two cells. if you leave more than that then the virgins may swarm off. ive had this happen once or twice as its not hard to miss queen cells
@@decaturridgebees8761 Thanks!