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@@eduardt where are you based?

@SteynHoneyFarms centrion

Good day i am based in centrion

@@eduardt let’s connect 060 521 7935

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks for the comment, will try it

@@cheryleesbees thank you so much for the advice, I will definitely try it.

@@OBITO_45G I assume it means that you live for bees?

@@SteynHoneyFarms no, I devour BEES

Wow that is awesome, queen rearing is loads of fun and quite profitable. I have a upcoming course in December that will focus on how to turn your hobby into a business and queen rearing is a big part of the success. Check out my website for updates.

@SteynHoneyFarms will do 👍, got 10 more 5 frame nucs so need to make splits soon to sell. My second year in beekeeping. 🐝🐝

@@jacosteyn207 thank you 🙏🏻

We will!

@@KerbalKind absolutely proudly born and bred in South Africa 🇿🇦 where are you from

Thank you so much for the lovely message, it is wonderful to have a subscriber like you. May God bless you and your family too.

@@SteynHoneyFarms i am just a fellow beekeeper with donkey years of experience. I had dreams but due theft, vandalism and man made veld fires, i got discouraged but that did not take away the love i have for the girls

@@zwahashu It can be very demoralising when you work so hard and you loose bees. I agree I love the ladies so much.

@@SteynHoneyFarms i never saw any video of your first harvest but only you helping anothrr fellow beekeeper. When is your nectar flow at the new apiary?

@ I specialise in Queen rearing so honey production is fairly low for me. We are currently in ur honey flow and my supers are filling up. I will definitely do an extraction video by then of December 2024. I am looking towards creating 40 hives just for honey production for 2025 and see how much honey I can get from each hive.

@@zwahashu I have 50 colonies at the moment, by then end of the honey season I should end off with 80 hives.

@SteynHoneyFarms capensies or scutelata?

@ scutelata here by me

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Where are you based?

@SteynHoneyFarms based I'm Kempton park south Africa, the nest is over a year old

It was loads of fun

Thank you, I want to be real with everyone about the hard work that we as beekeepers put in to make honey. Thank you for such an amazing comments and being part of my journey.

Thank you, I absolutely love working with bees but sometimes it gets hard when you turn it into a full time business. I want to share that it is okay to sometimes doubt yourself but never give up. Thank you for watching my videos.

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Thank you for being part of our journey. We love having you here.

@@juandrejudeel2222 dankie 🙏🏻

Thank you so much for being part of our beekeeping journey. We love to have you here.

@@shepherdmabika4927 thank you for the message. Promise me you will keep going and I will promise you that I will keep going as well. You can and will make your dreams a reality.

Thank you for your feedback.

Here is the full video, Preparing for Bee Swarms Catch Boxes, Splitting, and Swarm Lures! th-cam.com/video/CEFGps8n9Ng/w-d-xo.html

I removed the wax layer but left the small bits and pieces of wax still in the bowl. Thank you for the comment. May you have a blessed day

@@SteynHoneyFarms thanks for your response, I will try it

@@LelanieG here is the link to the course: www.steynhoneyfarms.store/challenges Thank you for joining me on this journey 🥰🥰🥰

What if you have so much food that it becomes dangerous for you to have so much food? Bees will keep gathering until they encase themselves in honey, which has a negative outcome. Did you know that 65% of all bee swarms die in the 1st year.

@@SteynHoneyFarms maybe don’t put them in boxes where they can’t expand If I had the biological urge to make as much food as possible I wouldn’t like my house being put in a box where I can’t freely expand

@@SSS208-s I can fully understand that you would see it that way but modern beekeeping has helped bees flourish. I cannot speak on behalf of everyone as there are bad people in every industry, I can only speak for myself. When my bees need more space, I create it for them. If my bees has a disease, I give them the necessary medicine they need. I allow my colonies to tell me what they need and I provide it. Beekeepers don't make the bees, the bees make the Beekeeper. These things that I provide to them cannot be done in nature, if they encase themselves in honey they die, if they get sick they die and if they get attacked by predators they are more likely to survive in the boxes than in nature because our boxes are strapped and protected with fencing or electrical fencing. I see my bees as my pets rather than just a honey production tool. I have over 50 hives and I can tell you exactly how each hive operates and when something is wrong. They are my babies and I even cry when I loose a colony.

@@SteynHoneyFarms I 100% believe that you love your bees but you don’t steal and exploit your loved ones. Do you know what happens in the places where the queen bees are inseminated?

@@SteynHoneyFarms you can’t put their hive in a box then use that as a excuse to steal from them they are only overflowing because they are in that box and can’t expand as easily

Thanks 🙏🏻 I agree. I have a swollen eye but she is dead. Make me feel sad

@@brytmaposa9941 that is such a great question. Start with 2 hives and do some bee removals. This will give you a better under of how to take care of bees. I started with 1 hive that I bought, I did 15 removals and ended off my first year with 25 hives. My second year I ended the season with 50 hives and right now I am going to end my season with over 100 hives.

@@sarahe.7371 same with all the people who are against robbing humans what idiots

Many people believe we steal the honey for the bees. 🐝

@@SteynHoneyFarms you literally do no bee stands on the crust of your tea cup and barfs honey into it

@@TheSiameseDreamer selective breeding is the problem

@SSStofu008 What breeding are you talking about? Lol

@@SSS208-s A good beekeeper takes the extra honey off not the honey for the bees. Every frame has a honey crown on it and the last two frames on each side of the brood chamber is full of honey. They use this honey to insulate the brood chamber. The reason why we remove the honey is for the bees safety, when the nectar flow is abundant the bees will keep gathering as much as they can, that's just how they are wired but during the fall and winter season the bees retreat to the brood chamber leaving all that honey unprotected making them a target for predators and disease. Hive beetles and wax moths love eating honey so they will literally rob the hive empty, destroy the bees comb and ultimately killing the bees as their goal is to consume and destroy. That is why we remove the honey to protect our colonies and give them a fighting chance.

Thank you, I just wanted to clarify the matter because some people have not heard the other side of beekeeping.

I am from the beautiful country of South Africa. It is an industrial mixer. I think it is a 10 or 15 litre mixer.

@@SteynHoneyFarms Very nice I always thought South Africa was beautiful country