Thanks a lot Fat bee Man your blog well help a lot I am from the Philippines and I have a small farm bee here since this is my first time of this farm I have a little knowledge but by your blog it will help me a lot so thank you my friend
Sir, I am a Pakistani living in UAE (Dubai) working as a Telecom Planner in Etisalat for last 7 years thinking of starting new business and looking for some new ideas of Business you have changed my mind completely about Bee keeping for me you are an institution and inspiration and By the Grace of Allah and by his will I will start my own Bee keeping In coming season and if I have got to come up to US I will surely meet you Thanks allot for giving us such a valuable information. God bless you with good health.
You made me LOL with the double warning at the start - even though I'm the man of my house and my wife does what I say - so I'm not worried - I like my wife to be happy - so I must agree. Best advice in the video, LOL!
Don, thanks for sharing, I wished you had been doing this when I started back in the 80's. My son wants to start the hobby now, he is in business in Dallas, TX & comes homes most weekends. I'm going to send him this link to start watching. Is there a search so he can see how you locate the queen?
I am the man in my house! If i want to do something I just do it. If I could find a wife that would accept those terms I could be happily married by now instead of still waiting. Um....
And it is just that easy, in fact I found it to be easier then it looks when Don is doing it. just do exactly what he shows and you will be successful.
Yeah, common sense and experience!! Fatbeeman been around a LONG time. And of course he's a Georgia boy. But really all he says is from fact based experience. Been reading about him for years.
Sir, what is the best season of the year to make queen. Spring, autum or winter.My hive is dying and the queen seems to lay very little eggs.The number of bees have drastically reduced to around 200 or so. Please advice. Want to replace the queen. Its 2 years old now.
I wonder how you keep a lot of queens alive if you plan to sell them. I imagine I would make them to order. If I advertised all winter come May they would be sold and in production? Fascinating stuff though. Who tells the bees what to do every April?
Wood dowel is about £2.00 for a strip 8 foot long from a timber yard. drill a 15 hole base plate for the dowel legs to fit into. soak them in cold water to get the wood wet and shake the water off then dip them three or four times in a pot of warm wax to build up three or four layer thick cups. Then plant them on a strip of wood covered in a layer of warm wax to pull off the cups. Insert them into the frame and put the frame in the hive for the queen to lay her eggs in. God tells them what to do, how to do it and when it needs doing, all you have to do is supply the means to fool them. Basically they are a computer programme that can not see a buffer overflow coming. You insert the wax cells like the Trojan Horse then you take them out every couple of weeks or so and send them off to pastures new Federal Express. or Royal Mail. In 6000 years of human history, evolution has not had the luxury of pinging them with any cluebyfours yet. You just keep the orders coming and it never will.
As I understand it, just the wax cup then goes onto the bar like he did with the cut out strips. But this way putting (grafting) the larvae in the royal jelly it is in to just move it from brood cells into these larger cup queen sized cells and position them facing down then back into the hive to look after them for the 10 or so days become queens for the nurse bees to raise into queens. Then into mating Nucs or queen castles. *** As I understand what I think the approach is.
If they are capped, your good to go... Put them right in ! Make sure their are no other cups 'made' in emergency by the bees... Check every bit of the Hive. Or a random Queen could kill your 'chosen Queen.' 🐝
Early Summer. You need Drones and enough time for the Queen to be mated, get a good laying pattern ... To sell on, or build up her own Colony for Winter... 🐝
Thanks a lot Fat bee Man your blog well help a lot I am from the Philippines and I have a small farm bee here since this is my first time of this farm I have a little knowledge but by your blog it will help me a lot so thank you my friend
Fat bee man your videos are very informative straightforward and easy to understand. I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you
I really appreciate to your episodes. They are very helpful. Thanks so much for your kindness and sharing these.
This is a man coming to terms with his mortality. Thank you for sharing this invaluable knowledge with the world, Mr BeeMan
Sir, I am a Pakistani living in UAE (Dubai) working as a Telecom Planner in Etisalat for last 7 years thinking of starting new business and looking for some new ideas of Business you have changed my mind completely about Bee keeping for me you are an institution and inspiration and By the Grace of Allah and by his will I will start my own Bee keeping In coming season and if I have got to come up to US I will surely meet you Thanks allot for giving us such a valuable information. God bless you with good health.
thanks for your honest level headed help, I have viewed your stuff frequently and you are pretty much on the money every time
Are you a beek?
@@beekeepingpakistan I am a retired beekeeper but I still have half a dozen or so hives and my son has hundreds of hives all over Australia.
KEEP THE INFO COMING
WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR CAMERA MAN TAKING THE TIME
Thanks!
You made me LOL with the double warning at the start - even though I'm the man of my house and my wife does what I say - so I'm not worried - I like my wife to be happy - so I must agree. Best advice in the video, LOL!
excellent advice thanks Don.
Carol Swansea.
You never let me down FBM! Thanks so much. See ya on the Beesource Chat.
I'm going to try and make my own queens this year just to practice.
Great job Don, you are so generous with your vast knowledge!
Thank you for sharing this information. Hope to see more videos in the future.
Good video liked it 👍🏻👍🏻
Hi from Canada
What is it like overwintering in the snowy wastes of paradise?
Very much appreciated the knowledge that you do pass on im just ready to start hobbie bee keepeing
Simply brilliant as always!
Don, thanks for sharing, I wished you had been doing this when I started back in the 80's. My son wants to start the hobby now, he is in business in Dallas, TX & comes homes most weekends. I'm going to send him this link to start watching. Is there a search so he can see how you locate the queen?
How did he get on?
Hope things worked out. It sounds a really interesting father and son project.
I grew up in the northern part . went to school in brunswick.
Don
I really appreciate how you reiterate not to get your wife's stuff. I have done this before and she was not happy with me!! =(
I am the man in my house!
If i want to do something I just do it. If I could find a wife that would accept those terms I could be happily married by now instead of still waiting.
Um....
And it is just that easy, in fact I found it to be easier then it looks when Don is doing it. just do exactly what he shows and you will be successful.
Are you a beek
You rock, Don. I love you no-nonsense, DIY, straight-talk - I don't see anywhere to donate - do I need to go to your website?
Wherabouts in Ohio are you from fella lots of good germans here. Thanks for learin on the cheap I love it .
Thanks for sharing
thank you Don !
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Yeah, common sense and experience!! Fatbeeman been around a LONG time. And of course he's a Georgia boy. But really all he says is from fact based experience. Been reading about him for years.
Sir, what is the best season of the year to make queen. Spring, autum or winter.My hive is dying and the queen seems to lay very little eggs.The number of bees have drastically reduced to around 200 or so. Please advice. Want to replace the queen. Its 2 years old now.
good job, I like your videos
Hey Don,
What is your take on topbar hives? Is it worth it to build one to try it out?
Grtz
once there capped watch for thinning of end then place them in nuc's.
Don
Great videos!!
what type of wax are you using?
beehive him self
His own Beeswax taken from his Hive. (Commercial Wax can have built up residue in it.... Eg Pesticides, etc...)
Thank you sir
Lol if something aint broke it dont need fixin' lol ahh imiss my papa
I wonder how you keep a lot of queens alive if you plan to sell them.
I wonder how you keep a lot of queens alive if you plan to sell them.
I imagine I would make them to order. If I advertised all winter come May they would be sold and in production?
Fascinating stuff though. Who tells the bees what to do every April?
Michael McNeil yeah I wonder how you could keep multiples...
@@oliverhorsfall4501 queen cage
can someone tell me more about this stuff (metal and wood) cause i can't understand from what is she made?
Wood dowel is about £2.00 for a strip 8 foot long from a timber yard. drill a 15 hole base plate for the dowel legs to fit into. soak them in cold water to get the wood wet and shake the water off then dip them three or four times in a pot of warm wax to build up three or four layer thick cups.
Then plant them on a strip of wood covered in a layer of warm wax to pull off the cups. Insert them into the frame and put the frame in the hive for the queen to lay her eggs in.
God tells them what to do, how to do it and when it needs doing, all you have to do is supply the means to fool them. Basically they are a computer programme that can not see a buffer overflow coming.
You insert the wax cells like the Trojan Horse then you take them out every couple of weeks or so and send them off to pastures new Federal Express. or Royal Mail.
In 6000 years of human history, evolution has not had the luxury of pinging them with any cluebyfours yet. You just keep the orders coming and it never will.
Should we fill the wax cone with honey or something else or its ok with only wax ?
As I understand it, just the wax cup then goes onto the bar like he did with the cut out strips.
But this way putting (grafting) the larvae in the royal jelly it is in to just move it from brood cells into these larger cup queen sized cells and position them facing down then back into the hive to look after them for the 10 or so days become queens for the nurse bees to raise into queens. Then into mating Nucs or queen castles.
*** As I understand what I think the approach is.
Понятно без перевода. Для тех, кто в курсе )) Спасибо! Thanks !
great video
any dowels work.just shape them on ends.
Don
after the cells are capped, how long do you wait to put them in a queenless hive?
If they are capped, your good to go... Put them right in ! Make sure their are no other cups 'made' in emergency by the bees... Check every bit of the Hive. Or a random Queen could kill your 'chosen Queen.' 🐝
thanks
can i buy the thing you used to make the queen cells?
Where are you located? Do you cell bees?
when can you raise queens cells???
What season?
Early Summer. You need Drones and enough time for the Queen to be mated, get a good laying pattern ... To sell on, or build up her own Colony for Winter... 🐝
This will destroy the bra industry, nobody knew how easy it is to make a "B" cup! lol
I like a D cup my self
@paulrowland2044 thanks for the good review> I try my best lol
Don
I just soak them in water for a few minutes.
Don
Hi!
I think there a waste of time there very hard to do any inspections on. and there is no re sale value to them.
Don