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Harris Joubert with Sleepy Creek Apiary
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 3 ก.พ. 2020
I am trying to help people be successful with bees. and record the growth of my apiary as I learn the changes from hobby to sideliner. I am also trying to raise queens. I am more about bees than honey.
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honey in the brood nest trick
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trying to stimulate a colony by disrupting the brood nest
paper combine of a queenless colony
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sorry for the freeze on part of the video, i am not shooting it a 3rd time #beekeeping #honeybees
making my first package of bees
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customer needed a package #honeybees #beekeeping
queen info for Devin
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my friend Devin had questions about finding virgin queens, and marking queens #beekeeping #honeybees
trying to fix some troubled bees
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ran into some problems, made a plan to fix them #beekeeping #honeybees
checking returned queens, and bleaching my frames
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back in the blueberries with wood bleach #honeybees #extendedreleaseoxalicacid #beekeeping
new beekeeper #3 pests
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some of the pests you may encounter in your bees #honeybees #beekeeping
opening boxes of comb stored for 2 years
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opening boxes of comb stored for 2 years
Video editing. Shotcut is a great multiplatform free program. Very similar to Adobe.
Thais is a great topic that is rarely discussed. I personally focus more on my best hives and leave the weak ones until last. I believe managing a very strong hive for maximum honey production without letting it swarm is a skill very few beekeepers master.
Pollen may help they seem to shut down bad especially if Carni ..if you can get them eating syrup probably do good!
Marking queens is the only hive work that makes me nervous 😂 great video 👍👋
thanks. I havent hurt a queen this year while marking her but I have in the past
Hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋 twenty questions 😂 How many hives do you have in this apairy? And how many are "problem" hives? Oh, and what bees are you running in these colonies? Is it brood build up you're having issues with or plenty of brood but the numbers of bees seem low all the time?
there are 100 in this apiary. there are 5 hives that are dead, or laying worker, same thing. 35 under 10 frames of bees, 50%, and growing. 35 to 40 50% - 80%, and the rest are full of bees and need split. I have a mix of bees, and they are all mutts. some build early, some later. when you have as many as I do right now there are always some going down hill. I have chalk brood in some, and that holds them back. I am trying to make queens from the good ones to re queen them
Hi from central Otago southern New Zealand 👋 Well that is certainly different but then that is how discovery's are made. Chucking a frame of honey in the middle of the brood chamber pretty much flies in the face of everything i was taught about brood management but ive got an open mind and ill be interested to see how it goes and what your results are. Thanks for uploading, i see someone's freaking out about the video being in black and white which is not what im freaking out about at all 😂 whats your mite count? Are you watching that too while you try this? and what was your last or currently used treatment?
LOL the freak out guy knows all the trouble I have had trying to get a video up for the last 3 weeks. I am getting ready to do some mite checks. I use Oxalic acid. I make extended release strips that stay in all the time, and vapor to knock them back. all I used last year was strips, end of summer wash had mostly 0s the highest was 5 mites. I have some videos on it. Randy Oliver has done research on it, you can look him up. I am thinking about putting thymol in the mix also with the hope it will help with the chalk brood problem I have
Had someone try and tell me I had poor management skills because my hives swarmed. 😂Some people are funny. Thanks for sharing friend 🐝
Rodney Middleton lets all his swarm, then he goes out and catches them. a swarmed hive wont make honey around here. we have one flow, blackberries, it is just about over, we will be in a dearth until April. then you have to worry if they re queen. I am still growing, and should split them myself to help my numbers
In my opinion you need to focus on the quality stock, focus on the ones that are acclimating well and growing. Some of the problem you are running into is you have repeatedly brought bees in so you are always playing catch up, work wise. Every few years you have brought in new stock and that's not bad genetic wise, it just makes for much more work incorporating them into your operation. Now is time to focus on the quality colonies, we have a few months left and it's time to make the splits(strong in my opinion) and focus on the colonies that are rolling forward. Remember Harris they are livestock it's time to make the difficult calls, you taught me that.
you are exactly right
Where to draw the line in the sand and say you are gone if?? What's hard is that there are so many variables to consider. Have fun figuring it out. There is no real right or wrong way it's just your way. LOL
I think its going to be if one re queen dosent work your done. they just get harder, and weaker fast after that
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thanks
In other words. I don't get into winter with weak hives and who ever comes out weak out of winter gets sorted immediately for splitting or a new queen. Those who can't keep up with the others in spring
I did a pretty good job grading last fall, we will see if I can do it again
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 yes. It comes to the thing that the equipment the frames are better used for a good hive. I was tought that at an early age. Now when I see people struggle with a weak hive.. but how can I tell a guy to give up on that... Happy beekeepers are those who can equalize everything. They work less and more productive. Like you said it's the weak that take the time.. and in the end make an unhappy beek. it's better to use those for nucks or combine in fall and get rid of a problem. I too put some on a strong ones over winter but in spring if there's no improvement they are the first to go for something else.
O yes you should. They are place takers and time spenders.. and they eat but don't produce.. and you're right you should judge them and depending on a time of year decide which one could just use a new queen.. l use the others (if it's not a disease). They get shaken all together and sprayed in a bucket so they can't fly.. and i can fill a lot of mini/baby hives for new queens. They just need to be kept in a cold dark room/place for 2-3 days in those baby boxes and they are ready for a queen breeding station. After that you can use them all spring and summer until dearth and produce a lot of queens
it is a change I need to make as I grow. I could spend more time with weaker colonies when I had 100, as the numbers grow I need to worry about the big ones more
Every year I say this time I won't grow. I'll make me 100 queens to have 3 yards of 30 and that's it. Couple nucks. A couple of weeks back l had to find and cage over 200 😅. I just can't resist. With my old man's yard that should be 20 but it's 35+5 nucks and he's 83 years old. His excuse is if l can keep 20 than 30 is the same thing. And I had to make a new yard to quarantine the 21 swarms I collected from some guy who left his hive-trailer box of 50 too long here. So l have over 250 with a starting plan for 100 🤣 not counting the nucks. That's what happens when you stop commercial fishing and think how you're going to enjoy your bees "hobby". Who knows, maybe l will
Where are the bees?
down in the box moving honey out of the way
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924why would they need honey “out of the way”? Cant they just move up to the 2nd box?
@@Nick_865 that is exactly what they will do. sometimes a colony gets stuck, they wont grow out of a small brood nest. putting food in the middle of the nest, where it dosnt belong, stimulates them, they have to get it out of there, then the queen starts to lay in that frame as soon as its empty
It's in black and white!!!!!
looks like I still have problems
I think it is because he keeps running over stuff with the tractor.
Good time to melt some wax
I need metal trays, it is melting the plastic ones
@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 I've been using the aluminum dollar general baking pans. They are cheap and I can buy new ones when they get nasty without breaking the bank.
Hello. Bees cover the sponge with propolis. Is it normal? Thanks for sharing.
if they get too covered, replace them
I really should make myself one of those someday... BTW once you put some screen, you can add paper towels over it. the wax will come out extremely clean every time :)
thats a great idea, thanks
Oh wow, you made that one big. Good way to keep it separate, that'll make it easier for you when you go to make lip balm.
That's kind of the idea, keep the really pretty wax separate for doing pretty things.
Where you located we live in the Oregon coast would be nice to get some hardy bees
I am in Amity. where on the coast are you?
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 we are in Seaside Oregon alot of over cast and rain! I like your videos a lot simple and educating seems you know what you do very well specially with slow release axal acid deal
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 seaside Oregon
Looks like you got all the good out of that one!!!!
fell apart in my hand, just crumbled
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 Make a couple new bars and good as new!!!!
Used up real good
just glad it wasnt full of brood
It would be nice to have some real pollen for patties with jobs like that. Feed in January and February.. get big numbers. But I don't know your diversity or the spraying habits of your surroundings. If l moved my bees in a place like that the owner would come to me and ask to pay him. There's a yellow striped bumblebee living here that can pollinate better than bees.. nobody cares about us
some crops here dont pay. if they produce lots of honey. I wont get paid for buckwheat, its a friend of mine and he plants it for me to have something for the bees in the fall. I want to collect pollen to mix with the patties for winter build up, just cant seem to get the traps ready
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 yeah, collecting pollen takes time.. can't leave it over night because of humidity. I'm lucky that I can buy from Turkey and Serbia where they make good and cheap plastic products like bottom boards, feeders... by now l have a plastic bottom pollen collector for every hive so l can be fast and fill the freezer. It's all over here. Summer dearth.. bees saving energy flying only for water.
That's what I'm talking about!!!!!!
It never ends
Best swarm traps ever!!!
Seem to be working pretty well
Raining 🌧 here now
we needed it, but I am glad its done
Hope you can get some sunshine for your flow. Our weather here in MN is not as nice as the last two years but not a disaster either.
we will bee warm by the end of the week, should get the last half of the flow
Great score on the materials btw, the lids look great.
yes, I have lots of wood to work with now. it will be nice to replace some of the old lids
🤨An Inch of rain is not a "Atmospheric River" this is just a End of Spring Rain Storm.🙄 It'll blow past us quick and this rain is perfect for me.🤩I'll have BB bloom right after it👍you can use my over flow bench.😂
we have not got the rain they said was coming, just a slow drizzle, should soak in well
Making that equipment!!!
If you didn't live on the other side of the world, I would make some for you
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 Ok I would like #2 single unit pallets with 5 nuc banks and corresponding nucs and lids please. I'll owe ya forever before I'll cheat ya out of your money.😁
had laying workers for the first time this year... It was such a sad little cluster I just moved em to a queenright hive.
I have some that are 12 frames of bees, those are the ones that hurt. I also re queened some that still had a queen coming back. some queens have been real late this year
Oh ya I see, the nuc can grow and stop the laying worker over time. Plus over time that worker will die and if you have the nuc up above they shouldn't make a new one.🤔Right I think I have that right?
That's the plan, we'll see if it works
You may have something with the propolis trap idea. I used to make double screen boards with one screen of a mosquito mesh. Than when I needed to combine i would remove the bigger mesh and leave the mosquito one for two days and later combine without problems. It's the same thing. But it wasn't with a laying worker.. you never know with those. These days if its spring flow l just spread the 10 framer out and put the nuck in. No paper or anything.. just some spray bottle on them all. But only in spring and the flow
I may have done more of that, just combining them, if that was a stronger nuc .
I've wasted lots of resources trying to fix laying workers, but this one just started so maybe we'll get away with it
I'm putting strips and caging queens these days. Never earlier. But the plants give the timing..and it's time. Now I can go fishing for 25 days until they replace the brood with bee bread and pollen. Maybe even a deep of honey if I'm lucky. We'll see.. l could find two deeps of pollen and no honey to extract. But I think with her in cage and no excluder they will collect some mint and black berry before is gone completely. Nothing can surprise me anymore. Hope you get some from yours
It would be nice to get some honey this year. I have some with too much pollen in them now, I need to get my pollen traps working and on them
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 l already collected some pollen.. now l will let them collect the last before summer so they get enough for that first batch of brood when they start again. I collect a lot of propolis from now to September. But if you work like me with brood breaks and bees getting old it's important to not over work them. Propolis is not easy for them to collect.. that's why old bees do it. We have a market for pollen and propolis but there are rules. No monoculture pollen and no propolis scraped off the frames. Only trapped or from a big hole.. clean. Many sell propolis tincture , jars with all three products in. It's a good market.. people here use a lot.. it's regarded as a medicine. I'm blabbering like always. You need to teach them people about the benefits of a spoon per day every day
@@researcherAmateur I would like to hit some of those markets, but I am having a hard time just getting what I have to done. just keep working at it, I will be there in time. growing and making queens and equipment is eating all my time
Boron is the thing right out of the ground
yes, boric acid is refined from that
Awesome
I knew if I didnt get pictures, you wouldnt believe me
Thanks Harris.👍
Welcome!
Drag queen
Oh I remember you mentioning this guy cool, cool glad you are being able to help him out.👍 🤨I'm still not sue the the hair cut.😂
he said it worked well
Oh🤨forget you😲LOOK AT THAT BLOOMING FIELD!🤩NICE, no wonder you are having problems with them making to many bees.🤣
they are really growing
That's a neat little contraption you put your package in :)
thanks. it was a pain, but turned out cool
Much better video than mine!
you do so much cool stuff, it would be fun to see more of it
Awesome example Harris!!!!
Thanks! 😃
Them bees are spoiled... getting free lodging and gourmet meals 😁
Lol. I know they did not appreciate it as much as they should
Is the pollen sub just for your nucs?
I have some bees in blueberries, and it lacks in good nutrition, and some smaller colonies that can use some help, and the nucs
Just like making "Pickle Bread"!!! LOL!!!!!
one of my favorites
That's great,but I keep my old wax to melt down and relax with. Your old wax is gone.
I scraped all the comb off first to get to the foundation
You've forgotten more than I know, Harris. So you probably already know this. Best trick I've used for a laying worker is to put it above a queen right hive with a single screen of #8 between them. That way they get the brood and QMP pheromone because they can still contact each other. Keep it like that for about a week or so then combine. I've done it with fairly small lower QR hives (Swarm catches). They end up being my strongest hives.
I will try that. i am going to try putting them on only foundation with a feeder so the laying worker has nowhere to lay for a few days, then combine. these might work together well also
You know.. if you don't want all those laying worker drones.. and those not capped to stretch the cells you could bring a sprayer with you and water spray everything out.. even the capped ones. The biggest job is to shake off the water after it. I did it many times. There's always a small one in the car.. I'm not sure about the name. Has an air pump on itself so you can pump the pressure in.
thats a great idea I will try it
Skunks are no problem if you keep your hive at least 18 inches off the ground!
With as many as I have, and moving them around like I do, they pretty much have to be on pallets. But yes there are majors you can take when you have a few at home that will help. I have also heard chicken wire hanging down and on to the ground will prevent them from getting close enough, they don't like walking on it I guess
🤨🤭😏😂 I experimented with a decision, I'll see in a few days if I was reading the situation correctly and did the right thing. It's kind of fun to be problem solving again. Even if I make the wrong choices, at least we are rolling forward now. Blessed Days, Harris...
You're absolutely right. It's fun to find a problem come up with a solution and give it a try