Splitting hives this week in illinois. I use the swarm cells that I get. Split one colony 5 ways this morning. Two cells went to breeder nucs with shaken bees. The rest got cells too. It was two mediums and a deep. The big boxes got put on their own stands. If all 5 breed successfully I'll be happy. I sort of doubt the weather will cooperate. Fingers crossed. Missed the queen. They haven't swarmed so she's in one of the boxes. Might see her tomorrow. So many beees.
Gotta share what happened to me Sunday: first frame I pull has the queen on it, from my most gentile and most promising hive (out of 2). I set her aside. We just had 7 days of bad weather after 2 weeks of ok weather, I couldn't get into that hive for 10 days due to weather and obligations, so I found drawn queen cells. I decided to split, so I took out frames with cups. Put one frame with 6 almost closed cups in the split and broke away others. Im done, pick up the frame with the queen, take a good look at her and for whatever reason: there she goes. She flew off, apparently she was already skinny enough to fly. Did a quick look in the hive again today to find a single queen cup in my main colony. I just replaced my other queen from 2nd main colony the week (10 days) before. So now I'll have 4 virgin queens soon. Fingers crossed they all make it. So I have been grafting more queens this year unwanted. Lesson learned: I'm going to cage her next time I'm doing splitting
I went from Awesome to possible disaster in two days. Thanks to this break in the weather I finally got a chance Saturday to go in on a gorgeous day to do a hive inspection on all four after two weeks. I get to the most populous hive and see nothing but capped brood no eggs no larva. I saw three very small queen cells. I mean small they looked almost like drone cells and then farther in I saw an earlier queen cell but it's not possible to have been successful cause first drones are just emerging and aren't flying yet. So the plan. Decided to rob a last fall's queen from a nuc and give her to the big colony then use the nuc as a small cell builder to build some more. Pull grafts from each of the 3 remaining queens and mark them so I can keep track of their age. Simple enough. had my daughter make up a small batch of fondant for the queen cage. First queen found her caught her with my bare hand (first time) marked her (first time) placed her in a queen cage and introduced her into the big hive. all seemed copacetic. went into the second big hive found the queen marked her and took a frame of brood grafted 5 cells(easier said than done also first time.) I learned a major newbie lesson. I tried to graft out of brand spanking new foundation less drawn comb. That soft tongue on the Chinese grafting tool is stiffer than the new comb. Slide it in down the side and rather than following the cell contour under the larva it just punches through the bottom of the cell. I had also bought a German grafting tool or whatever it's called and had to use that very gently on the new comb instead. I grafted 5 larva out of each hive. On the last nuc I had a major problem. The queen was not cooperative at all. I had taken the frame to the side to catch her finally did. finally got her marked put her in a queen cage for a few minutes to let the paint dry. I noted they were a bit pissy when I went the 6 feet back to the hive.to re introduce her. What I didn't know is some bees were beginning to rob that nuc. The moment the queen came out of the cage onto the frame they balled her. i got her free into a cage and placed her on top. They looked ok the moment I tried again they balled her. with no where else to put her I put her back into the cage placed fondant in and put her in the frame for a slow release. Just strange! they'd be all nice when she was caged but ball her the moment she got out. Now the weather has turned for shit again a quick check showed my virgin voyage into grafting produced 2 cells out of 15 and if neither of the introductions worked I'm short 3 queens. I don't want to do hive inspections in this weather but I may have to go out and graft more cells because if i don't I will have lost all my diversity. The eggs on Sunday when this all happened will be 4 day old larva before the weather clears. or leave them be and hope they make their own. Undeterred. It's all a learning experience. But other than burning them all down with the smoker I can't see much more that could have gone wrong. Lmao..... My luck sucks!!! but, on the bright side it forces me to become very capable at anything I attempt to do.
So just set up a builder yesterday do to time and regular 60+ hour a week job. Would I be wasting time putting in grafts today? 24 hours later? I’m planning on putting capped cells into incubator. Then to mating Nucs. Thank you in advance for Opinion.
Just wondering why you don't mark your queens when you have them at the beginning of the year so you can spot them latter on easier if required Find your videos really helpful with you systematic approach
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Amazing job boss
Whenever I watch your videos i get excited to work with the bees
Splitting hives this week in illinois.
I use the swarm cells that I get.
Split one colony 5 ways this morning. Two cells went to breeder nucs with shaken bees.
The rest got cells too. It was two mediums and a deep. The big boxes got put on their own stands.
If all 5 breed successfully I'll be happy. I sort of doubt the weather will cooperate. Fingers crossed.
Missed the queen. They haven't swarmed so she's in one of the boxes. Might see her tomorrow.
So many beees.
I can't speak for the other beginners, but you videos are all educational!
A bit of a long shot, but what's the chance of getting Carey to do a video on grafting?
Thanks.
Preparation is everything.
Time to shift gears.
Looking good.
👍
Gotta share what happened to me Sunday: first frame I pull has the queen on it, from my most gentile and most promising hive (out of 2). I set her aside. We just had 7 days of bad weather after 2 weeks of ok weather, I couldn't get into that hive for 10 days due to weather and obligations, so I found drawn queen cells. I decided to split, so I took out frames with cups. Put one frame with 6 almost closed cups in the split and broke away others. Im done, pick up the frame with the queen, take a good look at her and for whatever reason: there she goes. She flew off, apparently she was already skinny enough to fly. Did a quick look in the hive again today to find a single queen cup in my main colony. I just replaced my other queen from 2nd main colony the week (10 days) before. So now I'll have 4 virgin queens soon. Fingers crossed they all make it.
So I have been grafting more queens this year unwanted.
Lesson learned: I'm going to cage her next time I'm doing splitting
Update: 1 hive overtaken by swarm I cought.
1 hive queenless and laying workers.
1 hive laying since 2 days ago
1 hive unknown.
I went from Awesome to possible disaster in two days. Thanks to this break in the weather I finally got a chance Saturday to go in on a gorgeous day to do a hive inspection on all four after two weeks. I get to the most populous hive and see nothing but capped brood no eggs no larva. I saw three very small queen cells. I mean small they looked almost like drone cells and then farther in I saw an earlier queen cell but it's not possible to have been successful cause first drones are just emerging and aren't flying yet. So the plan. Decided to rob a last fall's queen from a nuc and give her to the big colony then use the nuc as a small cell builder to build some more. Pull grafts from each of the 3 remaining queens and mark them so I can keep track of their age. Simple enough. had my daughter make up a small batch of fondant for the queen cage. First queen found her caught her with my bare hand (first time) marked her (first time) placed her in a queen cage and introduced her into the big hive. all seemed copacetic. went into the second big hive found the queen marked her and took a frame of brood grafted 5 cells(easier said than done also first time.) I learned a major newbie lesson. I tried to graft out of brand spanking new foundation less drawn comb. That soft tongue on the Chinese grafting tool is stiffer than the new comb. Slide it in down the side and rather than following the cell contour under the larva it just punches through the bottom of the cell. I had also bought a German grafting tool or whatever it's called and had to use that very gently on the new comb instead. I grafted 5 larva out of each hive.
On the last nuc I had a major problem. The queen was not cooperative at all. I had taken the frame to the side to catch her finally did. finally got her marked put her in a queen cage for a few minutes to let the paint dry. I noted they were a bit pissy when I went the 6 feet back to the hive.to re introduce her. What I didn't know is some bees were beginning to rob that nuc. The moment the queen came out of the cage onto the frame they balled her. i got her free into a cage and placed her on top. They looked ok the moment I tried again they balled her. with no where else to put her I put her back into the cage placed fondant in and put her in the frame for a slow release. Just strange! they'd be all nice when she was caged but ball her the moment she got out. Now the weather has turned for shit again a quick check showed my virgin voyage into grafting produced 2 cells out of 15 and if neither of the introductions worked I'm short 3 queens. I don't want to do hive inspections in this weather but I may have to go out and graft more cells because if i don't I will have lost all my diversity. The eggs on Sunday when this all happened will be 4 day old larva before the weather clears. or leave them be and hope they make their own.
Undeterred. It's all a learning experience. But other than burning them all down with the smoker I can't see much more that could have gone wrong. Lmao..... My luck sucks!!! but, on the bright side it forces me to become very capable at anything I attempt to do.
Great information. 60 cells in a 10 frame deep. Wow and thanks.
Sweet production!
Awesome content! Keep it coming!
What type of boxes do you use? Langstroth of Jumbo Langstroth?
wow that's lots of Q ..thanks for the vids ...cheers
Hello! Nice videos. I have a lot of videos too, I work with Apis melifera carnica
nice!
So just set up a builder yesterday do to time and regular 60+ hour a week job. Would I be wasting time putting in grafts today? 24 hours later? I’m planning on putting capped cells into incubator. Then to mating Nucs. Thank you in advance for Opinion.
wow, video, waiting faw day
Your hives look amazing
How did you attach the boards on the bottom of the totes that you had cut the bottom out of?
My question to you is I watch your Vlogs all the time! for a cell Builder do you leave that open or do you trap them up?
Jakob Neufeld
Always open
How many hives do you combine? 3?
Is your cell builder free flying?
If so, how do you keep the keep adding new bees?
Thomas Kingsley
Either a weekly shake or a brood frame rotation
Still waiting for Carrie's interview!!!!!!
then what did you do with the queen ?
Just wondering why you don't mark your queens when you have them at the beginning of the year so you can spot them latter on easier if required
Find your videos really helpful with you systematic approach
we could, an probably should. too busy
Absolutely great looking colonies maybe someday you will share the wealth
He is already sharing the wealth in his detailed informational videos.👍
How big is your suitcase? Could you tell me the size? I feel like I only have eight frame here.box
1 kloni how much dollar bos?
How much frame?
I've had one or two girls that "carried away the brilliance of my stock."
Nice dark Queen
Thats not ligustica?
Buckfast carnica???
Can I have one of your queens :)
Queens sell for about $ 25.there are queen breeders shipping to your address.