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You sir are great! I have a few questions, The mated queens you added where from over wintered colonies? also do you over winter with a double brood box? looks like you have brood on the top box and stores underneath? Thanks!!!!
Thanks Tom. Yes - they were from overwintered colonies but they were dwindling. I sometimes overwinter on double but I depends on the bees. I think in most cases around here I can condense to a single box. I am halfway through a manipulation here moving the brood downwards into the bigger (14 x 12 box). See the video before about converting to 14 x 12 brood box :)
I am planning to raise queens for the first time this spring. I will be making 3 frame mating NUCs and introducing a queen cell into each one. How far do you think the mating NUCs need to be placed away from the donor hives? My thinking is that the bees in the NUCs are mostly Nurse bees and they will likely stay with the brood. The emerging capped brood will orient to the mating NUC so it seems that they would be fine in the same apiary. What do you think?
Can I recommend filming on a location away form a very busy road if at all possible as the noise from the road was very distracting. I would like to concentrate on the information you provide instead 😄
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Learnt a lot today, fantastic demo thanks, Top hair cut going for the easter egg look, mine is much the same Happy Easter.
haha! the resemblance to an Easter egg is 99.9% accurate!!! Glad you enjoyed it (and the video)
Good stuff sir
You sir are great! I have a few questions, The mated queens you added where from over wintered colonies? also do you over winter with a double brood box? looks like you have brood on the top box and stores underneath? Thanks!!!!
Thanks Tom. Yes - they were from overwintered colonies but they were dwindling. I sometimes overwinter on double but I depends on the bees. I think in most cases around here I can condense to a single box.
I am halfway through a manipulation here moving the brood downwards into the bigger (14 x 12 box). See the video before about converting to 14 x 12 brood box :)
I am planning to raise queens for the first time this spring. I will be making 3 frame mating NUCs and introducing a queen cell into each one. How far do you think the mating NUCs need to be placed away from the donor hives? My thinking is that the bees in the NUCs are mostly Nurse bees and they will likely stay with the brood. The emerging capped brood will orient to the mating NUC so it seems that they would be fine in the same apiary. What do you think?
Yes. Fine in the same apiary just over stock as necessary and allow for drift
Can you let them raise their own queen
how does the queen feed for up to 8 days while in the cage?
The nurse bees in the colony and attendants feed her
@@BlackMountainHoney so they will feed her in the cage, but will attack her if she was released to soon
Is it just the queen in the cage, have you got rid of the attendants?
Attendants as well
Can I recommend filming on a location away form a very busy road if at all possible as the noise from the road was very distracting. I would like to concentrate on the information you provide instead 😄
Yep. We no longer keep bees here and have upgraded our audio equipment ;)
Interesting. For a better video, set up the camera closer to the action and a lot less talking.