As experiment I've run duplex hives as two colonies. They're side by side 4 over 4. 8 deep frames can support a colony. They make honey too. They share supers and dont fight. Might have to do all my hives that way because it works. At first it was nucs that got too big too quickly but after the success I've been trying it more. It makes a lot of things easier for an old beek.
Now that is slick... I was wondering why 6 frame .. also wondered how you kept them from out growing the box .... they looked super strong ... then I wondered why you didn't use them for honey production.. that's pretty good idea ... there thanks for sharing great stuff
I was wondering 6 frame as well until i saw 2 10 frame excluders fit just right on his standard pallets.The less odd sized stuff, the more efficient your operation.
A question? because they make the decision to use a six-frame hive (double super) and not one of five or four like the Plamer system. Thank you very much for your time and information. Greetings from Argentina
Neat little system of maximizing the use of nucs. I wonder, do you ever notice any “drifting”? I mean, does it appear that the bees will always go back down into the nuc they started in or do they move to another colony?
Decatur Ridge Bees they will share with no problems. All they care about is that there is a laying queen. As long as any of the 3 nucs below have a laying queen, they consider it home.
The yellow field is Canola. In the prairies, can have thousands of acres of it across entire districts. A very significant honey crop producing flower. Question on the multi-queens. Have you ever double queened the main colonies? Results? Difficult to do and manage at the colony numbers you are running now. Just wondering if you experimented with it in the early years when the operation was smaller and what your general experience and thoughts are on such.
Apini Ventures Earlier this year I ran double colonies to boost small and take a split. Simply put, if I were to leave them stacked as a double queen unit, I’d need to stack them sky high
Three different colonies. How do you prevent zqrqr from giving each other zqrqr when you put the main grill and place the honeycombs. Do you use perfume, fragrance, etc. beforehand
Oh boy, am I glad you made this video. I was interested when you were combining hives over a queen excluder to equalise your hives earlier this season. I have been considering combining my 2 hives with a queen excluder in an attempt to save a struggling hive and give my strong hive more room because they are getting crowded as they continue to expand through our mild Western Australian winter. Is it a bad idea to combine a strong and a weak (but queen right) hive in the winter time? Will they fight, or will they live harmoniously together for the next few months? I've asked a few local beekeepers, but nobody I know seems to have tried this.
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog thanks for replying. One hive is maintaining a modest brood nest, foraging and growing at a modest rate (our winter is rather mild). The other seems to have shut down. It seems like that's not a solid "No", but a bit of a risk for my one good hive. Thanks again.
Michael Robinson Oh, your winter sounds different than mine. 2 trains of thought for you to consider. I’ll put the weak over the strong to promote the upward growth of the colony to boost the weak. I’ll do this during spring. The other way to think of it is to protect the strong by placing it over the weak which will only allow extra resource down from the strong if warranted
Do they requeen? If a queen in one nuc dies the pheromone of the queen next to them will be strong enough to make them believe the queen is still there.
Do you have trouble with the bees picking the stronger Queen and killing other or even others very often? I tried it over each other couple times and they always kill top Queen ,this is way better their working together better but does this happen still alot ?
Do you have any tips on handling and processing this canola honey? A lot of our canola honey crystallizes in the comb. Even if we havest before 50% capped It normally smells like stink socks and most is sold as baking honey. Very low prices. I would suspect we are doing something wrong James
Cape Bee That doesn’t sound at all like canola honey, It will granulate quickly but I process a 1/4 million lbs every year and it hits top grades, it’s fine honey
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog It might be our cultivars or the way we process. We actually try to avoid producing the honey and rather overstock to build up hives and draw new comb and split before pollination season begins.
That "smelly socks" smell is goldenrod. Don't let people talk you down on that honey it's very good. I have a list of people who want it but we don't always get a fall crop. (goldenrod/aster)
Wow, six on six, you are going to have a massive colony with hundreds of thousands of bees.
A great way to get a honey crop from your nucs! Less maintenance, they have plenty of space !!💥🐝👌🏻🤓
Richard Noel what about swarming? I’d love to try this.
Wow .. impressive quality of professional beekeeping..
Very good organised. Keep up with the good job!
Excited to see how this goes. Awesome upload.
I've been watching for this video. That a pretty ingenious use of equipment, I've never seen it done with 6 frame nucs like that.
This is a really cool idea. Thank you for sharing!
I can't wait to see how this works out!
Thank you!
please show the progress of the honey collection on these nucs later in the season!
Olá Ian
Parabéns por.seu maravilhoso trabalho.
Esse ainda não tinha visto mas sempre fiquei curioso de como fazia. Agora está bem claro.
As experiment I've run duplex hives as two colonies. They're side by side 4 over 4. 8 deep frames can support a colony. They make honey too. They share supers and dont fight. Might have to do all my hives that way because it works. At first it was nucs that got too big too quickly but after the success I've been trying it more. It makes a lot of things easier for an old beek.
did they make more honey than two 8frames set apart?
did they overwinter or they killed one queen?
Wonderful video so educational! Cheers!
Very good video and informational
Thanks
That is some beautiful land there..
Great idea! Thanks for the video
That’s good stuff so simple.
Now that is slick... I was wondering why 6 frame .. also wondered how you kept them from out growing the box .... they looked super strong ... then I wondered why you didn't use them for honey production.. that's pretty good idea ... there thanks for sharing great stuff
I was wondering 6 frame as well until i saw 2 10 frame excluders fit just right on his standard pallets.The less odd sized stuff, the more efficient your operation.
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gamal
What is the yellow blooms? Looks like acres upon acres!! Awesome !!
We need folder for multi queen in your channel *_please_*
So because you put honey supers on top of the double deep nucs, they don't store honey in the brood chamber?
A question? because they make the decision to use a six-frame hive (double super) and not one of five or four like the Plamer system. Thank you very much for your time and information. Greetings from Argentina
Very clever system 👍
What exactly is blooming in this video?
Neat little system of maximizing the use of nucs. I wonder, do you ever notice any “drifting”? I mean, does it appear that the bees will always go back down into the nuc they started in or do they move to another colony?
Decatur Ridge Bees they will share with no problems. All they care about is that there is a laying queen. As long as any of the 3 nucs below have a laying queen, they consider it home.
One question do the nucs ever swarm even though they have room for nectar up top?
The yellow field is Canola. In the prairies, can have thousands of acres of it across entire districts. A very significant honey crop producing flower.
Question on the multi-queens. Have you ever double queened the main colonies? Results? Difficult to do and manage at the colony numbers you are running now. Just wondering if you experimented with it in the early years when the operation was smaller and what your general experience and thoughts are on such.
Apini Ventures
Earlier this year I ran double colonies to boost small and take a split.
Simply put, if I were to leave them stacked as a double queen unit, I’d need to stack them sky high
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog where is the video ?
Three different colonies. How do you prevent zqrqr from giving each other zqrqr when you put the main grill and place the honeycombs. Do you use perfume, fragrance, etc. beforehand
Oh boy, am I glad you made this video. I was interested when you were combining hives over a queen excluder to equalise your hives earlier this season. I have been considering combining my 2 hives with a queen excluder in an attempt to save a struggling hive and give my strong hive more room because they are getting crowded as they continue to expand through our mild Western Australian winter. Is it a bad idea to combine a strong and a weak (but queen right) hive in the winter time? Will they fight, or will they live harmoniously together for the next few months? I've asked a few local beekeepers, but nobody I know seems to have tried this.
Michael Robinson
I only know my winter,
No, combine them only when they can actively brood, Forage and grow
Michael Robinson
If done during the winter, they will all move up to and abandon the bottom regardless the situation
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog thanks for replying. One hive is maintaining a modest brood nest, foraging and growing at a modest rate (our winter is rather mild). The other seems to have shut down. It seems like that's not a solid "No", but a bit of a risk for my one good hive. Thanks again.
Michael Robinson
Oh, your winter sounds different than mine.
2 trains of thought for you to consider. I’ll put the weak over the strong to promote the upward growth of the colony to boost the weak. I’ll do this during spring.
The other way to think of it is to protect the strong by placing it over the weak which will only allow extra resource down from the strong if warranted
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog
OK thanks. You've given lots to think about. I'll make a decision next inspection.
Do they requeen? If a queen in one nuc dies the pheromone of the queen next to them will be strong enough to make them believe the queen is still there.
Do you have trouble with the bees picking the stronger Queen and killing other or even others very often? I tried it over each other couple times and they always kill top Queen ,this is way better their working together better but does this happen still alot ?
Can the queen excluder be place between boxes stacked vertically .? Like a double deep.?
Could this be done with a long hive colony on each end and honey in the center
How do you avoid that bees of the 3 boxes fight among themselves?
When do you nucs move into standard boxes?
Where do you get those 6 frame nucs? I couldn't seem to find any.
wht are the precautions when doing this method with big hives?
Does this change how frequently they swarm in any way?
Have u ever used multiple queens in a colony by removing the queens mandibles
Do you have the diamentions of those 6 frame boxes?
Do you have any tips on handling and processing this canola honey?
A lot of our canola honey crystallizes in the comb. Even if we havest before 50% capped
It normally smells like stink socks and most is sold as baking honey.
Very low prices.
I would suspect we are doing something wrong
James
Cape Bee
That doesn’t sound at all like canola honey,
It will granulate quickly but I process a 1/4 million lbs every year and it hits top grades, it’s fine honey
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog
It might be our cultivars or the way we process.
We actually try to avoid producing the honey and rather overstock to build up hives and draw new comb and split before pollination season begins.
That "smelly socks" smell is goldenrod. Don't let people talk you down on that honey it's very good. I have a list of people who want it but we don't always get a fall crop. (goldenrod/aster)
Cape Bee
Perhaps you are talking of the old RAPE varieties
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog
Could be
Thanks
James
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No fight between bees from nucks in supers?
Hi Ian .
I now your so busy now but I have on question for you is thous covers keep them dry after you covered supers ?
Ivanna Dyakiv
Bees are not made of sugar 🙂
I now
Thanks the reason I asked I used to put 2 together with one box on the top but short of standard covers .
Hi ivanna where u from .. if u need i can work woth you in bee keeping i have grear experience
Hy guys. Can you tell me what is in the sprayer? Thanks!
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what's that yellow crop field?
Hornady Setiawan canola or rapeseed.
Howmany Hives can one person manage
Oi amigo esse núcleo tem três rainhas uma em cada núcleo desse ?
si y las tres colonias distintas comparten los alzas sin problema
Hi. You said before that you re queen 50% of your operation every year. When do you do that.
Elardus
elardus meyer
With these nucs, as we incorporate these into the op
1200 hives 600 nucs do the math js
No swarming?
Isso é tipo um condomínio?
Why wooden tops instead of metal
I am a beekeeper in bangladesh. seeing this vedio i am confused how can you setup multi queen in the same colony.plz details it.
He has a queen excluder to keep the queens apart.
The queen excluders keep the queens from fighting each other but allow the workers up into the top boxes to produce honey.
Which ones do better six or fives on your nukes
is that there are 3 queens
Must bee no trees out there on the prairies, there is virtually no propolis glueing those things together.
Gerry Rozema lol
Oh I have yards ha
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog are u on Facebook?
in bangladesh we can setup only 2 box togather.
Why is it that you can only do 2?
Do you have the 6 frame nucs custom built?
You've got two stnd boxes side by side, 16 1/4 X 2 = 32 1/2 divide by three and you've got your nuc's.