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Chilton Bee Company
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2023
My name is Brad Kelley and I am from Verbena, AL. I am Co-Owner of Chilton Bee Company. We manage a few hundred colonies around Central Alabama, primarily in Chilton and Autauga Counties. We have been beekeepers for about 10 years and produce honey, creamed honey, nucs, mated queens, queen cells and retail products such as lip balm, soap, lotion, candles and wax melts. I plan to use this channel to teach other beekeepers the processes that we have learned to use over the years, not only to keep our hives alive but also to produce for us.
Making Up A New Cell Starter
Making up a new queen cell Starter/Finisher, to add cells to our Fall Splits
Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, lip balm, lotion, soap, candles and wax melts
Shop our website at:
www.chiltonbee.com
email:
sales@chiltonbee.com
Facebook: profile.php?id=100063260229051&mibextid=ZbWKwL
Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, lip balm, lotion, soap, candles and wax melts
Shop our website at:
www.chiltonbee.com
email:
sales@chiltonbee.com
Facebook: profile.php?id=100063260229051&mibextid=ZbWKwL
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Creating New Bee Yards
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Creating new yards, where we will move the remainder of our last Spring Splits Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, lip balm, lotion, soap, candles and wax melts Shop our website at: www.chiltonbee.com email: sales@chiltonbee.com Facebook: profile.php?id=100063260229051&mibextid=ZbWKwL
Complete Year Of Management: Video 8: End Of June
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What we are doing to manage our hives during this part of the season. We are continuing to add supers as needed, arranging hives in preparation for the removal of honey supers and moving the last splits to new yards Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, lip balm, lotion, soap, candles and wax melts Shop our website at: www.chiltonbee.com email: sales@c...
Final Prep For Honey Harvest
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Making final arrangements to the hives in preparation for the honey harvest. Still have a very good flow of nectar coming into the hives and adding supers as needed Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, lip balm, lotion, soap, candles and wax melts Shop our website at: www.chiltonbee.com email: sales@chiltonbee.com Facebook: profile.php?id...
Shaking Down Bees and The Tallow Flow
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As I continue preparing hives for the removal of honey supers, supers are filling up fast because of the incoming nectar flow from Chinese Tallow. Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, lip balm, lotion, soap, candles and wax melts Shop our website at: www.chiltonbee.com email: sales@chiltonbee.com Facebook: profile.php?id=100063260229051&m...
Preparing Hives To Harvest Honey
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What we are doing to manage our hives during this part of the season. We are continuing to add supers as needed and arrange hives in preparation for the removal of honey supers Fall Splits: th-cam.com/video/7RUNSgOtCuw/w-d-xo.html Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, lip balm, lotion, soap, candles and wax melts Shop our website at: www.chiltonbee.com...
The Best Way To Split A Hive
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I believe this to be the most successful way to start a split. This process creates exceptional queenright success and sets up your new hive to grow out very quickly. Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, lip balm, lotion, soap, candles and wax melts Shop our website at: www.chiltonbee.com email: sales@chiltonbee.com Facebook: profile.php?...
How To Fix A Hive With Too Much Honey
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How to correct a honey bound hive. During a good nectar flow, a hive can quickly get filled with honey. Sometimes it can become filled to the point of taking up all the room in the brood chamber, if you are not keeping enough room on your hive. We will look at how to correct this situation. Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, lip balm, lotion, soap, ...
Hive Management At The Beginning Of The Honey Flow - Video 6 - Mid April
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Part 6 of this series covers Mid April. We continue to manage congestion and populations in each hive to prevent hives from swarming, while also making new splits and managing prior splits. The honey flow has started and we are also adding supers This series covers an entire year of how we manage our honey bee operation, how we set up our hives, feed bees, kick start the year, split our hives, ...
Starting A New Hive With No Drawn Comb
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A very successful way to start a new hive in a new box without having any drawn comb. Moving frames of brood and bees over into a new hive is a tried and true method of making splits, but circumstances sometimes don’t allow you to use existing frames. In these situations you must use only bees and some form of queen. Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed hone...
How To Make A lot Of New Hives FAST!!!
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Using 2 frame nucs is a very fast and easy way to build up the size of your apiary. If you are wanting to have more hives, this is a great way to to do it. Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, lip balm, lotion, soap, candles and wax melts Shop our website at: www.chiltonbee.com email: sales@chiltonbee.com Facebook: profile.php?id=10006326...
Stop Swarming And Make A TON Of Honey
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The Damaree Method. This method creates a huge population of bees in the hive without overcrowding or overfilling the brood nest and triggering a swarm. With this huge population of bees comes a huge crop of honey. This method can be done without taking splits from the hive but it also requires more time and labor Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, ...
Making Splits And Preparing For The Nectar Flow - Video 5 - Mid March
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Part 5 of this series covers Mid March. We begin to split and reduce population and congestion of the growing hives. We are also preparing for the nectar flow and preparing our hives for the incoming abundance of nectar This series covers an entire year of how we manage our honey bee operation, how we set up our hives, feed bees, kick start the year, split our hives, split hives, produce honey,...
Managing Bee Populations in Early Spring
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How we manage bee populations in early Spring to create splits, reduce swarming and create large crops of honey Chilton Bee Company sells nucs, mated queens, queen cells, honey, creamed honey, lip balm, lotion, soap, candles and wax melts Shop our website at: www.chiltonbee.com email: sales@chiltonbee.com Facebook: profile.php?id=100063260229051&mibextid=ZbWKwL Instagram: instagram...
Complete Year of Management Series: Video 4 - Early March
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Complete Year of Management Series: Video 4 - Early March
Complete Year of Management Series: Video 3 - Mid February
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Complete Year of Management Series: Video 3 - Mid February
Complete Year of Management Series: Video 2 - January
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Complete Year of Management Series: Video 2 - January
Complete Year of Management Series: Video 1 - Intro
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Complete Year of Management Series: Video 1 - Intro
Gona have to get a light. Sometimes you can’t see anything when there’s no sun or as you said dark combs. Nice video bud
Thank you
Thx so much. Love you videos. Over in Middle East Texas. Love this video. Have 45 hives but look to get to 100 plus next year. We are very similar temperature and flora I think. Thx again
Thank you for watching
I am going to do splits just like that. I have a couple multi top and bottom entrance double screen boards. I looked at yours from that supply company. I see they have entrances both font and back. Do you close up the back wing your on pallets. I run papers too and have about 2-3" like Bob Binnies. I am going to t o framers as I'm think of getting me a cab over Isuzu truck and get an ez lift. I'm a 66 year old retired guy by myself. But love bees. Second year and I graft my own as well as everything else. Gluten for punishment but hell I ain't taking this crap with time When I die so. lol
I don't close any entrances. The bottom colony will just have a top entrance on the back
@@ChiltonBeeCompany ok that's what it looked like. Thanks for answering I know you're a busy guy. Someday when I'm over there in Alabama would love to stop by and chat a minute. The entrance on the double screen board is the only thing you didn't mention. But your videos are really good because you take the time to try to cover everything y'all do. Thanks Again. Bill Blue Diamond Bees Grapeland Texas
Did you get that from Zook?
I did
@@ChiltonBeeCompany his stuffs good quality at great price. That's where I go too
question, I have access to a great location for an out yard, but it is only 1 mile from the home yard. If the splits were made to not be too dependant on forager bees would a 1 mile separation be enough distance to make queenless splits and not be so suspitable to be robbed out. I have tried to splits in my home yard and it was a disaster, robbing was brutal. I like your videos lots of data and no fluff, you are doing great.
1 mile will surely reduce your robbing considerably, but more importantly, when there is no nectar flow, have very small entrances and good a population in the split to defend it. Thank you for watching
Starting my Fall splits myself, I'm going light just recovering some of last Winters losses. I'll use excess brood to boost them before Fall/Winter. Thanks for sharing your time with us, Blessed Days...
You are welcome and thank you
At what point in spring do you pull the split off or is it just by how well they have grown
I pull them off when the hives below are ready to split in Mid March. The splits are also pretty full by that point
What mic do you use for recording? And do you just use your phone?
Right now I'm using the DJI pocket 3 and the DJI mic
I love your new intro Bradley!
Thank you Megan
How do you deal with the heat when doing splits during the late summer? I have temps over 100 degrees from July to Sept and at times spitting during the heat just doesn’t work. I really like your content!
It can be difficult to get them queenright at times. Keeping them fed with light sugar water increases your success tremendously. Strong splits also allows the hive to better regulate temperatures
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I just wanted to add my thanks for this video as well. I've been grafting and raising my own queens for the first time this year and decided I wanted to try a couple of Randy Oliver's queens as well. I installed the new queens this week and today I was wondering how I'm going to keep track of those two queens as I move them from the nucs they're in, to deeps in a different yard, and likely will move them again before winter. Then I remembered this video. I rewatched it and just added some id badges and a garden pen to my Amazon list. You have great ideas! Thanks again for sharing them!
You are very welcome. Glad I could help. Thank you for watching
Really good video. I like the way you used the conveyor belts as weed control. Plus, you gave me some good ideas on how to use pallets on setting up my next yards. BTW. Have you done a video on how you make your pallet boards? If not would you consider doing so? Thanks.
I do have a prior video on building the pallet boards called "Building Pallets". Thank you for watching
@@ChiltonBeeCompany Thanks. I’ll look it up.
I love the new into music! I'd be curious to learn how you find new yards. Just word of mouth, or do you spot an area and then figure out who the landowner is and ask them if you can set up bees?
Usually asking people that I know around the area
I really like my belting for blocking out weeds. I need to find another local source, my old one dried up. Good videos,
Thank you for watching
Good video brother, what is the thickness of the conveyor belting you are using and how close do you recommend putting 2 honey yards? Thanks Kenny
Conveyer belt is probably around 5/8". I keep yards at least a half mile apart. I like them around 3/4 to a mile apart so they can supply each other with drones
Great use of the conveyor belts and pallets!
Brad, like the new intro. It fits your calm personality. Nice job.
Thank you
Im in sw Missouri but our flow seems very similar..i always extract 1st week of july and then get bout 3 week dearth..some yrs so hot we don't get a fall flow anymore cause lack of rain..i like splitting bearded bees after pulling honey or they split themselves sometimes i run Carnie hybrids
Good video! Now you got me to subscribe. I learned just what I wanted to know which was getting my bees from a two hive body down to one Hive body for the winter. Also knowing the timeline for extraction and winter prep. I live in Illinois so I think I'm about 4-6wk behind you so I got time to prepare. Keep up making your informative videos
Glad I could help. I do have a couple of recent past videos that have more detailed information on that process. Thank you for watching and subscribing
Great video
Thank you for watching
A tip to make your life easier. Make plans a preparations to get the hive above the double screen moved to a new location before you start to put on honey supers. It will save you a lot of work.
That would work if I only made splits one time
Good video bud, good to see your kid helping out. Tell him from me haha
It's exciting to see a notification pop up that you've got another video out. Thanks for the great information. It's been helpful for my own beekeeping (just a hobbiest).
That's great to hear. Thank you
Great video. Thank you
Thank you for watching Tony
Doing a great job my buddy
Thank you buddy
It's a late Clack attack!
Never too late. Thank you
Lots of good info - appreciate it!
Thank you for watching
Lots of good info - appreciate it!
Hard but rewarding. First year producing honey sold bees only for the past twenty years. How many suppers should I add to one deap box of bees if I have three weeks of main flow just starting next week.
David, it depends. I can only check out each yard every couple weeks at the earliest. So i start out with two supers, unless they are a weaker hive. Then add as needed
@@ChiltonBeeCompany sweet thanks for getting back to me. I was thinking I might only get one super in total with each one full of bees brood etc. I have drawn suppers as I got the bees from an older beekeeper and they were all living in the supers. So this year I moved them over into deeps and going to put the supers plus brood and some honey on top of the deeps now that they have most of the deeps drawn out. Basically I will have them all more or less equalised out to one deep box covered in bees brood honey. In your experience a hive like that could it fill two supers in a good flow or is it asking to much of the bees. Will add two as you said to allow for room for the nectar before it is concentrated. Cheers bud
@davidmaloney2724 if your flow is just starting, a strong deep box full of bees and brood should fill a at least 4 or 5 supers if they are already drawn out
@@ChiltonBeeCompany holly shit really wow thanks
@davidmaloney2724 of course it depends on the flows you have in your area. I'm responding by my experiences here
Brad, nice job. It is hot here in SC too. Do you make your double screens or buy from an outfit?
I buy them from Honey Run Apiaries
Another good video. Your bee yards look really nice. Looks like you are gonna have a lot of supers to pull. Up here in Illinois our flow is still going on. White clover is everywhere and sumac is blooming although I don't see bees on it. Heck I don't see them on the clover much but you can bet they are. Every couple of days I take an empty honey bucket with a little honey left in the bottom and set it out in the morning and leave it until evening. So far the bees could careless if its there. When the flow stops they will swarm it. Do you know if bees make honey from the elderberry blooms. We have them blooming everywhere you look and they smell really sweet.
I hear that they will get Elderberry nectar but I have never seen bees on it here. We always have better plants blooming at the same time
I’m up here east of Birmingham just off I20 in the Leeds /Moody area and the flow seems to be pretty slow. Just wanted to know if you thought the momosa tree puts off enough nectar to make a flow? That is the only bloom that I’m seeing here. Thank You Kenny A.
Hey Kenny. Yes, Mimosa will make a honey crop. This year was actually a really good year it down here
Thanks for the reply Brad, I have had bees for about 10 years now. Nice to have a TH-camr in my area that I can follow. I started a TH-cam channel myself last year but gave up after about 15 or so videos, when my channel didn’t grow. My channel is GunRunner Gundogs & Gamebirds, no new videos for several months now. Maybe I should do some bee videos? LOL Thanks for the feedback brother! Maybe we can talk sometime, take care brother! Kenny Armstrong
@GunRunnerGundogsGamebirds you got to stay after it. It will happen. Just takes a lot of consistency. Thank you for watching buddy
I live in the jackson and madison county area. Very few tallow here only what people put in yard
Thanks for the video!!!
Thank you for watching
Best channel i believe, always enjoy thanks!
I appreciate that and thank you for watching
@@ChiltonBeeCompany you're welcome !
Nice job, Brad. Always enjoy here from SC.
I appreciate that. Thank you for watching
Great videos 👍Out of interest, what do you use to treat your wooden ware? is it Wax dipped? I like the way it looks (natural, sun bleached wood). I see some painted, which do you prefer? Have a great day.
I like unpainted better. I use Eco Wood to treat my boxes
The job enjoyed the video till the end. Thanks for making it
Hoping to finally get some honey. Been so busy all year changing bees into deeps and drawing tons of comb I have not been getting much honey
Drawn comb is even better
Thank you for watching
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Very good informative video. I always learn a lot from your videos. Thank you for spending the time and effort to put the videos out. I know it is time consuming and is not easy.
It is very time consuming but I do enjoy it most of the time. Thank you for watching
Lots of good information - thank you!
Thank you for watching
How do you protect against small hive beetles?
Simply by placing hives in full Sun prevents an infestation of beetles. What beetles do enter the hive, the bees have no trouble handling on their own
Clack attack - My wife & I are in our 2nd year of bee keeping. Currently at 3 hives and enjoying the journey.
Awesome. Good luck to you. Hope I can help you some and thank you for subscribing
Thank you for your insights and information especially from a professional beekeeper ❤
Thank you so much
Clack attack. Great Video
Thank you
With the hives above the double screen board when you make an inspection the foragers bees that are returning do they keep flying for the whole time you inspect the hive below or they just land on the hive below ?
They do both and some will even go into the hive below. They get straightened out once the hive is back together
@@ChiltonBeeCompanythank you
Thank you for wonderful info. I have about 4 double deep hives in north AL. So if I understood your recommendation was to put queen down in bottom deep box, then put queen excluder on top and keep 2nd deep on top with other honey supers as needed. It seems like nectar flow is slowing down here. Just wanted to make sure I understood
That is the way I do it because I overwinter in single deeps. I put the second deep on in early Spring for room to grow. Now it is time to remove it so I just move her down in time for the brood to emerge out of it before I pull honey supers. It is then treated as another super.
I have to say that even though I just started watching your videos, i think they are very informative
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