Don!You look a very good beeman doctor-professional teacher.Thankyou-God blush you!

Love from Spain...you are so great in this Game. I learn yo put the wax sheets with nylon wire...thanks for the knowledge...impresionante

Very good thank you FBM, I do this but I keep queen excluder on top of the bottom box which has the queen in it and the second box which has brrod and ELP in it on top for 14 hours so the nurse bees go up to it then after 24 hours I relocate the top box. I know this is a couple of steps more then this but I only have 6 hives in my back yard not hundreds like FBM , great vids and info thanks again FBM

I really like your video's... Well informed, and shows your experience in the beekeeping industry. Thankyou

I really enjoy your videos! i recently got into the vlog thing and just started my own beehive (just did the first inspection) and just wanted to thank you for all the valuable videos you have made... great stuff! It has helped me on my own journey

I would have to assume since it was a breeder queen in "Tims" yard, that he was going to let them raise thier own? Or go back in and add a mated queen.

@OklahomaBeekeeper

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I caught that. His students yard, yet his breeder queen.

good work , as I think that the queen will be insulated by the foundation frame -the 3dr - because of that the bees are going to make queen cells at the other side soon

Hi Don. When you split the two frames of brood into the 5 frame nuc did you have queen cells or were you assuming the bees would make queen cells from the brood? Steve

lol wow you make it look so easy

@ E York. I felt that way too, any video, really. Truck is to watch over again a few time, a pen an pad is good to have to take notes. Good luck.

Are you expecting the bees to make some emergency queen cells Don?

Still at it brother Hallelujah Shalom Aleichem

I guess the sting-less bees don't sting=lol we all get stung some bees can smell fear I don't have any fear. Don

That's some balls

I think i will be making a trip to Ga. next spring to buy some of your bees!!! I feel like a pin cushion with the bees i have

do you keep bees in the same way? or is there a difference in the way we handle bees? Don

Your bees seem so docile! do you often work them without a suit, and how often do you get stung doing so?

hello don. fairly new beekeeper in texas and really enjoy your videos. i watch you and others work with their bees without a suit, gloves, veil or nothing! if i did that with my bees i would get stung a thousand times! when i open the hive they are all over me. what strain of bees do you have and where can i get some? thanks.

wait, dont bees follow the colony and the queen ? Are they gonna make new queen or return back ? Also what would happen if drones werent in it ?

Hey Don! Great videos! To keep the same trend as the last posts, I am also wondering what you do with the 5 frame nuc after the split: do you close the bees inside for a couple of days to orphanize them, or do you leave them be? will they make their own queen or do you help them out?

Don, My old man's got a few hives on his property that the bee keeper hasn't been looking after. It started off as four hives but two are now dead. We're coming into spring now, so if I split these hives, just checker boarding, can I be reasonably certain that I'll bet back to four hives?

Queston...when you do a split ...do you need a Queen in the split box(hive)or nuc box? What makes the bees stay in the split box or nuc box. Thanks

Mr Fat Bee man .. you made a split .. but there's no queen in your new split .. are you gonna put a queen in it ?? love your vid :o)

@ericmoreau7349

10 жыл бұрын

thanks " Montanadave "

@yvairguy

10 жыл бұрын

TheMontanaDave so can you just let them make a new queen or would you pinch off the new queen cells in a couple of days and introduce a new queen? watching his other videos where he cuts the queen cells out could you not let them make a bunch of queen cells and then use those queens produced to split more boxes?

@dulcimerdan

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he sort of left off that piece of vital information.

e mouth has also been squashed so from far it looks like an angle when you get close it looks like a fat pigeon which then can become a hive to cover what? Icecream poop?

when you take out the frames with a lot of brood and replace that frame with a new one - is their a pattern? for what you leave and what you take? like so many brood frames here - followed by honey frame, etc.? I am learning. thanks!

when the cell get chewed on ends or thinned out. Don

So Don are you expecting those two frames of brood and bees to make their own queen, is that it, or are you going to put a queen in with that nuc, because I noticed you placed the queen back in the original hive? And what happens if they don't make a new queen in the nuc?

What time do you usually do split or inspection, in Spring, Summer and Fall?

when I am teaching how to split we use cells. but I have large supply all the time. Don

Don, why did you add the super?

great video, if you ever come to Israel ill be happy to host you.

I have few stings on raining days but don't feel them. Don

You look like a doctor beeman.

Then u wait for crowing and for them to make a queen on the split? I'm new a learning so please bare with me. I really like you approach and simplicity to bee keeping . Thanks

I use 5 frame nuc boxes then transfer them to a big box they seem to build up faster in smaller box. Don

Thanks Don, I put 3 lbs of bees and a queen in 10 frame hive with 1 to 1 sugar water for them. How long till I make a split into a nuc?

do you put in a new queen ? or do you let them produce there own ?

Planning to split into a new queenless nuc with one (1) brood frame each from my three (3) existing boxes into the new nuc box and place it nearby...thanks

If i pull a frame out of a 5 frame nuc with the queen on it and put it in a 2 frame box do i have to move it out of the yard ?

Do you get sting doing it? You don't seem to need any protection. I just got stung a week ago T.T

Those splits are more like $200 + package now the Queens are more like$60 or $80 now.

if you have a ripe cell you can use just a frame of honey and bees. Don

What time of year is best to make a split

well im quite a beginner so i cannot trually answer you, generally there is a big difference in climate ( we have no freezing in winter) and i guess some of your beetles arent here thank god.... I just made some queen cells to grow queens in them i hope it will work and tell you if so!! anyway i like your videos allot and hopefully will be able to contribute to your effort. I havent seen a "donate" button in your site by the way.

don i live in kansas the weather is in the 90 s during the day do you think it is to late to do a 2 frame split walk away i am not for sure if they have plenty time to requeen and grow in 3 months let me know what you think i should do

poor bees being chrushed

You made a split, but there was no qwin cell. How you are going to have the qwin?

Don do you often split first year hives? I installed 3 packages this year and would like to split later this spring /summer.

@fineshooter

6 жыл бұрын

I split packages 5-6 time first year

How do you know when queen cells are ripe

Wow..i found that confusing. People need to know American bees often less likely to sting - hence no gloves or suit

when I make splits I will add a queen cell then never close them up I like old bees to return to parent hive,that;s why I shake little extra bees in box. Don

there bees that I have crossed with many different races. Don

im gonna try this myself and see if it works have noithing to lose honestly.

How many people have to ask you about the queen in this nuc you created???? Kind of an important part you left out, don't ya think?

@MegaDavyk

8 жыл бұрын

+dulcimerdan I am pretty sure he expects the nuc to raise its own queen.

@glennelliott7009

7 жыл бұрын

As long as brood and new eggs are laid they will make the queen

@pauldow1648

5 жыл бұрын

Where there 1 or 2 day old eggs in one of those frames in the new nuc.

@angrydragonkungfu9164

Жыл бұрын

+1 on this. I think he left that part out because all the bees he put in the new hive will for sure just go back to the other hive with the queen in it and possibly abandon the brood and eggs. There's a certain stage the eggs have to be in for the bees to make royal jelly to make queen cells. FBM is the best hands down but some of his answers throughout this comment section make him seem really drunk and he's not answering the questions asked. No bug deal though, his vids are super helpful.

Hi Don, possible to have to new split nuc box nearby to the parent hive?

@fineshooter

7 жыл бұрын

I do it here every day

when I make splits I use ripe queen cells. Don

But that split is queenless??!!

Hello Don: No doubt you know exactly what you are doing, however, since I do not know exactly what I am doing I was not able to move along with you. I have the feeling you are trying to out maneuver another KZread bee man time wise. In this particular type of tutorial it would probably better to explicit rather than fast. Thanks anyhow.

@fineshooter

7 жыл бұрын

no trying to go fast its the way you have to when running many hives and trying to teach new beekeepers at the same time

so when they are going to swarm they build more drone is that right ?

@MegaDavyk

8 жыл бұрын

+valdrin beta Yes swarming is about reproducing and passing on the genes of the hive. Every Drone is genitally identical to the queen except for gender, drones have no father. Any drone who successfully mates passes on the Queens genes.

Very educational , but I urge you to go slow, I has to play again and again to catch up with you . Thank you .

so if i do this and take it away with me to a different location all i have to do is buy a queen and add it?

@dulcimerdan

9 жыл бұрын

I had the same question Gratz. Fat Man doesn't realize he leaves off vital information and he's often not clear about which box he's actually dealing with.

@Gratz1333

9 жыл бұрын

hees fast thats all. old school. honestly the best thing to do is spend time with a beekeeper like this. I will make time this season forsure.

hello if I have a cell then I would install it. Don

You should of taken that split to a different yard and they would of stayed in it. Because its too close to the parent hive is the reason they went back.

FBM is the best

Need date month year.

To fast. Can't keep up with what your doing. Still don't know from this vidio how to make a split.

You??Dont like sting-use Melissa or mint plant lives by hand ??!!

neat movie but I could never do it without a suit my bees all black and nasty

@fineshooter

7 жыл бұрын

just buy good bees

wow thats a pretty weak split for $125. Here $125 gets you a full four frames of brood not two. Four frames brood one honey