Checking Walk-Away Splits & Fixing Another Queen Issue

[@whoeverit9087]

That Rooster needs an appointment with a roasting tin. Growing up farming we had a rule... "Loudest Rooster is closest to the pot".

[@JCsBees]

The problem is every year a hen goes broody and sits on her eggs and then we get more roosters than we need. The rooster seem to battle at who is the loudest. lol I have someone taking all the extra roosters this week so that should help with the noise. lol

[@whoeverit9087]

@@JCsBees Hahaha. Those broody hens have a cluck of their own don't they. Put down a clutch of eggs under her and you will always end up with more roosters than you need. The loudest one is always the biggest meatiest one. Put all the roosters through the "oven test" and next spring trade a jar of honey for a new rooster..

[@jonataseuuk]

Same here in Brazil lolo

[@tracyweilandrealtorbeekeep3957]

On the drone layer, I would have cut a couple of those queen cells off and put them in it. OR put that frame yow didn't notice the cell on in there. Then they can recover faster.

[@elainesmale8132]

Thanks for the video, Hi ladybug .

[@Jason-xu6pi]

Everybody needs a little burr comb from time to time. Helps keep it interesting lol

[@sonofthunder.]

looking good,ladybug too

[@Benham_Design]

That's awesome that Sue and Stan are getting it done

[@TennesseeMountainBees]

Awesome video Jason! Also saw a queen cell on the previous frame in Sue at 6:57. Thank you for sharing. Been watching your videos for years buddy. I have learned so much from you! Thank you again!

[@JCsBees]

Thanks Johnny! I thought I seen a cell on another frame when editing the video but didn't zoom in to verify. I'm just tickled to know they do have queen cells. Usually my luck with walk away splits isn't very good. I appreciate you following my journey, it means a lot.

[@deannacalef3513]

Oops. Now it is. 👍

[@chuckcard402]

Nice and gentle, I like your style. Them bees love ya!

[@JCsBees]

Thank you kindly

[@beckieeldred5816]

Thank you going to try this

[@randyjames1465]

❤ YOUR VIDEOS MAKE MORE JC

[@JCsBees]

Glad they are helpful and you like them!

[@SortOfaBeekeeper]

Nice!! I love watching you working your bees. You are a wealth of information. I did 2 splits like this earlier in the month. I saw queens in both hives. The one hive had a beautiful dark virgin queen. Then I heard a queen piping and looked some more and found 2 other virgin queens. Caught them in a queen clip. Went in the hive the next day and found another queen, not the dark queen I saw. I couldn't find her. So I'll wait a week and see who will be the queen of this colony. A dark queen or maybe the blonde queen. Beekeeping is never predictable 💖🐝

[@JCsBees]

Thanks, I am glad you enjoy watching me. I try to share information that is helpful. Best of luck getting your hive back on track. I totally agree....beekeeping is NEVER predictable. lol

[@1whatever100]

Thanks for the video Jason. It's looking good for new queens. Have fun & a great day.. I know you are busy so don't worry about a reply, just keep working, thanks again..

[@hankbaker1614]

Nice Queen cell bottom left a 6:00 minutes in.

[@ME_MeAndMyBees]

JC Good (early) Morning ! Nearly doing 7.30 am wake up time : Cockerel, so Bee Yard watching pre Breakfast ! Here in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 we wish for Humid Days... never gets warmer than '20sC -'70sF We do have a Strong Accents here... but never heard of a Cow 'Carving' (Calving*)... 🤣 Olde English, Newer USA Language is Priceless ! Still can't understand my Towns Folk... speaking in a deep Scottish dialect been here 22yrs... 😁 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2022. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Farmers, in the Scottish Borders, often put Cattle and Sheep in the same Fields, as grazing Buddies. Mooo...Baaa... Lots of Spring Lambing, now it's Carving* ! 😁

[@davidmartin6312]

Cool video J C ...

[@JCsBees]

Thanks 👍

[@russk3931]

Good video again. I see the price of queens is getting crazy. We all may have to start doing walkaway splits. Have a good week and calving season.

[@KevinsNorthernExposure]

good to see you again Jason!

[@JCsBees]

Thanks for stopping in, Kevin!

[@timcoker5732]

Thanks Jason

[@planbeeapiaries]

3rd frame you took out has a queen cell bottom left corner, 4th frame also has on middle bottom ;)

[@JCsBees]

I thought I noticed more cells when editing the video. Guess I should have pointed them out but I was running short on time to get video done. Thank for having my back!!

[@adamsoutdoors]

Caught a swarm on Mother’s Day. Got in them on Friday. Found the queen, she looks great. Frame I gave them was all laid up. Excited for my first season with bees.

[@JCsBees]

That is awesome! Best of luck!

[@jonathanswoboda]

I also smoke my hands I think it helps. I still wear a jacket but may switch to just a veil, too hot outside these days.

[@JCsBees]

It's crazy we are only on the 3rd week of May and already having 80°F days. I think we will probably skip right into summer at this rate.

[@karenwaitley9515]

Great video, got my bee's going again, they have alot of resources right now and are very busy, when it's not raining. Waiting patiently for your video on the round frames you have , great gifts. $.

[@JCsBees]

Glad to hear your bees are doing well. I will be sharing the round comb frames very soon. I am excited to use them!

[@matthunt4512]

Excellent video my friend, keep them coming. Thanks Matt

[@JCsBees]

Thanks, will do!

[@citrumpet1]

Always enjoy your videos. Would it be better to shake the drone frame off, get rid of it and replace it with drawn comb? Might get rid of some mites in the process and have better comb for a new Queen to lay on. Just a thought.

[@JCsBees]

Shaking and replacing the frame would help with mites possibly but the frame can be corrected with a laying queen. It's worker cells.

[@randysturgeon9538]

That looks good keep up the good work look like you are having fun today lol

[@bradgoliphant]

Great Video Jason, and I so appreciate the slowness and your gentleness of hive inspections. Bees deserve this. Question for you about queenless hives. Could I cage my queen in one of those 5" x 5" cages to get the bees to produce more honey for one month?

[@JCsBees]

In my opinion the bees like me better when I work slowly. No reason to rush and cause stress on them or myself. That's a great question but I am not sure that is a good idea. Your bee population would be at risk. Do you really want to risk the population to gain a few pounds of honey?

[@bradgoliphant]

@@JCsBees no! It was just a question of interest. Thx Jason

[@beckieeldred5816]

May 15 this morning I made a walk away spit. Happy

[@JCsBees]

Awesome! Best of luck!!

[@kathyhathaway8823]

Tell you how true your statement was about not counting your eggs before they hatch is . I had a colony stared out at the first of spring it took 3 different times of putting a frame of eggs in my colony before I got a queen all the way thru to laying eggs something happened three times . I just now or maybe a week ago I finally have a laying queen. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️. Thanks Jason for reminding everyone of that .

[@JCsBees]

Walk-away splits are nice but they are a lot of babysitting and even then they don't always work out. Usually I do not bother with walk away splits but I didn't have much choice this time. lol Glad to hear you finally have a new laying queen!! Good job!!

[@CoastalGardening]

👍👍

[@dsummerscm]

Those queen cells look promising! Hope you end up with mated queens out of it. (Can you tell I’m catching up on videos? 😉)

[@JCsBees]

Thanks me too! As far as catching up, I completely understand, I am so far behind in watching other peoples videos it's not funny. Summer started and things got crazy! I appreciate you keeping up!!

[@dsummerscm]

Seems like the season hits and it’s 100 mph at all times!

[@5hivesohio]

Thanks Jason! When I moved my garage swarm to the bee yard I couldn’t find the queen so I did the exact same thing. Hopefully when I get back to Ohio I’ll have some queen cells too! 😉

[@JCsBees]

I was curious how the swarm went for you. Thanks for the update and best of luck finding queen cells.

[@jonathanswoboda]

If its a virgin swarm the queen can be harder to spot, their back end isn't as large.

[@bomchickawahwaaaaah]

Those are some pretty capped brood frames. 👍🏽

[@JCsBees]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@jackmorgan3498]

You need to have a talk with your bees about making brood on the outside frames lol.

[@JCsBees]

No kidding! lol

[@CastleHives]

I’d always be happy to see Ladybug, I mean you Jason. That frame looks good in Sue. What’d you count, 6 total cells? 7 cells in Stan, that’s good. Now the waiting process huh. I can’t grab a Queen either. I use that one handed catcher, works great for me. The drone brood, jesh. At least you’ll have a decent drone population. The season has gotten busy. Hope you have a good week.

[@JCsBees]

Don't lie, it's Ladybug you tuned in for! lol I really didn't count them, didn't see a reason to. As long as they have cells I am a happy camper. I can grab queens but everyone is a judge on YT so I just use the marking tube to keep all the judgement comments down. lol Have a great rest of the week!

[@makewithmegma]

💕👌👍

[@catchemalive]

When doing a walk away split on a hive that is super big simply to requeen with better genetics, is it good to leave 8-10 queen cells in there for them to all hatch out? My fear is they might swarm with a virgin?? Or will they only allow one queen to stay even if a bunch of them hatched?

[@JCsBees]

The first queen will most likely go on a hunt for the other queen cells and chew holes in them. That will release those queens then they will fight until one is left.

[@catchemalive]

@@JCsBees gotcha!!! Thanks for the reply!

[@tomkingsley4398]

Thanks for sharing Jason. Good video. Would you ever put a cage over any of those cells in an attempt to get several virgins?

[@JCsBees]

I've tried cages over cells before without much luck but since the foundation is plastic it could work this time I guess. Last time the bees chewed a hole in the comb and I never did find a queen but that was a few years ago and I haven't tried again since.

[@claudesully]

Noooooo not a Toyota😜

[@ME_MeAndMyBees]

JC : Out of Interest: With Plastic Foundation, How could you Remove (Cut Outs) those extra Queen Cells, to safely add to a Queenless Nuc? I don't use Plastic Sheet Foundation, hear... some folk "cut out wax with Eggs" into Cubes, and add these into space between Frames, and as they point the cells in a down way position, they grow great "Peanuts" aka QC's, that you can View, and or Remove for use in another Colony... Have you tried it ??? 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2022. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Think I saw this on a KZbinr Channel called 'FatBeeMan', USA Beek... 😉

[@JCsBees]

In the past I have tried cutting away queen cells and it worked alright but since I switched to mainly using plastic foundation because it's easy to reuse. I would say you are right, the Fat Beeman has shared several videos on producing queens.

[@emilandrusko8597]

enjoyed this video. My one hive came thru winter and right before i was to split it, it swarmed. I. captured the swarm, including the queen and made a split. Upon inspection on FridaY, the split hive is thriving with capped brood and young larvae and assume eggs. To your point, the original hive had capped queen cells. Upon inspection on Friday the capped cells were uncapped. Lots of bees in the colony. And lots of nectar. I will inspect on thursday this week and hopefully see some eggs and capped brood. If not, I am planning to source a mated queen.

[@JCsBees]

Best of luck!!

[@benca6151]

Love the video. Absolutely fits what I just did yesterday. How long does it take for the bees to realize, we are queenless? How long does it take for them to draw out queen cells after realizing they have no queen? Yesterday was my first time doing this type of split. Thanks

[@JCsBees]

Awesome! Usually the bees know they are queenless within minutes of it happening. A week to 10 days later you should see capped queen cells. Best of luck!!

[@carlsledge3868]

Was that enough bees to raise a good queen? I though you needed about 5 frames of mostly nurse bees. Thx if you answer.

[@JCsBees]

Sure! The more the better but this colony should have no issue raising a decent queen.

[@carlsledge3868]

@@JCsBees well you're well known in the bee queens circles so I have respect your knowledge and judgment, thx again for the reply. And best luck on queening of that nuc.

[@downunderfulla6001]

I’ve got a nuc that’s on its 2nd attempt to make a queen. Hoping one made it back before the weather went bad a couple weeks ago🍺🍺

[@dagandreassen3115]

How long is it since you put in those frames? I'm doing the same but don't know how long I should wait until I expect to see queen cells. Why don't you clip one of the wing tip of the queen after you marked her and she's laying lot's of eggs? We do it all the time here and maybe it's a reason we hardly have any swarms.

[@JCsBees]

It takes 10 days before an eggs can be capped into a queen cell. So 10-14 days after making splits you should be inspecting. A lot of people clip wings, personally I don't. I think it's cruel but that's my opinion. I don't trim my chickens or duck wings either, all natural here! :)

[@jamestownsendjrtbees3226]

Thanks for the videos. Is there a chance they could swarm with leaving a bunch of queen cells? I usually leave 2 of the biggest cells and hope for the best. But that's when I pull out the queen and split because there are swarm cells?

[@gerrydertinger7447]

JC, say you are a week after the walk away, go in and DON’T see any queen cells capped. Did I miss what the plan was then? Am I correct in thinking you parachute in another frame of eggs? How many times can you do this before the workers start laying or attrition claims the colony? Would you give up and reunite them to a weaker colony?

[@eddevault4604]

I think you’re fine Gerry….however….if you have waited a week and there’s no Queen cells yet….then find another host and drop in another frame of eggs….I don’t think you have anything to worry about a laying worker as long as you are keeping brood/eggs in the Nuc….I do this all the time….I use 4-5 Nucs to constantly make Cells to replace my aging queens….or queens that are not preforming….I take eggs from an excellent hive….put them in the Nuc to get the Cell started…count the days…take that Cell frame put in a weak hive….

[@sharonanderson7742]

where did you get the leather holder for hive tool and few other items? I would like to order one. thank you.

[@JCsBees]

I reached out to the guy who was making them and he no longer makes them. Sorry!! You may be able to make your own though by ordering a knife sheath and a heavy duty magnet. Check Ebay!

[@deannacalef3513]

The like function isn't working today. 👍

[@andrelacombe2131]

Jason have you ever try to put queen cage on the queen cell?

[@JCsBees]

I have and it did not work. The frame had wax foundation and the bees chewed a hole through the comb from the back to release her. May work better with plastic foundation.

[@keithinthemountains6450]

Wow didn't know you could have a queen that would only lay drones. Would you shake bees off those frames and throw away drones or just deal with them?

[@JCsBees]

Usually the queen did not get mated correctly to be a drone layer. I will let the bees fix the frames.

[@keithinthemountains6450]

@@JCsBees Hey I like that answer bees know what they need instead of me thanks for info enjoy your channel!!

[@davidsoloninka7742]

Hi Jason, Why not kill the drone brood before it emerges, or pull out the developing drones and feed to the chickens? Thx, Novice Dave

[@beckieeldred5816]

It's one weak wake away split. I have a queen sell.

[@JCsBees]

Congratulations!!

[@joetripp123]

Hey Jason, great video today, learned a lot. Any reason you had the inner cover upside down (notch down vs up) on Stan? I recently tried notch down on my supers to see if the foragers would use it as an upper entrance - but so far they have not. I've heard it is very hard to reverse an all drone laying colony - usually needing to just dump the box in the middle of the bee yard. Maybe that is just for a worker laying colony and not a failing queen like yours was. I'm attending a queen rearing conference this weekend and suspect I'll be re-watching your series on that subject too. Thanks for always giving us great content.

[@JCsBees]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, layer worker colonies are what takes a lot of work and usually the bees are dumped. With a failing queen it shouldn't be too hard to correct it. As for the inner cover, I don't have a reason for the way it was facing. Really with my inner covers regardless which way they face the bee can still enter because the inner cover has a hole for a mason jar feeder. Usually once they bees start to get a surplus of honey the top entrance gets robbed. I would not suggest using it if you can from it. I usually wad up some grass and plug mine off. That's awesome your taking a queen rearing class. Who's teaching it and where? I am sure you will gather a lot of info so make sure to take notes or even a voice recorder. Have fun!!

[@joetripp123]

@@JCsBees It's the Born & Bread Queen Rearing Program happening May 21 in Statesville, NC. I believe it's put on by the NC State Beekeepers Association. Thanks for the feedback.

[@Rob_Brock]

What veil do you like?

[@JCsBees]

I use a slip on veil from New Zealand. It goes on like a T-shirt. Ever heard of Ceracell Beekeeping Supplies?

[@Rob_Brock]

Thanks! I’ll check them out.

[@chuckcard402]

Do you stick to nucs or do you do honey production?

[@JCsBees]

I sell nucs and do a little honey production but not much.

[@jasonseaward8506]

How long after the split is this inspection?

[@robbphillips1140]

ROFL..."Hit by a Toyota"

[@braden4299]

where u get that bee belt?

[@madmort0madmort072]

do you add more wax to your new foundations?

[@jamescraig8601]

I hope this is as respectful as you are sir. I asked you a question and you never responded to it. I no longer watch your videos over that aspect. Thank you and have a great day.

[@JCsBees]

I am sorry you asked a question and I did not reply. I get hundreds of questions each week so getting to all of them is not possible for me and I apologize. If you would like to ask again I will get back to you. Have a great day!!

[@eddevault4604]

Hmmmm….must not be married….

[@benca6151]

O jeeze. Did he not just watch your video and see you are tired?