Wow, decapitating the queen sucks. I just crushed one I paid $60 for... so yeah I feel it! Specifically I feel stupid... "hey hive I know you're queenless, here's a queen, oops she's dead, never mind..."

Thank you for being so transparent with mistakes. It helps me to know that others have issues. I tell my bees that they have a bad beekeeper and their ability to survive me shows how strong and resilient they truly are!!!😂

Love that little queen right dial, I'm going to invest in those, it's way easier than a notebook or leaving notes on the lid but Damnnnnnnnn🤦 I felt that pain when you pinched that queen, just when I was thinking " that's a cool little queen marking gadget" 😅 pinching a queen is horrible 😬 especially when it's a great colony, bummer.

Makes your stomach sink. Dont think I could have held it together as well as you did. Would have had to edit out 15 min of cussing.

Maybe pull a queen from a resource hive to replace queen, that's what they are for...

Great video Brian! We started using the same one-handed catcher this year to mark our queens, and on our next-to last hive I did the same thing…pushed her right down into the comb. She started moving about, but next time we went back to look they had superseded her. Crap happens, good thing bees are good “erasers.”

Man I love the attitude of those bees Brian. I would work them with just a veil. So gentle. Hate that happened to the queen but sometimes things like that happen. Hopefully they will make a new one.

OOOOPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSS word you don't want a surgeon or beekeeper say!

Brian, I am sure glad you edited out those choice words. LOL Stuff happens to the best of us. What I do when painting queens is I use one of those round popsicle ones. I take the plunger out, pickup the queen with my fingers and drop her inside, then insert the sponge plunger. I don't like those one handed queen catchers for obvious reasons. You should have a decent amount of drones around in three weeks so hopefully she returns.

It happens! 14 going into winter strong sounds like you'll be in good shape for next year.

Ain’t 1 guy in a thousand would have shown that 👍👍

Sorry about the queen. But I appreciate you showing it! Loved the incoming mistake sound effect / edit. :)

Sad about the Queen

Awesome Brian

Bummer missed ya, dang it.

Brian, I’m so sorry for your loss. Prayers for you and your family. ❤🙏🏻

Where did you get your jars from?

The observation hive looked great with all those bees inside. Sorry for your loss my friend!!

Sorry for your loss my friend. Have enjoyed some of the stories you’ve told me about your uncle. Sounds like a great man!

Looking good Brian. Folks tend to love observation hives. Those bees should be fine for that amount of time.

That’s a GREAT looking observation hive!

I'm so glad we aren't bees. Every 6 weeks would be a totally different crowd 😮

Sorry for your loss brother. The observation hives are cool! Thanks for sharing!

Brian, know you and your family are in our thoughts and prayers. It's nice to see you making up and taking a frame of honeybees in an observation hive to your local farmers market. People so enjoy seeing a frame of bees up close. It is a great way to educate the importance of them to our food supply and a product source of nature's sweet healthy honey to take home. I had a 4 frame observation hive that I built and kept in the upper half story hallway close to my kids bedrooms. Was great fun to keep bees inside your house and look at them daily from the spring into the fall. Placing them outside in a double 5 frame nuc prompted up on the roof of a carport. It butted up to our second story south gable end of the home with a big window to look out upon our garden and fruit orchard below down the hill. We all appreciate your videos and all the work you do showing and talking about your hives there in your state. Thanks 🐝

So you not gonna run singles through the winter ?

Sorry for your loss Brian, great looking little obervation hive.

Sorry for your loss..

just curious if your in illinois or indiana.been looking for a differnt male

Looking good. I love the tuxedos!

So are they dark meat, or white meat like chickens?

I would treat for mites. Try to get clean winter bees. Low honey usually means not enough bees, so how did your nest look in April?

Looks like you have a great setup for them, I use to raise alot of show chickens for 4-h Kids and loved the process of hatching them out myself instead of buying chicks. I did learn depending on different incubators temp, would determine chicks hatching out early or late, usally a high temp was an early hatch and a low temp was a day late. Great video.

Good video! In 2020. I bought two hives and a few quails and now I have only honeybees because I keep 200 miles away. This year was similar to yours. I’m smaller than you only 6-8 hives and I had only 40% 🍯 from what I was expecting.

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Good job bro I raise chickens

Holy smokes you are wonderfully seriously into it! Brian our neighbor did the same with pheasants. It's a gas! Good on you.

Hey- Great video- - really enjoyed! You are a gadget guy!!!

Awesome job!!!!

I like the hatching time brooder.

Love the Quail videos my friend, I raised them years ago and that experience has stuck with me for forty years, show more videos please

I forget that you do quail, nice coop.

Oh my goodness, they are so adorable 🥰 great job Brian! Thanks for sharing. One of the girls I work with started raising quail this year. I'll have to share this video with her.

I thought this was a beekeeping channel? 😂 That's what everyone tells me. 😊 Didn't realize they only had a 18 day incubation. Wow, that is fast!! Is pastie butt a concern with them? I know with chickens their butt can get plugged off with dried poo. You got a sweet setup for your birds, very cool.

What type of plastic did you use? Looks neat !

im really intrested in this. My father has been bee keeping for about 2 years now. ive been doing it with him. weve both been very intereted in this concept but i do have a few questions and concerns. i didnt see a queen divider anywear for the hex hives sec, which is definetly needed. im not too worried about insulation due to the air pockets when you print. i am very worried about cost effectivness. 90 dollars for STLS, about 200 dollars for bees, and id estimate for 4 blocks/hexagon (two pillars of 2) id estimate about 3 spools of filament/60-75 dollars. im just not sure if its worth it. because of the two langsworth hives me and my dad have, im wondering if we just put it near the hives if they will start coming to the hive themselves which would save a significant amount of money. im wondering if after all that cost for the files, time and filament if youd really be saving ANY money from the normal langsworth. and im also wondering about the dividers. you showed that they were empty. just the dividers. do the bees just build their own hexagons or do you need that stuff to get it going. im not sure i that makes sense. thanks for the review though!

Add another box, even if it's empty, spray down with some water from a plastic spray bottle or get a piece of cotton, put some queen pheromone or attractant on it, string it around your neck and make you own bee beard! Lol. 🐝

Great review, I came here after seeing Natalie's review on it. I think after getting a massive facefull of pine needle smoke today because the breeze shifted😂 I'm going to check one out, hopefully they're ok to import into New Zealand 😃👍 I love your queen right dial too by the way 😂 thanks from southern New Zealand 👋

Great video, Thanks