Our Swarm Management and Splitting Guide…so far

In this video we cover everything about our swarm management approach and splitting. We even cover a little bit about honey harvesting. We spent the last several months recording our best practices for harvesting honey and identifying techniques for splitting hives and are excited to share the results!
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[@Manuherikiabeekeeping]

Hi from southern new Zealand 👋 you're doing great, comb is king, its the second most important thing in a hive apart from a good queen, you absolutely need as much of it as you can get. There is a technique called " checkerboarding" alternating foundation with drawn comb in a super. If you're interested i recommend Peter cowin the bee whisperer, bob binnie and kamin Reynolds who have great videos which will help you draw foundation faster, and theyre north American beekeepers. i use double brood chambers and i also use wooden frames with wax sheeted foundation so much more bee's to work with and the swarming method i use is really time consuming but allows me to draw foundation into comb very quickly, its labour intensive and there's a massive swarming risk association so i wont recommend it for your situation and i suspect bee time management is a bit of an issue for you guys with multiple things on the go. You shouldn't need to attach old comb to new foundation to get it drawn, that foundation looked a little dry to me. A good coating of wax should resolve that issue for you. The noise your little queen is making is called "tooting" its rare to see a mature queen do it but not unheard of, usually virgin queens make the sound especially before they hatch from a queen cell. She's a little small but as long as her pattern is good and the colony is pheromone stable i wouldn't worry about it. Glad you got a little honey 👍🐝😃 great video 👍👋

[@thebeesmeads]

So cool. Thanks for all the tips!

[@rayheath7840]

Great video, I’m in Victoria Australia and harvested some really dark honey at the end of our last season, any idea what flowers they got that nectar from. Thanks.

[@thebeesmeads]

Something with darker pollen usually in later summer produces darker honey. Have a look at what’s blooming in your area within a 2km radius.