Novice Queen Rearing Workshop-That Bee Man
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2023
- This workshop was geared toward the beekeeper who has yet to begin to raise their own queens or queens for others, for whatever reason. If you are experienced in queen rearing, there may be little new content.
We addressed some common hurdles, such as:
-Grafting is too difficult; I can't see and pick up small larvae
-I need more bees for a cell builder
-I don't need 50 queens for myself
-I don't know how to go about raising queens
-I couldn't possibly raise quality queens like I can buy at the store
We concentrated on:
-When and why do the bees make new queens
-The optimal conditions under which the bees make new queens
-The importance and composition of the cell builder
-Various ways you can construct a cell builder
-Discussion of various methods of getting your queen cells started in the builder; Grafting (the "Doolittle" method), Nicot/Jenter, OTS, Swarm Cells, Walkway Splits, Cell Punching, and The Hopkins Method.
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I wish I had tapped into this kind of a resource when I was early on in my beekeeping career
Thanks for watching, buddy!
Ian, your vids really helped me. Your Queen rearing vids were great.
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 .
I really appreciate your encouraging words! We both had fun putting on this workshop and how to do more in the future. Thanks for watching!
What a great reference for the backyard beekeeper. Love the info and the format with hands on demo too! Highly recommend my beekeeper friends.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching, Mark!
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.
That young man will go places!
There’s some really good nuggets in here! And some really great questions from the audience.
Having people realizie: Wait... I can do this? And its EASY? That must be priceless 😊
You've captured the essence of this workshop. Thanks for watching!
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.
That is essentially a paraphrase of my answer which was, cells are a symptom of the swarm impulse, not a case.
Thank you for this. I am a hobbiest and this was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
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!
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! 😊🐝
Thanks, Bob! That feedback is very much appreciated!
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 🏴
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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.
Thanks for the new ideas. That's the main focus of what I was trying to teach. There isn't just one way!
Nice work Brad . It looked like it was a good day for it. I'm sure everyone learned a lot.
Thanks, Kyle! Yes, a perfect day and a lot of good feedback!
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.
Thanks for your kind words! I'm glad you found it helpful!
Great video. I learned otc and a lot of woodworking skills from you. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Thanks, Lanny. I'm glad the videos are helpful!
A lot of good tips. We'll done guys, really informative.
Thanks, David!
I agree. I found beekeeping much more enjoyable and less stressful after I started being able to produce more queens than I needed.
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
Keep at it! I'm still learning too. I'm glad you took something from the video. Thanks for watching!
Great presentation 👍👍👍
Thanks for the visit
Great video❤
Thanks, Brad!
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.
This seems great for me, i want to get into beekeeping but i dont have the space for some hives but this seems great for my backyard.
I hope it was helpful. Thanks for watching!
@@ThatBeeMan thanks! I hope to someday buy some cheap empty land and put some hives on it, plant some wildflowers and whatnot c:
I wish I could have been there.
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 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.
I've seem them advertised on CZcams for veils with a clear window, or you could do it yourself. I have the same issues. @@ThatBeeMan
Try your cell builder with a double screen board ,you will find it much better and easier
In what ways is that better and easier?
I heard alot of echoing or double talk starting halfway through for a while. Curious as to what was happening at that point.
We had a sound system running, you heard my mic picking up the speaker.
I wondered who was being rude! lol@@ThatBeeMan
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 !
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.
@@ThatBeeMan I understood what ya you meant.😁 I was just saying.
@@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.
@@ThatBeeMan Oh see I don't know about all the beekeeper "politics" side. I'm sorry I didn't mean to imply anything like that.
@@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.
Get my bait from tree 1/2" think
What happens when you make the queens and you don’t use them all do you have to get rid of the rest
You can pinch them or offer them around among your circle of beekeeping friends, someone is likely to be able to use them.
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
@@paperthyme for sure. The queens just need a place to live. I made over 100 nucs last summer with my own queens.
Thank you so much I just reserved two packages for May, can't wait to get started!
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@@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