The 2 Golden Rules for Expanding the Broodnest - Jacksonville FL Zone 9b 

I really like the demonstrations with the visuals (boxes with tape). Very helpful.

I also like the date and temperature displayed in the bottom left. That’s also VERY helpful.

Very interesting information, didn't know that golden rules. Thanks' for sharing you valuable knowledge.

With your visual tape colors & explanations, it was like 💡💡, EUREKA!

Love your straightforward and clear style. Also thanks for giving the golden rules up front versus holding out till the end. Helps reinforce learning. Thanks again. I know putting good content out is difficult but it is appreciated.

Thank you for this video. You are explaining in details step by step how to expand weak colonies. Thank you.

This was an excellent presentation! I will share with fellow club members. It’s also very timely. Thanks for going to the trouble.

Nice video... I'm up north (N IL)... still waiting for spring!! Good to see what's coming and prep.

Took a class this morning at Jaxbees, great class, then got a bucket full of comb and a wax brick from a couple of club members to melt for my swarm traps. Great day today.

Wow. Good maneuvers. Always pleasure watching professional beekeeper. Impressive indeed.

Real good presentation, thanks for sharing your time.👍

Excellent teachings - thank you.

I’m really glad you covered this subject today.

Great video and presentation! Enjoyed watching and very helpful info for us beekeepers! Thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend!

It's really good lesson. I Love it❤

This is EXACTLY what I needed to learn as a new beekeeper. Thank you Chuck!

Beekeeping is local. I would not expose my brood too long in 50 degree weather. You added brood to a hive you said may swarm or supersede the Queen. I would remove the old Queen to a Nuc. Add brood to the main hive with the Queen cells, You have Drones to mate a virgin Queen. I enjoyed your video and subscribed Good job

Once population is up and nights in the 50s I'll checkerboard every frame if I feel like it and usually never see any chilled brood..if I'm even thinking of swarming I'm not concerned about breaking up the broodnest,nights hitting 20's is different.tiny weak hive is different..but 6 frames of brood is done off to the races ..

That was great information for a "newbie" - Thanks from Sweden.

Really interesting. You clearly know what you are doing!

Great presentation! Very easy to understand. Keep up the vids they are very helpful.

Great visual representation and description !

Excellent video. Thanks for the help. Just getting started and I think I have broken all the rules.

Excellent presentation that was very easy to understand. Thank you.

I'm a new beekeeper coming into my first early spring conundrums of split or not to split. This is the most helpful advice I've seen yet. Thank you so much!

Great demo!

Great content!

Awesome video🙌

Good stuff Chuck!

Great video

Great information 👍🇺🇸

In the hive you found the capped superseder cells, The bees were doing something in that weak hive. I would have put on a queen excluder, and let the bees finish what they were doing. And put the caged queen in the top box. Then came back in two weeks to see what I had. The bees were making the queen’s for some reason, and at worst you have ended up with two queens to make a split. Double screen board would have been better than a queen excluder even.

Nice video Chuck, but my one suggestion is to slow down and show the viewers what you are doing. Many comments suggest "good presentation," but yet I did not see the queen that you isolated. I subbed to your channel. Looking forward to watching more from you.

Great Info😍😮Always fun to see how other beeks do it😍 Why manage from the front though?

Nice video. One other thing i do is swap places between a strong and weak hive, instant boost.

I had a colony last season that kept on making a single queen cell on one side of the hive. I can't remember what the frame configuration was but I'm wondering if it was a split nest case as you mentioned.

22:15 you leave like a green paint brush and a yellow sponge between two boxes what are those? Are those those expensive sensors?

@8:15 I think you should have mentioned at this point that the empty frame on right next to the honey should be drawn comb and not foundation unless that honey frame is capped. I had to do a lot of surgery on a beehive because I did that with foundation next to uncapped honey. They way over draw the honey frame and I had to pull a couple frames and cut them down.

That was a great video for most of us here. I need to do that exact thing to my hives. Thanks

When I checked my colonies last week I had several with what I believe to be a excessive amount of honey frames. I didn't spot any brood at all. I'm in Central Arkansas and I'm running 8 frame brood boxes.

Good video as always. My climate is way different from yours but the basics are the same. With all the drone brood, I heard no mention of mites which is great. Do you leave the strips in all year?

Do you shake the two frame of brood before you move them to a wicker hive

what do you use for mite treatment? I am new and in your area, i was told they are a big issue around here.

The last box did not seem to have a full number of frames. The bees won't build "wonky" comb in the empty space? Thank you for the video; very informative.

You can move brood covered with bees into another hive? The bees won't fight?

When will your bees start drawing foundation?

I don't have any extra frames with drawn-out comb...😢 First year beekeeper

Thanks for sharing , great video.

Great info

Hey Chuck do you ever have a problem with the bee's fighting when you swap the frames over? I tried this last year with one of my small hives and ended up with a lot of dead bee's. It took the small hive even longer to recover.