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I believe you'll be happy with just doing the OA. It will be more work, but it's definitely easier on the bees. I treat 3 times a year when honey supers are off. So far so good. Thanks for sharing

Can you treat with the supers on?

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You’re losing so much vapour out of your leaky hives you shouldn’t even be bothering. Seal them up before applying the OAV

I had to fast forward through the wood working parts. Yikes!

I had to fast forward through the wood working parts. Yikes!

Living my dream keep it up man !

Glad to see you getting er done, planning on some evening OA tonight! Your nucs are do great! Gonna get more from you this spring

So I’m wanting to get into building my own boxes and am wondering as far as machines, what do I need? Like just a table saw with different blades or do I need more than that?

Just a thought sir.... I dado my hand holds AFTER I put the boxes together, it allows me to hold the long ends of the box as I lower them down on the blade. I also use a stop block clamped to the fence as @sawmillcharliesbeefarm suggested. Good Work #keepgrinding

Do you have any problems with the cracks in the lids, only asking cause i have been making a few the same way and i know they going to shrink a little bit, I was hoping the bees would just propolzize the crack.

Smoke them if you got it. LOL Those three will you hopping, Have a good week.

Ashby I would put a wooden block as a stop so that board doesn't kick off of that table saw

thanks

🤔A Kept Beekeeper, 😏I think I need to find a sugar mama.😂 It's that time of year, better get ready for the bee season. It's on the Way. Thanks for sharing Ashby, Blessed Days...

wow, didn't know about second box, you mentioned it right on time! Thank you! good instruction for beginners

I had this issue from mann-Lake, gaps allowing bees to rob out supers or freeze outs in small colonies needing a strip of cardboard to stop the airflow. Started putting on some type of wrap and have stronger colonies in the spring, even if its just a moving blanket wrapped in plastic. Wind has been a problem in my area and fall feeding is required, last year I did not feed and was a mistake.

congratulations on full-time. I am looking forward to future content

Just the prep talk I needed

I might need to get with you one day and come down and work bees with you. I am going to check my bees today.

Will you share some info on protocol for administering OA treatments with winter feed or 2 to 1 syrup on the colonies, please?

I looked for you in Louisville but did see you. Sorry I missed you

I remember dressing like that when I was building houses.

Good to see you back and congratulations. Im with you in OAV. I use it 3x a year and am also using extended release strips with great success. Take care.

I have some of those 7/8" boxes from better bee.. last 200 nuc boxes I had made are 7/8 . I left them rough sawn on the inside very nice boxes.. 3/4" just isn't enough plus it seems to rot faster .. I was never happy with the mite treatments until I started mixing in mechanical treatments with the chemical.. doing drone brood removal was key . Our flows run may thru September into October it's pretty steady one after the other for months. So chemicals really messed up the honey production. I still use them come Aug .. I think they are more effective using less when I do use .. figure 70% of the mites are in the drone anyway.. I think it's key to leave some open drone brood when removing the sealed so I just add medium frame to the deep brood nest they draw it fast as drones.. that gives me two treatments.. I'll ether cut the drone hanging off the medium frame or the drone in the medium frame.. if I remove all the drone brood they just migrate to the worker brood.. I just need a market for the live larva next.. plenty of Asian markets down in Detroit I'll just drive a load down there see if it sells... Id like to just feed it back and I've done that as well.

Congrats on going full time! I missed seeing y'all at the Expo. We were there, but several folks we still missed getting to meet with. Best of luck on this new chapter in your life! 🐝💛

I’m glad you’re full time now. I didn’t get to talk to you at the Bee Expo but I did get to talk to Cori. She remembered me from last year because I teased her about the videos of her losing her hive tools the year before. Anyway that’s how she remembered me and I told her Karma got me for that because I have 8 hive tools missing😂. Thanks for the videos.

I appreciate a man that will work outside, have a good day.

The reason for rotating products is to prevent resistance. Using constant OAV we will get resistance showing up soon, especially with beeks putting the OAV strips in the Hive for continuous selection pressure. We'd best start looking for an OAV replacement sooner rather than later. Nature always finds a way.

Great

Glad to see you back!

Great video , thanks for sharing

Awesome..thanks for the tips ans uodates

#justkeepgrindin Appreciate seeing a window into daily workload. We are assembling equipment brought back from the Expo. We should be finished up within the next two weekends! God Bless you guys! ✝

Thanks for the video... Should have come to Louisville again...

Subscribed. About to start beekeeping. Will tap into your wisdom. Thank you! - Raul

Thanks for the update. Be sure to let us know how the OAV works

Congratulations on going full time. I look forward to lots more content from you. It’s always educational and fun.

Ha Ashby trying to get queens how do I contact you thanks. I am in Virginia it has been a bad winter here and I have to say they looked good going into the winter and under regular winter temps for here they were good but what we have had no I have lost a lot. They were clean I have treated several times 3 n nov 3 in dec and even 1 treatment in jan thanks have a blessed week

Very Helpful!

I feel you man I need to assemble 100 deep frame today. Not my favorite part of bee keeping.

Hello Hello good to see you back out . I thought you had fell off the end of the earth somewhere.LOL. Hope you have a great season. Thanks

Hot dog, it's great to take a break and youtube when you're deep in the middle of box building.😂

Great to see a new video

Thanks for the info. Looking to Spring 2025 and deciding if we are going to stick with the double deep brood management or move to the single brood chamber method. Single brood management if looking better and better. Every year that second deep gets a little heavier. Thanks again!

Do you make the components of the frame or do you buy them.

When did you add the feed?

Good movie. However, I admire you for making thousands of frames on such a poor device. Greeting from Toronto.

Those are some good looking nucs. Well worth the money.

I just found your channel. Thanks for this! I am looking into becoming a NucKeeper as it looks so much easier on my back to pick them up!