Honey Production with a Single Brood Nest.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- Single Brood Management with Hive Lifter.
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Here is how we rewarded this hive in March (start at 15:00 in for this colony) Prior info is other hives we pulled from th-cam.com/video/GTSjsjPBQ5s/w-d-xo.html
Greetings from Ohio this week we’re doing a treatment and then will put a honey supers on hopefully I get as much as you, excited to see it
We are prone to take the Goodness of the Lord for granted.
Having a bad year makes us thankful for HIS MERCIFUL Abundance! 😍💖
Your kinda the Mr Rogers of beekeeping. Love the lift. I bet your back is thanking you. I'm still using all deeps. But you might have converted me over.
Downers in life allow you to appreciate the good days. Sure nice to see that smile and pride with those supers of honey. Have a good week K&L.
You are right. Thanks Russell for all the encouragement you have given me over the last couple of years!
@@kamonreynolds Thank you for all you do for us newer beeks.
Enjoy your crop Kamon. Always feel good to see happy bees doing what they love.
Thanks Humberto!
Cool to see the single hive management, but really cool to see that hive lifter! Man, that thing looks like a back-saver! Big thumbs up for showing that.
Thanks Kamon! "fireworks", Stares, and Stings......you never cease to amaze how you stick to the task at hand. great video!
Well after Laurels stare I was too afraid to stop until she had time to think of other ways for me to be useful!
@@kamonreynolds 🤣
Thanks for inspection the bottom box, not many show that and I like to see what the frames should be looking like this time of year.
*Good Bees, Thx4Sharing Kamon* 👍🇺🇸
Thank you Kamon. I am a first year keeper, and trying the single brood method. So far so good. The information you share is a big help.
Single box is great...ive been using single box for 2 half yr....when there is a flow on you don't have to worry about swarming at all. It takes a little getting use to..the first time i checked for swarm cells in all the hives ....but...the more suppers the more your back gets a work out...i never found any cells...next flow i never checked and had no problem....in didn't remove frames and had brood wall to wall in each hive. It toke sone time to get use to but it works and i produced more honey. Love the video... thanks for taking the time
What a great looking hive. I love the idea of the single brood chamber. I understand the concept but not the mechanics. I need to learn more about how and when to do it. Thanks for all that you do to help us learn from you. You certainly do a great job.
PS We all would love to see your wife and hear her actually talk. Love to hear here giggly. Hahaha!
Happy to get to see that lift in action. Awesome looking colony. Looking like a great honey production year. Thanks for video.
Hope things are going well for you down south
@@kamonreynolds so far they are. I believe i am going to have my best honey production year ever. What a difference abandoning no treatment is. Big difference. My bees are doing everything alot better. Also i am seeing very few small hive beetles in my colonies. I wonder if their presence in numbers can indicate high mite loads and stress? Thank you for sharing. In the last year what i have learned from you, ian, bob, and randy oliver have turned my operation around. I am excited about beekeeping again.
Glad you're having a better year for honey. I'm still waiting for them to start.
My girls have gone commando....6 out of 8 frames with capped honey. .I'm in Southern Illinois.
Ok. I don't know why, but when he said, "makes you wonder" I got a Mr. Rogers vibe. Lol
Great video Kamon!! Thanks for sharing.
Mr. Rogers was always on at my great grandma's house. Him and Bob Ross are legends.
@@kamonreynolds all the more reason this bee legend goes into that category!
Great video! I really liked the lift!!✅👍👍
My single brood chamber boxes were swarm monsters so I had to go with double brood chambers. Nice production hive Kamon!!!
Bees look GREAT! Awesome video!
I like the lift! I am getting more and more mediums these days because they do get heavy
Here I am considering moving to a double deep for brood here in SW KY, and you do a single video confusing my decision making process further.
If I had that hive lift, I guarantee my kids would fine some way to turn it into a go-kart/Transformer/deathtrap device!
Still feeding up here in PA. They are still eating the patties as well. Expecting the clover to hit in the near future, so things should change. Love seeing the draw you are getting and definitely have "Hive Envy" ;)
I only use singles here in Canada. Easier to manage and overwinter.
You started this video out with a BANG! BANG! BANG!
That is how I want to go out to. That or with someone playing another one bites the dust.
@@kamonreynolds I'm a retired high school wrestling coach. It would be better if it were "We are the Champions!"
Nice! Looks like you are setting up to have a great year!🍯🍯🙂
Nifty gadget. The different colours of nectar are crazy 🍺🍺
Heh heh you always have a great fun attitude 🙀love your vids ! 🐝🐝
K&L, thanks for the video! Our Privet is gone and it bloomed very little this year. I hope yours is better than ours was! I’m doing good on the “great Queens, low mites and good nutrition” but struggling on “keeping them from swarming”!
I have shot some swarms myself but so does Ian and Bob! Keep up the great work!
Nicely done. Yes keep them from swarming.
Ok Kamen. Tip: carry around a spare box TO SIT ON. Your back will thank me. ;)
Keep your hives on 8 inch blocks.
Some might ask why eight inch blocks. Skunks. If the skunk has to climb up a bit it exposes its armpits and gets stung.They're tough everywhere else. Skunks rattle on a hive then eat the responding bees.
Hi Kamon we keep bees too we are loving your channel don't dock Lauren's pay LOL (sorry if i didn't spell her name correctly)
Haha that would be pretty hard she does the book keeping around here!
Thanks
My last few stings have been on fingers. Almost made it through my last inspection sting free until I was putting the very last frame back in.
Great video
Thanks 👍
Why our backs hurt:
Pick up a deep frame of honey its only 8 pounds or so. Now hold it like your looking at bees. Hold it for two hours. How's your back feel.
Moving a box is what we THINK hurts us.
No it's holding frames at 20 cm from your eyes that does.
There is alot of truth to that. Add both together and I am going to be using Velcro shoes when I am 60 if I am not thinking smarter!
@@kamonreynolds I'm 60. You're bigger than I am. Hey there's more. I suffer from a weak back and brother there are exercises we can do that help build up muscles.
The pain you're going thru is muscle strain. I've been there done that every spring. I believe if we did back strengthening exercises in January thru April we'd skip around in the yard and not be all hunched over
Beautiful comb
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Hi Kamon, in your honey supers I see you have 9 frames. Have you ever weighed a full 10 frame box vs a full 9 frame box for good data on how much honey each produce? Maybe in the test yard....
Do you usually put the full honey supers on top to encourage the bees to draw more wax and collect more nectar?
wow great informmation .. . i like your vedio
Just a couple comments...for single brood management when the honey super gets about 3/4 full it is a good management practice to move that up to the top of the hive and keep a lighter super above the brood nest so they don't feel congested low down where they want to put honey...and not sure why you were putting on full boxes of foundation but putting only 2-3 frames of foundation per super near the center checkerboarding it with drawn comb will give you more drawn comb and more honey...putting on that much foundation at once on a hive seriously holds a colony back from producing a maximum crop, and demoralizes some colonies...one other thing... the full deep super and the full shallow super should actually be pulled and placed in a hot room and empty supers added...the sooner and more often you can take honey from the hives the more honey they will produce.
A single broodnest hive of that strength in the peak of a good honey flow with good management should produce at least three supers of honey every 7-9 days depending on weather and flow conditions...but you have to keep taking it away...otherwise the bees feel they have enough and either slow down or swarm.
Only harvesting honey once or twice at the end or near the end of your major honey flow will not give you maximum honey production.
I keep my hives low...only one or two honey supers to start...when they are full enough to pull I pull all the boxes...leave them nothing...then put on three empties...go back after four days...pull all the boxes off and put the top box(lightest) over the excluder...leave the middle box in the middle and put the heavy box on the top...you should be able to come back in 4-5 days and pull all those boxes and they will be quite equal in weight...just some tips which require some work but pay off big time.
I must have lazy bees as every time I get them into 1 box they stop moving honey up and started packing around her instead of pulling out new frames. Just found a ton of swarm cells (I just got her laying good )
Hi Kamon in that hive is there a upper vent? If not how are the bees drying out the honey ?
On a hive that size, how do you determine how much honey you can keep for yourself and how much to leave them??? I have 2 colonies that are real strong and I’m not sure what to do. I’m also afraid of what they will do once I remove a lot of their room??
I think my nectar flows are more closely aligned with yours than I thought. Did you get a locust bloom? It bloomed in the valleys down here but got burned in that last cold spell at the higher elevations.
We did get some black locust here but I don't know how much
I can't seem to get my hives to fill mediums out
have you ever put the swarm back the the main hive?
Hi Bob hope you are doing well
I m new bee keeper from india here bee boxes have fixed bottoms but when I watch your videos in that bee boxes have bottom board or screen board.
So please suggest me which is good for bee keeping
Hey Kamon....when you added the drawn frame you said its for the bees to move Pollen? I was told they cant move Pollen?
I misspoke. They will use them to put some of the incoming pollen and then they can consume the bee bread in the center
This is interesting. Do you do constant splits to prevent swarming?
I do a split and pull some brood prior to the main honey flow. Try to cut them back just a little before honey season
Do you always use a deep for your first super?
Hey Kujo, I don't always do that but I do it often right now as I have alot of deeps that still need used.
why dont you use all deep boxes?
Wow that cool great job. I wish when I had my 8 hive I had that. What’s the cost?
I know you build into doubles, then shake down and exclude, but can you just build a strong single and exclude?
Absolutely
My question is: why can't you take one or two of the Honey boxes off?
Hey Amy! The deep was ready to take but the medium on top still needed some time to ripen. We have hundreds of supers and it isn't worth our time to pull a little at a time. We will harvest all of them in one pass as the nectar and pollen decline in mid June. This is a business decision so it doesn't mean everyone has to do it this way😀
Hi Kamon, can you tell me at what stage you put the queen excluder on? I just added a honey super . My beep box was 75-80% drawn out. Thanks!!
Is your honey super a foundation?
@@kamonreynolds yes it is.
How often do you go into your honey production hives May & June ?
June the honey is off. We are in these once every 2 weeks once we feel like swarming is past
Where did you buy the hive lifter
Are you going to re-queen that hive or let that queen continue laying? Or will you let the bees replace her?
I have a varroa question for ya from nc. Honey supers have to be off before using apivar strips or not? I'm hearing different things. Thanks Kamon
Hey Dadu63 Apivar can't be used with honey supers on. Thanks for watching!
@@kamonreynolds thank you kamon.
Another great video. Gow do you store your drawn comb?
Hey Kamon.....after using the lift for a while, what would your opinion be now on it's usefulness and operation. My back is not the best and I am seriously considering the B2 or the B3. Was hoping they would be at the conference but he said no.
I like the B3 alot but it needs even terrain. Perhaps they will come in 2023. We are still new to many in the Bee world.
What's the silver paper you pull back underneath the outer cover?
Reflectix from Lowes
@@kamonreynolds thanks
Kenon how much the hive lifter cost and where I can get one?
I am running all single deeps with deep supers. That frame of brood that you pulled from the colony, could that be put above the excluder after shaking the bees off? And a person could do that every 10 days or so. That is my plan to keep the broodiness fresh and young and the colony superstrong, do you think it will work?
I want one but it would be better if the wheels had a motor so you didn't have to push & pull around.
Do you have any flow hive
What is your advice when on getting medium honey supers on drawn? This is my fourth year and I still can’t get a super drawn.
Don’t use an excluder until they establish the super with drawing comb out.
Another trick is to put the med box below the hive. Kamon any other thoughts?
@@jarredladuke I learned know about not putting on a excluder when I want bees to drawn comb above. I learned that his spring and I think that was part of my problem in the past.
Sounds like varmint season out there 😂😂
Hey Kamon, great video. Can you please tell me where you got your vail. I like it and need a new one. I'm in TN. as well. Thanks! Keep up the great work. I owe a lot of my bee keeping success to you and your videos.
Kelley beekeeping in Kentucky sells them. Clear vue veil. If you call Kelley's ask for Jesinda and mention my name and the veil she should be able to fix you up. She has had to do this ALOT
@@kamonreynolds
Thank you so much I will call her.
Where can I get that wheel cart your using Kamon? Great video. 👍
Thanks Zippo, I got it at beebreedingcentre.com
I couldn’t stop thinking I bet the queen is on that frame you took out that’s what would happen to me anyway. Murphy’s Law...
Why do you add so many supers before they fill the first super ?
Nectar needs to spread out as it is thin and needs to ripen. If we don't give them enough space they may start placing the nectar in the single brood nest and that will get them to swarm
Thanks for the response..makes sense to me
Trust the single...try one hive, and don't remove any frames
Hey Bud it’s Ben Here in Florida I’ve been looking into the same type of hive lifter did you purchase that from Boris in Canada from there bee Research program and is it normal for him only to want payments with Western Union/PayPal If you can let me know it would be great I don’t want to get scammed for 1500$
kamon, in zone 7a we say:
good enough for government work.
HI KAMON R . I HAVE A QUEEN NOT MATED YET BEEN UNDER 4 WEEKS NOW AND STILL NOT MATED . DO I JUST WAIT ?
If the queen hasn't laid after 4 weeks she is a dud.
1st
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Super
It’s funny how you young whipper snappers say oh well , just got a stinger out of my finger 😋 back when I had 3’000 colonies to run I used to get stung every day but I developed an allergy and if I get stung it’s like getting hit with a hammer, i have to stop what im doing, pack up , get my finger iced right away and start getting cortisone in it and then I just wait for my hand to swell up till it’s ready to bust open and I get off work for two weeks, it it hurts like hell when you get an allergy too , I just have to suit well and wear gloves Uhgg