Another way to entice the bees through the “honey excluder lol” is to pull a frame of brood up over it. I use excluders as one of my primary beekeeping tools. I use the excluder to manage the queens movement as opposed to using it to exclude her movement, if you know what I mean Cheers!
Wow Nikki, I blinked and missed you looking in the bottom box. You're fast😂 I use the plastic excluders but always wanted to try a metal one. I think they even make them with wood frames. That queen is doing good. I love seeing freshly capped brood...it's really pretty. I hope they fill that super for you fast and youll have to add another soon. Great video as always!!
Thank you. The old excluder I had in the video is wood framed. I think they look a little nicer from an aesthetic point of view. I used to use the plastic, and still do if I need to, but I prefer metal.
Hi, love the videos. I am curious. What state are the frames in you put in the super? Are they drawn, coated, just plastic,, or just empty. TIA. As a going to be, new bee keeper. Is there a best way to have your hives built out comb when starting with nothing.
Thank you so much. I have Rite Cell foundation in that super and they are not drawn. It's a food grade plastic that is coated in beeswax. I think wax coated frames work well. You can do foundationless frames or frames to extract comb but I really only will do that with a really strong colony. Being new you won't have any drawn frames. A couple things you can do to encourage them to come up into the super is to mist them with 1:1 sugar syrup or you can leave the queen excluder off for a couple days. That will encourage them to go up there and just put the excluder on before the queen lays up there. You'll likely not be able to wait a full week until your next inspection but you won't have to disturb the brood boxes when you do it.
Well sweetie I do like looking at you but you should think about useing single brood boxes unless you plan to split that hive and I think your bees would do alot better . Rob.
There's a lot to unpack here Rob but to your main point, I like having two brood boxes to overwinter with. In the spring I will drop them down to one and allow them to build back up to a second deep.
I love how you explain what you see and show us what you see. Thank you
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the feedback ❤
Usefull information. Thanks.❤
Thank you so much!
Another way to entice the bees through the “honey excluder lol” is to pull a frame of brood up over it.
I use excluders as one of my primary beekeeping tools. I use the excluder to manage the queens movement as opposed to using it to exclude her movement, if you know what I mean
Cheers!
I do know what you mean and that's a great idea!
Great job Nikki
Thank you! ❤
Wow Nikki, I blinked and missed you looking in the bottom box. You're fast😂
I use the plastic excluders but always wanted to try a metal one. I think they even make them with wood frames.
That queen is doing good. I love seeing freshly capped brood...it's really pretty.
I hope they fill that super for you fast and youll have to add another soon. Great video as always!!
Thank you. The old excluder I had in the video is wood framed. I think they look a little nicer from an aesthetic point of view. I used to use the plastic, and still do if I need to, but I prefer metal.
@@sweetbeefarms I need to try a metal one. You're right tho, I prefer the wood. Have a great weekend
What is the reasoning to inspect each frame for the queen if you're putting the excluder on overtop anyway?
interesting to see.
Thank you so much!
How many frames dear??
Hi, love the videos. I am curious. What state are the frames in you put in the super? Are they drawn, coated, just plastic,, or just empty. TIA. As a going to be, new bee keeper. Is there a best way to have your hives built out comb when starting with nothing.
Thank you so much. I have Rite Cell foundation in that super and they are not drawn. It's a food grade plastic that is coated in beeswax. I think wax coated frames work well. You can do foundationless frames or frames to extract comb but I really only will do that with a really strong colony. Being new you won't have any drawn frames. A couple things you can do to encourage them to come up into the super is to mist them with 1:1 sugar syrup or you can leave the queen excluder off for a couple days. That will encourage them to go up there and just put the excluder on before the queen lays up there. You'll likely not be able to wait a full week until your next inspection but you won't have to disturb the brood boxes when you do it.
Thanks for the info. I know drawn comb always seems to be in short supply for hobby bee keepers.
If that super had new plastic foundation in it the bees won't come thru excluder to new plastic. Let us know.
I actually shot that video a couple weeks ago. They haven't had any issues and are drawing it out.
I know you know this Nikki but I use a big wire brush to clean the queen excluders. It seems to work better than scraping. Good video👍
Thank you! You are absolutely right, it does work better than scraping.
Well sweetie I do like looking at you but you should think about useing single brood boxes unless you plan to split that hive and I think your bees would do alot better . Rob.
There's a lot to unpack here Rob but to your main point, I like having two brood boxes to overwinter with. In the spring I will drop them down to one and allow them to build back up to a second deep.