Don "The Fat Bee Man" Kuchenmeister has been keeping bees for over 50 years!
His straight forward and no nonsense approach to beekeeping will be effective and save you money, whether you have 2 hives or 2000!!
Check out his webpage for info on weekly bee chats, beekeeping classes, supplies or to have Don come to your club meeting. www.FatBeeMan.com
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I go back and rewatch these old videos. Love it!!! The knowledge that you shared with us!!! I tried grafting, that’s a young person’s game!!! I learned to cut cells from watching your videos and you are right, you will run out of equipment before you run out of cells to cut. I actually use natural combs in a timing box and cut strips of eggs out, make as many cells as you want!!!!🤷🏻 thank you again Don for all the tips
Never do this!
Pozdrawiam serdecznie i życzę miłego dnia
what is the size of you queen cell jig?
I wonder about putting frames in a solar wax melter and letting it melt of
I have done that but you wont get all the wax
What if we have wires inside the wax?
Look at that lousy and dull colored wrist watch.
Thank for putting a smile on my face mr. Bee man
This is just what happened to me yesterday. I watched them split to 2 boxes I had out. Amazing creatures
Are you doing ok
Great thanks from Kenya
What is the bleach to water ratio and how long do you let them soak? How do you clean plastic foundation?
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Thanks!
GREAT INFO!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You ok don?
Slatted rack could help
i sell bees wax candles from my capping's after the honey is harvested. would this machine take enough capping's off so i could sell wax by the pound and produce candles . I like the machine but a bit nervous about laying out that kind of money .
Do you set the frames with honey out for the bees to rob or do you harvest? My problem is I treat for mites in my deeps so that honey isn’t edible right?
Don misspoke. He said that mites fly. They can't. They are parasite without wings. Small hive beetle have wings and do fly to hive boxes.
What’s your thoughts on Russian bees?
Don’t buy Russian Hybrids but I really like my pure Russians.
Tip: Squashing the queen is bad. 😂
Dream Big brother 🙏
I read somewhere that bees do not like spearmint and you would use it to kill the mite in the beehives with the bees inside?
👍👍🌹
FAB
What kind of oil for mites
I seen this video several years ago. When I was in my early twenties I had a man that I was buying my queens from. And I loved it. 5 dollars apiece. I had to give it up because it complicated my life not understanding bees take your money and time when you start. As does everything. Well I’m back and it’s still challenging but I’m more stubborn now than then. I’ve always remember one man up front above everyone else. The queen man. I didn’t understand what he was teaching me would still be with me today. We now call them mentors and a friend. I’m back in and this year I’m starting getting into raising my own queens. But I’m still not able to be as free as I’d like to be but I’m trying to be. Thanks for doing your video i didn’t realize it was you that made it. No telling how many times I thought of it. Lord bless and keep thanks.
Первый раз вижу как поварварски относятся к личинкам. Ведет себя как дикарь. Ни какой аккуратности
Excellent! Thanks.
Wouldn't it be easier to make a two-frame nuc? Then you could use a standard frame. You could take a frame of honey or empty comb and put it in the two-frame nuc.
What is roughly the percentage rate of mated queens? My concern is that the queens don't find their nuc because of the symmetric lines the hives are in.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I sure do learn a lot watching your videos and because of these videos of yours my confidence with my bees have improved greatly. I need to and would love to see your operation in person.
A good air compressor will clean those plastic frames in just a couple minutes.
Can someone please tell me why he cant say what kind of soda he is using in the yellow jacket trap?...i cant think of any reason why that would be a secret....what kind of soda is it????
Any soda can work but most of the time it’s mt dew
I really hope you have time to make more videos. I've been watching you and doing common sense I hope and learned alot
Ive been watching you for over 10 years and common sense beekeeping is the best advice i ever got. Thank you for all your time and videos
You had the Queen in your hand. 😅
DO NOT USE AS HE SAYS..ONLY ADD A TABLESPOON PER GALLON OF SUGAR WATER! USING AS HE DIRECTS COULD KILL YOUR BEES!
Thanks
I like how hive beetles lay eggs on the warm wax at night thinking its brood and then get baked the next afternoon
How much does 1 cup mixture go with?
No excuse for not making queens! !!!!! ,condescending twat , you cannot rear them where I live because of the density of preditors ,.typical colonial crap
Love this, it goes fantastic with my mini EWK plus system
Why did you leave the mineral oil wintergreen? It appears to work just fine
Thanks for the video Don!
Wake up, it's a 32mm ID wheel, $20 to $50. x 5" OD. Yea, cleaning first is common sense !!!
Is there an update to this video and how it worked ?
I love your video quite informative. Am a bee farmer from kenya. am wondering how do you separate the queens after hurching in terms of the colonies? If you stick 15 cups each bar you will have 45 cups in 3 bars hence 45 colonies.