I just wanted to really thank you. A long time ago I was really afraid of bees. Yesterday while my daughter was at archery Patrice we saw a bee flying around. It was really hot that day so I filled up a cap of water for her. She landed on me and I wasn't scared, because I knew what to do. So I guided her to the water were she spent a few minutes drinking and she flew off. Thanks for making me not so nervous around bees.
By the way Jim, I’ve watched a ton of beekeeping videos on TH-cam. Hands down, your videos are the best and most informative for me. Thanks for all the work you put into them.
Birch may have stumbled... but thats a really nice hive! :D 2021 seems to be starting nice for bees in general... I started over after loosing my hives last fall... those 4 nucs exploded and are looking like they will need a second brood box after just 2 weeks. Here's to a great summer for all beekeepers! :D
When you aren't rushed for honey production and it's early enough in the season it's just fine to let them take care of it themselves like this. Excited to see how it plays out!
I always feel sorry for the failing queen. I wonder if they know the field of perpetual nectar is looming or if it’s a surprise when her daughters ball her? I like to think she knows and no matter what she needs to hang on until her successor is ready and when it is she tells her girls ‘it’s time’. 😭
Wow, that old Queen did *not* look healthy! Luckily she had enough eggs in her to make a replacement so you could keep the genetic diversity you were after in the beeyard, but I suppose it wouldn't have been terrible to drop a frame of eggs in from a different hive had they needed it- your other hives are doing so well on eggs :) so happy to see your problem hive is barely a problem- very different from last year! very glad to see your bees doing so well :)
I'd bet that original queen was injured in shipping before you installed her, which is why the package had such a hard time getting organized to go into the hive. I had the same thing on two packages of my bees this year. They immediately replaced the old queen and the old girl had just enough in her to get them going by giving them a few eggs to make queen cells. They got off to a rocky start but they are also doing fine now as well. The bees know what to do...sometime it's just let nature do it's thing and all is well. Love your bee barns. I really think after this year I'm going to have to build something similar.
Another grand video, its always good for new beekeepers to remember that bees know what they are doing, the have been doing it a lot longer than we have :) thanks for sharing!
Very impressed with your Langstroth redesign, it reminds me in many ways of the Warre hive. I build my own equipment and run 2” thick Warre hives with the traditional Warre quilt box and gable ventilated roof of which I have had great success, far better than with traditional Langstroths. The naysayers will find issues with change from traditional Langstroths but I am all for it. I am considering revamping my Lang’s after your design as it is way ahead of traditional Langstroths. I even tried the Apimaye but my bees do not care for the plastic, they do better in wood like their natural home, a tree. Keep up the great work and sharing your ideas.
Birch Hive did well! You saw that package queen was "off" right away - but the bees probably knew before you picked up the package. So, they were primed and as soon as they got installed, they were building for a new queen. Drone cells immediately because they wanted drones for the new queen they would make. Queen cells waiting for her when she was released, and she laid some eggs, sealing her fate and saving the colony. It gives me more and more confidence watching this happen, because the bees do know what to do. If the queen looked good to me - I might have put her in a two frame (if you have one) or a nuc just to see if different bees might accept and keep her. But since you saw she was off, you did the best thing for the bees - in my opinion. Great video Jim!
PS Like the new video format here. Focusing on one colony over a month +, seeing a problem, watching it develop, seeing it resolved. I have a feeling that is not the only new format I will see this season - you are nothing if not creative!
So true!!! No one knows how to be a bee better than a bee. I think we intrude too much sometimes as beekeepers for the sake of honey. I'm glad to see they worked it out and all is good!!
I had exactly the same thing happen with a package I installed this year. I wasn’t so lucky with the supersedure cells. The queen was in obvious distress when she walked out of the cage after 3 days. I’ve moved a total of 3 frames of eggs/brood from other hives. The first two didn’t work. I just moved the 3rd frame with eggs this morning.
If your hive is not able to successfully create a new queen you may want to just purchase a commercially produced queen. She will be laying within days and remember it'll still be 21 days before the first workers emerge so the hive population will just be plummeting until that happens. That hive is likely loosing about 500-1000 bees a day to natural death (depending on hive size) so if the hive is weak now, by the time it produces it's own queen it just may be a dead hive. Alternatively you could newspaper combine it with another hive to just give that hive the strength and move on from the weak hive.
@@Razmaatazz I know you’re right, but because I’m relatively new at this, it has become a test of wills for me. I told my wife I should have ordered a new queen immediately. Just stubborn I guess and I want to make this work the way I want it to work. All that being said, I know you’re exactly right.
I know nothing about bees, beside them being very important. It is so great to watch your videos and I have been looking forward to this video. Thank you!
Good deal Jim. . Happy to see that after a slow install, Queen issues, you found eggs and the Queen. How heavy are those frames when they are packed up on both sides?
I'm a first year beekeeper. What I have learned from others about queen rearing is that you want the strongest hives with the most nurse bees possible to feed the queens royal jelly. Would a supersedure event like this lead to an inferior queen? Looks like she has a great pattern. Just curious if you considered buying a queen or having Adrian raise a new queen.
Helpful to see this video. I’m a Newbee. Got a package from MS Georgia on 5/17. No trouble other than lost a sold 1/2 in in transit due to only 2pinholes in syrup can probably. Loved their queen. Even had an exterior girl hanging to the outside the whole trip up to PA. About day 33 I discovered 3 capped emergency cells (middle of a brood frame) and 1 uncapped on the flip side. They had been great on their buildup. I remember that the package queen seemed small, but again they seemed devoted. Now, I combed the hive and cannot find her. Should I let things play out too? If, my calculations are correct, I should not see any eggs until 7/3. There were 3uncapped larva, no eggs, lots of capped brood, hardly any drone brood. Honey build up is lacking I think having only stores mainly good on 1 1/2 of 8F so far. Dearth is fast approaching here too. Girls are on the clock. They are Italians.
Great videos. Thanks for all the great content. I’m in NE Florida with an average summer high temperature in the mid 90s. Just got my first colony from and nuc installed in a 10 frame Langstroth deep box. They seem to be doing well. Curious if your hive might be a good fit for my area.
I have some Apimaye hives and I am going to utilize their insulative properties to replicate the "bee barns" down here in GA. I am building my frames this week and I will put my wax foundation in the frames and hopefully have everything ready to go by end of next week. Considering doing a split from existing langs hive. Any thoughts on how to transition from single medium frame to new bee barn frames?
Great video. How heavy do those end frames get one they are completely filled with honey? I've heard at least 6 stories of my fellow neighborhood beekeepers with garbage queens in their new package. Drone layers, poor patterns, etc. In a few cases the bees did exactly what happened here and usurped the bad queen. In more extreme cases they flat out murder her before she lays any eggs. Something funky going on with the southern packages this year.
My queens are actually locally bred. They are inserted into southern shaken packages by a local breeder. So aside from this anomaly, my other 5 queens are great.
That's got to be a world record from package install to superseded queen. It took my package 2 months to swarm and 8 days later I'm still looking for the new queen to emerge out of the ten cells they left behind, is this too soon? I liked the sequence on the video, it tied it all together to form a great timeline. I did make a resource nuc out of another frame with 5 swarm cells on it.
Yes. They are great. I have not noticed any bee chewing on the blue polystyrene. I had a couple pieces of foil backed polyisocyanurate in the nucs and they were carrying it out crumb by crumb. This stuff seems to not bother them at all.
Awesome video! How come it took so long for the new queen to mate? Does she have to fly out in order to do so or can she use one of the drones in the hive?
Have you had any issues with the width of the entrance on the new hive design? It is not the full width as in the normal Langstroth hive so I was wondering if you had seen any congestion issues with it being narrower now that it is warming up.
When you hive a package, you are starting a weak colony that is usually somewhat stressed and they have no brood. A couple weeks after they have been placed in the hive, there will be no young nurse bees left, the youngest bee in the bunch will be 2+ weeks old, and it will be at least another week before the first brood emerges. The bees detect this population imbalance and the ingrained natural reaction to that is to start supercedure to replace the queen. This is the real reason you often find queen cells in a package a couple weeks after installation. One should never let those cells go to completion, never let a package requeen unless they have been in the hive for at least 6 weeks, at which point the colony will have a proper balance with bees of all ages. For the first couple of brood rounds, folks that dont really understand the workings of the brood nest will get concerned because the queen stops laying any significant amount after 10 days. This is also normal, you have a small colony that can only cover a limited amount of brood. When a queen stops laying 2 weeks after hiving a package it does not mean the queen is defective, it means the colony has all the brood they can tend, so they are not starting more because they dont have the resources in enough numbers to tend more brood. When you get a package, with it comes a queen that was raised by a professional queen producer, in ideal conditions, from selected stock. The growing larvae was fed abundantly by a colony bursting with bees and lots of feed, then she was mated in an area where the drone population was managed to ensure ample drones for good mating. When you let a freshly hived package requeen before the first brood round has emerged you are now going to end up with a queen raised by a small stressed colony that doesn't have any fresh young nurse bees to tend and feed the queen cells properly. You have effectively swapped a queen raised in ideal conditions for one raised the total opposite, the worst of conditions for producing a healthy strong new queen. The correct way to manage a new package install is to ensure they do not supercede before they have been in the hive for a minimum of 6 weeks so two rounds of brood have emerged and the colony now has a population with bees of the correct age distribution. If indeed they have a problematic queen, which can happen, then the correct solution is to replace her with a well raised and well mated queen. Allowing a package to supercede during the first round of brood being produced is an ideal recipe for producing an underfed poorly mated queen to head the colony going forward.
Out of five packages installed on the same day, this one particular colony was very different than all the rest. After 6 days, there was a tiny patch of eggs and a queen that wasn’t moving. She was surrounded by attendants but my five years of experience told me that something was very wrong with her. I understand everything you wrote, but this situation was not that. This queen needed to be replaced. It’s hard to show it on a TH-cam video, but in person, I’m sure you would have agreed. This queen was damaged. I have a three year old queen in another hive who is ‘slowing down’ but she moves a lot better than this queen. This one just looked like she had given up. It happens. The new queen is doing just fine.
I tried leaving extra queen cells during a supercedure and the buggers swarmed on me :/ then on recombining the new queen got killed so had to requeen AGAIN! Bees are weird
Whenever I see queen cells & the old queen, I always make a split with that/those cells. I'll let them have the 2nd or 3rd round of supercedure cells though...(I love making splits)
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I just wanted to really thank you. A long time ago I was really afraid of bees. Yesterday while my daughter was at archery Patrice we saw a bee flying around. It was really hot that day so I filled up a cap of water for her. She landed on me and I wasn't scared, because I knew what to do. So I guided her to the water were she spent a few minutes drinking and she flew off. Thanks for making me not so nervous around bees.
I have never been so transfixed by a story of an insect since the movie, A Bug's Life. I absolutely LOVE how dedicated you are to caring for you bees!
You're going to have to name her Queen Rocky, after her rocky start, 😂.
Great stuff, thanks for posting James.
👏👏👏 👋👋👋 🇦🇺
By the way Jim, I’ve watched a ton of beekeeping videos on TH-cam. Hands down, your videos are the best and most informative for me. Thanks for all the work you put into them.
Thanks for taking the extra time to identify the queens for us using arrows and close ups. I really appreciate you and your videos. Thanks Vino.
Same I enjoy watching them.This channel is the best.
Birch may have stumbled... but thats a really nice hive! :D 2021 seems to be starting nice for bees in general... I started over after loosing my hives last fall... those 4 nucs exploded and are looking like they will need a second brood box after just 2 weeks.
Here's to a great summer for all beekeepers! :D
When you aren't rushed for honey production and it's early enough in the season it's just fine to let them take care of it themselves like this. Excited to see how it plays out!
Awesome. Good instincts of that hive. I'm glad they have a new queen who seems to be doing much better. Thanks for the updates 😊
The bees definitely know what they need better than we know what they need!
I always feel sorry for the failing queen. I wonder if they know the field of perpetual nectar is looming or if it’s a surprise when her daughters ball her? I like to think she knows and no matter what she needs to hang on until her successor is ready and when it is she tells her girls ‘it’s time’. 😭
The Birch Hive has been my favorite from the start! So happy they've moved forward and making it work for them! :)
Yaay!! Go Vino Bees!! 🐝 I'm so excited to watch you thrive!! Smiles and blessings...
Wow, that old Queen did *not* look healthy! Luckily she had enough eggs in her to make a replacement so you could keep the genetic diversity you were after in the beeyard, but I suppose it wouldn't have been terrible to drop a frame of eggs in from a different hive had they needed it- your other hives are doing so well on eggs :) so happy to see your problem hive is barely a problem- very different from last year! very glad to see your bees doing so well :)
Yes. So far, this is the worst thing to happen in the bee yard since March. Quite a bit different than the past year.
I'd bet that original queen was injured in shipping before you installed her, which is why the package had such a hard time getting organized to go into the hive. I had the same thing on two packages of my bees this year. They immediately replaced the old queen and the old girl had just enough in her to get them going by giving them a few eggs to make queen cells. They got off to a rocky start but they are also doing fine now as well. The bees know what to do...sometime it's just let nature do it's thing and all is well. Love your bee barns. I really think after this year I'm going to have to build something similar.
@@LegendHold1 that's an interesting point and observation.
Another grand video, its always good for new beekeepers to remember that bees know what they are doing, the have been doing it a lot longer than we have :) thanks for sharing!
You’ve taught me a great lesson. Don’t panic and let the bees sort it out. I really appreciate this video. Thank you
have to love when they just take care of themselves and handling a weak queen.
Thanks for the arrows Jim :)
Very good video. The new queen brood pattern is a good sign for a successful matted queen. It's going to be a wonderful colony.
This was awesome. Thanks for taking the time to do all this documenting. It's SO helpful! Long live the new queen!
I like how they found a good place for those big queen cells in the gaps you created in these frames!
Very impressed with your Langstroth redesign, it reminds me in many ways of the Warre hive. I build my own equipment and run 2” thick Warre hives with the traditional Warre quilt box and gable ventilated roof of which I have had great success, far better than with traditional Langstroths. The naysayers will find issues with change from traditional Langstroths but I am all for it. I am considering revamping my Lang’s after your design as it is way ahead of traditional Langstroths. I even tried the Apimaye but my bees do not care for the plastic, they do better in wood like their natural home, a tree. Keep up the great work and sharing your ideas.
Liking this. I want to start beekeeping soon. Trying to learn a lot more before I start though.
Birch Hive did well! You saw that package queen was "off" right away - but the bees probably knew before you picked up the package. So, they were primed and as soon as they got installed, they were building for a new queen. Drone cells immediately because they wanted drones for the new queen they would make. Queen cells waiting for her when she was released, and she laid some eggs, sealing her fate and saving the colony. It gives me more and more confidence watching this happen, because the bees do know what to do. If the queen looked good to me - I might have put her in a two frame (if you have one) or a nuc just to see if different bees might accept and keep her. But since you saw she was off, you did the best thing for the bees - in my opinion. Great video Jim!
PS Like the new video format here. Focusing on one colony over a month +, seeing a problem, watching it develop, seeing it resolved. I have a feeling that is not the only new format I will see this season - you are nothing if not creative!
I just like a story. That’s why there’s a long time between videos. Sometimes I need to wait for resolution. Thanks for the support, Julie!!!
@@vinofarm
I always love great content. Lucky for me - that's all you produce!
Why does it feel so satisfying when bees do what the naturally do. Amazing
Birch are the buster bees! They bust through challenges :) very cool to see mother bee and her daughter on the same frame
Well they knew what they wanted lol. It's so.nice to see happy bees in your yard again!
Awesome timeline of events and presentation. Not something I have ever seen and professionally done. You're a master!
Thanks for the information, I plan to start on building my hives this summer, before fall I can put the bees in them for winter.
So true!!! No one knows how to be a bee better than a bee. I think we intrude too much sometimes as beekeepers for the sake of honey. I'm glad to see they worked it out and all is good!!
What a great sequence in this video. Thank you for showing the whole process in one video. Like Pimp, I was transfixed.
Good job to the bees! May they make the best of the year after a rough start.
Welcome Birch Hive Family :-)
Looking great! 👍 Mother nature knows best 👌
9:00
You use such wonderful music for respectfully acknowledging the end of things... it's a nice touch in an excellent presentation overall...
Ha ha… the music selection is a big part of why my edits take forever. So many songs to choose from. Thanks!
I had exactly the same thing happen with a package I installed this year. I wasn’t so lucky with the supersedure cells. The queen was in obvious distress when she walked out of the cage after 3 days. I’ve moved a total of 3 frames of eggs/brood from other hives. The first two didn’t work. I just moved the 3rd frame with eggs this morning.
If your hive is not able to successfully create a new queen you may want to just purchase a commercially produced queen. She will be laying within days and remember it'll still be 21 days before the first workers emerge so the hive population will just be plummeting until that happens. That hive is likely loosing about 500-1000 bees a day to natural death (depending on hive size) so if the hive is weak now, by the time it produces it's own queen it just may be a dead hive. Alternatively you could newspaper combine it with another hive to just give that hive the strength and move on from the weak hive.
@@Razmaatazz I know you’re right, but because I’m relatively new at this, it has become a test of wills for me. I told my wife I should have ordered a new queen immediately. Just stubborn I guess and I want to make this work the way I want it to work. All that being said, I know you’re exactly right.
Drama of the Queen Bee's: Booming business (S1E1) 😀 you should contact Netflix hahaha
Well done, I'm not an expert but looks like the new frame layouts are really working well.
I know nothing about bees, beside them being very important. It is so great to watch your videos and I have been looking forward to this video. Thank you!
Well, I have a few videos on this channel. Watch a few and you’ll soon learn a LOT about bees!
What fascinating series of videos showing the supersedure process.
Loved seeing this video follow up! Thank you!
Good deal Jim. . Happy to see that after a slow install, Queen issues, you found eggs and the Queen. How heavy are those frames when they are packed up on both sides?
So far, not unmanageable at all. There have been a few loaded with honey, but they’re like 50% heavier than a regular deep. Nothing crazy.
Excellent video showing a supersedure queen. Showed your experience knowing right off something wasn't right. 👍👍👍👍👍
I’m learning patients from your bees☺️
I'm a first year beekeeper. What I have learned from others about queen rearing is that you want the strongest hives with the most nurse bees possible to feed the queens royal jelly. Would a supersedure event like this lead to an inferior queen? Looks like she has a great pattern. Just curious if you considered buying a queen or having Adrian raise a new queen.
Glad your superseder worked out, I was not so lucky. Nice queen you got there.
Ive been following you for years!! So Glad the birch hive is up and running
Helpful to see this video. I’m a Newbee. Got a package from MS Georgia on 5/17. No trouble other than lost a sold 1/2 in in transit due to only 2pinholes in syrup can probably. Loved their queen. Even had an exterior girl hanging to the outside the whole trip up to PA. About day 33 I discovered 3 capped emergency cells (middle of a brood frame) and 1 uncapped on the flip side. They had been great on their buildup. I remember that the package queen seemed small, but again they seemed devoted. Now, I combed the hive and cannot find her. Should I let things play out too? If, my calculations are correct, I should not see any eggs until 7/3. There were 3uncapped larva, no eggs, lots of capped brood, hardly any drone brood. Honey build up is lacking I think having only stores mainly good on 1 1/2 of 8F so far. Dearth is fast approaching here too. Girls are on the clock. They are Italians.
Thanks for this video, Jim! It was outstanding!
Great review of the Birch hive!!
Great videos. Thanks for all the great content. I’m in NE Florida with an average summer high temperature in the mid 90s. Just got my first colony from and nuc installed in a 10 frame Langstroth deep box. They seem to be doing well. Curious if your hive might be a good fit for my area.
I am so excited for you.100k is on the way. Been here since before 5k. What an adventure!!
I have some Apimaye hives and I am going to utilize their insulative properties to replicate the "bee barns" down here in GA. I am building my frames this week and I will put my wax foundation in the frames and hopefully have everything ready to go by end of next week. Considering doing a split from existing langs hive. Any thoughts on how to transition from single medium frame to new bee barn frames?
great news!!!!! thanks for the update!
The joy i feel seeing that i get to catch up with the bees is immeasurable
Great video as always Vino! :) Love your video style and cant wait for each video! Love from Norway :)
If it's off season and there is new queen 👑. You should check their nectar stock and provide them sugar if they have zero stock.
Birch is back1 Looking good now, and they don't seem so lethargic.
Ha ha… that would have been a good title. “The Birch is Back!”
I’ll save that title for when something happens to the Beech hive!
@@vinofarm :D
Great stuff Jim!! I’ve had a skunk visit two nights now and remove the entrance reducer. Say suggestions?
Good job birch hive
At 8:09, was that a marked bee in the upper left corner? Might just be a reflection on the wings, but I was just curious!
Think you need to start marking your queens to track the drama if nothing else. :)
Thst hive is Looking good.
Please Take Care
Great video. How heavy do those end frames get one they are completely filled with honey?
I've heard at least 6 stories of my fellow neighborhood beekeepers with garbage queens in their new package. Drone layers, poor patterns, etc. In a few cases the bees did exactly what happened here and usurped the bad queen. In more extreme cases they flat out murder her before she lays any eggs.
Something funky going on with the southern packages this year.
My queens are actually locally bred. They are inserted into southern shaken packages by a local breeder. So aside from this anomaly, my other 5 queens are great.
Gotta love fresh new queens! Good job!
That's got to be a world record from package install to superseded queen. It took my package 2 months to swarm and 8 days later I'm still looking for the new queen to emerge out of the ten cells they left behind, is this too soon? I liked the sequence on the video, it tied it all together to form a great timeline. I did make a resource nuc out of another frame with 5 swarm cells on it.
The. Frames were they just modified or did you make new ones to accept the foundation?
I designed and built them. Here's an instagram post with some details... instagram.com/p/CPd8cIIHl6z/
Those foam insert seem to be working really well
Yes. They are great. I have not noticed any bee chewing on the blue polystyrene. I had a couple pieces of foil backed polyisocyanurate in the nucs and they were carrying it out crumb by crumb. This stuff seems to not bother them at all.
Yahoo good way to start the weekend with a new video!
What a start to season 2021!
It has been a dream compared to last year’s nightmare.
fantastic progression of a supercedure. poor original queen. i wonder what was wrong with her...
"Life finds a way." -Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
I hate to be pedantic, but that quote REALLY needs the, “uh” in there!
@@vinofarm
Otherwise, its not Goldblum.
@@vinofarm Lol
Nice work birch hive!!!! GO! GO! GO! 🎉🎉🎉
Awesome video! How come it took so long for the new queen to mate? Does she have to fly out in order to do so or can she use one of the drones in the hive?
She must fly out to mate and she won’t mate with a drone from her colony. We had some rainy days in there and they don’t fly in the rain.
When applying a Honeybee sugar water bucket feeder exactly how do you place yours on your hive? Thank you.
How are you going to extract this kind of frames? I don't understand or maybe I missed something.
I’m not. These are brood frames. The supers go on top and I will harvest those.
That one colony knew asap something wasnt right with the queen
Have you had any issues with the width of the entrance on the new hive design? It is not the full width as in the normal Langstroth hive so I was wondering if you had seen any congestion issues with it being narrower now that it is warming up.
No problems at all. No bearding, traffic jams, or anything. I’ll let you know once the populations peak later in the season.
Looking good my friend!
Good deal! I guess sometimes we just have to let em bee😉
What’s the stuff you spray the bees with?
Rainy weekend? Netflicx and chill
Very cool sir
Way to go New Queen.! 😎👍
When you hive a package, you are starting a weak colony that is usually somewhat stressed and they have no brood. A couple weeks after they have been placed in the hive, there will be no young nurse bees left, the youngest bee in the bunch will be 2+ weeks old, and it will be at least another week before the first brood emerges. The bees detect this population imbalance and the ingrained natural reaction to that is to start supercedure to replace the queen. This is the real reason you often find queen cells in a package a couple weeks after installation. One should never let those cells go to completion, never let a package requeen unless they have been in the hive for at least 6 weeks, at which point the colony will have a proper balance with bees of all ages. For the first couple of brood rounds, folks that dont really understand the workings of the brood nest will get concerned because the queen stops laying any significant amount after 10 days. This is also normal, you have a small colony that can only cover a limited amount of brood. When a queen stops laying 2 weeks after hiving a package it does not mean the queen is defective, it means the colony has all the brood they can tend, so they are not starting more because they dont have the resources in enough numbers to tend more brood.
When you get a package, with it comes a queen that was raised by a professional queen producer, in ideal conditions, from selected stock. The growing larvae was fed abundantly by a colony bursting with bees and lots of feed, then she was mated in an area where the drone population was managed to ensure ample drones for good mating.
When you let a freshly hived package requeen before the first brood round has emerged you are now going to end up with a queen raised by a small stressed colony that doesn't have any fresh young nurse bees to tend and feed the queen cells properly. You have effectively swapped a queen raised in ideal conditions for one raised the total opposite, the worst of conditions for producing a healthy strong new queen.
The correct way to manage a new package install is to ensure they do not supercede before they have been in the hive for a minimum of 6 weeks so two rounds of brood have emerged and the colony now has a population with bees of the correct age distribution. If indeed they have a problematic queen, which can happen, then the correct solution is to replace her with a well raised and well mated queen. Allowing a package to supercede during the first round of brood being produced is an ideal recipe for producing an underfed poorly mated queen to head the colony going forward.
Out of five packages installed on the same day, this one particular colony was very different than all the rest. After 6 days, there was a tiny patch of eggs and a queen that wasn’t moving. She was surrounded by attendants but my five years of experience told me that something was very wrong with her. I understand everything you wrote, but this situation was not that. This queen needed to be replaced. It’s hard to show it on a TH-cam video, but in person, I’m sure you would have agreed. This queen was damaged. I have a three year old queen in another hive who is ‘slowing down’ but she moves a lot better than this queen. This one just looked like she had given up. It happens. The new queen is doing just fine.
Those frames are ungodly big.... I love them ive gotta say I want to build one of these hives
Birch is solid!
Yay!
How does harvesting work with these huge frames?
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@@vinofarm wow thx
How will you extract honey from those frames you made with brood and honey mixed ?
These frames will not be extracted. They live in the brood box. There will be regular supers for honey.
I tried leaving extra queen cells during a supercedure and the buggers swarmed on me :/ then on recombining the new queen got killed so had to requeen AGAIN! Bees are weird
Whenever I see queen cells & the old queen, I always make a split with that/those cells. I'll let them have the 2nd or 3rd round of supercedure cells though...(I love making splits)
Same thing happened at my Farm. A box of mine replaced its queen 👑 because last one was not performing well.
Man I’d love to order some of those hives.
What's with the bee with painted spot at the 8.00 minute mark!?
That was my first thought that the original Queen was failing. Seems to be on the up now.
Get it... Queen
What was the marked bee in the top left of the frame at 8.15 in the video. You had an arrow in the new Queen
That was a drone. I've read they can have odd mutations like that. I saw one with white eyes recently.
@@vinofarm Thank you.
New--Queen-Jig!
I love your new boxes! Do you have a video on the construction
I will after I get through a season. Still getting to know them. I will have a few tweaks. Stay tuned.
What are those round things near the entrance?
Birch. For the Birch Hive. The other hives are Oak, Maple, Pine, Beech, and Cherry.