i'm from Punjab, India. nowadays I'm working on IGI airport new delhi. I love honey bees. I did beekeeping training in 2018 . And now I want to start beekeeping with apis mellifera like as you. you are my motivational teacher. one day i will gift you a honey from my bee farm
I purchased two nucs to add the genetics to my apiary. The attention to detail was evident in that the food frame has a home against the hinge side of the nuc and the bee and brood numbers. I transferred frames to my boxes with a marker handy for the queens to find that they were already marked. I really appreciate the video detailing how you are making the nucs. Great info!
Hi Bob. I have been watching your videos for a while. You are a great teacher, and I like how you will make a point by putting notes in the video. I am in a learning mode right now. I see that you use the double screened boards, and It hasn't quite clicked yet. It is me. some things come to me slowly. Then it hits me. A ha moment ect... Keep up the good work.
Ha Bob so wonderful to see u back and feeling better from the shingles, great video I have made a lot of of the double screen boards from your video u made they work great. I had 7 hives coming out of winter I now have 42 it is so nice to work in the bee yard and have confidence in my self in what I am doing because I have watched u and Ian with your videos. I did buy queens from the bee weaver family my next thing is to make my own queens I want to be self efficient any way it is great to work the bees with out being afraid I just killed them Thank you or teaching all of us about beekeeping and being honest, U and Ian are great and I thank u both I just love the vidoes hope u keep them coming they are just great. Thanks have a blessed week
Love the split method. I seen your double screen board video. This take that. To a new level.great video bob.your are very talented on explaining thing. I get alot from your. Videos thank you. Keep up the good work
Great information. I really appreciate how you and your guys work together so smoothly. Puff of smoke and you lift the box. Puff of smoke and remove the screen. Drop in the double screen and you place the box back in place. Perfect team work.
I was fixin to say the same thing! I build my nucs in 10 frame boxes with a frame feeder (no double screen though) and miss the queen from time to time. Nice to see Bob looking a little more human today haha!
If lumber prices would go down. I will buy more lumber to make more double screened boards. Very versatile piece of equipment, your videos are very helpful to describe how to use.
Hello Bob In my opinion you produce the best videos on CZcams. Three weeks ago.I found a few hives had swarmed on me. So I split them using the your double screen board method. Yesterday those splits were bringing in pollen. Which is a good sign. Gonna check them next weekend. Then I will find out how they did.
Great video, thank you! Hope you’ve recovered from the shingles. Your queen breeder isn’t greedy with attendants. You could almost leave one queen in the box and make another nuc with them.
I am by no means a commercial beekeeper. However, the last couple years have been my most successful of the past 7 years and my colony count has grown. At the present time I have 25 hives 9 fully established and the rest are nucs made this spring. I expect next year to have 50 or more. The backyard beekeeping methods are not going to be efficient enough for me to manage that many by myself. I’ve enjoyed watching your videos, they are well produced, to the point, and show an efficient method of management.
Love your method,I used the divided box on top and made 2 nucs on top and used lower box to fill what was needed to make solid nucs. Will perfect it but a great system.
Nice work Bob, thanks for sharing your part of the world. FWIW we use a small nail and poke it through the top of the cage. That forms a cross member that rests on the two adjacent top bars, with the cage still jammed between the bars just as you showed. It holds everything secure and stops the possibility of the cage falling down. There's still plenty of room for the bees to feed and release her.
Enjoyed it/ learned some stuff from ya. I did an early split with a dbl screen board and wound up with 3 queens.. lol learned about virgin swarms too uh oh!!
Bob, Excellent videos I been paying attention to your process it makes a lot of sense to me. Again Bob, thank you for all your hard work in videoing and teaching
That double screen board looks sweeeet,,,,,gonna do everything next year that im learning since June this year,, cant be harder then my recording studio an jammin Ziggy Stardust on guitar,,,LOVE ur vids man
Fantastic demonstration that follows your presentation to the bee club. I have a question for you. When you sell your nucs do you cage your queen so that they aren't damaged by the shaking around during the customer's transport? I didn't see you cage them and put them directly into the nuc box. When I've transferred nucs from one apiary to another I've caged my queen only because I was worried she would be damaged by a swinging frame or something.
We don't cage the queen and haven't noticed a problem. But as you can see our comb is well developed and I don't think there is much swinging in this instance. With fresh frames it could be a problem.
Question for Bob, or fans of these great videos... If you're a backyard beekeeper (for the moment) and want to make a nuc like this, but already have a honey super or two on the hive, can you just put the third box above the supers initially, leaving the QE in place for a day. Then put your double screen board above the supers the next day? Or is it not really a system which will work with honey supers in place? This for me is a year of increase, I'm not too fussed about honey production so don't mind taking a hit on that to get MORE BEES!! Thank you!
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks Bob, I've gone from 2 to 9 colonies so far this year. I wanted to get to 10 and wanted to give this technique a try. Nothing to stop me now!
Hi Bob, very informative! One of my projects over winter in the Strezelecki Ranges in Gippsland, Australia is to make lots of divider boards for Spring.I think they will work well here to get splits going while it is still variable and cool. Cheers Peter
I noticed the double screen board entrance was on the same side as main hive using queens. When you add queen cells do you have it face the same direction or turn it 180 degrees? Just wondering about virgins returning to correct entrance. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Hi Deborah. For cells we do try to have it on the rear. The reason for having it on the front at all is to facilitate the lost bees finding their way to the lower entrance quickly when we remove the double screen board.
@@bobbinnie9872 That would be amazing. You don't have to do it all by yourself. I know for sure that some of the great people on your team can do 50% of the writing for you 😉.
@@bobbinnie9872 Bob, I was thinking of a way you could write a book that might work. You have already provided so much priceless information in your videos you’ve put out. If you were to have a good co-writer that could basically follow you as you worked. They could interview you for additional information after studying your videos. It’s just a thought and no I’m not looking for a job. I’m just looking for a way to capture all the knowledge 40+ years of beekeeping would provide for the upcoming generations of beekeepers. Your teaching style is so clear and concise. Okay, I won’t beg anymore 😂 I also wish I could clone myself to get more things done in a day, if only there were 2 of me 🤣🤣 Lorie 😁🐝
I've seen a couple of your video and found them very good. How long do you keep the bees in the cardboard nuc boxes before they are picked up, and do you have them completely closed in or do you leave an entrance open during that wait?
The nucs are harvested within a couple days of being picked up. The entrances are opened when they get to the shop and then closed early the morning of pickup. Thanks.
@@bobbinnie9872 Don’t worry about it Bob, I know you were not feeling well for awhile there. I was just excited for a Bob video on Mother’s Day!! Lorie 😁🐝
Bob, when you made a lection, you said that you replace the 2 and 3 body, the second becomes a nuc and here you made it straight. Is it because of hot wheather and second round already?
@@bobbinnie9872 video Splitting using double screen... You changed the second and the third stories in place. The moment at 12:29. You said that the second story was temporary the third one. I am sorry for asking. I've just translated your videolection and everything was clear until I watched this one. Here you put the nuc box straight on top before inserting the double screen board, and the second box is a box of foundation frames. And my question was if it was because of the summer wheather (bees in the third story can tolerate such a gap) and a second round of making nucs (I assumed that in the first round you make the nuc as you showed in the previous video).
Bob is there a reason you're using the pail feeders to feed the nucs instead of the frame feeders? Btw thank you continuing to share your knowledge and putting out these great videos
Hi Marlon. Buckets give a steady and more prolonged feeding which we like and although frame feeders work, they can cause some drowned bees in small colonies like nucs.
Bob, You are harvesting these Nucs in may-june, when the temperatures in Georgia, would not plung below 15-16 degree Celsius (60 degree Fahrenheit) even in the night. Given that temperature doesn't fall too much, can you comment on the utility of double screen divider boards? Are they still useful at this time of the year? What if simply don't use it and instead place the colony on a bottom board instead of divider board, would that elongate that 3 week harvest cycle that you have? Kindly comment. Thanks.
Making nucs directly into a box on an individual stand will work fine once the weather warms up. When we do that we like to shake in a couple of frames of extra young bees. And yes, they may take just a bit longer to expand.
We usually leave those nucs above a queen excluder if they're going to be there awhile without a queen or cell. If you needed to you could leave them several days but the perfect timing for excepting a queen or cell is between 8 and 18 hours queen-less in my view.
hi bob i am a beekeeper. I just came to America. I want to do beekeeping in America but I don't know America and I have no idea about it since my English is not good either. maybe you want to help me with this. I love bees and beekeeping very much. I have a lot of experience in this field. I want to evaluate this. Thank you.
Bob are this queens already mated or virgin? Interesting way to ship queens. By us is usually the practice to add 6-9 worker bees into the queen cage. But your way is much more efficient. Like it!
Good info on how my Nuc was put together, would it be normal when you open the nuc to put in the hive to have a bunch of swarm cells on one of the frames? I picked up the nuc from the supplier and they were closed in for a couple of days till I got them to the apiary.
We try to ship nucs without swarm cells but it can happen, especially if the nuc is very strong. It is best if there isn't any. It would not be good for them to be closed up for a few days unless it was fairly cool.
Hey Bob, the last three weeks I`m using the double screend board in my operation, is it normal that the nuc on top of the "mother hive" generates supercedure cells??? or that means the holes for the pheromones are not big enough??? Pat
When splitting established colonies multiple times in the spring we try to stop splitting in time to have them ready for our Sourwood flow which starts in early July.
Hi Bob! Have you ever used two double screen boards to make two nucs on top of the parent colony? In the case of too many queens on hand. One to harvest in three weeks and then a smaller one to harvest a couple weeks after that. If you were to theoretically do that. Would you put the smaller of the two nucs in the top box or middle? Thanks!
Yes, I've done that many times. Usually it happens if I split up a strong colony full of swarm cells. It's probably best with the weakest on top but honestly I never worry about it.
Does the colony that has 3 floors have 2 queens, one at the bottom and one at the top, and the box in the middle, do you harvest honey from it early summer
Hello, I'm going to How many nucks can you make from a colomy in a season. There's a guy in a video who says he's producing 100 nucks from one colony. Is it possible
If you split a strong colony early and aggressively then grow the splits aggressively and then split the splits and so on it may be possible. Of course it would take plenty of sugar and pollen, great weather, pre-mated queens, etc.
We do add a little bleach in warmer weather but it's not necessary right now. For our pump see our video "Feeding Bees Part 4" czcams.com/video/LA7mMu_AuXk/video.html
We use both inside feeders and bucket feeders on the top that bees access through a hole in the lid. See our video "Feeding Bees Part 2" czcams.com/video/Uf6kCFfXQcw/video.html
Thx for another video! Wish I could come work for you for a couple weeks just to learn.... only who would tend the bees, cattle, horses and dogs here? Not to mention splits, hay, mowing the yard and the garden. Yikes! I need another me and God only knows those tasks are beyond my hubby.
Diane I thought for a second I wrote the comment. 😁 the only thing missing were the goats and chicks. I sure love that there’s another woman out there that is responsible for the farm and all the work. I was thinking the same thing as I was watching this video how great it would be just to spend one day with Bob. The knowledge he has is priceless!!! Best of luck to you for a good bee season Diane!!!! Lorie 😁🐝
@@sunsetheritagefarm1189 I actually owned a very large meat goat herd a couple decades ago. Then city people started moving into the country side.... complete with obnoxious city manners and thought my place was a petting zoo I got so tire of the headaches and I sold them off. And my hubby is a production director for a layer company with farms in 4 states. I even grew up around a few hogs and sheep. We kinda got it covered on experience in animal agriculture. He works long hours and is not always here to handle it. So I do. He just doesn't have my eye for when the cows are about to explode either. It's different for women. Once you have lived thru child birth it's easy to tell when another is close. Men are exempt from that burden.
@@dianetaylor6751 Oh my goodness you are so right!! One of my heifers was in early labor and I knew it. My husband had no idea how I could tell. I told him I can see it in her eyes. Less than 6 hours later she gave me my first heifer calf. 3 bull calves and 2 more heifers still due to calve. We both grew up in the country and parents as farmers, but our dads both worked at GM too. I have a feeling with the COVID situation, a lot more city people are moving to the country to be “safe”. It’s fine if they know what real country life entails, which is generally various types of poop smell. Otherwise known as fresh country air 😁😂
Hey bob....i cant find the video you did at the queen rearing place.....he was marking a queen with tester paint and a special applicator you can buy?? you remember what it was?? --thanks
It looks like you always kill some bees while putting on the boxes or when putting on the cover... Thats sad. Can´t you be a little more careful with them bees?
We are in Lakemont, Georgia which is in the Northeast corner of the state. 6306 HWY 441 South, Lakemont. But we are sold out of nucs for this spring. We do have a few packages left for April. If interested call the store at 706 782 6722 and ask for Molly.
Ha Bob I have a question that has nothing to do with this video, Please answer to the best of your knowledge. I have frame feeders in all my hives they do not have ladders like your I have floats in all the feeders, bees sits on the floats eat and enjoy there syrup and go there merry way. I have 2 hives the bees are drowning not just a few but lots of bees, any way I watch videos all the time on bee keeping and in this video they were doing the same thing as me they had wood floats for the bees to sit on he said in his video that bees do not drown that if u have a hive that the bees are drowning in they are sick do u think this is true if so what can I do to save the hive they have been treated for mites mite away quick strips, they do not look sick the breed is the saskatras the carnies are not drowning and the bee weaver breed are not drowning either what are your thoughts and thanks and have a blessed week
MS you could offer to drive them in a vehicle with 5 airbags if it'd be less stressful, I mean since it's so unnecessary....I bet the person wanting them don't feel it's so unnecessary.... what do you think?
@@MS-hn1ik some things are just the way they are...bees get trucked over all day long and if they are prepared properly they are fine...I've never seen bees collapse from being moved if they were healthy and prepared properly and didn't get too hot,matter of fact most the time they are perfectly calm and absolutely fine... not near as stressful as you may think
i'm from Punjab, India. nowadays I'm working on IGI airport new delhi. I love honey bees. I did beekeeping training in 2018 . And now I want to start beekeeping with apis mellifera like as you. you are my motivational teacher. one day i will gift you a honey from my bee farm
Thanks for giving of your time to share your system there. I very much appreciate you sharing your knowledge and techniques.
Thank you, I enjoy doing it.
I purchased two nucs to add the genetics to my apiary. The attention to detail was evident in that the food frame has a home against the hinge side of the nuc and the bee and brood numbers. I transferred frames to my boxes with a marker handy for the queens to find that they were already marked.
I really appreciate the video detailing how you are making the nucs. Great info!
As always very informative and down to earth easily understood. Your kind and gentle great teacher. Can't wait until the next video.
Bob, I practice your "look on the dark side to find the queen" technique since last year and it works well in germany too ;) thank you for that tipp.
Excellent operation you're running Bob, thank you for sharing your experience.
Hi Bob. I have been watching your videos for a while. You are a great teacher, and I like how you will make a point by putting notes in the video. I am in a learning mode right now. I see that you use the double screened boards, and It hasn't quite clicked yet. It is me. some things come to me slowly. Then it hits me. A ha moment ect... Keep up the good work.
Thanks. For me, life is a steady stream of a ha moments.
Ha Bob so wonderful to see u back and feeling better from the shingles, great video I have made a lot of of the double screen boards from your video u made they work great. I had 7 hives coming out of winter I now have 42 it is so nice to work in the bee yard and have confidence in my self in what I am doing because I have watched u and Ian with your videos. I did buy queens from the bee weaver family my next thing is to make my own queens I want to be self efficient any way it is great to work the bees with out being afraid I just killed them Thank you or teaching all of us about beekeeping and being honest, U and Ian are great and I thank u both I just love the vidoes hope u keep them coming they are just great. Thanks have a blessed week
Hi Frances. Thank you very much.
Love the split method. I seen your double screen board video. This take that. To a new level.great video bob.your are very talented on explaining thing. I get alot from your. Videos thank you. Keep up the good work
Thank you.
Great information. I really appreciate how you and your guys work together so smoothly. Puff of smoke and you lift the box. Puff of smoke and remove the screen. Drop in the double screen and you place the box back in place. Perfect team work.
Bob misses queens too! Lol
Love your methods
I won't admit to how many I miss.😉
I was fixin to say the same thing! I build my nucs in 10 frame boxes with a frame feeder (no double screen though) and miss the queen from time to time. Nice to see Bob looking a little more human today haha!
@@kamonreynolds BoB is North Georgia Bee Godfather:)
I‘m impressed by your NUC-System.
Another great lesson from Bee College
Thanks for mentioning the breeders you use
If lumber prices would go down. I will buy more lumber to make more double screened boards. Very versatile piece of equipment, your videos are very helpful to describe how to use.
Hello Bob In my opinion you produce the best videos on CZcams. Three weeks ago.I found a few hives had swarmed on me. So I split them using the your double screen board method. Yesterday those splits were bringing in pollen. Which is a good sign. Gonna check them next weekend. Then I will find out how they did.
Hi Mark. I love these boards for splitting swarmed colonies. It ups your odds of getting something.
Great video, thank you! Hope you’ve recovered from the shingles. Your queen breeder isn’t greedy with attendants. You could almost leave one queen in the box and make another nuc with them.
Thanks, the shingles are doing much better. Thankfully Chris and John don't scrimp on attendants.
I am by no means a commercial beekeeper. However, the last couple years have been my most successful of the past 7 years and my colony count has grown. At the present time I have 25 hives 9 fully established and the rest are nucs made this spring. I expect next year to have 50 or more. The backyard beekeeping methods are not going to be efficient enough for me to manage that many by myself. I’ve enjoyed watching your videos, they are well produced, to the point, and show an efficient method of management.
Thank you. It sounds you have more than a hobby now.
@@bobbinnie9872 why doesn’t the queens pheromone come up through the double screen?
@@Sandmtsawmill double screen?
Love your method,I used the divided box on top and made 2 nucs on top and used lower box to fill what was needed to make solid nucs. Will perfect it but a great system.
Great video. Thanks for sharing
You makes it seem so smooth and seamless. Thank you for sharing 👍👍👍👍👍
hi ı'm from Turkey . İliked your videos . i'll try also the system. Thank you Bob.
Nice work Bob, thanks for sharing your part of the world. FWIW we use a small nail and poke it through the top of the cage. That forms a cross member that rests on the two adjacent top bars, with the cage still jammed between the bars just as you showed. It holds everything secure and stops the possibility of the cage falling down. There's still plenty of room for the bees to feed and release her.
Enjoyed it/ learned some stuff from ya. I did an early split with a dbl screen board and wound up with 3 queens.. lol learned about virgin swarms too uh oh!!
I would love to just come down and work with guys one day! Great video Bob!
Hi Jeremy. I t would be nice to see you again. Contact me using the email address on our "About" page.
Great video. I made my splits using your method. Works a charm.
Happy Monday morning. Thank you for the link to your article. Good information.
Great looking nucs! Thank you for the video.
Thanks for the video! Very good!
Very well explained Bob, thank you.
Bob, Excellent videos I been paying attention to your process it makes a lot of sense to me.
Again Bob, thank you for all your hard work in videoing and teaching
Great video loaded with information. Thanks so much.
That double screen board looks sweeeet,,,,,gonna do everything next year that im learning since June this year,, cant be harder then my recording studio an jammin Ziggy Stardust on guitar,,,LOVE ur vids man
Very efficient method of producing NUCs.
+beautifull operation+
What a fantastic video! Thank you for sharing
Thank you Mr. Binnie nice video.
Thank you Oscar.
What a great team! Well done fellas!
Hi Greg. The guys are looking forward to seeing you next week.
Fantastic demonstration that follows your presentation to the bee club. I have a question for you.
When you sell your nucs do you cage your queen so that they aren't damaged by the shaking around during the customer's transport? I didn't see you cage them and put them directly into the nuc box.
When I've transferred nucs from one apiary to another I've caged my queen only because I was worried she would be damaged by a swinging frame or something.
We don't cage the queen and haven't noticed a problem. But as you can see our comb is well developed and I don't think there is much swinging in this instance. With fresh frames it could be a problem.
nice. Hellow from Russia! =)
Thanks Bob. Great video. I have never used the jester ez nucs before may look into them.
They're a bit more expensive than the other folding transportation boxes but they're also more robust.
Sold 500 the last 3 days. They are not the fastest but sure hold bees well and transport super well.
Question for Bob, or fans of these great videos... If you're a backyard beekeeper (for the moment) and want to make a nuc like this, but already have a honey super or two on the hive, can you just put the third box above the supers initially, leaving the QE in place for a day. Then put your double screen board above the supers the next day? Or is it not really a system which will work with honey supers in place? This for me is a year of increase, I'm not too fussed about honey production so don't mind taking a hit on that to get MORE BEES!! Thank you!
Of course I wouldn't feed sugar syrup where the bees could put it into the honey super...
Yes, this can will with honey supers on the original colony.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks Bob, I've gone from 2 to 9 colonies so far this year. I wanted to get to 10 and wanted to give this technique a try. Nothing to stop me now!
Hi Bob, very informative! One of my projects over winter in the Strezelecki Ranges in Gippsland, Australia is to make lots of divider boards for Spring.I think they will work well here to get splits going while it is still variable and cool.
Cheers Peter
Bob, I really appreciate the work you put into making such great videos. I wish there was a way to get some of your nucs here in Canada.
Thanks, that sounds like more than a day trip.
I noticed the double screen board entrance was on the same side as main hive using queens. When you add queen cells do you have it face the same direction or turn it 180 degrees? Just wondering about virgins returning to correct entrance. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Hi Deborah. For cells we do try to have it on the rear. The reason for having it on the front at all is to facilitate the lost bees finding their way to the lower entrance quickly when we remove the double screen board.
Bob, I've been learning a lot from you, I'd be awesome if you wrote a book about your process.
Thank you, perhaps I'll be able to eventually.
@@bobbinnie9872 That would be amazing. You don't have to do it all by yourself. I know for sure that some of the great people on your team can do 50% of the writing for you 😉.
@@bobbinnie9872 Bob, I was thinking of a way you could write a book that might work. You have already provided so much priceless information in your videos you’ve put out. If you were to have a good co-writer that could basically follow you as you worked. They could interview you for additional information after studying your videos. It’s just a thought and no I’m not looking for a job. I’m just looking for a way to capture all the knowledge 40+ years of beekeeping would provide for the upcoming generations of beekeepers. Your teaching style is so clear and concise. Okay, I won’t beg anymore 😂
I also wish I could clone myself to get more things done in a day, if only there were 2 of me 🤣🤣
Lorie 😁🐝
I've seen a couple of your video and found them very good. How long do you keep the bees in the cardboard nuc boxes before they are picked up, and do you have them completely closed in or do you leave an entrance open during that wait?
The nucs are harvested within a couple days of being picked up. The entrances are opened when they get to the shop and then closed early the morning of pickup. Thanks.
Excited for a video, thank you Bob!! Lorie 😁🐝
Hi Lori. Sorry, I'm slow at it.
@@bobbinnie9872 Don’t worry about it Bob, I know you were not feeling well for awhile there. I was just excited for a Bob video on Mother’s Day!! Lorie 😁🐝
Bob, when you made a lection, you said that you replace the 2 and 3 body, the second becomes a nuc and here you made it straight. Is it because of hot wheather and second round already?
Hello. I'm not sure I understand the question. Our nucs are always assembled in the top box.
@@bobbinnie9872 video Splitting using double screen... You changed the second and the third stories in place. The moment at 12:29. You said that the second story was temporary the third one.
I am sorry for asking. I've just translated your videolection and everything was clear until I watched this one. Here you put the nuc box straight on top before inserting the double screen board, and the second box is a box of foundation frames. And my question was if it was because of the summer wheather (bees in the third story can tolerate such a gap) and a second round of making nucs (I assumed that in the first round you make the nuc as you showed in the previous video).
Can't wait til I can come back to blue ridge honey. Good video Bob!
Thanks.
Muito interessante. Parabéns pelo seu trabalho.
Bob is there a reason you're using the pail feeders to feed the nucs instead of the frame feeders? Btw thank you continuing to share your knowledge and putting out these great videos
Hi Marlon. Buckets give a steady and more prolonged feeding which we like and although frame feeders work, they can cause some drowned bees in small colonies like nucs.
Ok noted. Thank you. 🙂🙂
Nice system you have there
Hello love your channel and everything you do. When in the season do start doing this process
We begin making nucs the third week in March, which is two weeks before our main swarming season in our earliest locations.
Great info! Thanks
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Bob, You are harvesting these Nucs in may-june, when the temperatures in Georgia, would not plung below 15-16 degree Celsius (60 degree Fahrenheit) even in the night. Given that temperature doesn't fall too much, can you comment on the utility of double screen divider boards? Are they still useful at this time of the year? What if simply don't use it and instead place the colony on a bottom board instead of divider board, would that elongate that 3 week harvest cycle that you have? Kindly comment. Thanks.
Making nucs directly into a box on an individual stand will work fine once the weather warms up. When we do that we like to shake in a couple of frames of extra young bees. And yes, they may take just a bit longer to expand.
Impressive
What’s the longest you’ve left Nucs above DSB before adding a queen cell?
We usually leave those nucs above a queen excluder if they're going to be there awhile without a queen or cell. If you needed to you could leave them several days but the perfect timing for excepting a queen or cell is between 8 and 18 hours queen-less in my view.
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You should write a book with really good pics.
I would buy a few.
Thanks for the education.
Matt
Thanks Matt. I wish I could clone myself and get it done.
hi bob i am a beekeeper. I just came to America. I want to do beekeeping in America but I don't know America and I have no idea about it since my English is not good either. maybe you want to help me with this. I love bees and beekeeping very much. I have a lot of experience in this field. I want to evaluate this. Thank you.
Bob are this queens already mated or virgin? Interesting way to ship queens. By us is usually the practice to add 6-9 worker bees into the queen cage. But your way is much more efficient. Like it!
Hi Marko. The queens are mated.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you Bob. And a big respect to your work and videos, if you know what to watch you can learn a lot of them! Best regards. M
Good info on how my Nuc was put together, would it be normal when you open the nuc to put in the hive to have a bunch of swarm cells on one of the frames? I picked up the nuc from the supplier and they were closed in for a couple of days till I got them to the apiary.
We try to ship nucs without swarm cells but it can happen, especially if the nuc is very strong. It is best if there isn't any. It would not be good for them to be closed up for a few days unless it was fairly cool.
Hey Bob,
the last three weeks I`m using the double screend board in my operation, is it normal that the nuc on top of the "mother hive" generates supercedure cells??? or that means the holes for the pheromones are not big enough???
Pat
That would be unrelated. I've not experienced more cells in a queen-rite colony over a double screen board.
Can you confirm weather you are using Virgin queens or mated queens when introducing to queens back into the hive on top box
Bob is installing mated queens in the top box
Usually mated queens but occasionally cells.
Do you put the queen in the hive with the royal barrier in order to mobilize the hive well and produce more honey
When we use queen excluders on colonies it is to keep the queen out of the other boxes.
Is there any issue holding bees in the Jester nucs for a week or more? (With entrance open )
It works fine as long as they don't get too strong and want to swarm. The Jester box is fairly weather resistant.
Is there a flow you try to target with this or is this something you do in the winter?
When splitting established colonies multiple times in the spring we try to stop splitting in time to have them ready for our Sourwood flow which starts in early July.
Hi Bob! Have you ever used two double screen boards to make two nucs on top of the parent colony? In the case of too many queens on hand. One to harvest in three weeks and then a smaller one to harvest a couple weeks after that. If you were to theoretically do that. Would you put the smaller of the two nucs in the top box or middle? Thanks!
Yes, I've done that many times. Usually it happens if I split up a strong colony full of swarm cells. It's probably best with the weakest on top but honestly I never worry about it.
@@bobbinnie9872 thanks Bob, I thought the idea was sound. that will make my spring strategy a whole lot easier.
It was early may and you were feeding. This apiary is specific to produce swarm not any honey for business purposes. Isn't it?
It was in spring but it came back and made honey in summer on Sourwood.
Does the colony that has 3 floors have 2 queens, one at the bottom and one at the top, and the box in the middle, do you harvest honey from it early summer
Two queen production colonies can harvest honey at the same time as one queen colonies.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hello, I'm going to How many nucks can you make from a colomy in a season. There's a guy in a video who says he's producing 100 nucks from one colony. Is it possible
If you split a strong colony early and aggressively then grow the splits aggressively and then split the splits and so on it may be possible. Of course it would take plenty of sugar and pollen, great weather, pre-mated queens, etc.
Hey Mr. Bob just wondering what kind of setup you have for the syrup pump? 😁 Also do you just add bleach to keep those sugar water from fermenting?
We do add a little bleach in warmer weather but it's not necessary right now. For our pump see our video "Feeding Bees Part 4" czcams.com/video/LA7mMu_AuXk/video.html
@@bobbinnie9872 thank you very much Mr Bob 👍🏻
Are they mated queens or virgins?
These were mated queens. At times we use queen cells.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks Bob great info and thanks for sharing!
I was just about to ask the same question Steve O you beat me to great videos from both you guys thanks
Nuc harvesting machines
Where can I get a top cover like yours to feed the bees
Call our store at 706 782 6722
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What do you do with the bees in the queen box after you finish? Shake them into a weak hive?
Yes, we add them anything that can use them.
How many beehives can I raise and do their annual work alone
It depends on how the colonies are managed and what they meant to produce. For me it was around 500.
How does the syrup system work?
In my country we put it inside the hive on frames.
We use both inside feeders and bucket feeders on the top that bees access through a hole in the lid. See our video "Feeding Bees Part 2" czcams.com/video/Uf6kCFfXQcw/video.html
Hello. How many days after you put the Queen Bee in the box on the screen Board, you do nuck
We like to wait until bees are hatching from the eggs laid by the new queen. It's not absolutely necessary but we have better luck that way.
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I intend to combine this method with the 48-hour larva method.
@@jenyrich4345 It should work well as long as the split isn't real small.
Thx for another video! Wish I could come work for you for a couple weeks just to learn.... only who would tend the bees, cattle, horses and dogs here? Not to mention splits, hay, mowing the yard and the garden. Yikes! I need another me and God only knows those tasks are beyond my hubby.
The answer is simple. Just clone yourself.
Diane I thought for a second I wrote the comment. 😁 the only thing missing were the goats and chicks. I sure love that there’s another woman out there that is responsible for the farm and all the work. I was thinking the same thing as I was watching this video how great it would be just to spend one day with Bob. The knowledge he has is priceless!!! Best of luck to you for a good bee season Diane!!!! Lorie 😁🐝
@@sunsetheritagefarm1189 I actually owned a very large meat goat herd a couple decades ago. Then city people started moving into the country side.... complete with obnoxious city manners and thought my place was a petting zoo I got so tire of the headaches and I sold them off. And my hubby is a production director for a layer company with farms in 4 states. I even grew up around a few hogs and sheep. We kinda got it covered on experience in animal agriculture. He works long hours and is not always here to handle it. So I do. He just doesn't have my eye for when the cows are about to explode either. It's different for women. Once you have lived thru child birth it's easy to tell when another is close. Men are exempt from that burden.
@@bobbinnie9872 If my clone could download what I know now but be about 20 yrs younger that venture might actually be worthwhile!
@@dianetaylor6751 Oh my goodness you are so right!! One of my heifers was in early labor and I knew it. My husband had no idea how I could tell. I told him I can see it in her eyes. Less than 6 hours later she gave me my first heifer calf. 3 bull calves and 2 more heifers still due to calve. We both grew up in the country and parents as farmers, but our dads both worked at GM too. I have a feeling with the COVID situation, a lot more city people are moving to the country to be “safe”. It’s fine if they know what real country life entails, which is generally various types of poop smell. Otherwise known as fresh country air 😁😂
Thank You🙂🤡 NE Fl. BEEK
These boxes filled with bees attending queens, ideal solution to transport diseases or parasites...
Where can I get a Nuc box?
How much does a Nuc box cost?
shimon
Most beekeeping supplies carry nuc boxes. We also have them in our store. You ca order at 706 782 6722.
I live in Israel, please send me a contact address
shimon
What month is this video?
May 2nd
Hey bob....i cant find the video you did at the queen rearing place.....he was marking a queen with tester paint and a special applicator you can buy?? you remember what it was?? --thanks
"Florida Beekeepers Part 6". czcams.com/video/7C8JCt1KqnQ/video.html
@@bobbinnie9872 thanks so much!!!! I usually use the Poscha pens but thinking of trying Testers.
@@bobbinnie9872 now i gotta figure what size nail they put the the top on Tester paint bottle. :)
you dont wear gloves. do yo not get stung or are us immune to it by now
We get stung a bit but we don't swell up like someone that is new at it. Still hurts a little.
How do you pump your sugar syrup?
See our video "Feeding Bees Part 4" czcams.com/video/LA7mMu_AuXk/video.html
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holy cow, pheromone confusion for those poor worker bees
There the bees are tame here in Nicaragua they are brave because here there are only Africanized
We are lucky to have gentle bees.
Hello sir where do you buy the queens from you put You said John Knox in Florida do you have a number to reach him thanks
Hi Sammy. The two queen producers I purchase from are already sold out for next year.
@@bobbinnie9872 Hello sir what you located in how much are the nuc next year
Hello sir did you get my message
@@GODWINHONEY Hi Sammy. Our nucs will be $185.00 next year. We'll start booking in January through our store. 706 782 6722. Thanks
It looks like you always kill some bees while putting on the boxes or when putting on the cover... Thats sad. Can´t you be a little more careful with them bees?
where do you sale the nucs at
We sell them at our home base in Lakemont, Georgia but we are all booked up for this season.
Bob Benny where is your location and how much are your nukes when you sell them an old man wants to know let me know back please
We are in Lakemont, Georgia which is in the Northeast corner of the state. 6306 HWY 441 South, Lakemont.
But we are sold out of nucs for this spring. We do have a few packages left for April. If interested call the store at 706 782 6722 and ask for Molly.
Ha Bob I have a question that has nothing to do with this video, Please answer to the best of your knowledge. I have frame feeders in all my hives they do not have ladders like your I have floats in all the feeders, bees sits on the floats eat and enjoy there syrup and go there merry way. I have 2 hives the bees are drowning not just a few but lots of bees, any way I watch videos all the time on bee keeping and in this video they were doing the same thing as me they had wood floats for the bees to sit on he said in his video that bees do not drown that if u have a hive that the bees are drowning in they are sick do u think this is true if so what can I do to save the hive they have been treated for mites mite away quick strips, they do not look sick the breed is the saskatras the carnies are not drowning and the bee weaver breed are not drowning either what are your thoughts and thanks and have a blessed week
I guess sick bees could drown more but weak or small colonies drown more too.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks When u going to do more videos I miss them u do such a wonderful job with them Have a great week
Do you think the bees like being shipped by UPS? Thats stressfull. So unnecessary.
I'm sure it's stressful on the bees but I can't make trips to Florida to pick them up so I guess it's necessary.
MS you could offer to drive them in a vehicle with 5 airbags if it'd be less stressful, I mean since it's so unnecessary....I bet the person wanting them don't feel it's so unnecessary.... what do you think?
@@badassbees3680 well yeah, i think it´s good to think about new ways to get bees from a to b, more beefriendly.
@@bobbinnie9872 We could think about creating new ways of transporting bees more carefully. New Innovations.
@@MS-hn1ik some things are just the way they are...bees get trucked over all day long and if they are prepared properly they are fine...I've never seen bees collapse from being moved if they were healthy and prepared properly and didn't get too hot,matter of fact most the time they are perfectly calm and absolutely fine... not near as stressful as you may think
What is your nuc price?
www.blueridgehoneycompany.com/packagebees_nucs.htm
This season is $175.00 and we were sold out months ago.
@@bobbinnie9872 Ha Bob I paid 226 a nuc wow I wish I lived near u That is a wonderful price.
Hope the shingles have cleared up
Almost gone.