Queen Bee Breeding for Backyard Beekeeping
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Brief Introduction
Learn how to successfully raise your own queen using a graftless method suitable for all hive designs.Description
Are you a backyard beekeeper who would like to learn a new skill?
Would you like to raise your own locally adapted queen bees?
Would you like to save money, have fun, breed and raise quality queen bees to increase your apiary?
Would you like to breed queens but are put off by the specialized skills required to graft larvae? This technique uses an ingenious non-grafting kit! No grafting necessary.
Finally a course which demonstrates how to successfully raise queen bees using the Top Bar Hive design.
Raising your own queen bees is something all backyard beekeepers can learn to do. It is fun, saves you lots of money, prevents any diseases being introduced to your hives and raises the best quality queens.
I have been raising my own queens for a number of years using a easy non grafting kit called the Jenter kit. This system suits me and my Top Bar bees perfectly. This course is for all backyard beekeepers (whatever hive design your bees are housed in) but especially suited to people who choose to keep their bees in a top bar hive design.
I will take you through the whole process, step by step. Explaining and demonstrating how to adapt this system to your unique apairy. Each video lesson will have you right in the hive with me seeing and doing, which I think is the best way of learning. No stuffy old text books in this course.
Requirements
- Requirements
- No equipment is necessary to begin this course.
- AFTER completing the course you may choose to buy a non grafting kit from your local bee keeping supply retail outlet.
Knowledge
- Recognize the difference between eggs and larva in a cell
- be able to state the best time of the year to start queen breeding
- state what needs to be present to successfully reed queen in your apairy
- construct a kit holding frame
- be able to set up a cell builder colony
- be able to state what makes a good queen to breed from
- discover the pros and cons or this type of method
- Prepare a nucleus hive for your queen cells
- learn how to correctly position your queen cells in a nucleus hive.
- How to safely handle a queen bee
- learn how to quickly locate a queen in a colony
- state what a non grafting kit is and demonstrate how to use it.
Janet Luke
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Beekeeping 101: An Intro to Beekeeping Class
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How to start your own backyard beehive. So you’d like to become a beekeeper? Beekeeping 101 is an introduction to bees and beekeeping....
Queen Bee Breeding for Backyard Beekeeping
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Learn how to successfully raise your own queen using a graftless method suitable for all hive designs. Are you a backyard beekeeper who would like to learn a new skill?...
