you seem to have everything perfectly arranged from your weed matting to your beautiful boxes to your beekeeping techniques...hats off to you...I will be copying your format and arrangments :)
Great video Ashby Do you feed those 5 frame Nucs as soon as you put them together? I noticed you put multiple blank foundations in with the new queen and wondered if you give them a pollen patty or syrup or both right after you make the 5 frame Nucs up. Also, I saw you at the EXPO a couple weeks ago, but didn't get a chance to say hi. I will catch you at another event I'm sure. Brady
All we give them is 1 food, 2 broods, a queen cell, and 2 foundations in a 5 frame Nuc. In the 4-5 weeks it takes the new queen to emerge, mate, and get laying, that food frame will keep them fed, in addition to incoming food. They’ll draw out the other 2 frames during that time. No feeding of the splits. Hope this answers your question
New sub and fellow NC beek (Ral)! Nice follow up to your video on the queen castle construction. I now see what your note yesterday means about using the screen. I've seen Kamon Reynolds use reflective bubble wrap to do a similar thing. Question... I grab the queens wings and drop her in a marking tube but for next year I'd prefer to just direct mark the queen like you. Are you holding both back legs or only one? I'll practice on some drones :-) Thanks.
a remake of this for this year would be good content :P
Been swamped!
you seem to have everything perfectly arranged from your weed matting to your beautiful boxes to your beekeeping techniques...hats off to you...I will be copying your format and arrangments :)
Thanks! If you can think of any way to improve it, I’d welcome the help!
This is my first time seeing what a queen castle is and does. Excellent explanation and video! Thank you!
Glad to help thanks for watching!
Great video hello from Kajun Homestead and Beekeeping
Nice work 👍
Great video Ashby
Do you feed those 5 frame Nucs as soon as you put them together?
I noticed you put multiple blank foundations in with the new queen and wondered if you give them a pollen patty or syrup or both right after you make the 5 frame Nucs up.
Also, I saw you at the EXPO a couple weeks ago, but didn't get a chance to say hi. I will catch you at another event I'm sure.
Brady
All we give them is 1 food, 2 broods, a queen cell, and 2 foundations in a 5 frame Nuc. In the 4-5 weeks it takes the new queen to emerge, mate, and get laying, that food frame will keep them fed, in addition to incoming food. They’ll draw out the other 2 frames during that time. No feeding of the splits. Hope this answers your question
New sub and fellow NC beek (Ral)! Nice follow up to your video on the queen castle construction. I now see what your note yesterday means about using the screen. I've seen Kamon Reynolds use reflective bubble wrap to do a similar thing.
Question... I grab the queens wings and drop her in a marking tube but for next year I'd prefer to just direct mark the queen like you. Are you holding both back legs or only one? I'll practice on some drones :-) Thanks.
Yes hold 2-3 legs
Do the queens never sting you? Loving the vlogs 🫣
They have the ability to sting but usually only when defending themselves agains other queens
Do you ever just harvest the queen from the castles and just drop another cell without moving frames out?
Absolutely
Why not just make a screen for each section of the queen castle it would be easier to work.
Thats a good idea for one or two. We have 100 QCs so that would be 400 screens. Too much work
@@Ashby_Farms_NC not if you make them universal and the boxes are the same with just make a set to take to each one.