Splitting Colonies to make Overwintering Nucs - Our Process 2023

Video taken June 10, 2023.
In this video we quickly walk through our process of splitting colonies into nucs.
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[@Sigpilot97]

Great video guys! Thank you for putting in the effort to share your experience. I’ve learned from you guys and will be watching your other videos. Please keep posting. You’ll get be up there with Bob Bonnie pretty soon.

[@jovanvujovic3932]

Bravo, dobar video😀👍, pozdrav i medno iz Hercegovine

[@honeyandthecoop803]

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing your ideas with us. I'm about to receive 10 mated queens and plan on splitting my hives with them, any suggestions on introduction of these beauty's?

[@HiddenSpringApiaries]

We split with queen cells, I don't have much experience with queen introduction unfortunately

[@honeyandthecoop803]

@HiddenSpringApiaries Thanks for the response, hopefully, you guys will make some more videos soon!

[@jimwaldele9084]

awesome progress guys,, 1 advise for you though, stick a 2by4 underneth the strap it will help stop the lids from popping up in travel,, keep up the good work

[@HiddenSpringApiaries]

We do that on the top one, the bottom one is held down by the top one

[@jimwaldele9084]

@@HiddenSpringApiaries lol.. yes i see that now,, i guess i should watch the video before commenting,, great idea,,

[@nickford5549]

These northern breeder need to stop lying with the nucs. An over wintered nuc has a late season queen making her in her prime come spring. Splitting your winter hives does not make a winter nuc!

[@HiddenSpringApiaries]

Most of them make the origin of the bees clear in their advertisements. So long as you're truthful about what you're selling, sell whatever kind of nuc you want

[@CooperBees]

Thanks for sharing your process!!

[@KajunHomestead]

Awesome

[@hootervillehoneybees8664]

I like your nuc hauler thing .. I work out of 8' bed as well.. seems like you could stack them on top of each other so they equalize themselves.. looks like you have 2 from each unit those you could stack so they even out . Plus could haul more

[@HiddenSpringApiaries]

Yes, we stack them 2 high, you can see that at the very end of the video

[@NKYHoneyBees]

*Great info. I love the colors :)*

[@HiddenSpringApiaries]

Our apiaries look like clown vomit

[@kevinsummitt5902]

where did you guys get your yellow plastic plugs and what what was the cost?

[@HiddenSpringApiaries]

Betterbee. Not sure on the cost but it wasn't much

[@PhilStirling]

Great video - do the splits raise their own queen or so you add mates queens?

[@HiddenSpringApiaries]

We add queen cells later the day we split them.

[@cheriefsohaieb098]

Is it ok to split in the winter if you have few warm days?

[@HiddenSpringApiaries]

No, that would not work

[@cheriefsohaieb098]

@@HiddenSpringApiaries even in warm days cause we had alot of them this winter where I live Cause I hear that bees don't work in winter but I also hear other people saying that if you feed them enough they keep working and even lay eggs So I'm kinda confused

[@HiddenSpringApiaries]

@cheriefsohaieb1123 it won't work because there will be no drones to mate with the queens in the splits you make. Also they don't want to grow and expand in winter so if you split them they are just going to dwindle and die