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    - We're gonna talk today about incubators.

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    We've got a commercially available incubator here and we got a do it yourself incubator

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    here.

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    We're gonna focus mostly on the do it yourself one but when we harvest queen cells from our

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    cell builder colonies, we take the frame out, I've got one right here, so we take that out

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    of our cell builder and we keep it vertical, we try not to bump the frame at all, and we

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    gently brush the bees off the, off these cells, and then we bring that, the frame, into our

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    workshop where it's a nice warm temperature, we're outta the wind, and we have all the

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    tools and so on at our disposal.

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    So we can then take each of these individual queen cells off the bar here and then transfer

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    them into the incubator.

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    But let's have a look at the incubators first.

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    The commercially available one has a tray inside that we can put the cells in individually.

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    Underneath that, there's a heating element built into the tool box design here, and so

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    that's heating up from the bottom, and it's set to heat at 32 to 34 degrees to keep, Celsius,

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    to keep that, the cells at the brood nest temperature.

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    It's 12 volts, so we can plug it into our vehicle battery or into our vehicle or into

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    a battery or into a battery charger.

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    So that's the commercial unit.

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    This is worth about $1,000, so not everybody's gonna wanna be going out and buying one of

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    those and I really think we need to be thinking about using queen cells more in beekeeping

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    than we do right now, so I'd really love it if people were able to learn more about how

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    to handle those cells.

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    It's really not that hard to do and there are some key advantages to using queen cells.

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    Number one: they're available earlier in the spring so in our area here, that's an advantage

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    because people wanna make up splits fairly early.

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    Number two: when you use a queen cell, the colony you introduce that to goes through

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    a broodless period, which means the Varroa mite levels crash, so it's a really effective

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    way of controlling your Varroa mites in the spring so that the build up through the rest

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    of the summer is much lower.

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    So that's another advantage.

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    The, they're much cheaper than a mated queen and the, they're locally, generally, locally

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    available from a local bee breeder or queen rearer.

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    For the queen rearer, some advantages there are that they don't need to have all their

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    mating nucleus colonies set up and they can crank out lots of queen cells, so.

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    The only disadvantage is that you only get half of the genetics from that queen rearer

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    or bee breeder, but that's not such a significant disadvantage.

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    The, let's look at the do it yourself incubator now.

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    So it's a, let's see here, it's a 16 quart or 22 litre incubator, that's an ideal size,

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    and then inside that, we have a hot water bottle.

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    We've done some experiments with this to know that we're getting the right temperature and

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    know how well it works.

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    We fill, we run our tap until the tap water is as hot as it's going to be, and then we

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    fill that right up with the hot water and then we swoop our incubator, or move that

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    into our incubator here.

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    Just lay that down in the bottom of the incubator.

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    And you can see it's a nice fit in the bottom there.

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    And then we fill this up so that we have shavings going four inches above the top of the hot

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    water bottle.

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    That insulates the hot water bottle so that the cells that we're gonna put in don't get

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    too hot from the hot water.

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    And about 10 - 15 minutes, the temperature in here comes up to the right, the brood temperature,

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    brood nest temperature.

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    So we'll put the shavings in now and we'll fill that up to our pre-marked four inches

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    here.

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    We just pour those in, fill it up to four inches there, kinda level it out.

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    A little bit more.

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    We set that up.

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    And now what we're gonna do is we're gonna take the cells off the graft bar.

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    So we've got the frame there that has the graft bars in it.

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    We'll gently take that off and we'll lean it in here.

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    And we really are careful that we don't tip that over.

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    And then we use a hive tool and pry, very gently, each individual cell off.

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    We then make a little impression in the shavings with a finger, put the cell in, and then just

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    snug the shavings up around that cell, and repeat the process here.

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    In an incubator like this, you can put in 40 or 50 cells or 2 or 3, whatever you want.

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    Once that's done, you got all the cells in there that you want, then we close it up and

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    that will keep these cells at the correct temperature for up to five hours.

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    So that means the beekeeper that's buying the cells from a queen rearer has then time

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    to get those cells home and get them introduced to their queenless colony.

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    It's important that colony has no queen when we're introducing a queen cell.

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    We then leave the cells to hatch out over the next day or two, let the queens fly out

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    and mate, and within a couple weeks, we should have a mated queen.

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    We just go into the colony and check to see if we have eggs.

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    If so, we have a mated queen.

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    So it's very simple, nothing to it, it's just a matter of handling them carefully, keeping

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    them at the right temperature, and getting them installed in a timely manner.

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    Thanks for watching, see ya next time.

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The example sentences of INSULATES in videos (6 in total of 7)

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Use "insulates" in a sentence | "insulates" example sentences

How to use "insulates" in a sentence?

  • There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
    -Antonin Scalia-
  • The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Definition and meaning of INSULATES

What does "insulates mean?"

/ˈinsəˌlāt/

verb
protect by interposing material to prevent heat loss.

What are synonyms of "insulates"?
Some common synonyms of "insulates" are:
  • wrap,
  • cover,
  • encase,
  • enclose,
  • envelop,
  • swathe,
  • sheathe,
  • lag,
  • heatproof,
  • soundproof,
  • muffle,
  • pad,
  • cushion,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.