Queen Bee Breeding for Backyard Beekeeping
What you'll learn
- 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.
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.
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.
Who this course is for:
- A hobbiest bee keeper who would like to learn to successfully raise their own locally adapted queen bees .
- A beekeeper who has mastered basic beekeeping and who would like to extend their skill base and learn another aspect to their beekeeping hobby.
- a beekeeper who keeps bees in a top bar hive, warre hive or langstroth hive
- A beekeeper who would like to save money and build up their hive numbers easily and efficiently.
- a beekeeper who wants to produce bees who have varroa sensitive hygiene traits
- This course is not appropriate for an absolute beginner beekeeper.
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 199 Reviews
- 1,191 Students
- 3 Courses
I am a Landscape Architect with a Masters in Resource and Environmental Planning with Honours. I have a passion for permaculture and urban sustainable living. I have published three books Green Urban Living, Embrace Your Space and Backyard Bounty. I run a interactive website called Green Urban Living and run courses and workshops both in my garden and online.
I have always enjoyed growing vegetables but since having our three children I have become more and more concerned about the state of our environment and the rising cost of living. I want our kids to learn where food comes from and how to grow it, I also want my family to do our bit for the environment and as I do have Scottish heritage, I want to save money and learn to live a more frugal lifestyle, without having to give up my daily Lattes!
Many people think that if you live in an urban environment you can't grow your own food or have animals but after looking through my web-site you will see that that is not the case. My goal is to help you produce more and consume less in ways that make you and your family live a more healthy, sustainable lifestyle, connected to nature, whilst saving money. There are so many ways we can all live more green and eco friendly.