Langstroth Nuc to Horizontal Hive Conversion, Moving the Honey Bees into Their New Hive
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- Between spring snow storms, I was able to use the conversion frames Clay built to move the bees into their new horizontal hive. Find the plans we used - horizontalhive... and my current favorite bee keeping book - amzn.to/3wb3fLv
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Is there an award for correctly spotting the QUEEN? LOL I was squinting with my face close to the screen thinking 'I think that's her, that one right there' when your arrows came on to identify the exact one I was looking at. YAY!!!! You could name the Queen Chris, after me, as a reward! I am laughing so hard. The hive and the frames Clay made are ao beautiful and precise. I am in continual awe of his skills. You two have a positive impact on your little farm. The the trees planted, the flower/veg gardens with all the pollinators, the wild bird feed, your livestock all contribute positively. Have you seen the 30 minute movie 'The Man Who Planted Trees'? About a lanscape transformed by a man. You remind me of that movie.
Those adjusted frames were brilliant. Good job clay. I loved this. So fun to watch
Frame conversion is nice. A suggestion to others working on your hives with bees in them. Use a non impact drill. Bees are very sensitive to vibrations. A regular drill with a bit will vibrate much less.
Good job!
Those frames are brilliant! Clay is so smart and handy!
1st time I've ever seen a horizontal hive...love it...clay did a good job building the hive & frame adapters...quite fascinating to watch
Once again so interesting
We're looking to add bees, possibly next year. Good information given here. Good job there Mr Clay. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing this amazing video. Bees & hummingbirds perceive the world in slow motion, so to them, we move very very slowly & we have deep voices.
love it Ariel...fab explanation so helpful...
Have you thought about when bees make hives in nature they are usualy inside of a tree in the shade and away from the wind? I don't know if this information is correct, but when bees are inside a man made box that box is placed out in the hot sun and where the wind draws heat from it in the winter. It seems to me that if you built a three sided hut around the box and just partially close in the fourth side the bees would be in the shade during the summer and they would have a wind barrier during the winter place the opening facing south so they will stay warmer in the winter (It could be made of a thin material so that it would be cheap and easy to build). Don't take this as bee gospel, but to me it makes sense. Check it out somehow. The bee doctor has a big cabinet that he lays down in during the summer and the bees are in a large frame underneath.🧡🧡
Looks great. Clay going to put on a suit.
So interesting. Thank you!
Cool thanks! It was great to see it done. I bought my book from Dr. Leo and this summer I'm building my swamp trap and hives. I'm in northern Wisconsin nasty weather here too!
I love the world of bees!
How exciting! My father had bee hives when I was a child, about 4 or 5. I remember him in his bee suit working with them. The hives were up on a hill as I remember. We had a forest fire come over the hill and it burned everything except our house. Honey ran down the hill a long way. I am 78 and I remember all of what happened very clearly. I am enjoying your new adventure🥰
Wow! That had to be quite the expereince!
You are so gentle with animals, it makes me smile. I watch a Farrier trimming cow hooves and each time the camera pans a cow she's looking right at it with great curiosity; I (being the softy that I am) looks at those big browns and say 'Hey sweetheart'. Clearly I would make a lousy dairy farmer. I recall a video of a Bow Hunter (all in camo) siting in a tree stand waiting for a deer to come along, and a wild turkey flew up and perched on his bow and then his leg; I'm just like that guy with animals.
I do find them fascinating to watch!
Awesome! LOL re: in-between blizzards!!! Wishing you success with your bees! 👍😎🇨🇦🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Thanks!
I’m in Idaho and have both Lang’s and layens. The layens first season and what I’ve noticed is that the layens colonies are growing more rapidly than the Lang’s. Similar weather as you. I had to start with packages for my two layens. I as well have swarm traps set, fingers crossed.
Love that you are adding bees to the property. If you haven’t stumbled across the Vino Farm channel yet I highly recommend it.
I'll check it out!
Super cool 🐝 Have fun. Thanks so much for sharing so many details about beehives.
This was very cool to watch. First saw a horizontal hive last year on one of Doug & Stacey’s channel. Interesting to see the conversion. The bees are very lucky to have such an awesome bee momma ❤️❤️❤️
So much different watching this on a video then reading the book. Ariel let me borrow one of the recommended books when I was living nearby in Wyoming. I hope to have bees on my homestead also but it will not be this year.
Fascinating!
Great idea Ariel. Clay's handy work paid off.👍👍
The idea certainly did not come from me, but I am thankful for those who did all the work to figure out how to make this pretty easy!
I got my first bees this year too. I live in Tennessee, where it is much warmer, so I got a top bar hive. My daughter has bees, so she caught me a swarm. Later this year, I plan on building a horizontal hive with Dr. Leo’s plans. Good luck with your bees!
Nice! I hope your hive thrives as well!
I have only helped a bee keeper in the UK so I am used to vertical stacked boxes. Will you use a queen excluder to separate brood and honey storage combs? I still dream that one day I will have my own bees. That smell when you open a hive: smoke, honey, beeswax. Just gorgeous!
Very interesting to watch. You are something else, Ariel. So impressive. I like how gentle you were. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome!
Wow! ❤
I'm so excited that you got bees! I've wanted them for awhile and I bet I'll learn a lot from watching your experience with them.
There’s a great interview with Dr Leo on Frederick Dunn’s Way to Bee web site.
Nice. I've listened to, read, and watched a lot of his work as well as got to hear him speak in person once.
Will your flock eat bees? I'm very interested to watch your bee journey. So glad Clay could build what you... or rather the bees... needed.
They might try to catch one on a flower? But they seem to like juicy earthworms, big fat grasshoppers, etc much better.
Cody from Cody's Lab got me hooked on watching bee channels. He also uses the long hives and so does Doug from Doug and Stacey's channel. Fascinating stuff. Can't wait for future developments. Interesting way to convert to your long hive. Looked like that nuc was due. Wild comb on the inside of the lid. They look healthy and happy!
Wow, you are very good and precise with your bee keeping. This will be very interesting to observe! Cheers to happy and healthy bees 🐝 in their new home🏚💛🖤
So fascinating! This will be an interesting adventure to watch with your progress. Thanks Ariel! Love my bees.
wow, this was such an interesting lesson to watch!!! You are so smart, I hope your bees do very well, thank you for sharing this process!!!
So very interesting. I loved watching this video. I am excited to watch the evolution of your colony.
Me too! :)
such great work and so much detailed planning! Bravo to the both of you! For anyone interested in more things bee🐝: there is a great German-Canadian documentary (A Bee's Diary) that came out a few months ago. Here in Germany it's available on prime. I will watch this with my students in a few days 🌻
I'll check it out!
@@FyNyth it's on Smithsonian Channel also.
Very interesting transfer. Clay good job on the frame adaptors. Just had to build all of my frames for my nuc arriving tomorrow. It was a lot more work and nailing than I thought but it is done now and should be a straightforward transfer. Exciting times 😁 Diolch yn fawr 🏴
Thank you Ariel, it's super interesting. I don't anything about bees and your have demystified this whole practice of raising bees from me! Looking forward to learn even more as time goes by and the nuc develops!
This is so fascinating, I know nothing about beekeeping. It's fabulous to watch what you do step by step! ❤️🔥
This is great - they almost become pets! Thanx.
I wonder whether the bees will abandon or reshape the comb on the sideways frames. Since comb is angled up to prevent the nectar and uncapped brood from falling out, but capped brood and honey is maybe unaffected.This is an nteresting experiment.
It seems from other's experience that they do a bit of adjusting and then over time I should be able to work those frames toward the back to become just spare storage and then get them out of there. But we'll have to see what actually happens!
Rural Americans are such skilled craftsmen. I make it easier for myself, take a broom and sweep the bees into the new box.
Extremely cool; although I have goosebumps! Can’t wait to see how it all progresses!
wow...nice work on everything
Ariel your channel always stands the test of time. Enduring and relevant.😎I am lucky to have had you in my life. During everything we all go through. Beau is a lucky man. Sir Clay.
sorry still in my life!
Fascinating.
You are so brave! I'm allergic, so I couldn't even think about it. But thanks for the lesson
love your conversion method, we tried the cutting conversion, lesson learned
How did it work out for you? I've seen a bunch of folks do that, I just thought it would stress me and the bees out a little too much so this seemed a little easier.
@@FyNyth It physically worked, but it was sooo stressful - we lost babies and some honey, basically felt like axe murderers. This past winter we lost that colony in the insulated hive, can't be sure it was due to the conversion but our other horizontal hive colony survived, just saying....But yesterday we caught a swarm from the surviving hive and popped them in the Layens......love the balance
That's wonderful you have two more thriving hives now again!
@@FyNyth yes truly wonderful
Simple living Alaska on TH-cam have hives for their winter. They use styrofoam outside and a pillow up top for the winter. You will do great. Bee hopeful. 🐝
Thank you for saving the bees. Back in Indiana, our hives were all wiped out because of the next door neighbor farmer's pesticides. Broke our hearts.
Fascinating stuff! What happened to the bees on your protective clothing? Do they find their way back to the hive? Wishing you much success with this new venture. 🇨🇦🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
They just fly off again. I only felt a few bump into me hard like they thought they needed to sting to defend their hive. The rest just seemed to just land to pause and rest for a minute.
THANK YOU for specifically pointing out the QUEEN BEE! I'm not familiar with finding her in a picture of bees all next to each other.
You can probably look up good still shots of queens, but they can be hard to follow as they all move around together I think.
I'm grandchild of a beekeeper and have taken a quality local class. What holds me back is finding the silly queen. Wish they could breed hot pink ones lol 😂
Thank you for sharing. I did get a wild swarm once and it was interesting. I cant keep them where I live (eyeroll).
That's neat! We'll be trying again this summer in case there are any swarms around to be caught.
I'm worried about the orientation with those langstroth frames being on their sides. Bees build their cells precisely with a specific angle of downward tilt to keep the nectar and honey from running out, to keep eggs and tiny larvae at the bottom next to their food, and I guess to stop their brood drowning when they are sealed in. It's hard to fill a horizontal cell with a liquid! I wonder how they cope with that problem.
Seems like it would have been so much simpler if horizontal hives were made to suit at least the width of the langstroth frames, which almost every one uses, especially the bee breeders who supply beekeepers.
I hope they make the transition safely and prosper. You are creating a wonderful environment for them, and without pollinators, many ornamental and food plants do not produce.
Everyone I've watched who are beekeeping has a different approach. But you are far gentler with your bees and your broody hens
I try to be gentle. I know there are many ways to do most things.
So sorry for your troubles. I had great hopes for those peppermints.
Is the lid insulated and was there any evidence of melting comb? Just curious with this years heat and all.
So the bees don't mind having their old frames rotated 90 degrees?
Enjoying watching the bee hive arrival! Looking forward to watching more of them. Was wondering how much each of those frames going to weigh when loaded with honeycomb? I would love to have a hive, but wonder if they would get too heavy.
You shake them off.
Okay. So I did google this so as not to bother you. And learned honey bees do not survive after they sting. But my question now is, can they sting a suit? Or is the suit too hard to penetrate or they somehow know to only sting when it counts. (Like not a stick a person is holding, but to go after the jerk holding the stick. Or perhaps just a numbers game? Some stinging the stick, some the person.). Anyway. All the more reason to be gentle. Nice work under trying circumstances!
Nice job! Check out “Simple Living Alaska” Ariel just did a video on bee keeping and she has been doing it in Alaska for three years. They have three hives, two doing really well and one ok. She is very knowledgeable on bees, gardening and chickens. Her husband is very knowledgeable also. I think you would like their channel. Keep up the fantastic videos.
Yeah they have a lot of fun stuff going on! I first found their channel when I was looking into more info on Icelandic Chickens before we got ours.
Ariel how do you tell the queen bee from the other bees? 💗
You can find more still photos that show the difference. I think queens are pretty hard to spot when they are all moving around most of the time. This has some good still photos - beekeepinglikeagirl.com/queenspotting-how-to-find-your-queen-bee/
I guess bees don't care about which direction gravity is pulling on the frame.
I think they do, they will have to do some adjusting, but from other's experiences it seems that they make the adjustment ok.
Are bears not going to zero in on the hive?
Bears will be interested in the hive
It would be very rare for a bear to venture out of the wooded mountains and into the open field area here. Plus they would have to climb the fence, which is certainly possible, but more effort for them, and then they would be met with the two dogs. So I think they will not be an issue here, but if that ever changes we'll put up and electric fence around the hive.
Ariel has a fence around her property..... to deter such interest from bears, etc.
@@chrisresch5917 well Ariel is a super competent person, but I`m thinking when a bear realizes that chickens, ducks, HONEY, and, later, luscious veggies in the garden, are on the other side of that fence, two small dogs are worth putting up with for that smorgasbord.
Hilarious..you know they dont sting. Looks like your on the moon..lol
While I respect those of you who work with bees, I am terrified of them and stay away from them as much as possible.
Clay feels the same as you. :)