HOW We Mate 100 Queens and Make OVERWINTERED Nucs! Beekeeping 101

These nucs are building up so nicely! Just in time for winter. Every year we make up a batch of nucs both for you as our overwintered nucs and for our own hives so that we can just plug one into on of our dead outs. It amazing how quickly they build up when they overwinter in a box this small. But, thy truly are hardy and frugal to make it through our Michigan winters. I hope your season is going well, I will see ya soon!!
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[@Swarmstead]

04:32 Where ya running off to bud? 😆 07:43 Where ya going again?! 😆 Selecting to go somewhere else?

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

I haven't checked comment in so long i started to miss you, you can hate me but i enjoy you! Hope your having a great year.

[@BadaBingBadaBoomYT]

@@theterriblebeekeeper7435 keep on rocking man!@ Greetings from The Netherlands ! :)

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

@@BadaBingBadaBoomYT I so dig your energy!

[@BeekeeperofTN]

I must ask as I see it most of the time with beekeepers that have done this longer or have a lot of hives. When putting the lid back on or the brood box, why do beekeepers just slam it back on there and kill quite a few bees? After him getting stung who knows how many times plus them getting squished, i just couldnt do that to my bees. Idk if its a tactic but im still learning! Love your vids

[@riobarudo]

Thank you Miss Indonesia like bee apis cerana🐝👍🤝

[@dougvogt8058]

I usually work my bees in shorts, t-shirt, and no gloves. But I ALWAYS wear a veil. If I don't, they usually go for just under my eyes. I can live with getting stung on my hands and arms, but I REALLY hate getting stung in the face.

[@morrishomesteadgirls]

I was thinking the same thing

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

When I got into beekeeping i liked getting stung i felt like it reinforced learning to love the skill at all costs 😆

[@dougvogt8058]

@@theterriblebeekeeper7435 I try to think of it as therapeutic, which it actually can be.

[@triggerwarning2439]

Im shooting for making over winter nucs next year. I only had one over winter hive and I purchased 3 this year. I ended up catching a couple hives and did a couple splits now I'm going into winter with 9. I have several properties that will host my bees here in western WA so I dont know how many I will decide to level out at. I'm very happy I decided to be a bee keeper (so far).

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

Keeping bees is a passion of mine The thing I miss the most from when i started was how positive the community was, but these days seems like it's just mostly grumpy people keeping bees hoping to see the positivity and supporting each other make a come back

[@srae1503]

I am not sure why you ever have him in your videos.Some of the stuff he says i just have to shake my head.

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

I try to stay out the videos as much as possible its not really what i signed up for 😂

[@BadaBingBadaBoomYT]

Dude, Kasey rocks. Try to stay that calm if you're stung in the eye 😂 I would be high tailing it outta there!!!! 😂😂😂

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

@BadaBingBadaBoomYT you are so awesome and thank you so much for the kind words you speak. I adore kindness!

[@henry6941]

When will you begin feeding for the winter? Sugar water? Ratio? Thanks

[@flyslinger2]

Get the DJI mic so that both of you can be recorded into the same video and heard better! He has too much good information to miss out on.

[@BadaBingBadaBoomYT]

yes please! :)

[@poussin483]

I hope the stung was not so bad. It's always when you said that my bee's are nice that they sting you. I got the same problem lol.

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

No it went away quick but I super appreciate it! Just an opinion but as ive been keeping bees with a partner they get stingy if i speak to loud or use certain tones of my voice.

[@denodkgoro8124]

Hi,in a month, these will be "nuclear bombs" on 5 frames. The bee likes when it is cramped, they behave completely differently. These nuclei will do miracles in the spring. All praise.

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

Thank you for the inspiring comment, bee keeping for me has always been about finding happiness. When i started the community had friendly uplifting people, but sadly the nagative voices screamed the loudest in beekeeping these days, I hope we all find the positive vibe again!

[@denodkgoro8124]

@@theterriblebeekeeper7435 I appreciate the persistence and open views towards new methods of beekeeping. I watched the video again, I noticed that there is a lack of pollen and food on frames, there are still a lot of old bees that should have disappeared from hive a long time ago and it is difficult for them to make royal jelly for the brood. Old bee will not die until there are enough young bees in the colony. That's why they are angry. Add food and pollen substitutes and don't look at the nuclei for the next 20 days, the bees will be calm and everything will be fine. BR

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

@denodkgoro8124 with then being small at the start i was worried that hive beetles may see pollen patties as an opportunity to take over, (could just be an irrational fear of mine) looking into them yesterday and these hives are absolutely thriving now and bringing in all their owm resources, i love the information your brought in this comment and truly appreciate it.

[@Thestickybee]

Do you sale mated queens? If so will you ship to Texas?

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

We are in the planning stages of that, we have mostly sold all ours locally.

[@researcherAmateur]

Still with the formic production from oxalic. How much did it produce from a couple of grams of oxalic ? Could you make money on formic production with a vaporizer ? They were hungry and they consumed the brood. Like these bees in the video seem to be. Why keep that giant feeder in a nuck if you don't feed them ?

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

Giving the space they like some need more frames but not extra room like a step up situation 2- 6 - 9 but you kinda get a feel for how much space is right, so when times comes ill pull the bottom feeder drop stores to each side of the bottom box and leave one brood frame up there and fill in frames two empty framea next to the feeder at the top, I don't like giving them just a ton of room all at once ive learned to see when they are asking for more room, but i feel like the bees tell us what they want. The nucs look amazing when i got into them today and where given more frames.

[@researcherAmateur]

Was this in English language answering my questions ? Sorry I didn't understand anything...

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

@researcherAmateur sorry tried my best to explain what my mind set was.

[@researcherAmateur]

@@theterriblebeekeeper7435 l think l understand. The feeder makes them restricted... and so on from that

[@researcherAmateur]

They look to me like they had at the time of the video just enough pollen for the day and some nectar to survive a couple of bad days without flying. After that they slow down on feeding the brood and if they get a dearth which in August isn't rare the cannibalism on open brood will start over night. I don't know what are you whayting for.. they surely won't draw comb in those conditions. Why not use really thin syrup and make use of those bees who will be dead in no time anyway. I don't get it.. what are you hoping for

[@hootervillehoneybees8664]

His ankles must get chewed up.. i use to be like that i can't anymore after i got bad infection and stung in the eye i refuse .. im starting to wonder why I even own feeders.. i checked those nucs we made gave them 4 lb of Hooterville fondant and its about gone.. they turned it to liquid and drew bunch of white wax .. they do better on the inverted sugar in the fondant those vsh frames of brood refused most of them latshaw virgins even the emergency cells they took down.. so we ended up with 3 latshaw and 25% requeened themselves those yellow vsh strains .. i took bunch of mated queens and ripe cells hopefully they are all queen right next visit.. vp VSH strains just drag out everything that looks different. Never see deformed wing or greasy looking bees in vp VSH colony.. makes them kinda hard to work with.. they do great on the mites but they also eat way more.. trying to get everything the same the same strains. I won't get that done this year . Gota sell it off i guess the yellow strains until price of sugar comes down or kc makes us a sugar maker machine.. we can buy the sugar beets cheap 60.00 for truck full.. can't be that hard.. he can doit .. just think how many one could sell .. go down to the bee expo win first place with it

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

Well let me research how to make that machine and we will see what I can come up with 😆

[@hootervillehoneybees8664]

@@theterriblebeekeeper7435 I'll supply the sugar beats for it bring you a truck load .. I know they shread them like hash browns before they boil them down into syrup then add something cause it to crystallize then spin it. Emily might understand that with her working wine not sure what they add . Maybe we can just use the syrup. You working in fabrication definitely can build it just need to figure out what to build. God's gift right down the road so cheap they use it as feed .

[@hootervillehoneybees8664]

@@theterriblebeekeeper7435 I'll even chip in on the build so don't think it's gotta be cheap needs to work sugar just keeps going up. Price of beats haven't changed in my life time

[@theterriblebeekeeper7435]

@hootervillehoneybees8664 lets truly work out this strategy ill start studying the possibility of doing it tomorrow

[@peteGbee]

it is absolutely amazing the statements he makes on selecting bees. selecting for stings that make you feel good? selecting for good mating flights? selecting on for not using smoke? All this selection you claim with no offer of any proof of how why or proof that any of it works or why it matters. selecting for certain traits could take many years and your haven't been breeding bees for that long from what I gather. again this is a beekeeping 101 channel and your claiming stuff that does not make sense and mostly is just not true. breeding for traits takes time and evidence and SELECTION, which is a process. I just can't believe he is making these claims and stating these as fact on a how to beekeeping video. the funniest part is stating selecting for temperment then getting stung up few seconds later. which should prove that selecting takes years and is not easy, and there is no way to know if traits get passed on. It's a toss up unless you have a closed mating yard or AI. thats why selection takes time and if you know bee breeding you cant guarentee or make fact claims about anything.

[@altaylor293]

I don't understand the purpose of this video unless it is to show how not to do inspections. I heard several times" they look ok" when he cracked the lid but quickly closed it and didn't check a single frame, etc. How do you know they are ok? Second, this could be very misleading for any new beekeeper. This is not the way to learn to keep bees. Finally, it is very poor to show someone without wearing a veil. He may not like to use one but one sting in the eye and his "bravery" will disappear along with his sight. This is my first time looking at this channel and my last.