Almond pollination
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ม.ค. 2023
- This is the first time I am heading to the almond orchards. Still a few more weeks before pollination but want to get a head start, get my bees fed with syrup and pollen sub. These bees will Explode very soon
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Been there done that for 33 years , but was always doing it as night work . 2 to 3 weeks every February all night, so much work, but so rewarding when it's all done right and everyone is happy and check is on the way.
33 years. Wow!
Day time is obviously not the best but the truck got stuck in Truckee and didn’t make it till this time of day.
@@ETsBees at least you had a net on it, I had trips where things went wrong and I had to unload them some where for the day ( like a random field ) then reloaded and finish the trip the next night.
@@lonlloyd2589 I haven’t had to do that yet and hopefully I can prevent that from happening. I’ve had loads shift on me and angry bees…. And knocked a box off the other day… that’s always fun.
I once sent a simi and had someone to unload it in the almonds. On the road the load came untied and hives started falling off the back. The driver stop on the side of the 5 in Los Angeles and I had to go up and retie it down, the sun came up and the bees were flying, I needed up on the news they were wanting to shut the freeway down and kill my hives. Fortunately I talked the fire department out of that and got the hives to the almonds the next night. Always took them up myself after that.
@lonlloyd2589 that's one heck of a story 😳.
love watching your videos! I am starting almond pollination next year, super excited!
Thank you. That’s cool that you are able to get into the pollination. 👍🏼
Wow… 😮 that semi full of bees … it’s just 😮WOW!
i like it
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You got all that put back together just in time.😁How many late nights was that? Them bees want OUT. Ty for sharing your time, maybe some day.👍
Well everything was behind schedule. 2 late nights but a total of 20 hours of work. My pump lost a seal and had to do things the hard way for the last 40 hives or so.
@@ETsBees Sounds like it went well for the most part then.
@@dcsblessedbees yeah. I was pleased and thankful how everything turned out. I learned a lot from the bees this year on what I need to do next year to make my life easier. I met Keith Jarret while I was down there an bought some of his Nutra bee pollen sub. That guy runs 6000 hives 😳🥵
@@ETsBees That is a lot of bees.
@@dcsblessedbees Yes it is. And I think it is only him and like 3 guys that do all the work. WOW!
Have you heard of his Pollen Sub Nutra Bee?
When the semi rolled in, was that first light or evening ?
It was around 2pm, not an ideal time. My driver was suppose to make it there at first light but there was a road closure that night and then stuck in some traffic. The good thing was, it was still cold where he was still dark and cold when he had to park.
Ian? I feel oppressed.. With white envy.. Do you all know each other in America? :)) Guys, you're all cool!!! We're trying to look up to you. (but we're still 500 years old):)
Ya the overall fight and drift looked like it all sorted out alright.
That must be stressful to see the cloud over the trailer of bee hives
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Yes and no. It’s was glad to see my bees alive and ready to go. But when they are flying and crawling around like that you do kill quite a few. I tried to get those nets off the truck as fast as possible.
@@Dm.Alex. No we live hundreds and of miles away. He is in Canada and I am in USA. I do hope to get to meet him soon. He is like a legend😁
I never moved hives during the day time.
It's not ideal. Trucker was delayed in traffic for several hours. Luckily it where he was delayed it was up in the mountains and it was cold there. The plan was for him to get there at first light and the bees would not have been as active.
Where were the field dry enough 2 weeks ago?
Around the Stockton Modesto area. A lot of places were under water or a muddy mess. This is one of the few places that was ok
Why not unload at night?
That is ideal. But he got stuck in traffic and didn’t make it there till the middle of the day. You can’t let them sit there till night or you may cook your bees
I can’t understand why don’t you use a screened bottom board? You could simply close the entrance of the beehive in the evening when each bee is at home and the bottom board would assure you a proper ventilation. You are wasting a lot of bees keeping the entrance open…. You work all year around to have strong colonies and at transport you waste them
I’ve never used screened bottom boards so I have no personal experience with them. However I have learned a lot from other experienced commercial beekeepers and they don’t use screen bottom boards. I am sure some do. The amount of bees “lost” is minimal when you see how many hives is there. And a lot of these will fly into a hive anyway maybe not their parent hive but they will have a home. One of the reasons I don’t have screened bottom boards was because these are hives were hives I bought from other commercial beekeepers and plus I don’t like the idea of wintering them in screened bottoms. The truck arrived at a bad time and that’s why there is so many bees flying, this is not ideal and should be avoided. You could screen the entrance if you really wanted to keep them in and not have a screen bottom board.
Hope that answers your questions.
Screens and forks don't do good together.
@@mikeawckland7482 I never even thought of that. Makes a lot of sense why commercial guys don’t use screened bottom board
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@@ETsBees I think it's about 600 dadan buildings. Apparently pollination. They don't do that in our country.., we don't do much :(. I keep 20 hives, I want to grow this summer to 40. And then the neighbors in the village, I think, will be outraged. We keep bees mostly on Honey. At least a penny.
@@Dm.Alex. what country are you from?
That truck had 452 hives on it.
We’ll keep working as splitting those bees.
@@ETsBees Welcome. I love my country, but lately I've been ashamed to call it... This is Russia. Here everything is different and industrial beekeeping is not as developed as yours. And I think I didn't look at hives correctly. Most likely it's not Dadan, it's Ruth ga 230 frame. You use almost all of them. Few people in Russia work with them.
@@Dm.Alex. in our countries we all have things to be ashamed about. Our current leader has been ruining us. Where at in Russia? I’ve been to Moscow, Voronezh and Lipetsk.