Instant Starvation! Pulling late season honey off the NUCS - 08/16/2019

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  • @whackythunder3692
    @whackythunder3692 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I have learned a lot from you sir and was amazed at how you did it. Thank you.

  • @richardkuhn8115
    @richardkuhn8115 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks Ian, for sharing your insight and your management practices. I appreciate that.

  • @keithandrews1069
    @keithandrews1069 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great information. Thankyou from west Australia

  • @beebob1279
    @beebob1279 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome as always. I'm glad I stayed home this weekend to catch up on your videos.

  • @wess1405
    @wess1405 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Remember Ian beeing shy talking in front of audiance and camera? Me neither! :)
    Those gloves could use some tape. :D
    Appreciate the videos. I have adjusted my bee work quite a bit after learning from You, especially the nutrition timing.

  • @Beetek0903
    @Beetek0903 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love your new smoker (blowing the bees) lol

  • @chrism4673
    @chrism4673 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Where’s my smoker? Where’s my hive tool! Oh well I’ll just take Carrie’s tool!! Pink looks good on you! Good video

  • @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork
    @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent info as always! Thanks!

  • @judicorbett3498
    @judicorbett3498 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Quite a contrast to last year, this time. No pollen and queens had already shut down.
    No stores in my brood boxes either but we have more time before winter shut down and so I mentioned, we have a second deep starting to fill with natural food.

    • @judicorbett3498
      @judicorbett3498 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe you need some sort of means of attaching your smoker to yourself. Lol

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Then I’d burn up 😂

  • @johnmason455
    @johnmason455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi from New York! I have been watching your videos for a while and really like your 6s. Been floating the idea for a while now of building a common box with 2 dividers , accomplishing the same thing as your seperate 6s but allowing for more shared warmth between the colonies. There would be some management issues, such as having to move a colony frame by frame rather than just swapping out boxes to replace die offs or weak colonies but I'm am hoping that the benefits outway the negatives. Figure it's worth a try to build a couple and see how it works. Would love to see if it would give me the bee density nessesary to fill out comb honey for some of our early flows like black locust and basswood.
    Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, your efforts are very appreciated and it has inspired me to try a few new things.

  • @brucesbees
    @brucesbees 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Will you put the deep boxes back on after harvest or overwinter in the nucs?

  • @bub1683
    @bub1683 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Stay awsome! Best beetuber. Swedich beekeeper

  • @bills3851
    @bills3851 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It’s my first year, going well. In part thanks to you!
    Open feeders here on Vancouver Island would be infested with yellow jackets. Not an issue with you?

  • @blurtmenow
    @blurtmenow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In Australia watching heaps of these vids yours and others. First time ive heard the word cannabalise gonna look that up Thanks.
    I have a question hope you get a chance to answer i know your getting heaps of them.
    How long before you put these bees undercover/store for winter. I see these boxes are loaded with too many bees to be accommodated in the box and would expect most of your boxes are in the same state.From your other vids they seem to be overwintered in 1 brood box. What happens with the extra bees? there wouldn't be stores for them all . Do you just take the box and have to abandon the excess bees or is there some other way to manage it.

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      blurtmenow
      By September the old summer bees will die off and the winter bees will nicely fit into the chamber

    • @blurtmenow
      @blurtmenow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Thankyou for the reply.. much appreciated

  • @jozsip
    @jozsip 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for an other great informative video this time of the year. I think the same way about managing the hives like this and I also tape my pants like this but with duct tape 😀. Thank you again.

  • @gerardjohnson2106
    @gerardjohnson2106 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Bee Farmer" You're totally getting it done. Congratulations #

    • @hootervillehoneybees8664
      @hootervillehoneybees8664 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's worked harder then every this year can see the wieght loss on him . Staying ahead of all that some task

  • @izinyosib821
    @izinyosib821 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looks like you have some room on the underside of those bee escapes. Why not put a baggie feeder or high sugar content patty there? Leave some room for the bees though :-)

  • @russiane.lection-hacker2057
    @russiane.lection-hacker2057 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I believe you did good not using smoke. Smoking a colony puts them off foraging for hours, something you don't want to do to a colony that's running on fumes.

  • @WordsPhotos
    @WordsPhotos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very informative. I have a question. Referring only to nukes like the one you showed which are full of bees, if we ignore the economic value of the honey on the top boxes, will it be a good idea at this point to actually put another nuke on top of such a strong nuke below and leave little honey and no queen excluder, with the idea that come next spring you already have a second nuke ready to be separated. Will this work and will the queen at this stage move up and lay some eggs? Thanks

  • @rochrich1223
    @rochrich1223 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What's the limiting factor keeping you from moving them into full sized boxes? Crew time, the availability of bases, and winter storage space would be my first three guesses.

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      rochrich
      And, these are newly developed queens, I don’t want them to lay too much into the fall, saving them for the next 2 years. Next year they explode out of the small nests

    • @johnevans3623
      @johnevans3623 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      What keeps them from swarming once you push them down?

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Young queens and the time of year,

    • @taddrienstra7247
      @taddrienstra7247 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Seems like I am tracking with rochrich, with all the brood hatching soon, it would seem they would fit in fulls and the good amount you feed into fall. Is the die off going to keep the numbers in check?

  • @ryanpatane7544
    @ryanpatane7544 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello from Utah. Where did you get your bee escape boards? Do you make your own or buy? Thanks for your videos!

  • @brucesbees
    @brucesbees 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why the tarps over the boxes?

  • @jimmcdougall3750
    @jimmcdougall3750 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Ian is this not the time they may swarm. When the brood nest is to small. Great video I am using you as my mentor to try and build up my bee's.

  • @markspc1
    @markspc1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Canadian bee man; the way I see it you had 5 deeps on top of your 3 six frames nucs and now you squeezed all of the bees down in the 3 six frames nucs; it is like if you had a gallon of water and you wanted to put it all in an 8 oz glass. Anyone can see that it is not going to fit.
    What is your game plan going forward ? I am just curious, thks.

    • @blaahster
      @blaahster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He over winters them in 6 frame nucs, open feed to get them ready for winter

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All the winter bees will fit into the nest
      👍

  • @andreasmoser4725
    @andreasmoser4725 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great videos
    Can't you just put them in to normal 10 frame brood boxes and add either empty frames or a few full ones from the top. They seem to be too crowded anyway. Just a thought.

  • @steveluepke9654
    @steveluepke9654 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like your red duct tape repairs on your hood and pants😁

  • @seeyouonthemountainbeekeeping
    @seeyouonthemountainbeekeeping 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome and very informative! Thanks!

  • @samlamanna-lilley3614
    @samlamanna-lilley3614 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Out of curiosity, if you have supers that are 1/2 - 3/4 full why do you opt to take that resource away rather then leaving for them? Ie added labour, sugar being cheaper then honey ect?

    • @izinyosib821
      @izinyosib821 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It all needs to fit neatly and efficiently in to the warehouse where the bees overwinter.

    • @samlamanna-lilley3614
      @samlamanna-lilley3614 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@izinyosib821 that's fair, I'm in Australia, our season is just about to start. Not certain about how much of his season he has left. We also have no need to winter our bees indoors.

    • @izinyosib821
      @izinyosib821 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you watch some more of his videos, it is all explained.
      All beekeeping is local for sure.

  • @A..n..d..y
    @A..n..d..y 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You talk about syrup vs nectar, can you explain what they look like in the hive. I'm guessing that you know it's syrup because that's what you're feeding them now but I just do not understand the difference on the frame. If someone could explain that would be great.

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Andy L
      You can’t tell, other than fresh nectar is watery and most show colour

  • @christurley391
    @christurley391 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Chock full of brood and spilling out the door, when do you go with a full box?

  • @Westernwilson
    @Westernwilson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Ian, so interesting...I take it the hive wraps are to deter robbing??

    • @ericl452
      @ericl452 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes. He talks about it in a prior video.

  • @wayneparker9782
    @wayneparker9782 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have very limited knowledge.....can the box with the least honey... be placed on top of the brood box and the escape board be placed between the full box and the box with the least. That way they have feed....what's a little honey compared to next yr stock.

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wayne
      No I’m stripping boxes for harvest.

    • @yvettepaulson4967
      @yvettepaulson4967 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s what I would do as well Wayne. They might as well eat the light box of uncapped honey instead of having no space or food for the bees.

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Honey honey honey money 💰

    • @wayneparker9782
      @wayneparker9782 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Honey honey honey 👍😎👍

    • @mark-wn5ek
      @mark-wn5ek 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog obviously you got this down to a science...otherwise it would appear to be cooking the goose that lays the golden eggs.

  • @francisbalzer9324
    @francisbalzer9324 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When is the time to move the nuns to a 10 frame single?

  • @henrikstorm170
    @henrikstorm170 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi.
    How is it you can have 3 familyes in the bottom, but only put on 2 boxes in the next layer?

    • @judicorbett3498
      @judicorbett3498 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Quen excluder keeps the queens separate and the workers will share the space above.

  • @eddevault4604
    @eddevault4604 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where do you order your bee-escape boards....estimate of costs....

  • @mainville102
    @mainville102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what are those covers your putting on the suppers for? Robbing?

  • @phil70660
    @phil70660 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What kind of bees do you use in your colonies ?

  • @verchellesadoo8334
    @verchellesadoo8334 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why didn't you tell the masses the reason you placed the excluder like you did. ☺

  • @andrewmunn3499
    @andrewmunn3499 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice hive tool Ian...

    • @jackgrimshaw9355
      @jackgrimshaw9355 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha ha Got one just like it.Mines a pink Maxant
      Easy to find in the grass if you drop it

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Forgot my hive tool, I’m using Carrie’s lol

    • @andrewmunn3499
      @andrewmunn3499 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Lol, it's not pink, it's "Salmon"...

  • @isimisoko
    @isimisoko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sirup is from sugar, or U use something else?

  • @robbiesines4864
    @robbiesines4864 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got nuc 4 frames of brood 1 frame of honey does it sound like there good for winter I live in 🇺🇸 md

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Make sure you feed them heavy in September

    • @robbiesines4864
      @robbiesines4864 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok. After they hatch will they back it with honey

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      And if not honey, give them syrup

    • @Vbluevital
      @Vbluevital 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Robbie. Understand they are telling you they would never make it with so little honey. Check them and feed if necessary. Many bee colonies die from to few stores in the winter and spring.

    • @robbiesines4864
      @robbiesines4864 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now my has 2 frames of honey the rest brood and on one frame of brood is capt honey to

  • @1marksimeone
    @1marksimeone 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Before I ever lost a nights sleep, I would of put those open feeders out immediately. And then have a good night rest.

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mark Simeone
      Yep, they were out late yesterday afternoon, not enough time in a day

    • @1marksimeone
      @1marksimeone 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I understand Ian, there are so many hours in the day. Oh but my sleep is like gold to me!

  • @mhammedgorine8896
    @mhammedgorine8896 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    من فضلكم ما هو دور الحاجز الموضوع فوق حاجز الملكات؟وشكرا.

  • @DraGon-cg6ge
    @DraGon-cg6ge 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what kind of hive do you have?

  • @BMKCambo168
    @BMKCambo168 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good Morning My friends

  • @eddevault4604
    @eddevault4604 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Ian....great video young man....you need a new pair of gloves....lol....

  • @YevgeniyTimchenko
    @YevgeniyTimchenko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What breed of bees do you use?

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Carniolan
      KONA, Oliverez, Saskatraz base stock

    • @YevgeniyTimchenko
      @YevgeniyTimchenko 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Thank! In Ukraine, we have not even heard such breeds of bees ...
      We have the main breed Carpathian and Ukrainian breed. Also imported from Germany Buckfast, Karnika, Italian bee.
      Is Buckfast in Canada? If so, it’s interesting to know your opinion about what you think about this breed ...

  • @hootervillehoneybees8664
    @hootervillehoneybees8664 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    . I know my july mates queens have the best honey production.. their just mated better. I remember when I use to buy queens id have colonys half the size making twice the honey . Just simple fact some were mated better than others. Genetic diversity is everything in honey production.. now that I can half way understand all this great reaserch out there I know exactly why . Wasn't the strain or the queen it was their breeding . Great vid

    • @russiane.lection-hacker2057
      @russiane.lection-hacker2057 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It depends very much on where you are. Over here in NW Europe our queens seem to mate best early to mid June.

  • @greganderson2335
    @greganderson2335 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What do you do with the honey boxes that have some nectar but are not suitable for harvest after you remove them?

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Greg Anderson
      It’s dry, regardless if capped, and if not quite, it mixes into the volume of capped cured honey

  • @nealmorris6759
    @nealmorris6759 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did you say it is 30 F

  • @oneshoo
    @oneshoo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When you bring all your bees inside, that’s when you should sleep?? Although.....You are going to worry about the CO2 levels in your storage house, which will again keep you up at night!! 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

  • @Zerkbern
    @Zerkbern 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cones?

  • @denniswood231
    @denniswood231 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Ian , you discussed the pros and cons of running single and double brood chambers in these nucs but I have to disagree on one important point...it is true..but yet false...and that is that running single brood chambers you get all the honey...and that is true...you do get all the honey, but yet false in that, that limited unit cannot produce as much honey as a double brood chamber nuc...therefore you "do not get all the honey" that, that honey production unit could potentially produce..it is simple math....the fact is that those 6 frame single story nucs do not have enough room for a young prolific queen to brood up to her "full nuc potential" and therefore cannot produce bees or honey to their full potential...that means that those colonies are not able to bring in as much honey because of their brood box limitations of space for bees, brood and resource storage which is an unatural and unbalanced situation
    ...therefore they are not producing to their full potential so in fact you are "losing honey production" have less brood, less bees, and have the stress of losing them to starvation or brood cannibalization at the end of the honey flow(I don't like losing sleep worrying about starving bees...lord knows I need my beauty rest lol)...I put on a second brood chamber in the fourth week of july usually on the second honey pull...the result is many more frames of brood, more bees, and much more honey, room for pollen storage...and on the last pull there will usually be at least one frame of honey on each side of the top brood chamber...and room for a whole more super of bees, those two frames of honey left behind mean nothing compared to the greater amount of honey a two story nuc can produce...and... you don't have to put out open feeders and incite a robbing scenario... there is a whole different sound to a bee yard on a honey flow compared to a yard of robbing, fighting bees...robbing bees become old, lose the hair on their bodies, become dark and worn looking very fast and die prematurely and that is not what we want at any time...I avoid bee robbing scenarios like the plague..it's hard on the bees and can spread disease and mites and invites neighbouring beekeepers bees and indigenous bees to your yard which is not something you want for a multitude of reasons...jmho from my experience with 6 frame two queen honey production units.
    I hope your bees are wintering well Ian...time is flying by and before we know it the 2021 beekeeping season will be upon us! All the best in 2021!

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dennis Wood you don’t see that I operate that single as if it were a double deep ,

    • @denniswood231
      @denniswood231 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha, I see "exactly" what you are doing Ian and a single will never equal a double deep no matter what you do or how you think you can operate it like a double...you either have adequate space in the brood chamber or you don't..in a single 5 or 6 frame nuc "you simply don't" illustrated by why you made this video...there is a staggering difference between the #s 1 and 2 which no other numbers compare... the difference being that "2" is 100 percent more than "1" and that is huge when it comes to brood chambers and management of bees.. bees hanging on the front, no honey, no pollen in the brood chamber not to mention brood chamber congestion...just one of those issues would be a deal breaker for me let alone all of them...you can't work against a colonies natural needs and tendencies and come out on the long end of the stick no matter what you think or do..you don't experience those problems to as great an extent with double deeps(they aren't perfect either)...it is undeniable simple math...you have chosen to run singles in your operation and that is ok and your management style...we may always disagree on that point and I realize doubles take twice the equipment and twice the wintering space so that can be a limitation ...I ran up to 1100 plus doubles and a few singles for 30 years so I am well aquainted with both systems and they both have their place in 10 frame honey production units for various reasons but any singles run for honey production will be undersupered before the end of the honey flow but in the case of singles and wintering-singles were always a disappointment in so many ways in April compared to doubles.... but in the case of 6 frame-two or three queen systems the limitations and problems created with only one brood chamber are exactly what you indicated when you discussed the differences later on in the video...less space for brood, bees, no honey and no pollen reserves in the brood chamber and the need for open feeding. One friend and two relatives--- one runs double deep 5 framers and double deep size colonies plus a few singles because of wintering space limitations, one runs 5 frame double deep nucs(approx. 1200) and double deep full size colonies, and the other runs 6 frame double deep nucs( approx. 1500) along with their respective full size double deep colonies ...this latter beekeeper I sold my beekeeping operation too.. I was running 6 frame double deep nucs in that operation and he saw the advantages and expanded on it and runs them as double deeps as I did and as two queen honey production units. All these guys produce huge crops of honey averaging well over 300 lbs avg over the past many years...usually about 30 to 40 percent more than the Saskatchewan provincial average...this year was a tough year for honey producers in Saskatchewan( one I know hit 172 lbs. and others much less and in crop failure territory poundage wise) but these guys still all hit their production targets. I know others in this area have tried to run singles and failed miserably and are now gone and the one producer that I know of running singles has been struggling for years and had a disastrous honey crop this year.
      You usually have your finger on the pulse of what is going on with your hives but many other people that think they can run the singles game are doomed to fail..I know of at least four beekeeping operations that have come and gone through the years and they all failed because they tried to run singles.
      Don't get me wrong singles are great for certain situations like package bees or weak colonies in honey production but they will always go into winter as a double unless they are weak and in that case they get folded with a medium colony and are gone. Nuff said.
      Keep on keepin on Ian...all the best!!

    • @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
      @aCanadianBeekeepersBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Again, my single is managed as a double during growth and production, in a single,
      It might not work with your area and requirements, but it is what it is. The great equalizer is swarming. They swarm in doubles the same as singles. The trick is to achieve that population intact

    • @denniswood231
      @denniswood231 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog yes Ian, I fully understand your beekeeping management practices and employ many of them as well and have watched all your videos with interest...thanks for putting the time in to share your beekeeping views and practices...have a great Sunday!

  • @angelespinoza8773
    @angelespinoza8773 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Es posible una traducción en español

    • @angelespinoza8773
      @angelespinoza8773 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me la puede mandar a mi teléfono explicación en español por fabor

  • @kmtischer
    @kmtischer 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    My name is Ian (forgot my smoker again) Steppler

  • @adamfredrickson7908
    @adamfredrickson7908 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your always missing you smoker....jk

  • @jenniferproctor8157
    @jenniferproctor8157 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ;

  • @brandononeal9383
    @brandononeal9383 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dude forgets his smoker in every video

    • @andredutoit5340
      @andredutoit5340 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂my observation axactly!
      Why? In South Africa we have only 1 rule: smoke first!
      If you don't listen, you feel, belief me. How cool it must bee to have such calm ladies