Self-Generating Queen Rearing Calendar Explained...Free Download...

A simple explaination of how my self-generating queen rearing calendar works. This calendar takes the guess work out of the queen rearing process and can be a true time saver. A must have for long term queen rearing operations...
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[@stevedingman474]

Booyah!!! You subs don’t know how great this info handed to you really is ! This is,Chris is amazing! Puts him top bee man on the web as far as husbandry and care ! Thanks Chris.

[@pauljacobs8367]

Thank you for the calendar! This help keep me squared.

[@bluzervic]

Thanks, although I do not raise my own queens, I find this to be very useful in understanding the concept. Keep the videos coming, much appreciated.

[@swordfishkind2704]

Great explanation 👌 thanks for the update fille to Greetings from Belgium 🇧🇪

[@alexpaulson4597]

Awesome! In the years to come I'm sure I'll end up trying this, and what a handy tool to have! First I (still) need my bees! Thanks for sharing!

[@temesgenberhe716]

Thanks for all what you do and I learn more from you

[@JCsBees]

Very welcome

[@FarmerJohnStephens]

Bookmarked your Calender.... Will be very handy, Thanks for the effort.

[@lintonmacnamara1469]

Thanks again for a well set out and constructive post Jason

[@tenillewarren4132]

Thank you very much. I finally figured how to down load it properly to ba able to use it and change dates as needed!

[@samsungtv4u]

thanx bro ................just did my first grafting today good timing with the calendar ..

[@coreymatheson4132]

Thanks for sharing. I'm just a second year beekeeper and planing on trying the nicot queen rearing system this year. Next year I want to try grafting.

[@redpanda608]

Thank you so much for this awesome tool! I will be using it next year. I only have 7 hives at the moment and enough equipment to expand to 12 so I will be relying on swarm cells. But next year I plan to expand significantly.

[@JCsBees]

Best of luck with everything!

[@rodtorrence6139]

Ok , I am watching your seres on queen rearing and I must say “ MOST EXCELLENT”. However, I can’t find or figure out how to get the queen calendar. I’m sure it’s simple buuuut , I need direction. Thanks for your patience.

[@JCsBees]

Glad your enjoying the series. Try this link and see if it works for you. It should give you the option to download or save to you device. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/104kHVgKGIrd_9VPc_Sm4pcwZLcpXKlo2Yp9vN7IjzFk/edit?usp=sharing

[@dougkidd4799]

Great videos, thank you

[@SFERDIAN]

Thank you for the calendar

[@linr2870]

Fantastic explanation. I have used auto calendars for queen hatching so understood about the dates. Yours is the only one I have seen for queen rearing. Liked and Sub'd You worked hard to make this series the best I have seen. THANK YOU!

[@JCsBees]

@Lin R Glad you can see the work I put in to put this together. It took many hours to say the least. Hope you have good luck with rearing queens.

[@linr2870]

@@JCsBees You have helped me and I am sure so many others. I am so glad I found your youtube channel. You show your mistakes and what worked and what didn't. That is so helpful. ATB!

[@HornadySetiawan]

thanks for your contribution to the beeks community

[@CastleHives]

This is awesome, thanks for sharing this. .

[@BlaineNay]

B&K Bees suggested creating an app. Take a look at the “Queen Rearing Calendar” by Jonathan Chiwood. Jason’s spreadsheet gives better information for each step, but Chitwood’s app is good for those who understand the queen-rearing process.

[@JCsBees]

I installed Jonathan's app just 2 weeks ago to try out and it is nice. I like how it gives the options to set reminders.

[@dougvogt8058]

Aren't spreed sheets the greatest? I'm just getting into queen rearing, and this will be a great tool. Thanks

[@BKBees]

We should talk about making an application for this. I make websites and apps and have been brainstorming a queen rearing app for a couple of years now. Hit me up if you'd like to collaborate on that.

[@JCsBees]

I sent a message to your channel.

[@johncook6995]

Have you seen this? www.thebeeyard.org/cgi-bin/queencalendar.pl?month=5&day=22&year=2017

[@christianshannon3943]

Hey , I have seen many folks use the cell builder and cell finisher as the same nuc or full size queenless colony . It seems to work for them . I’m trying to simplify some of the things .

[@asmirpcele]

You deserve tumb up man !

[@barnacleluffy7796]

If you download and go to file. You can redownload as a Exel file or others. Thanks Jason.

[@MsDaddyrabbit1]

You're awesome-thanks

[@JasonEmery9]

I have a question on your 'JC's Queen Rearing Calendar'. I just did a walk away split, and I'm trying to use your calendar to determine when to 'harvest' queen cells for an additional split. (I plan to leave at least two queen cells in the queenless portion of the walkaway split, but there are at least four queen cells to work with, with drawn out cells and lots of royal jelly. When I made up my split, I made sure it had both eggs and very young larvae. When the bees start making emergency queens, are they starting with eggs (day one, two, or three on the left side of your calendar) or young larvae, such as you are grafting (day 5 on the left column of your calendar)? My problem is that all of the queen cells appear to be on the same frame, so I need to cut out a queen cell before the first one emerges and kills all the others!!! However, your calendar states that days 11, 12, and 13, (left column) are the sensitive development stage,, but the first queen will emerge on day 16 (left column). So there is very little margin for error!!!

[@ME_MeAndMyBees]

Many years later.... 😆 You can press a DIY Mesh cage over the Queen Cell to 'contain' it and or the Virgin while doing the same for all others. That way all can hatch without a Death Fight occurring! 🤞 OR Cut out the most (oldest) Developed Ones carefully (with a good margin of Wax around each) Transfer them to a Nuc as needed. There they will be accepted by the Queenless Colony, go on her Mating Flight and then start a good Laying Pattern ! 👍 Hope this helps. 😎 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2023 ! 🥳 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@chandansharma9677]

Thank you for this useful info

[@cricketscorner6514]

Thanks

[@ReviewsbySusanta]

Can I apply same methodology for Apis Cerana Indica?

[@christinemcdonald8705]

Do you think you could film the whole process? Like show one hive through each day you have written down. From graphing to requeened? Would that be possible? I know it would take awhile.

[@trannhutan895]

Thanks a lot Jason. I am sorry to make a late respond, but I just found this useful series recently. My Question is, is it a good idea to use cell punch method to transfer an egg rather than a larva? Because I think nurse bees will have more time to feed the new queen than transferring a larva.

[@dandorosheff256]

Great tool for the queen rearing process. However, after downloading the link, the self-generating spreadsheet doesn't compute. I changed the date and nothing happened. I explored the cell with the date expecting to see a formula but only found the date. I though the other date cells would have formula associated with them, but no just dates text.

[@dandorosheff256]

Hi Jason. I have a question about the timeline. When you move the frame from the queenless starter to the finisher hive. Is the finishing hive queen right? If so might the addition of queen cells prompt swarming? I take it the finishing hive has to be very strong also to finish all the queen cells? Thanks for the advise.

[@ME_MeAndMyBees]

Yes ! Finishers are Queenright. However, she is in the bottom Deep with a Queen Excluder above her ! The Queen Cells get finished in the Deep above by the Nurse Bee etc... BUT You MUST MOVE the Queen Cells BEFORE these Virgin Queens hatch !!! OR have them Caged (from each other.) Or the 1st one Kills all her unborn Queen Sisters ! 😱 (The Bees can still feed these Queens in their Cages : but remember they need to be Mated as soon as possible !) So... make up Queenless Nucs. Add a Queen Cell before Day x13 -x14 !!! She will emerge safely a day or two later. 👍 ALL Queens hatch on Day "16" (that's x16 days from when the Egg was laid ! All Bees come from Eggs aged between Day x1 and Day x3. It's what's Fed them and how they develop that's makes them : Queens : Workers or : Drones (these are Eggs which are unferstilised either by the Queen choosing to lay by her : 'unferstilised' Eggs, to up the Drone numbers in the Hive. [Or a Worker by 'default' Eggs are not fertilised ( if Queen fails or dies.) Hope this helps. 😎 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2023 ! 🥳 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@romoshka1]

In downloading it onto my iPad it required that I get Google Sheets app. It opens in sheets but as VIEW ONLY not allowing me to change the "important" date.

[@noahriding5780]

The calendar saved me a lot of time. Is most of this in your queen rearing book also?

[@JCsBees]

Great glad to hear it was helpful. Which book? I have a few...

[@noahriding5780]

@@JCsBees That queen rearing book caught my eye the most. But I can't resist good technical bee books. XD

[@showmebees9431]

I was able to access your calendar a few days ago, but when I went back a few days later it says I don't have permission. Is it no longer available?

[@EfirdStrong]

The only reason I would have interest in editing the spreadsheet is if I were running a Nicot system and stead of grafting.

[@JCsBees]

That's a good point that I never really thought about.

[@chipking1860]

Greetings, Love this spreadsheet! Only problem is I can't put a date in. Says View only and I sent edit request to do so. What happens next? How do I get to put the date in? As a newbe keeper who would like to give Queen rearing a try, the tool you have made here will be a BIG help Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. You Da Man!! Thanks

[@JCsBees]

Try this link docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/104kHVgKGIrd_9VPc_Sm4pcwZLcpXKlo2Yp9vN7IjzFk/edit?usp=sharing. For some reason the link seems to be time sensitive and then switches to "view only". It's getting very frustrating I must say. I think I have re-shared the link 5 times so far. Either way, I hope it works for you now. I hope your enjoying the Queen Rearing Series. Best of luck!

[@KevinsNorthernExposure]

You changed the description from Step 6 to Day 7 Day 8, etc, which probably confuses people, etc......but calendar function seems to work

[@JCsBees]

Thanks, I didn't even catch that but am working to correct it. Some times I really think I have too many irons in the fire. lol

[@johnwilloughby9712]

great video Jason what kind of grafting tool do you prefer ?

[@SakimasRidgeHomestead]

I think they are asking to edit because, at least for me, I cannot change the date in the upper right. It auto-generates to today's date.

[@jeffsea6490]

*GreatVideo*

[@Digger927]

Jason, this calendar sucks! I downloaded it and filled in the date and nothing happened, I have no new queens! Am I doing something wrong? Do I actually have to physically do these steps with my bees for this calendar to work? I'm confused? I thought as long as I filled in the date the rest would just magically happen?? If I have to actually break into the bees and work with them, I could get stung! Please help, I don't want to get stung...can you do it for me? LOL! Seriously though man, thanks for this series of vids, it's great. I caught my first swarm of the season the other day and split two hives. I have a few more that need splitting, they're really building up fast now here. Hope all is well there! Awaiting the next episode! Take care.

[@JCsBees]

Well damn! There must be an issue with the one of the codes in the calendar. I will have to overlook it and see if I can find the error. lol Glad your enjoying this series. It's surely keeping me busy. Also glad to hear of the new additions to your bee yard. I just seen a Facebook reminder that said, I had a swarm call 2 year ago today. I don't imagine it will be too much longer before the calls start rolling in. How's the bee plots looking?

[@ronaldmorris7500]

Brent is

[@Digger927]

The plots are mostly up and looking good. I didn't have enough buckwheat though, I'll have to get more and no-till it into those one of these days. I just noticed you have like 25K subs on this channel! That's sweet, congrats. I hope it keeps growing into a monster. One of the other newer beeks YTers I follow gave you a shoutout the other day, I thought that was neat.

[@Digger927]

@Ronald Morris...."brent is".....a freaking genius....never doubt it. Though I think my humility is my best trait.

[@JCsBees]

+Brent Glad to hear the plot is up. I have been wondering about it. I signed with an MCM 3 years ago and they have helped grow my channel. I'd love to see it grow more. What was the video with the shout out? I'd like to see it?

[@allankaiko13]

sorry but 1-3 days is egg and 4days is a 1st day larva so this is the time we graft this is our 1st day, 10th day of queen maturity we introduce it into our 5 framer nucs hives

[@dragonflysdiscoveries7567]

Hi Jason, thanks for the great videos. I am having trouble downloading the spreadsheet though. Are you able to help please?

[@bhopper3]

4/20 is my lucky graft day too :)

[@JCsBees]

Nice! I don't get much done that date. lol

[@bhopper3]

I try too but I never remember what I did HAHA!

[@bhopper3]

Oh almost forgot. :) The calendar that I use is one day ahead of yours. I'm inserting cells right after the development phase. I understand why they do it that way because if you have one hatch a day early....but that can work both ways and they could be in the last stage of development when moving cells.

[@DickeDrohne63]

Schön erklärt..👍

[@WahabKa]

i tried to downlaod the calendar in the description, but i got access denied i have sent you a request.

[@JCsBees]

Hello. I went through a list of people giving permission to the download. By chance was you given permission? You should have received a notification if so.

[@WahabKa]

@@JCsBees i got it, thank you so much man (y)

[@toddachten2224]

You need to redo the sheet again. The right column especially. The wording in the box changes from "STEPS" to DAYS at 7 I think that the questions about editing come from the sheet itself on the blue "VIEW" (mode) button. if you click on it, it asks for permission from you to edit the document. You have it set to view only which is probably why it does not generate the dates correctly for formulas.

[@JCsBees]

Thanks for letting me know. Now do you know is there a way to to lock all of the calendar except the date at the top? I am thinking that giving everyone a chance to edit could be a disaster. I don't want people changing the format of each cell only the top date.

[@JCsBees]

I think I figured out how to lock everything except the top date. Try it and let me know. Thx!

[@toddachten2224]

Excellent! I see that you figured it out. I just checked and it worked great. I even played with different dates would also change the days of the week and it did.

[@JCsBees]

Awesome! Everything but the top date was locked from editing, correct?

[@toddachten2224]

Yes. Everything else is locked besides input for the start date.

[@chrisjeppesen2993]

the file on google seems seems to be corrupt

[@sandrawool5053]

when i try to download the worksheet it says i need to request permission. I dont understand this. Can you help?

[@JCsBees]

Let me ask you....Does the calendar work without downloading? I am trying to figure this out but it's hard when I have full access. I know my phone has been blowing up with request to download and I surely can't sit around giving everyone permission one by one. lol

[@brockobama6771]

where is this Downloadable link?

[@pawanpathak5442]

Hello how to tritemant of varuwa mite

[@eParrotorg]

Can't download the Google spreadsheet, maybe because I'm not in the US? Really interested brother in getting that useful information. How else can I get it from you? Help Please. Liked, subscribed, and enjoyed. One more step on this beekeeping journey.

[@eParrotorg]

Google says, "You need permission". I enter my Google and/or KZbin credentials but it fails. I must use a VPN (virtual private network) from my location to access Google but because I'm using a VPN the download fails. Catch 22. Do you have a website where the spreadsheet is posted?

[@HaroldKeiner]

Amazing how close this is to the one that has been at beeyard.org for years.

[@JCsBees]

Do you have a link that works?

[@HaroldKeiner]

sorry missed "the" www.thebeeyard.org/queen-rearing-calendar/

[@familyj4715]

when you try to work on the file you first need to download, which i made mistake and it sent a request to edit which i didnt want, but just FYI

[@JCsBees]

Good to know. Thanks!

[@kwil5379]

Not real happy with the Wallace sweat shirt? I always thought you had good sense, now I'm not so sure?

[@JCsBees]

Hey now, that my grandfather's old shirt. You think I have time to sit in front of a TV for hours and watch cars go around and a around? If I did, I wouldn't watch anything sport related. Not much of any kind of a sports fan.

[@kwil5379]

HA I'm with you! If I have time to watch over paid prima donnas act, then i need some more bees, some more land... or both!

[@the3d_dude]

You forgot the "only left turns" thing...

[@ericbrown9329]

When you click on the link, it states "need permission"

[@JCsBees]

Would you please trying it again? I changed the link but need someone to verify rather it's working. Let me know if you do how it works? Thanks a million!

[@ericbrown9329]

It worked! Thanks a ton!!!

[@JCsBees]

Thank you.

[@cricketscorner6514]

I still don't understand 😆👍

[@JCsBees]

Let me guess, you need me to come down there and show you in person. lol

[@cricketscorner6514]

Can't afford you got to buy your queens.

[@JCsBees]

That works for me! 😀

[@FarmerJohnStephens]

Congrat's Eric on winning Yappy"s swarm commander lure.

[@davidw4346]

Thanks