The Rose method of queen rearing

[prakel]

Hi Black Comb,

There's a link I listed in the 'your favourite links' forum for a video of the first part of a talk called 'the sustainable apiary' by Mike Palmer. If you follow the link you will find that part two is also available to view. It's in part two* that Mike Palmer talks quite extensively about the use of split brood chambers and adding half size nuc boxes etc. While nothing to do with Rosie's queen rearing method you may still find the talk of great interest.

For anyone who's interested at this time of year:

there's also a nice section towards the end about reading the combs with relation to stores/feeding for winter -a learned skill which isn't often given as much attention as it might deserve, possibly because it's marginally more complicated than hefting.

EDIT: 18/08/2012.

*I've just noticed that a large part of the nucleus establishment talk is actually at the end of the first video.