Don "The Fat Bee Man" Kuchenmeister has been keeping bees for over 50 years! His straight forward and no nonsense approach to beekeeping will be effective and save you money, whether you have 2 hives or 2000!!
Check out his webpage for info on weekly bee chats, beekeeping classes, supplies or to have Don come to your club meeting. www.FatBeeMan.com
Don: Does the Excluder work on the Small Frame Bee Queens? Since the Bees are Smaller, will the Excluder stop the small Frame Queen? I want to try the Cloake Method of Raising Queens. Just for two runs, not long term, and the rest of the Bees will have a Second Entrance above the Excluder for those 2 weeks of that process. Just Curious to know if the Excluder will work on the small frame queens..
I go back and rewatch these old videos. Love it!!! The knowledge that you shared with us!!! I tried grafting, that’s a young person’s game!!! I learned to cut cells from watching your videos and you are right, you will run out of equipment before you run out of cells to cut. I actually use natural combs in a timing box and cut strips of eggs out, make as many cells as you want!!!!🤷🏻 thank you again Don for all the tips
i sell bees wax candles from my capping's after the honey is harvested. would this machine take enough capping's off so i could sell wax by the pound and produce candles . I like the machine but a bit nervous about laying out that kind of money .
Do you set the frames with honey out for the bees to rob or do you harvest? My problem is I treat for mites in my deeps so that honey isn’t edible right?
I seen this video several years ago. When I was in my early twenties I had a man that I was buying my queens from. And I loved it. 5 dollars apiece. I had to give it up because it complicated my life not understanding bees take your money and time when you start. As does everything. Well I’m back and it’s still challenging but I’m more stubborn now than then. I’ve always remember one man up front above everyone else. The queen man. I didn’t understand what he was teaching me would still be with me today. We now call them mentors and a friend. I’m back in and this year I’m starting getting into raising my own queens. But I’m still not able to be as free as I’d like to be but I’m trying to be. Thanks for doing your video i didn’t realize it was you that made it. No telling how many times I thought of it. Lord bless and keep thanks.
Wouldn't it be easier to make a two-frame nuc? Then you could use a standard frame. You could take a frame of honey or empty comb and put it in the two-frame nuc.
What is roughly the percentage rate of mated queens? My concern is that the queens don't find their nuc because of the symmetric lines the hives are in.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I sure do learn a lot watching your videos and because of these videos of yours my confidence with my bees have improved greatly. I need to and would love to see your operation in person.
Can someone please tell me why he cant say what kind of soda he is using in the yellow jacket trap?...i cant think of any reason why that would be a secret....what kind of soda is it????
No excuse for not making queens! !!!!! ,condescending twat , you cannot rear them where I live because of the density of preditors ,.typical colonial crap
