Springtime Layens Hive Inspection
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
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Keep it simple… perfect! Thank you sir
Nice visit. I so enjoy the Layen’s hive and it’s management. Thank you.
I’m planning on building an insulated deep Layens horizontal hive, & the frames that fit tight at the top, so I won’t have to mess with the cover boards.
The only reason for having that gap, is for the Langstroth style hives, where you stack box upon box, for those who do not know.
My first hive I built, is basically a horizontal “Langstroth” hive, that needed the cover boards, to make the existing frames work.
loved the diagram explination after the video of the inspeciton
Nice strong looking hive. thanks 👍
Your videos are so helpful. I am not yet in the beekeeping world - I have been looking at it from a telescope for a few years, now I am more on a spaceship about ready to dock. I would love to do Layens style hive - you are very encouraging in your tone and thorough demonstrations. I only know one lady who keeps a hive in my area and she uses Langstroth, so I bought the cheapest kit I could find and put it together with my daughters this weekend. I do like the Layens so much more but I feel I need the support of a live mentor while my kids and I get comfortable with bees. If I didn't do this I will stall for another two years!
You are a treasure! You could've just done your bees peacefully & quietly, but thank God you didn't. Thank you for serving others!!
Excellent tutorial
Jean, been waiting for your spring hive inspection video. Glad to see that your bee's are doing well. In the process of building some layens hives. Still snow on the ground here. Can't wait!
Enjoyable to watch. I have 3 Layens frames. We got snow this week, too cold to open up hive. Hope to add frames like yourself in the coming weeks. Thanks for the great video.
Hi there
This following spring I will start beekeeping and I'm so excited!!! In the next couple days I'll build 3 Layens horizontal hives and I was wondering if you could make a video on how to make a split on a Layens horizontal hive.
Thank you for all your amazing and educational videos
My swarm died over the winter for lack of stores. Found them at the top bar. I’m putting out swarm traps in a couple weeks to try again. I think I might have given last years swarm to much room in the hive. I’m thinking this may have limited their desire to build comb.
Great Video Gene. I am going to Dr. Leo's seminar in Missouri next weekend. I live in Southern Virginia and no bee keepers in my area use this style of hive. I am creating a 50ft x 300ft wildflower meadow and germinating Sourwood seeds to help populate my property. I am growing sunflower and Sunn Hemp(From Hoss Tools) in help the bees. I am hoping with all of these plants I can capture some wild swarms next year.
Good video, great explanation, thanks for sharing.
I am happy to see you again. Unfortunately the weather is still too cold here for bees (and for us too). I hope I can inspect my "Boczonádi" hives (Hungarian Layens) soon.
Thanks for the informative video. Been following you for aboiut a yr. Noticed this hive did not have the additional air space below frames. Would like to know your thoughts on that setup.
Gene - I noticed the frame you added has both a dowel (skewer) and wire. In your other videos you were indicating that the skewer alone was sufficient support for using in an extractor. Are you now using both skewers and wire, or was this frame an older vintage before you transitioned to using the skewer only on your foundationless frames?
I had some frames with both just to be safe, but now all I use is the skewer.
Great going bro. Enjoyed watching your video. I'm yet to start beekeeping and your videos are educative as well as entertaining
How would you mite treat a layens hive? My layens frames are completely together , no space
I allow for natural swarming to take place - I have a very specialized video on my learning channel called "The management IS the Treatment". You don't have to buy the whole course just the single video if you'd like to help support my work. Thanks:)
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Gene are you treatment free? If so have you got info on it further to Dr Leo’s book? I just caught my first very strong swarm that came from a neighbours bee yard who uses Langstrough hives and treats. Do you have advice or a place to look for info on how to proceed with this colony as far as the verroa mite goes?
Does a langstroth frame fit in your hive or did you shorten the top bar?
Layens frames are longer and with less width.
He shorten the top bar. He has a video out of how he does it.
Haven't seen any activity on your channel lately. Are you doing ok?
Do you have a preference on frame styles yet? Modified Langstroth frames or the top bar style frames?
My preference is the SOLID top bars that touch and I'm cutting mine to 1 3/8" width as opposed to 1 1/2". I am using both styles and I'm working on controlling hive beetles using entrance traps as opposed to the in between frame traps that needed the top bars that had the 3/8" gap to fit the trap.
I would caution about the "without treatments or chemicals" part - this is very much location and local bee population dependent issue, NOT the hive or management.
People should not assume that just by keeping the bees in the said hive they can be "treatment-free".
I know this how?
I keep my own bees in Layens modified hives (Ukrainian to be exact) - organic acid treatments are necessary at my location.
The subject is very well discussed on the Beesource.
Unfortunately, here in the US, beekeeping is very langstroth centric (parochial?)and the argument wrt layens here is that the langstroth creates and unbalanced and stressed colony, creating an foothold for pests/pestilence etc, hence forcing the need for treatments. The Layens more closely mimics the natural log hive expansion. Despite the fact that YT is international, I suspect Gene's comment is wrt the US beekeeping situation and management. So in our part of the world, it does anecdotally seem to be related to management. Note too that Gene runs Langstroth hives as well. That said, I'll read up on Beesource as good information is always necessary, and a good beekeeper is always learning.
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FYI - I am a US beekeeper.
While I am not even a Langstroth beekeeper (as I am not a fan) - let me state that one should be looking at their local bee population status as the #1 solution to the "treatment-free" methodology.
In this sense, you can be a treatment-free beekeeper using Lang hive just as well - does not matter that much.
What really matters is - the local bee population status (including absence of migratory bee imports - just one parameter of many).
I have been keeping bees in Layens-modified hives 6 years now - this does not matter in my location - one should still expect terrible surviability here unless you treat.
The Layens-modified hives, which I enjoy for all the ergonomic features and easy of use - they have very little merit in being able to avoid the mite treatments.
That is a myth and a good story - nothing more.
These hives by themselves do NOT control the mites.
It is down to the bees - your own bees and the surrounding population.
I am aware Gene also runs Lang hives.
Those are very much also treatment-free - I can only assume (as all these hives are managed side-by-side - Langs and Layens).
But the underlying, implicit message of this Layens-related context in general is - the Layens hive itself somehow allows to be treatment-free.
Not true.
It is the location, not the hives.
Well if you are treating please don't allow drone cells in your hives, don't want your shit bees making the problem any worse.
@@gregw3437 Ok, I'm not that well heeled in this profession, so how do you go about miting your layens hives? Its a serious qu, cause I dont know how Id do it, so I'm asking for advice should the need arise - and I think it just might cause I've got professionals with mited Langs within flying distance of me - not that I'm pushing back on what youve said. Thanks for any advice.
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All you have to do - keep your bees in most any urban/suburban US location.
Mites will come to you - not much else to do on your part.
Like I said - you succeed and you fail with your location. Other things are secondary.