Breeding the Honeybee Brent Nixon

Mary is in Sparta Georgia and has a business called BeeCo Apiaries. Together with her daughter, Mary sells honey, nucs and small scale locally mated queens. 
2:17 Getting into queen rearing 
5:25 Lines of queens Mary uses 
7:30 Survivor stock 
8:15 Cell raising method 
11:30 Mating nucs 
13:30 Advice to people who are thinking of getting into queen rearing as a sideline 
15:50 What Mary is offering in her business this season
17:57 Where to find Mary
Mary’s Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/beecoapiaries

Mary’s Website 
https://www.beecoapiaries.com/

Mary’s Instagram 
https://www.instagram.com/beecoapiaries/
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Podcast proudly brought to you by 
Brent Nixon at Nixon Queen Bees (Ballarat VIC, Australia)
https://nixonqueenbees.com.au/

Email Brent 
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Shibu is a Queen breeder in Columbia Tennessee. He sells queens, nucs and AI equipment, which he also offers training for. At the time of releasing this episode Shibu had just had a tornado go through his property and cause a lot of destruction. Below is the link to the gofundme which you can follow if you would like to support Shibu in rebuilding his business. 
Help Shibu get back on track
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-shibu-rajs-tornado-recovery?attribution_id=sl:c3f0948f-fdba-4966-8209-8dcf623c6040&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook 

https://www.facebook.com/2RiversHoneyBees

https://www.tworivershoneybees.com/
Contact Brent 
brent@nixonqueenbees.com.au

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Brandon is a queen breeder and the 3rd generation beekeeper from North Carolina USA. His business, Foothill Farm and Apiary offers nucs, production queens and breeders. In this episode Brandon tells us what it was like starting a breeding program with artificial insemination.
0:00 Introduction
2:00 A family of beekeepers 
4:00 Brandon’s breeding program
4:35 Allogrooming
7:58 Learning AI
9:54 Introducing AI queens
14:16 Drones
16:00 AI - Is it worth it?
17:13 Being treatment free for mites 
19:40 1500 chicken egg incubator for queen cells 
21:20 Where you can find Brandon online
22:05 Sting Stoppers (A bee suit suit company Brandon is affiliated with)
Email Brandon Foothillsfarmnc@gmail.com 
https://www.facebook.com/foothillsfarmandapiary/ 
Sting Stoppers Bee Suits https://stingstopper.buzz/?sca_ref=5347826.Bpf4wrrNuN
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Podcast proudly brought to you by 
Brent Nixon at Nixon Queen Bees (Ballarat VIC, Australia)
https://nixonqueenbees.com.au/

Email Brent 
brent@nixonqueenbees.com.au

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Willie Robson is the biggest keeper of the old English black bee in the world. His family business is Chain Bridge Honey Farm, which was established in 1948 by Willie’s father. Willie has been working in the business since 1962 and now works alongside his wife and children. Chain Bridge Honey Farm is based in Horncliffe which is in the UK but right on the Scottish border. 
00:00 Introduction
2:18 The biggest English black bee breeder in the world 
7:50 Total Natural Immunity 
9:45 Varroa and Willie’s bees
10:30 Working with black bees 
11:30 Black bee reserves 
12:15 The future of the black bee in the UK
13:12 Willie’s favourite part about beekeeping
14:15 Chain Bridge Honey Farm showroom 
16:30 Advice to new beekeepers 
17:30 Brother Adam

Check out willie’s business website 
https://www.chainbridgehoney.com/

Join the podcast Facebook community group - This is a great place to comment on the episode, share some of your own tips or just say hi!
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Podcast proudly brought to you by 
Brent Nixon at Nixon Queen Bees (Ballarat VIC, Australia)
https://nixonqueenbees.com.au/

Email Brent 
brent@nixonqueenbees.com.au

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Brad is a Canadian honey producer. He raises many of his own queens and makes the majority of his hardware. You can find Brad online at Faith Apiaries. Make sure to check out his YouTube channel where he does instructional videos and weekly vlogs.  

6:00 Brad’s apiary setup
6:50 2 queen systems 
11:04 3 nucs over 2 10 frames 
13:14 Zombie colonies 
16:44 OTS queen rearing
22:12 Wintering mating nucs
23:57 double screens with mating nucs

Brad’s YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/c/FaithApiaries-ThatBeeMan

Brad’s Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/FaithApiaries 
Join the podcast Facebook community group - This is a great place to comment on the episode, share some of your own tips or just say hi!
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Podcast proudly brought to you by 
Brent Nixon at Nixon Queen Bees (Ballarat VIC, Australia)
https://nixonqueenbees.com.au/

Email Brent 
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YouTube: 
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Ian Steppler is a Canadian beekeeper who breeds his own line of bees. Ian has unique cell raising and mating nuc styles that are well suited to short season commercial beekeeping. In this episode Ian goes into his cell raising process and mating nucs as well as explaining why he raises his own queens. Ian has a YouTube channel called A Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog. In this episode we discuss a lot of the things that you can see in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouifrZvFn1U
00:00 Intro
2:18 Bringing in breeding stock 
5:30 When Ian started raising his own stock
8:30 Cell builders 
21:00 Mating nucs 
You can follow Ian’s work on his YouTube Channel or on his website - https://www.stepplerfarms.com/ 

Join the podcast Facebook community group - This is a great place to comment on the episode, share some of your own tips or just say hi!
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Podcast proudly brought to you by 
Brent Nixon at Nixon Queen Bees (Ballarat VIC, Australia)
https://nixonqueenbees.com.au/

Email Brent 
brent@nixonqueenbees.com.au

Instagram: 
https://www.instagram.com/nixonqueenbees/

Facebook: 
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Episode Music
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