Split a Beehive, Start to Finish, from Layens Horizontal Hive

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• MP

  @mpedals · 4 years ago

  please keep doing the videos, they are so worthy to all of us beginners,,,,thank you so much

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• TJ

  @tjones2ful · 3 years ago

  Queenless hives are more defensive. Weather plays a big part.

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• BR

  @brettellis1837 · 3 years ago

  Nice box has good straight lines ya should  look at ally frames.

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• WE

  @wendygrant2735 · 4 years ago

  The best video you made so far. Highly informative, very well explained. Keep 'm coming, You have my thumbs up.

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• JA

  @jaredsparr8536 · 2 years ago

  Fascinating and informative. I’ve been really hesitant on trying to build my own Layens frames. But I keep talking myself out of it because I absolutely abhor table saws. 😖

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• RU

  @rusted-gun · 3 years ago

  Very informative..👍👍step by step

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• DU

  @dustinpotter8312 · 7 months ago

  Mel Disselkoen had a system called OTS (On the spot) that he used to start queen cells. A 'fresh egg' cell (even before any jelly) can be selected the wall of which can be broken down on the bottom of the cell (just the bottom) to like a 45 degree angle. Dong that 2-3 days before a split like you just did allows you to move the chosen frame with a 2-3 old bee in a cup. I have done the procedure and it works fine. You can allow the bees to proceed with their selection (as you did in this post) but the cell you selected and modified will hatch sooner. I never allowed the bees to cap the new cell before I moved it except when trying to give a new split a queen early. I did not wait to just before the day either but one could modify a cell and wait for up to a little less than a week to give the split a jump on the fall nectar flow. Mel still has some YT postings on the net you might want to look at. I just used a 1/4 inch flat blade screw driver to accentuate the bottom part of the cell 45 degrees. You can check to see if your art work is productive and perhaps not get caught with a failure sooner.

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• DA

  @DavidWilliams-wr4wb · 3 years ago

  You don’t Need queen cells for your bees to be aggressive all they need is to be Queen less , also . I have been keeping bees since 1971 and I got to be in the right place at the right time , one of my hives my queen went on a mating flight and i got to see her take off and come back , first time in 52 years ! and while she was gone they were aggressive,  once the bees realize they are Queen less that’s when they get feisty 😈

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• GL

  @glogyorfi5709 · 1 year ago

  Love your Layens videos !! Thank you for the great info

• KE

  @kensomerville · 4 years ago

  Yes a Queen right hive has a different hum, and will be less aggressive, all consider that your bees, have a built in barometer and can read the weather, so even though you don't now a storm is coming they do, and that can make them more aggressive. Anyway great video, as always. I did the bee presentation and it is online. It you would like I can send you the link, it has a lot of info that is not common knowledge about bees. Just spent the last 2 days teaching people how to build swarm traps. The rush is on for Canada to catch the spring build up. :))

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• RI

  @ripleymoheng7214 · 5 months ago

  You make this look easy

• DU

  @DustinCoffel · 3 months ago

  thanks for the video