Double Queen Shenanigans - (Building a Bee Business #59)

[@philipmontgomery5626]

Your videos are great. I'm a lifelong businessman that is in my first year. I have turned four colonies and five swarms into 30 colonies. Please add more business teaching in with your videos. You rock.

[@stanleylewandowski130]

Your videos are great. I learn a lot from you. Thanks.

[@douglasbarber6547]

Your videos are great. Keep them coming

[@DuckRiverHoney]

Thanks!

[@HARRYBEES-c9u]

As always GOOD info love all the videos ,,, when driving the sound is OfF.

[@sonofthunder.]

Liking how your getting comb drawn,thanks nathan

[@DuckRiverHoney]

👍

[@tjjastrem127]

Really enjoy your videos look forward to Sundays. Thanks for sharing

[@gregcundiff]

Awesome! I found a two-queen hive in my yard a few days ago, in the same deep brood chamber, which turned out to be a blessing because several hives down from it I found one to be queenless. Gotta love natural resources... keep it up, you are an inspiration of hope to us little guys dreaming big dreams.

[@judicorbett9401]

No another beekeeper would probably not th8nk how strange this is! It happens a fair amount!

[@billrobinson5301]

That farm field would be a great place to metal detect!

[@williambates6811]

You need a Ian Steppler style lift. Great video

[@carpenterandhisbees]

I get the same from my wife. Yea yea yea sounds good. Love it

[@johnl302]

I had the same thing on the double queen . I went to pull off two deep supers above the excluder and found it full of brood. Like you, I found the unmarked queen in the supers. Then I remembered, this should be a marked queen. Open up the brood below the excluder and there was my marked queen. I had the upper supers offset for the upper ventilation and entrances, guess a virgin moved in and claimed the upper box. I just left her alone and will divide them like you did with a double screen

[@carybruton7284]

nice work brother!

[@DuckRiverHoney]

👍

[@nancynolton6079]

Went into a hive last week to apply a treatment and pulled a few brood frames to check on the brood space... thats when I found a yellow marked queen from 2022 in a hive that was suppose to have a green marked queen. What was strange is that this hive had capped queen cells 6/28 (some of which I pulled to make mating nucs when I couldn't find the yellow queen) so figured they were superseding her. Weeks later I found a new laying queen (7/15) and marked her green. So you can imagine my surprise when I found that yellow queen from 2022 last week. Didn't see the green marked queen but then I didn't check the entire hive as I wanted to continue treating all the other hives but next inspection I'll be diligently looking for two marked queens in that hive (a mother daughter combo). I have one other hive with a 2022 queen that is still rocking - keeping her around just to see how long she will last. I always seem to have one or two queens that out last and out perform all the others and have managed to keep some of these queens 4 years before the hive replaces them.

[@jasonseaward8506]

Do you rear queens off of the queens that last a while like that? It sounds like they are fairly well adapted to your area

[@DuckRiverHoney]

@jasonseaward8506 my queen mothers will be in their third calendar year and have overwintered twice and made a honey crop, plus had consistent low mite numbers.

[@nancynolton6079]

@@jasonseaward8506 Sure do!

[@deniswagner9458]

where do you buy your bulk sugar?

[@DuckRiverHoney]

Costco usually.

[@jamestownsendjrtbees3226]

I had 3 colonies this season with brood above and below the excluder. All I can figure is virgin queens got mated and came back in the tiny upper entrance I have in the inner covers. I am not going to use upper entrances anymore. I just shook all the bees down under the excluders and let the strongest survive. Good luck with your fall flow.

[@DuckRiverHoney]

I figure that’s what happened. Emergency queen above the excluder, out the upper entrance and back.

[@PeabodysApiary]

Were the honey super box’s off set on the hive you had brood in above the excluder?

[@DuckRiverHoney]

No but they did have a telescoping lid with notched inner cover.

[@PeabodysApiary]

@@DuckRiverHoney interesting things! Also can you do a video on your feeder I have a 50 gal tote/pump feeder and looking to upgrade. Like do you mix sugar or buy bulk feed etc… thanks man great video!

[@DuckRiverHoney]

Already did a video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmLKdmmfpLZ8ocksi=Yv0CsRESTowtlOwb

[@paulhermes9817]

Exciting time

[@jeffgarland5332]

Where do you get your suger from?

[@robertlewis3336]

I'll bet your sugar bill is outrageous. The price of that (like everything) has gone crazy.

[@jimbonevideo6941]

The double queen colony is mid-supercedure. A freshly mated queen can fit through an excluder because her ovaries have not swelled up from egg production. The old queen would likely die this fall or while overwintering.

[@DuckRiverHoney]

New green queen in the bottom, new unmarked queen up top. Both had several frames of brood. Unlikely to be supercedure. More likely an emergency queen up top that went out the notched inner cover.

[@scotthogan3361]

Did I miss understand...? In our double queen colony, the colony you put above the flat top board, you have feeders in , correct? Then you put your honey suppers on ?? Or did I not see it correctly??

[@GASTONEDUARDOFAJARDOCARR-qx1rt]

Hello. The sheets that you check at minute 15:00 are made of what material? Those sheets that you take out from under the floors seem appropriate to see if the hive is attacked by mites or cockroaches.

[@jakeoz65]

Queen excluders are bad. Lot of people dealing with it

[@SnowRover]

Nathan, Are you not using an electric fence? May be you don't have bears?

[@researcherAmateur]

What l don't like here in my place is that the sun can heat up that cover way too much even if it's all painted white. Those poor bees end up ventilating all day. So there are always some boxes with 1/2 or 3/4 holes with a cork in. Here we all use a lot of plastic foil that can be used to separate them for a short time too. If l find a piece of plate or a copper coin it's usually around 2000 years old. We used to send some to identifying. The oldest coins came back ancient Greece 350 B.C. But you never find gold.. always copper

[@DuckRiverHoney]

That’s super neat! We find stone artifacts but of course no really old coins or manufactured goods.

[@researcherAmateur]

@@DuckRiverHoney it shows where they used to live. Under it there's a beach with a water spring that never gets dry. We use it as a vegetable garden with some fruit trees and a 30-35 hives yard. There were times when I had to dig a hole for a dead goat or sheep. It's then when you find the good old stuff, when you dig deeper. I collected a lot over the years.. pottery, coins, needles, hair clips etc. All kinds of metal and pottery stuff. I bet you can find stone artifacts.. knifes and arrow heads, spear heads

[@jaibusby673]

pls brood frame now why so not many bees are they ok

[@TroySilver-ig5nl]

Your going commercial. U have honey supers on but are doing lots of feeding in the same yard. Seems u been watching Bobby Lee! Not rice but wice honey for u.