NUC Follow Along Playlist: kzread.info/head/PLbahx4WxwRgr1a2-5xPhE7Aoi8S0zIevy The gloves I'm using in this video, my favorite hivetool, and other beekeeping tools & equipment that we like to use from Amazon can be found here: www.amazon.com/shop/tennessees-bees

The new split was made with 2 frames of mostly capped brood, 2 frames of solid food, 2 shakes of bees, and 2 foundations. They were fed 5 pounds of 1:1 syrup and were given about a quarter pound of pollen patty to insure the young nurse bees are ready to feed the new queen's larvae. The plan is to check back 9 days after the split was made and see what is happening!

I'm lucky, Miller Bee Supply is only an hour away, just stopped by there after checking my bee trailer in Wilkesboro for Sourwood.

Since I am splitting a first year nuc this week when a new queen arrives, this video is perfect timing.

I've had these gloves for a month now and love them!

@kamonreynolds

6 күн бұрын

Best dexterity I have seen yet

Ha Kamon good to see you and it was a great video. your queen is doing a beautiful job. Hope you and your family have a wonderful week

@kamonreynolds

7 күн бұрын

Thanks Frances! We are having a good weekend with family! Almost took 2 days off for once! :-)

My first year, started with 2 packages and a swarm. I was able to split them and had 6. I was also able to get a few supers of honey. Has a lot to do with the area, good nectar flow here, trees, wildflowers, and surrounded by soybeans and cotton.

@kamonreynolds

7 күн бұрын

Location Location Location! Happy Beekeeping!

@kevinogden4363

7 күн бұрын

@@kamonreynolds to you as well! Thanks for what you do in the beekeeping world!

Still following along. I made a few splits except I did not purchase new mated queens. The cells have emerged im just waiting for the mating flights and new eggs. Cheers🎉

After working the neighbors hives today we came home to find a swarm of bees on the mailbox and a swarm of bees in the front yard trap where I caught a swarm in the spring. Very cool but I’m thinking they will need a lot of help to get through winter here in Oklahoma.

Thanks for all your teachings!

I really like Miller Bee Supply wood ware, the joinery is so precise.

@kamonreynolds

6 күн бұрын

Yes it is

Found a tiny swarm of about a dozen bees and a queen. 3D Printed a Mating nuc for them. Hopefully, they survive.

Your right bro we don’t get a dearth at all in Nova Scotia Canada our flow goes from may until end of September

Miller Bee Supply’s 6 frame nucs are awesome. Hope they start making a medium 6 frame box and feeder shims.

Nice Video, very informativ! One week too late though, ended up with a super week split that keeps me constantly worried, five more days until I can look if the new queen is still alive :(

Hi Kamon from redhouse wv don’t you love working the hive in the 90 degree s lol. I just raised some solid black queens from a swarm I got in April. Calmest bee in the world. Pulled 74 pounds of honey and now found swarm cells Today made two nucs I think sparks were coming from them as I closed them up. Be so careful in this heat Hope to meet you one day. Bless you and family

Man, that is a cool little nuc. Six framer, that is such a great idea, You guys have some cool stuff in north america but we've got Ceracell knocking out cool treats right on our doorstep 😂 ( well, actually theyre in the North Island im in the mountains of the South Island about 711 American miles away)😂 great video 👍👋

So true about beekeeping and saving marriages, haha!

Good to hear laurel laugh with you. 😂

Awesome video

@kamonreynolds

7 күн бұрын

Thanks Charles!

I would like to see you try some Saskatraz bees in my area in Utah my sask are producing two to times as much honey as my carni's

👍

those blackberries behind you there look pretty yummy.

@kamonreynolds

7 күн бұрын

Man they are delicious!

Me too I love makeing nucs too

Yes you can take it and feed them sugar water I do it

Fist time I heard your women laugh 😅

Kamon - I’ve heard to wait 24 hrs before introducing a new queen. In the video, you did so right away. Have you had any trouble in getting her accepted with that approach?

Kamon I have been purchasing from Miller bee . They have been GREAT about everything. Do you know if or when Hillco will be getting more Pattie’s in stock . I was getting ready to call them tomorrow to get more patties. Thanks

Noticed that you are not using your own pollen pattie recipe. Any reason why? Is the mix by HillCo different from the Palmer recipe?

Are you going to do a mite treatment to the nuke and the split?

Hey mate would you say wax fountain or plastic foundation is better? I need to buy a few hundred frames but I’m torn on what works best in the long run. Cheers

@kamonreynolds

9 сағат бұрын

They both work but I love plastic foundations in a wood frame. As long as it has a good wax coat they work wonderfully

@xx24nuggetsxx48

8 сағат бұрын

@@kamonreynolds nice in my opinion they just seem like they’ll be sturdier for longer. Thanks for that and love the content. I’ve only been doing beekeeping for a year and I’ve learnt so much from just watching your videos.

Question!!! I just split my spring nuc this tues. It had grown exponentially and had filled two deeps and two+ mediums in less than 3 months.. packed full of bees! So, it has been HOT (upper 90's)and the new hive does not have many foragers to collect water. I put a sour cream lid full of water on the bottom board for them today as I was worried about water. Is this OK? They went right to it.

Great video! Is it too late to do a split without introducing a mated queen? I live in North Central Pa, probably will be entering the dearth soon. 30 days will put the nuc into the beginning of August. Will feeding (heavily) get them built up enough to get through the winter?

@kamonreynolds

7 күн бұрын

Hi John! It is pushing it here in my opinion. Very hard to have high level of mating success the further into the dearth you go. That and it can take 50 days for a emergency queen's brood to emerge and start building the numbers with her own offspring. Not impossible but I don't like the odds.

@judicorbett9401

7 күн бұрын

Ask a local beekeeper. Probably pushing it?

@johnlehr1036

7 күн бұрын

Thanks, that's what I have been thinking. Will hold off until the spring.

@johnlehr1036

7 күн бұрын

​@@kamonreynolds Thanks, that is my thinking. Will wait until spring and not push it.

A self respecting beekeeper would never entertain the idea of cracking open a hive without wearing their "Tactical Bee Gloves". #GitSum

kamon, what breed of queen did you install and would it be too much to ask where in VT you got her from? Second question, I'm a first year keeper and when I got my first hives and swarms I thought it was a good idea to space them out. I have 4 hives but each one is ~50 feet away from each other. Now that we are in hurricane season I wish they were closer or next to each other. is there a safe way to move them such a short distance? All I've seen for moving bees is miles away and have been warned not to confuse them by moving them such a short distance. Thanks for what you and your awesome wife do for us!!

@apveening

6 күн бұрын

As I understand it, you can move them closer, but it has to be done slowly, two or three feet every couple of days.

@researcherAmateur

5 күн бұрын

If they really are every hive by itself (I don't know how much 50 feet is.. I'm a metric guy) at the beginning you can move them a yard every day. They will find their way when it's only one hive there. When you get them closer to each other than you have to move a little bit every day. I don't know.. a feet. 20-30 centimeters even less at the end

@researcherAmateur

5 күн бұрын

There's a way to move them in one move.. at night but you need an empty one to leave behind in the old place.. it needs an empty frame or two to collect the bees tomorrow. Then you let them stress all night thinking they lost everything and early before morning you bring them to their hive. You may need to repeat it once more. You can also close it at night to not have to do it early. And on the original hive entrance is good to put some kind of obstacles like a brunch for them to reorient. Make it difficult for bees to go out first day or two. This works good.. it's how I move hives in the seme yard

@apveening

5 күн бұрын

@@researcherAmateur 50 Feet is 15.24 meter

@researcherAmateur

5 күн бұрын

@@apveening 15m from hive to hive. Yes they could be moved at first 1m every day. Than half a meter and then in the end not more than a foot. But if they were mine l would do the second option and move in one time and collect the strugglers in the empty box. And do that one hive every time

Lazy bees 🤣. I'm always surprised by the great information from that channel l won't mention. I know about lazy beekeepers. But I never seen a lazy bee... must be some generic fluke 😂

Kamon, I’ve seen mixed reviews about those gloves. What are your thoughts about them?

I won’t lie I hate Queen excluders they are hard on the bees I took a hive and watched them and they were getting stuck in it I felt so bad I threw all mine out I can live with a little brood in the honey supers

Mike Palmer Queen?

😂😂😂😂😂😂 greedy

You are funny yeah it can save your marriage

Found the beginning of this video very confusing....sorry. Sure would like a video on "walk-a-way" splits....without finding the queen.

@kamonreynolds

Күн бұрын

Walk away splits don't work very well unless it is early in the season and you can accept 30-50% not coming back. It takes 50 days on average a walkaway queen to develop, mate, lay, and then have emerging offspring. In that time a lot of comb drawing, food storage, and population growth are missed.

@thefrenchgardener1865

Күн бұрын

@@kamonreynolds Makes lots of sense; thank you.....

Why are you doing splits when you state how hard and difficult it is at this time of the year. Isn’t this risking the colony and forcing you to feed? Weak colonies are also highly susceptible to pests and pathogens.