Queen Rearing in the Sustainable Apiary 

We support Mike Palmer's vision for sustainable apiaries. Well done Mike!

Mr Palme, Thank You very much for prezentation, and you gentlemen for uploading to us. Very useful and practical info, spiced with humor and fair presentesenal skills. To You Mr Palmer I wish halthy live long, really God Bless you. And to the rest of peiple too, let be honeylly. Regads to all good people and the reast ones, from North Macedonia, Europe. :)

Thanks for the presentation Michael and sharing your wealth of experience! The beekeeping community is fortunate to have individuals like yourself.

Mr Palmer you are a top bloke and I could listen to you all day. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and knowledge. Inspirational! 🐝

Think you know it all,watch it again. You will learn something new. Great information

These presentations are the best I've found yet. Michael is a professional and explains his techniques clearly. Beware of the backyard beekeepers who think because they are new to the hobby or had a hive for a year are now experts. They are bumbling throughout their video because they aren't ready to do the presentations based on lack of experience. And the mistakes they make are embarrassing to watch. Watch from the professionals. I watch these videos about once every two weeks and pick up new points that I missed. There are others out there that are good too. I've begun developing nucleus colonies in my apiaries. I'm starting with eighteen this year and seeing how many survive. I'll make adjustments as I go. I'm hoping that fifteen survive and that I can build to sixty or seventy by the end of the nectars flows this spring. It's a process that will take a couple of years. I've been raising my own queens for years, but never looked at the techniques the way Michael does it. I love the concept of taking bees from the 'brood factories' to develop my queens. I've always taken bees from my production hives and went that route. I'm excited for this year to come along to see how it works out. And, Michael is right. Beekeeping and raising bees should be fun. Don't make it a chore or you'll be miserable. If you get bored with the same old every year then mix it up and try different things related to keeping bees. Queen rearing, nuc production, liquid honey, comb honey, etc. It's just so much fun keeping bees.

Thank you for the lesson! Michael beekeeper from Romania.

Mr. Palmer, Thank you for providing this comprehensive presentation. I have had to review this presentation at least 6 times and now I am getting the big picture. (I know I'm slow) I want to acknowledge the tremendous effort and the time you have put into this video. You are leaving a great legacy with "The Sustainable Apiary" and the detailed information that you have developed. Thanx, LP

You got to give it up to these folks that are running hundreds, if not a thousand plus, hives per year. Thanks for the upload.

I feel I am part of the research which is very enriching , practical, and more earning. thank you very much for your dedication.

Excellent video thanks Mr.Palmer

I just wanted to say to Mike, that the queen who followed you around was a queen I would give my eye teeth for. This was a companion of man, like our loved dogs, they learn to care for us is we care for them. Bees are really not just insects but social creatures manifesting attributes we sometimes would be good to emulate.

I love this I have watched this religiously for two years thank you Micheal Palmer. I would love to come apprentice with you if that's at all possible.

this is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for presenting Mike Palmer!! Thanks for posting this clip!

I have to subscribe, and will watch this as many times as I need. This year I'm going to make my own queens. I appreciate for all information from this, great man.

Very informative. Thanks Michael!

I WISH he had a place showing Exactly how he makes his division board feeders , mainly just the entrances to each side and if feeder has a divider..

Thanks for posting. Wealth of information.

Amazing presentation! Thank you so much for your knowledge. I run a small 20-30 hive operation. Looking forward to making queens this summer with your techniques. Really like your other vids too.

Thanks for all the wisdom brethren! Just subscribed

You are good, very good,

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Great stuff.

Thanks it was very informative.

outstanding lecture and is for sure coming from true experience. thanks for sharing!

Excellent lecture on Queen Rearing

i loved it

7th time watching. Says it all.

Also about fight bee when you take them from different hives. In my apiary I noticed if I take brood frame only from 2 hives I get fight them. But if I take from several (2 and more ) no problem.

Thanks

Thank you for this video. I wish i could work with you.

good video thanks

Mike Palmer I just set up a finisher from two brood chambers plus added 10 I grafted 88 and when I took the frames out from being polished there was a cup of bees on each empty cup I am thinking 86 good cells because I remember two that were placed wrong sorry mike I will make up the next graft.

You can always make your own queen cups around fresh laid eggs in fresh drawn comb using a pencil eraser,i have had great luck with this method

Amazing video & info in it! I will try this queen rearing at some stage. At 30min : 45sec on the image; on the ground there is Gotu Kola herb growing. A really powerful medicinal herb, longevity stuff.

I have 1 box . Just bought 2 weeks ago or 11 days ago. They are not building wax and there are eggs but not too much .it's my first ever hive What to do. I want to requeen it but I have only I hive and no bee keepers near by . No nearby association. Show I capture the queen . That they will make a new queen . Please answer

Awsome

If a hive feels queen less when brood is placed above a queen excluder, why is it necessary to remove the queen and brood box prior setting up the Builder colony?

I wish there was a chart or infomatic around to chart the steps and timeline for this

From Indonesia , 🙋😄

Q 01 ) in Cell Builder, D(deep) + M (Medium Super) + D configuration, where is the location of Queen Excluder? It has not been mentioned. Q 02.01 ) frames and combs are used to indicate the same things? At 16: 35, ... you have "combs" to add to the brood factory ... frames Vs. Combs It confuses people especially novice people like me. Is it supposed to be "you have new frame to add to the brood factory, after moving brood to cell builders?" Q 02.02) At 16:35, why one wants to add combs to brood factory? Brood factory means it produces broods to be used elsewhere like cell builders, is that right or wrong? Thanks in advance ~

Can you put pollen parties in the frame cells if you got not pollen?

Tks. MR. Palmer Please in español latino. We need You experiencia y conocimientos

Great to watch but hard to take in for the beginner and more suited to commercial beekeepers. How about something for little old me and the rest of us mere amateurs?

Crazy question! Has anyone ever implanted a drone larva into a queen cell having otherwise treated it like a viable queen?

I think it was you who pointed out a queen naming system I want to use. I think you had two or so letters of written name (girls name or location of swarm etc.. ), 00 for first generation, 01, 02 etc. for successive generations, all followed by emergence or mating date. Is that accurate? Please help. I'd like to keep track of which breeder queen produced an offspring.

This is an awesome educational experience!! I have a question just so I will know. The difference of a twelve hour larvae being better than a 21/2 day larvae, making a better queen. The question, is this a theory or has this been documented? Thanks, Phillip Hall.

Isn't the 11th June (6/11) frame in the wrong place at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R7tinVIuBJ8.htmlm32s? Surely, it should be against the queen excluder.

if bees hate duct tape and they do.do ants hate duct tape too ?

I wish i understood this lingo.. its driving me crazy. Ive been to seminars, and joind FB groups.. talked to people, made lure boxes.. bought some brood boxes.. and i still dont understand this stuff.

In Iowa how

3 minutes in and I'm bored to tears.

in the video he says he grafts larvae between 0 and 12 hours old. Everything else i read suggests using larvae 3 days after the egg is laid. So does he mean 0-12 hours after the larvae hatches from the egg? because I thought it took 3 days just for the larvae to hatch from the egg.

does Mr. palmer sell packages of bees, if I buy bees in the spring I would rather buy northern bees, most people that sell packages of bees in NH get bees from the south

Interesting , I don't raise bees

I guess i misunderstood the last question. The man asked how you mix the bees without them killing each other. You said they don't fight. Were you talking about your bees personally? Because I've always heard you have to introduce them slowly or they will kill each other.

I have two beehives

1:04:03 is there another queen in the top right corner?

He may aswell speak Chinese

Queen bees on the ground

03:00 Because it helps sustain a good gene pool in your hives. No?

I'm confused when he uses comb? Is he telling frames?

I'm lost. I do not know what a "Queen-Right" section is, how to "rotate through 180 degrees", or what "asa da" means? Anyone willing to fill me in?

Very good content, but nowadays the high amount of interruptions through commercials makes it impossible to focus on the very important content.That wasn't like that 6 years ago! I had to stop watching it!!!

Anyone else get even more confused?

Great lecture but terrible camera work. Why wouldn't you show the slides. Looks like he is going through so many pictures but the camera is on his face the whole time. WHAT A WASTE OF A GOODS PRESENTATION

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