Queen Castles: What I use and How to Build

[@brucesmith2721]

excellent Video! I bought a Brushy Mountain medium queen castle because I run all mediums.. This year I will be doing this and your excellent advice is helping me understand what to do here in CT. Bruce smith

[@konradrueb1567]

Great content !!! Thanks for sharing. 🐝safe and keep your smoker lit. Konrad

[@philiprehm2622]

Love your beekeeping videos, just not into the lengthy intro.

[@tomkingsley4398]

You mentioned using 1 frame of capped brood, larva and eggs from a donor hive and a starter strip. Do you always use a queen cell or do you allow those bees and that frame from the donor hive make a queen? Would a mini walk away split work?

[@joebrown2487]

Thomas Kingsley I always use a cell. There are not enough bees on one frame to make a good queen. They will make one. She will not be a quality queen though.

[@timHclem]

Thanks for the video! Do you have any problems combining the bees by just pulling the divider? Will the queenless bees try to kill the other queen?

[@joebrown2487]

No. They are normally happy to have one.

[@romoshka1]

Still struggling with the notion of mating mini nice. Are you placing frames with eggs and letting them make a queen of placing frames with queen cells in these queen castles?

[@joebrown2487]

I use cells. I place a frame of brood and come back later and drop cells. Sorry for the confusion.

[@josephwoodall832]

I like it

[@scottpierson7495]

On your free plans for Queens castle just a picture an no measurements? Am I missing something?

[@rochrich1223]

Do you think that if you put drawn drone comb in a queen castle she would fill it with drone brood? I have been wondering how you could make sacrificial drone brood for trapping veroa mites.

[@joebrown2487]

rochrich yes she would. You also wouldn’t get the benefit of all those newly emerged nurse bees to care for her brood once she starts laying.

[@cobydixon8228]

How do you feed them?

[@johnwatson3913]

I am not finding the measurements on the plans.

[@joebrown2487]

You have to download them. At the bottom of the page you can enter your info and download any of the plans available. They’re all good.

[@johnwatson3913]

Yes Sir, I tried that and only the 1st page downloaded. I'll figure it out, I enjoy your video's.@@joebrown2487

[@joshward9835]

Dadant and sons carry 4 slot queen castles

[@joebrown2487]

Nice to know. Thanks.

[@NielsenValleyFarms]

Where is the link to the plans?

[@joebrown2487]

Landon Nielsen description below the video.