Queen rearing in Brittany

[deemann1]

Love that video...Thanks for breaking the procedure down for everyone to understand..

 

[maddydog]

Thanks Richard

 

[Anduril]

Good quality video thanks Richard.

 

[bjosephd]

Hi Richard, great vid!
I’m curious about tor floors. Also seen then in other vids or pics of yours. They look like a kind of rigid grill? Not mesh but also not ‘solid’ floor. What am I seeing? Or am I just seeing things!?
B

 

[Anduril]

Hi Richard, great vid!
I’m curious about tor floors. Also seen then in other vids or pics of yours. They look like a kind of rigid grill? Not mesh but also not ‘solid’ floor. What am I seeing? Or am I just seeing things!?
B

Thorne have adapted the French floor to fit the national hive, called an MP floor. It's in the catalogue but not on the website.

 

[Eyeman]

At 5.24 on the original video Richard says ' I will have to check the bottom brood box again in 5 days' He has just removed queen cells from this box so will be checking he doesn't get any more queen cells. I presume he checks after 5 days rather than the usual 7 days in case bees decide to rear more queen cells using young larvae? If the bees use a 2 day old larvae then it could be capped in 3 days so wouldn't it be better to re-check them in 3 days?
Also if at the start there wasn't any queen cells in the bottom brood box would you recheck in 7 days or keep your fingers cross and just leave it for the 10 days till grating time?
Thanks