Queen rearing for Beginners!!

Hyatt's came and reynolds in let's raise some queens this is one of the coolest parts about beekeeping and when you raise your own Queens you can select from those best Queens of yours you can spread those wonderful genetics throughout your VIII arts and at the same time save yourself a lot of money and you're definitely going to get better stuff than what you can buy commercially there's no question about that and it's not that hard we're gonna show you so let's get to it there's some frames out here that a little temperature sensitive we just pulled them out of a bigger hive now all of these bees were fixing the show you came from about four different donor hives and everything else for the most part is that has flown back to the colonies and what I mean by that what I'm fixing to show you so we have our fire frame nuke box that's all you need to raise some fine quality Queens now you can use a bigger setup if you need more but you can raise dozens of Queens with this setup so this came from a bigger hive and we are going to let me shake these off first there's some nectar coming out today we got some cap stuff over here but look at this larvae down in here it takes a lot of nurse bees to ensure that this gets capped they get fed it's important to pull from frames like this just make sure that you don't get your queen and what you can do to prevent that for those of you who are not good at finding the Queen yet excluder on to your hives you can put these explorers on I shake all the bees down below or if you find the Queen stick her down below and then what you do is you find frames of larvae like this and you put it up in this second box and then you'll have nurse bees that will come through that excluder Queen stays down below and now whenever you pull a frame like that you know that you don't have your queen because if you throw a queen you know set up like this it is going to absolutely ruin your queen rearing that you're going to be doing so now we've got this one right here and it has larvae in it as well also have some capped brood and there's a lot of nurse bees here all right yeah lots of larvae on this side we're gonna chuck those in and see the Milky larvae down there you want those nurse bees nurse bees are extremely good at making royal jelly all the forager bees will fly back to the original colony and it's a thousand wonders we just tentacle port jar for this video alright let's ship some stuff around here second Laurel you might alright so one more I'm just going to shake that at the entrance and we aren't going to cut the video right here so we can go put these frames back really quick alright so we got those beat those up frames of larvae tucked back into the triple d pyv it actually is gonna help that big colony not want to swarm so much and it's gonna really help this colony raise some queens now look at these bees down in here see how they're just kind of fan in their wings are confused they don't have a clean they're not flying off and that's because they're not old enough to fly yet not much now this white box right here is loaded full of bees and we are going to be pulling this out and using this as well to raise those queens now this is a jester easy nuke box last year for the video series I use one of these boxes to raise the Queen's in they they will work just fine this year I wanted to shake things up a little bit and use a regular wooden nuke box let's see if I can get these frames out of here a lot of bees try to be really careful not to crush any alright now this is optional I prefer doing it this way I have a frame of capped brood there's no larvae in here and if there is I'm fixing to find out and they should be starting to make Queens off of them okay that's right so we're going to shake this at the entrance here they'll go in any forager bees will relocate to a different area the original hive now we have a cell right here where they were trying to raise one so if you put any brood in here even if you don't think there's any larva you got to go back then a day before you put your grafts in and see if they are look at all these emerging bee this is gonna really help us out there's a lot of honey in the top there's a cup started up here just a clean cut but you know there's no egg in it so it's fine it's pop probably already there I check this out down here now I got some bee bread up here and then we have some started cells and we don't want those because they're going to affect our graphs now however there are beekeepers that will actually put in a frame of eggs that's foundationless and you can just like cut it up to here have eggs and then the bees will draw it off and you can cut the cells off and use it that way you don't have to graph that is one option but I'm going to stick this one over in this location here and it really doesn't matter I mean again this was sourced from like four or five different hives all these nurse bees you can get it from one big high you can get it from as many you know as a bunch of little hides just taking a taken bees but it's nice to get us from big hive so we've got a frame of food here got it I always double-check excuse me and make sure I didn't miss any larvae because it really only takes one to mess up your graphs and we're going to shake those right there and looks like they were coupes they were trying to do something right there and they've got a little bit of cap route here be bred alright we're gonna stick this one right here now we're going to go over to this frame a lot of bees on this frame and this one was a foundationless foundational foundation frame and they've been drawing on this I haven't even been feeding them they've just what was in their body which this is really great this is the frame that I remove whenever I'm grafting so this is going to be the grafting location but right now we're using that so they don't burn up everything those bees are just marching in down there by the way tomorrow's video is going to be on a beetle buster borer we are giving one away so if you want to have a chance to win one of those we are going to be giving away a beetle Buster board check out them the next day's video this is an important frame right here it's got bee bread all and it this is extremely crucial to raising Queens we want plenty of bee bread we're also going to feed a pollen paddy as well but there has to be plenty of that natural mineral fat and protein content food if this hive is to raise several good queens so we're going to push this over you get this last frame in here it's going to be a tight fit they have really glued that frame to the sidewalls right there you see all that comb I just had a tear off they've been busy in here it's only been a short while all right whoo they're really going in now or these okay now this one has more capped brood wanting to raise the cell over here not typically I don't put any in here but I just it doesn't it doesn't matter to me I just start to hope they there they have a cell over here and that's probably why there's a larvae right there and tons of a royal jelly there's another cell another one got to be careful I set this up a couple days ago the weather got really cold so I left it alone there's another one up there I'll probably double check before we actually grab but that should do it right there now for this I'm going to have to trim this down a little bit so we can get these things a bit you really bird this up pretty good it happens all right so right now you're like what in the world is going on we have got to have a really compact area full of bees it's got to be super strong ridiculously strong and why is that because when these naturally raised a lot of Queens it's typically when they're swarming they're a peak nutrition typically a compact and peak population for the cavity size and it's extremely crucial that we duplicate those conditions as much as possible so we don't raise ok Queens that we raised the best Queens and so that's what we're doing we are making a really compact there's no Queen in here there is now no larvae for them to raise Queens off of and you don't have to have any brood in there at all but I like having some emerging Peru because it gives me a little bit of a longer period of having young bees in there because all these bees will only be able to produce a significant amount of royal jelly but for just just a little short time and look at all these bees we still have in here so we're going to take those bees out they're just gonna walk themselves in once the bees get all settled in I will put it up here on the cinder blocks but that'll be sometime later today I'm sure after the video is over get those bees on out of here now I am going to show you kind of what else we need to do to prep for putting ourselves in alright so we're back I couldn't find my inner copper I left it over somewhere when I was cutting this hole so look at the front entrance right there look at all those bees this is very crucial to raising Queens high quality Queens and a lot of them and you're going to see how well it works and then check underneath here quite a few bees now we are going to actually put this inner cover on first let's smoke these bees out of the way just a little bit we got this pollen paddy right here I don't recommend you below that I do it from time to time depends on what I'm working with you know these are all nurse beats they're very easy I'll be giving them a little bit more pollen Patti some people like well they already have bee bread in there that is true and there's a lot of natural pollens coming in this colony is not going to have a lot of foragers because they're all going to go back to the original colonies and honestly this just makes sure that even if we get three or four bad days of weather or even some cold weather that the bees are still gonna have plenty of paddy now this is really runny it was the very bottom of the bucket so usually we have a lot thicker paddy but it'll work just fine we're going to come back here in our next video and show you the whole grafting process and it is really not that bad grafting anybody can do it it just takes practice just like riding a bike once you get the hang of it once you're good but it does take a little bit of practice to get it and go ahead and start practicing now so we're going to stick that up there we're going to put this on for insulated purposes of case we get some cold nights and this is also important that the bees feel like there's incoming nectar they need this to help out as well you can use your own honey dilute it down or you can use sugar syrup right now we don't have a lot of nectar coming in this yard just a little bit a little Connie like this with no forretress isn't gonna do much all right so we have that right there and that's we're going to be really helpful for the cool nights that we're fixing to have we have our second story right here and I want to get this B out of my bail come on out of there there you go and now all we have to do is put this lid on and there we go this wonderful nucleus colony is set up to raise some gorgeous Queens that's gonna really help our bee yards out and I hope that this helps you out because raising your own Queens is one of the best things that you can do and you don't necessarily have to graph you don't necessarily have to do five frames you to do eight frames some people do it five frame medium box be density nutrition lots of young bees that that's the key and then you got to graft good larvae of not too old of an age we'll be covering that and more thanks for watching our videos if you have any questions and what we did here definitely leave them below

Channel: Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bees

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Id: 4YmOO3DuH7I

Length: 13min 58sec (838 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 12 2020