Guys I loved your bee keeping work shop there , I been bee keeping for many years and I always love to hear how other bee keepers do their bees and how they think through situations such as queen rearing and the different styles creating them or any other situation a hive can throw at you , this was a fantastic little seminar not only to your live Audience you had to but many watching from their screens on iPads and computers , keep doing these work shops I quite enjoyed it , even I still keep learning and I enjoy that as well from others ,that’s how we grow to be better at what we do , thanks for a great video.liked and subscribed .
Loved the curious questions and excitement of the kid in the audience! Great information and thank you for making it feel approachable for the newbees.
Great video. Not sure if I missed it, but if your hand grafting for new people doing this, make sure larva goes in the on the same you pulled it out or larva will die and be rejected! The larva have it breathing gill facing up and will drown if put in on opposing side. If in doubt grab a new larva, no big loss.
This workshop focused on the inspiration to raise queens and how to make a builder from one hive. Those methods were outside the scope of this particular workshop. Thanks for watching!
Ha this was really good I am still trying to graft. I had 1 to take this year. but I did good my just removing the queen from a strong hive they made me a lot of queens. I liked the idea of laying the frame flat, across the top of the frames I am going to try that 1 day I use 8 frame boxes so it does not work that well for me. but that would be very easy to work just got to figure it out great video, filled with loads of good information. Thank you so much in doing it, Have a Blessed week
Wow, that's got to be one of the most entertaining queen rearing videos I've ever seen. Also great learning experience for those up and coming. Great job Brad! 5 stars for me! 😊🐝
One question stood out. Why doesn't the queen right finisher risk swarming with all those queen cells above them. Answer- those queen cells were formed by the beekeeper and not as a result of the colonies' decision to swarm. If you find swarm cells in a potential cell builder colony- pick a different colony or they WILL hit the trees.
I love the way you did this video. Needed those reminders right now. Had issues getting queens mated this year so far for some reason. I don't graft yet but always get cells when I want them by pulling my queens to nucs.
Nice Video. . . Even if its x2 Hours or so long. Tip :. Hobby Queen Rearing. Just indent a few times in a Comb of Eggs. The Bees will Draw Down Queen Cells and you can Harvest these easily with a pair of Scissors. Simples. 😎 No Grafting, Fiddly Kits or Fingers and Thumbs. Works for me here in Scotland 🏴 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 I do this each Spring when I know I have Mature Drones ready for those pending Virgin Queens. By doing above you will never have cumbersome 'Natural' QC's in really awkward places, like in Frame Corners, Doubled Back to Back. Or even QC's side by side in a Cluster. All a nightmare to cut out and use successfully. Keep things Simple, stupid. Indent, grow, cut. 👍 Oh and I just Subbed too.
I got over the guilt of killing extra or poorly performing queens by numbering them instead of naming them. When they had names, I felt guilty. Since I started gluing on numbers, now they are more anonymous.
I understand that you say we can’t just say genetics, but would it be possible for the use of pesticides to have lowered the drones sperm counts, and then would this transfer to the offspring? Also I was wondering if you noticed the queen starting to get tired at 3-4 years could you potentially be preventing the usual longevity of 7 years from wilds possibly by pulling a Queen out at just 1 year old, what I’m asking here is by pulling the queens up so early could this leave room for errors on the length of good healthy queens who could last out 6-7 years?
-"would it be possible for the use of pesticides to have lowered the drones sperm counts" I would think that yes it could be possible. -"would this transfer to the offspring" I would think so. -"wondering if you noticed the queen starting to get tired at 3-4 years could you potentially be preventing the usual longevity of 7 years from wilds possibly by pulling a Queen out at just 1 year old" I've never heard of a queen lasting more than three to four years, let a lone seven. There are no wild apis mellifera in my area so I can't speak to that. -"by pulling the queens up so early could this leave room for errors on the length of good healthy queens who could last out 6-7 years?" I don't pull queens early as a rule, I pull them when they need pulling. My teaching here was tailored to help the hobbyist understand that they can proactively replace queens vs. letting them fail, usually at a time of year that the colony will not recover. Thanks for watching!
Great video, but I respectfully disagree on Queen life spans Queens use to preform much better for a much longer time period. Beekeepers have been spending that last 50 years breeding the life span out of them, longer life span is great lifetime $$$ value.
Thanks for watching. I understand what you're saying. The point I was trying to make was, if you can easily raise your own queens, there is no reason you can't replace them annually, thus making the whole argument about needing long-lived queens a moot point.
@@dcsblessedbees There are those in our area who will belittle a hobbyist who thinks they can produce good queens, based on life expectancy alone. The audience needed to hear that life expectancy isn't a make or break metric if they are raising their own queens.
@@dcsblessedbees No implications taken. My statements were directed to the audience, who is subject to that kind of influence and I felt that I needed to free them of it so they could feel empowered to raise their own queens.
Great info here, thanks. My eyes have gotten pretty weak as I've gotten older. Do you have a recommendation concerning a veil that's a bit easier to see through? Thank you sir.
Thanks for watching, Carter! I don't have a recommendation for that. I think they are all about the same. I like my Clear View veil because it's well ventilated but that's all I can say.
no way to keep them longer? I will be raising queens, am new to it, but am in a good area for queen sales. what about making nucs for the extra queens?@@ThatBeeMan
@@ThatBeeMan Thank you. I was hoping that was the case. Wow! 100 little wee itty bitty larvae to collect! My eye balls would be crossing! I'd probably try to collect the spots off of my Staffy! Again, thanks, that really helped. love the videos, btw
Any chance that I could get a grafting calendar from you? If so I will provide my email address or my personal address. I’ve watched your video twice now and got a lot of good information from it. Ioved your painted dip super gives the bee a real hive to get back to. Thanks again
Any chance you could email a copy of your grafting calendar? I can provide you with my email address. Loved hearing the kid in your class and the picture perfect deep super. Thanks again ! Great class I’ve watched it twice now !
