Beekeeping with Chuck - 2nd Demaree and Cutting Cells Too!

Chuck Cook Podcast by Chuck Cook

Episode notes

🐝✈️ From the cockpit to the bee yard! Chuck's back and diving straight into some serious Demaree hive management.

🤔 Did the added caged queen successfully establish herself? Is scratching honey cappings really the key to creating brood space? And what exactly happens when you perform a "Second Demaree" on a towering colony? 🤷‍♂️

📍 Highlights in this episode:

✅ Watch a real-time Day 9 queen cell check & cut in a young Demaree hive.

✅ See the technique (and cool tool!) for collecting royal jelly from queen cells.

✅ Confirmation time! We look for eggs to see if the introduced queen is laying.

✅ Addressing honey-bound & pollen-bound frames – making crucial space for the queen!

✅ Performing a "Second Demaree" on that monster hive based on YOUR feedback!

✅ Adding a TON of found ... 

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Beekeeping