JC's Queen Rearing Series...A Guide To Raising Your Own Queen Honey Bees

As a beekeeper, the key to a sustainable apiary is genetics. Most all beekeepers know that the queen is he heart of the colony but do not know how important her genetics are. It's also important to work with genetics from your region. Every year southern beekeepers send 1000's of bee packages up to the northern states and each year, many of those same colonies dies because they are not used to the climate change.
This Queen rearing Series will teach you how to raise your own queen bees from the very beginning of the process. Before you start though, check out and download my queen rearing calendar (Below).


Self-Generating Queen Rearing Calendar 


Download Calendar here


Queen Rear Calendar Wheel:https://sustainablehive.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/queen_rearing_calendar_wheel-2-pages.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1Iv4z1k2qsP0fjt8dpk7oR-DldUwkSP9PF8-GsyLwX-3uGTeR47duDqhU

Step 1... Building A Cell Starter / Setting Up A Finisher Colony



Step 2... Grafting Day... 

Grafting Tools & Accessories Overview


Step 3... Transferring Grafting Frame To Finisher... 

  Step 4... Using An Incubator To Finish Capped Cells... 



Step 5... Adding Queen Cells To Splits...



Optional Step 4... Setting Up A Cell Banking Colony... 



Optional Step 4...Finishing Queen Cells In An Incubator...



Step 6... Checking & Marking Mated Queens... 



Step 8... Using Mini Mating Nucs (Video)... Coming Soon


Step 9... 
Ect.......