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Love your channel, I have always been a big honey and combe eater and have enjoyed watching your videos, since I got sick 2 years ago I haven't been able to be active and work or enjoy my hobbies and with nothing on tv it has been nice to watch your videos.
I totally agree about the bread knife, it is great for working in the comb. I have TBH's so it's even more handy than my hive tool. I like Warren's get-up. My "hood" is a homemade job I did myself, I just took window screen (plastic kind) and hot glued it around the bottom of the brim of my hat with a draw string bottom with loops to run laces through to keep it in place and tight down the front and back. lol Works great! I may do a jacket like that too with the screen I bet it is a lot cooler. Those surgical gloves (puncture resistant) are great for this kind of work, thin so you can work easier and harder for the bees to sting through.
I really really wanna do this.. but I cant. I have a pretty bad phobia. I mean jump out of moving cars phobia. I will say A) its not like the movies B) Even if you think the car is going slow.. its not. C) That road hurts a lot more than that bee ever could. So I am going to let my husband (who has wanted to for years) get some hives going. I may not be able to be hands on... but there is a lot I can help with. I have to say tho, honey bees are a lot easier to deal with for me because they do their own thing.. not like wasps and yellow jackets (who are just plain mean) Maybe some day I can handle it. You have absolutely no idea how much you have helped me. Usually when I watch vids like this I turn into a basket case as every buzzing thing is a bee and I freak out. I have done a lot of damage to myself just in a blind panic. We are pretty sure I may be allergic to yellow jackets.. but I have been stung by a honey bee (I stepped on it) and had no reaction.. just hurt till the stinger was out (In my pinky toe/on the inside/between the toes/in that little bit of webbing ...I swear it went to the bone) Because of your sugar water/truck mishap... I actually went out there and made a feeder for the wild bees (very northern Maine so its getting close to the end for them) , and watch them... and don't freak out as bad. Thank you... really you have no idea how much your vids have helped me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Sorry for the novel.
Glad to see Southern Hives exploding, man those hives had quite a bit of honey. But the Northern hives are catching up finally because our Dandelions are out and the Apple trees and Berry bushes aren't far behind them. I got a new package and it is booming, they got capped brood, a good laying queen and two frames just chock full of nectar, now I'm just waiting on some nucs and the time to do a cutout. Have a good weekend Rooster, the weatherman says its gonna be nice all across the board, and I'm guessing the bees are gonna be flying today.
I do enjoy these videos. I get so excited when I see your channel updates. Seeing you all day to day is more educational than watching videos meant for that. Warrens suit gives me some ideas on how to make my own haha
I have told everyone about how much i enjoy your channel. I have learned so much from watching. If I was not disabled because of my back or even after about 15 years ago I would love to try bee keeping. At its heaviest time how often do you have to take the honey out? Also I saw on the news where a guy that worked for a bee company had stolen over $800k in bees over a period of time. They said the bee co. said a single hive could make a million dollars in a year. Even charging for pollination etc. that seemed impossible. What do you think? Thanks... Linda from Va. Oh and please tell your lovely wife her catching her pet chickens so reminded me of me and my family. We only had a few but I was once given a beautiful young rooster that took up with my Grandson when he was 5. David even made Richard his name of the rooster a party hat and had me take pictures of him holding Richard standing behind the table at his fifth birthday party. Sadly we had let the chickens out to roam one evening while we went to the store and a stray dog killed and ripped them all up. I would never have brought the child home if I had known or saw it. I live in the woods back off the road and they were killed near and around the house. I also thought your ducks were adorable but does the bossy one ever let the other in the pool lol.
Sure wish you could get into the hobby. The news guy had his numbers way off. For a commercial beekeeper a single hive might make $1,000 to $1,500 per year at the most in contracts and honey production but there is a lot of equipment and man power involved in doing that. Overhead that comes out of that profit is big money. You can take honey once or twice a year depending on how you're running. Also $800K in bees is about ten tractor trailer loads of live bee boxes depending on what you figure per box. I think someone exaggerated for their news channel. We gave the ducks away to a neighbor with a pond. They were as nasty as pigs. :)
Thank you so much for clarifying that so i googled it. I never found any article stating an employee stole the bees but a man in Fresno I think it was in California was charged with over $800k in theft of bees and equipment that he had stolen with most of the bees belonging to a contractor in Montana I think. Ive never been to sleep because my back is really bad tonight and I wanted to post this if I am lucky enough to finally fall asleep. Thats all I will ever mention about my back again I promise and only did so to explain my lack of clarity. I also want to say I am very blessed because I am not wheel chair bound yet. It said there were a huge number of almond tree orchards that desparatly needed strong healthy bees. Another owner that said she had lost $200k in this theft was not putting the returned bees in with her others right away because she was afraid they might now have mites. The theft was done by taking the hives from the orchard and then grinding away the ID on the boxes and painting them. Another bee keeper heard how a new company wanted to do his business at Starbucks and knew the companies did not do that and acted as a farmer and got the thieves address to talk about hiring him. When he got there he saw the boxes being ground down and painted stepped aside and called police. There were two articles that stated the $800k plus amount in theft and one said only $86k. They were. constant in valuing the bees and hives much higher than yours perhaps because of the amount of almonds needing bees and it being contracts. You have a beautiful family and its so nice to see you with your Dad and brother and friends. I hope your Dad is doing better. You are such a comedian yet so gentle in handling and speaking about your bees. I had to buy my daughter a grown duck when she was about 4. He was in a cage behind the feed store and she heard him loudly quacking and had to see him. I think he was intended for the holidays dinner. Anyway she named him Donald and yes his pool was cleaned and changed twice daily but was always dirty. We had to spend the night at my Moms one day and night because of my husband being called in to work and something got in the chicken yard and hen house and killed my 50 laying hens and the duck. They were not torn in pieces like the few i ahad here I told you about. We even had them in 6ft. wire. I had made pets and almost pets out of those also. There were many that would fly up onto our lap after they had pecked for the evening. I sold their eggs to the local country store. I never made any extra money but it did pay for the feed. As they had grown older they did not lay as often but the store was really happy with the larger double yolk eggs they gave. I didn't have any more chickens till my grandson was big enough to want some years later. Now I only have my 2 cats and a dumped beagle bless his poor little heart. Although I keep dry food out free choice for him I still cannot get near him. Ive arranged to get a large trap next week so I can get him and get his rabies shot him neutered like all my pets have been and his Advantage II for fleas. This was way more than i should have post and i promise to never do it again.lol. After the poor dog has all that done he will probably leave here if he gets free lol. I want to make a house pet or at least an indoor outdoor dog of him. He always looks so sad.
Jay, you can google them, but here goes. Drones are males, are used only for reproduction. Queens are used for reproduction, only mate on their mating flight, spend the rest of their lives laying eggs. Workers are females, nonmated, forage, care for the young (eggs, larva, pupa), make honey, defend the nest. In short, the workers do everything but lay other workers. They can, on occasion, lay, but their offspring are drones only. I hope all of this is correct. Google is better.
Your dad is a good BK....I hate rubber bands, I got a way from them, by using a guide wedge, in the groove of the top frame,. glue and nail them in there....You can make a bunch of them from a 2x4 on the table saw about 1/8" thick, and 1" or 1 1/2" tall, 17" long. Now i just pinch the comb on the wedge guide if i need to Rubber bands are enough thing but a ticking time bomb.. It made me loose a few queens Thanks for sharing
this works only on dry comb and some brood comb, if its got live cells in it or honey at the top! it want stick to the guide. THEN YOU HAVE TO USE RUBBER BAND but i try to not use them much as possible
I usually ask my wife in the morning where the hell are my dang socks ? Did you move them ? And she says to me .. There hanging on your shoulder like yesterday’s pair 🤔, and she didn’t even get up out of bed yet and can tell me where they are , amazing 😉 lady can’t wait til tomorrow so I can ask her again 😑
I hear down south the Privet is sweeter. I've got privet up north here and at times it seems it adds a bitter taste to the honey. You hear anything like that? Unless its from that milkweed, which they seem to love too. Last summer I pulled honey that had a bitter aftertaste (rubber band like). I put it in jars and let it sit for 6 months and the bitterness was gone. Boy was that some good tasting honey. Very unique!
+kckrye I haven't heard that but everything is sweeter in the south. lol Funny how aging honey can change the flavor or smell sometimes. I had some stinky golden rod honey in a jar for a year or so. When I opened it the smell was gone.
DR - What's the story behind the blue mesh in the feeders? (All of my feeders use ladders which are a read pain.) BTW - Are those SHB larvae attached to the mesh?
Permaculture Prepper LOL He is always getting nailed and he REALLY doesn't like it. I could put a mic on him and we could count every time he says OH! or Ooo that smarts. HA!
628DirtRooster I cant help but feel for the guy. He obviously had a bad encounter with being stung if he went through all that trouble to make his bee suit a portable life raft.
Thank u for all of ur kidding, not cursing & especially not using The Lord nor GOD's name in vain! U r good men, maybe that's why ur bees r healthy & mostly good to u, does kindness work?
Do you always use foundation? Wired or homemade? If you can show some frames that you used rubber bands to hold cutout comb a while after placing in a hive box I'd like to see what the bees do to it. Love your channel +628DirtRooster!
Hey DirtRooster heres a strange question for you. Those black frames with the blue filter material. What are they for exactly. About the only thing I have come up with is a watering device?
How do you tell drone brood from worker brood.. is it just there is multiple eggs in drone brood? I know I seen you cull a queen becasue she was laying multiple eggs, how do you tell the difference?
+Jennifer Mills - I know this one! the cells are larger for a drone, and a little bit longer. The cell size therefore determines what the bees will feed up in that cell. And you only need one egg per cell for Queen, Workers and Drone alike. I don't know what happens when there are two eggs, but the cell only has room for one. So one or both would die.
DoriGardener Both. They will have to clean up a little because that kind of makes a mess but they don't seem to mind too much. They will eat what honey they want and deposit the rest in undamaged comb. Then they'll start building the cells back out to where they like them.
Pop's Shack I've tried dryer sheets but not swiffer pads. They worked pretty good but only in some hives and only after the bees had picked the fibers all apart. I hear that micro fiber cloth works great but I haven't put it to the test yet. I kind of forgot about trying it.
Wade Johnson We are using plastic and do have problems getting them to work it some times. I think Mann Lake sells the best ones. The cells on theirs are deeper and the bees have less work to do.
628DirtRooster You need to tell that story , unreal . It would take yrs for me to near a hive with out being covered up ,I hope you tellthe story about how you got into the business . Withall the hives you guys are runnig Id love to hear ho it started for you guys ,Gerry
Yep, been there done that. My first experience of working with bees was moving a couple of hives. At night. Over rocky ground. About 300 yards. With no gloves. I copped about a dozen stings that night. On each hand.
CopperKnutz It was supposed to keep the bees from drowning in the feeders which it does pretty well. The problem is that the beetles love it too. We are abandoning the use of those. It is A/C filter material.
Thanks, what got me interested in bee keeping is, A hive died off at a friends house, so I helped him take it down and spin the honey out,"it was the best I ever tasted", I was hooked immediately! I like comb honey, eat it like candy, chew it like bubble gum. I know I was eating everything in the frames and didn't get sick, so I'm glad to know I can eat pretty much all of what I am claiming from the bees.
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You have a good Dad.
Thank you for sharing your daddy and all the knowledge of both of y'all's years of bee keeping❤️💞🤯😁😁
when your Dad talks , he reminds me of Grandpa Walton , on the Waltons.
Had some beautiful capped honey in those frames!
***** Yes sir! I think I ate two or three ounces. I'm all good on my honey consumption for now.
Love your channel, I have always been a big honey and combe eater and have enjoyed watching your videos, since I got sick 2 years ago I haven't been able to be active and work or enjoy my hobbies and with nothing on tv it has been nice to watch your videos.
+Lee Morgan Thanks Lee. TV does get old.
I have a cowboy style hat with veil I like ! The wide brim really holds the veil out away from my face and you know why that is important! LOL
I totally agree about the bread knife, it is great for working in the comb. I have TBH's so it's even more handy than my hive tool. I like Warren's get-up. My "hood" is a homemade job I did myself, I just took window screen (plastic kind) and hot glued it around the bottom of the brim of my hat with a draw string bottom with loops to run laces through to keep it in place and tight down the front and back. lol Works great! I may do a jacket like that too with the screen I bet it is a lot cooler. Those surgical gloves (puncture resistant) are great for this kind of work, thin so you can work easier and harder for the bees to sting through.
+DixieGirl9876 Sometimes home made is the best.
What beautiful blue skies and green trees! We don't get weather in Scotland like that too often!
I really really wanna do this.. but I cant. I have a pretty bad phobia. I mean jump out of moving cars phobia. I will say A) its not like the movies B) Even if you think the car is going slow.. its not. C) That road hurts a lot more than that bee ever could. So I am going to let my husband (who has wanted to for years) get some hives going. I may not be able to be hands on... but there is a lot I can help with. I have to say tho, honey bees are a lot easier to deal with for me because they do their own thing.. not like wasps and yellow jackets (who are just plain mean) Maybe some day I can handle it. You have absolutely no idea how much you have helped me. Usually when I watch vids like this I turn into a basket case as every buzzing thing is a bee and I freak out. I have done a lot of damage to myself just in a blind panic. We are pretty sure I may be allergic to yellow jackets.. but I have been stung by a honey bee (I stepped on it) and had no reaction.. just hurt till the stinger was out (In my pinky toe/on the inside/between the toes/in that little bit of webbing ...I swear it went to the bone) Because of your sugar water/truck mishap... I actually went out there and made a feeder for the wild bees (very northern Maine so its getting close to the end for them) , and watch them... and don't freak out as bad. Thank you... really you have no idea how much your vids have helped me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Sorry for the novel.
Glad to see Southern Hives exploding, man those hives had quite a bit of honey. But the Northern hives are catching up finally because our Dandelions are out and the Apple trees and Berry bushes aren't far behind them. I got a new package and it is booming, they got capped brood, a good laying queen and two frames just chock full of nectar, now I'm just waiting on some nucs and the time to do a cutout.
Have a good weekend Rooster, the weatherman says its gonna be nice all across the board, and I'm guessing the bees are gonna be flying today.
Cole I Glad you got some new ones going. It's supposed to be nice down here and I've got a cut out to do today.
628DirtRooster Hopefully we'll see it recorded?
Cole I Maybe :)
As a newbee bee keeper I'm still rolling white from top to bottom. Maybe one day i'll be hardcore like you folks.
Russ Faulkner Just being a beekeeper makes your chest hair grow. Except with female beekeepers of course. ;)
I do enjoy these videos. I get so excited when I see your channel updates. Seeing you all day to day is more educational than watching videos meant for that. Warrens suit gives me some ideas on how to make my own haha
Nice!
Slicing that comb off makes my mouth water
Those were some nice looking healthy hives, looks like it keeps your dad busy.
rchopp He's in them every day. Keeps him going.
Fascinating as usual! Those Mosquito hat's come in handy up here too, as our Mosquito's are the size of those bees! LOL!
Rob Farrow We were working in Minnesota one year and I was amazed at the size of the mosquitoes up there.
I need a suit like that for the mosquitos.
Works pretty good.
Good times! That's some real healthy looking hives.
justlivin They are coming along thanks to a lot of feeding.
That many hives will sure keep you busy! Thanks for taking the time to make the video.
yourbeekeeper Keeps us out of trouble... most of the time. lol
doesn't have to look good it has to work good !
True
Rooster, Another fine video!!! I really like watching you and Me Jeff Horchoff, Yappy ,and JP. Good work. Rick in Pa.
All great guys to hang out with.
Thanks for the videos. About all I can do right now. Its 0 degrees farenheit with a wind chill of - 16
cool I wish I was in that callable of bees keeping ! thanks
***** What are you doing up so late? lol
I have told everyone about how much i enjoy your channel. I have learned so much from watching. If I was not disabled because of my back or even after about 15 years ago I would love to try bee keeping. At its heaviest time how often do you have to take the honey out? Also I saw on the news where a guy that worked for a bee company had stolen over $800k in bees over a period of time. They said the bee co. said a single hive could make a million dollars in a year. Even charging for pollination etc. that seemed impossible. What do you think? Thanks... Linda from Va. Oh and please tell your lovely wife her catching her pet chickens so reminded me of me and my family. We only had a few but I was once given a beautiful young rooster that took up with my Grandson when he was 5. David even made Richard his name of the rooster a party hat and had me take pictures of him holding Richard standing behind the table at his fifth birthday party. Sadly we had let the chickens out to roam one evening while we went to the store and a stray dog killed and ripped them all up. I would never have brought the child home if I had known or saw it. I live in the woods back off the road and they were killed near and around the house. I also thought your ducks were adorable but does the bossy one ever let the other in the pool lol.
Sure wish you could get into the hobby.
The news guy had his numbers way off. For a commercial beekeeper a single hive might make $1,000 to $1,500 per year at the most in contracts and honey production but there is a lot of equipment and man power involved in doing that. Overhead that comes out of that profit is big money. You can take honey once or twice a year depending on how you're running. Also $800K in bees is about ten tractor trailer loads of live bee boxes depending on what you figure per box. I think someone exaggerated for their news channel.
We gave the ducks away to a neighbor with a pond. They were as nasty as pigs. :)
Thank you so much for clarifying that so i googled it. I never found any article stating an employee stole the bees but a man in Fresno I think it was in California was charged with over $800k in theft of bees and equipment that he had stolen with most of the bees belonging to a contractor in Montana I think. Ive never been to sleep because my back is really bad tonight and I wanted to post this if I am lucky enough to finally fall asleep. Thats all I will ever mention about my back again I promise and only did so to explain my lack of clarity. I also want to say I am very blessed because I am not wheel chair bound yet. It said there were a huge number of almond tree orchards that desparatly needed strong healthy bees. Another owner that said she had lost $200k in this theft was not putting the returned bees in with her others right away because she was afraid they might now have mites. The theft was done by taking the hives from the orchard and then grinding away the ID on the boxes and painting them. Another bee keeper heard how a new company wanted to do his business at Starbucks and knew the companies did not do that and acted as a farmer and got the thieves address to talk about hiring him. When he got there he saw the boxes being ground down and painted stepped aside and called police. There were two articles that stated the $800k plus amount in theft and one said only $86k. They were. constant in valuing the bees and hives much higher than yours perhaps because of the amount of almonds needing bees and it being contracts. You have a beautiful family and its so nice to see you with your Dad and brother and friends. I hope your Dad is doing better. You are such a comedian yet so gentle in handling and speaking about your bees. I had to buy my daughter a grown duck when she was about 4. He was in a cage behind the feed store and she heard him loudly quacking and had to see him. I think he was intended for the holidays dinner. Anyway she named him Donald and yes his pool was cleaned and changed twice daily but was always dirty. We had to spend the night at my Moms one day and night because of my husband being called in to work and something got in the chicken yard and hen house and killed my 50 laying hens and the duck. They were not torn in pieces like the few i ahad here I told you about. We even had them in 6ft. wire. I had made pets and almost pets out of those also. There were many that would fly up onto our lap after they had pecked for the evening. I sold their eggs to the local country store. I never made any extra money but it did pay for the feed. As they had grown older they did not lay as often but the store was really happy with the larger double yolk eggs they gave. I didn't have any more chickens till my grandson was big enough to want some years later. Now I only have my 2 cats and a dumped beagle bless his poor little heart. Although I keep dry food out free choice for him I still cannot get near him. Ive arranged to get a large trap next week so I can get him and get his rabies shot him neutered like all my pets have been and his Advantage II for fleas. This was way more than i should have post and i promise to never do it again.lol. After the poor dog has all that done he will probably leave here if he gets free lol. I want to make a house pet or at least an indoor outdoor dog of him. He always looks so sad.
Love old warren he's a character
+littleninpo You should see him get stung. FUUNNYY!
628DirtRooster lol
I'm new to your channel and love your videos. Would you tell, show us the difference between worker, drone and other brod types. Thanks.
Jay, you can google them, but here goes. Drones are males, are used only for reproduction. Queens are used for reproduction, only mate on their mating flight, spend the rest of their lives laying eggs. Workers are females, nonmated, forage, care for the young (eggs, larva, pupa), make honey, defend the nest. In short, the workers do everything but lay other workers. They can, on occasion, lay, but their offspring are drones only. I hope all of this is correct. Google is better.
Sorry for all the questions but I'm new to your channel and enjoy it a lot.
Another cool buzz,..thanks for that
Bobby Brown Almost as much fun as blasting milk jugs. lol
Had a chance to try local hunny comb a few days ago. Almost like chewing gum. Good stuff
Your dad is a good BK....I hate rubber bands, I got a way from them, by using a guide wedge, in the groove of the top frame,. glue and nail them in there....You can make a bunch of them from a 2x4 on the table saw about 1/8" thick, and 1" or 1 1/2" tall, 17" long. Now i just pinch the comb on the wedge guide if i need to Rubber bands are enough thing but a ticking time bomb.. It made me loose a few queens Thanks for sharing
this works only on dry comb and some brood comb, if its got live cells in it or honey at the top! it want stick to the guide. THEN YOU HAVE TO USE RUBBER BAND but i try to not use them much as possible
You can get those camo veils at the Menge flea market...its all i use
They get the job done.
Still had the queen cage in that one
Sweet!
LOL
You need to keep a couple of thos3e skeeter hats as backup in your truck... just sayin.
Take care
Papa's Place Ha! Way ahead of you there man. I've got backups to my backups.
I usually ask my wife in the morning where the hell are my dang socks ? Did you move them ? And she says to me .. There hanging on your shoulder like yesterday’s pair 🤔, and she didn’t even get up out of bed yet and can tell me where they are , amazing 😉 lady can’t wait til tomorrow so I can ask her again 😑
I think I saw a queen at the top center of the screen at 18:02
I have that camo hat got on eBay 2 for 8 bucks. Awesome hats.
Eric Powers They are very affordable and work great.
628DirtRooster would you be interested in joining our fb page. We could use your expertise.
Eric Powers How do I find it?
628DirtRooster search Nevada County bee keeper on Facebook!
Eric Powers keepers sorry
I hear down south the Privet is sweeter. I've got privet up north here and at times it seems it adds a bitter taste to the honey. You hear anything like that? Unless its from that milkweed, which they seem to love too. Last summer I pulled honey that had a bitter aftertaste (rubber band like). I put it in jars and let it sit for 6 months and the bitterness was gone. Boy was that some good tasting honey. Very unique!
+kckrye I haven't heard that but everything is sweeter in the south. lol
Funny how aging honey can change the flavor or smell sometimes. I had some stinky golden rod honey in a jar for a year or so. When I opened it the smell was gone.
+628DirtRooster JP told me honey will mellow. It's like a fine wine brotha! Well, hope you and your Dad have a blessed day!
kckrye Thanks, Y'all too.
Curious, what does stinky honey smell like? Is it unpleasant? Does it taste unpleasant also? Does that happen often?
+Parsec994a golden rod honey is stinky...imagine sweaty gym socks. Lol. but the taste is good. It doesn't taste stinky, it's sweet and rich.
Yo, yo, yo, bee suit.
You should of said to Warren that of course his mosquito jacket is cooler, it's made out of the same stuff they use in cooler insulation.
He's wearing a Yeti
DR - What's the story behind the blue mesh in the feeders? (All of my feeders use ladders which are a read pain.) BTW - Are those SHB larvae attached to the mesh?
I think you need to put a 'sting counter' at the bottom corner of every video. how many did ya'll get this video around lol ?!
Permaculture Prepper lol ol' daddys hands looked like some stuffed sausages by the end of this vid lol
Permaculture Prepper LOL He is always getting nailed and he REALLY doesn't like it. I could put a mic on him and we could count every time he says OH! or Ooo that smarts. HA!
Lolol Warren ought to patent that design. haha He can even market it as "made with recycled materials"
Don't give him any ideas. LOL
628DirtRooster
I cant help but feel for the guy. He obviously had a bad encounter with being stung if he went through all that trouble to make his bee suit a portable life raft.
KillTyrant If he's ever keeping bees on a ship he's ready.
Thank u for all of ur kidding, not cursing & especially not using The Lord nor GOD's name in vain! U r good men, maybe that's why ur bees r healthy & mostly good to u, does kindness work?
Do you always use foundation? Wired or homemade? If you can show some frames that you used rubber bands to hold cutout comb a while after placing in a hive box I'd like to see what the bees do to it.
Love your channel +628DirtRooster!
Just so happens you'll be able to see that in a few weeks from some video I show yesterday.
Poor warren hates being on the 📺
Yeah, he told me don't put him on TV. I hope you're watching on a lap top. ;)
Hey DirtRooster heres a strange question for you. Those black frames with the blue filter material. What are they for exactly. About the only thing I have come up with is a watering device?
You're right. The black things are feeders. The blue material is to help prevent drowning.
That how i keep my pine needles too TRASH BAGS 01:12 if i got time make smoker size bails store it in trash bags
Can you feed that one with the drons in tithe
Chicken
Was that a queen cage embedded on that frame at 17:48?
Liz Spencer It was. All hives have new queens.
How do you tell drone brood from worker brood.. is it just there is multiple eggs in drone brood? I know I seen you cull a queen becasue she was laying multiple eggs, how do you tell the difference?
+Jennifer Mills - I know this one! the cells are larger for a drone, and a little bit longer. The cell size therefore determines what the bees will feed up in that cell. And you only need one egg per cell for Queen, Workers and Drone alike. I don't know what happens when there are two eggs, but the cell only has room for one. So one or both would die.
Will they recap or eat the honey out of the cells that were sliced off?
DoriGardener Both. They will have to clean up a little because that kind of makes a mess but they don't seem to mind too much. They will eat what honey they want and deposit the rest in undamaged comb. Then they'll start building the cells back out to where they like them.
You don't use inner covers? I don't notice any when you remove the covers.
No
I meant Mr. Jeff Horchoff.....Rick
628DirtRooster Have you tried the swiffer pads on top of the frames to catch beetles?
Pop's Shack I've tried dryer sheets but not swiffer pads. They worked pretty good but only in some hives and only after the bees had picked the fibers all apart. I hear that micro fiber cloth works great but I haven't put it to the test yet. I kind of forgot about trying it.
Have you ever thought about making one big combe?
howismyname long That would be cool looking but the bees couldn't maintain the hive temperature that way.
Ah i forgot about thr temperature they produce
howismyname long Hot blooded. :)
I can see through it, it's not there! Your father have any other bee like tendencies?
7:26 It certainly is cooler.
Lolita's Garden Yep, a regular bee suit is like a sauna.
628DirtRooster And not as stylin.
How do you tell the difference between the brood comb and the other types of comb
It's pretty easy when you see it all side by side.
Looks like you're using plasti-cell foundation. I'm trying it in my supers this year but the bees seem reluctant to use it. I've never used it before.
Wade Johnson We are using plastic and do have problems getting them to work it some times. I think Mann Lake sells the best ones. The cells on theirs are deeper and the bees have less work to do.
628DirtRooster I have to agree that Mann Lake sells the best ones. Good wax coating and you can also buy them without wax and do your own wax coating.
So I'm guessing you grew up in the honey business . How old were you when you first started ?
krazy45cat My brother, my dad and myself all started about the same time when I was a wee little boy of 40 years old. LOL True story.
628DirtRooster You need to tell that story , unreal . It would take yrs for me to near a hive with out being covered up ,I hope you tellthe story about how you got into the business . Withall the hives you guys are runnig Id love to hear ho it started for you guys ,Gerry
krazy45cat That would be a good round table discussion video with the family. I don't even know how my brother got started.
Newb Question here: But is there ANYTHING that can get u sick or whatever from eating the Cone/Honey?
Not unless you allergic to honey or ingested pollen.
Do you cut out drone cels?
A lot
Yeah,I can see myself handling them like that with no gloves....NOT!
MyHollowpoint Man you'd feel so at home after a few times. lol
MyHollowpoint I thought that 18 months ago, too. Now they don't bother me so much.
Pop's Shack I had some bee's. Last time I messed with them I got stung 22 times by the time I got inside :)
Yep, been there done that. My first experience of working with bees was moving a couple of hives. At night. Over rocky ground. About 300 yards. With no gloves.
I copped about a dozen stings that night. On each hand.
Pop's Shack Ha, I'll bet the neighbors thought it was a dingo making all that noise. :)
Why put the water in and what is the blue stuff?
The blue is A/C filter material that gives the bees something to climb on so they don't drown.
The water is feed. Sugar water
628DirtRooster thanks for the info. It's pretty interesting to watch
how long does the average queen live?
3 to 4 years
What is the blue sponge thing for mate?
CopperKnutz It was supposed to keep the bees from drowning in the feeders which it does pretty well. The problem is that the beetles love it too. We are abandoning the use of those. It is A/C filter material.
Ahh cool. Thanks man.
Btw, do you not sleep!?
CopperKnutz LOL Not much
Can you eat the drone brood?
You can.
Thanks, what got me interested in bee keeping is, A hive died off at a friends house, so I helped him take it down and spin the honey out,"it was the best I ever tasted", I was hooked immediately! I like comb honey, eat it like candy, chew it like bubble gum. I know I was eating everything in the frames and didn't get sick, so I'm glad to know I can eat pretty much all of what I am claiming from the bees.
denny porter Probably good protein
to me thus is a killer job. why you ask? cos I am allergic to bees
Could be dangerous for you then. lol
628DirtRooster yes just a bit. I was stung when I was younger and it almost killed me
How 628
David Holcomb How! Pale Face. lol
I see why your daddy don't like you in the bee yard the bee's starve to death