Noise is frogs I'm sure. Foil stuff is reflektix duct insulation. Helps reduce drafts from warped lids. Will help stop robbing through a lid gap also. Started using it on my back yard hives in nebraska after I seen him using it.
Your dandelion bloom anything like mines been your going to need suppers on .. I let them plug up the brood nest with honey... hopefully they move it up so I can sell it to the packer for 3.00 lb
Have you ever considered using single column super pallets? I see Kerry there doing lots of manual labour un stacking boxes on the truck, drive through and drop single stacks to the ground with the loader. I’ve also noticed when pulling honey you have someone on the truck doing manual work, we used to stack them in single stacks on ground then drive through and pick up one column at at time to load with the hive loader.
Hello. Me again with my novice questions. Why do you lift the hives? Do you check if there are royal cells at the bottom? What happens if the royal cells are in the middle of the hive and cannot be seen from the bottom when lifting it? Is it enough to just destroy them? What do you have access to when you lift them?
Ian I need your expertise. The chemical they will be spraying on canola is either going to be bifenthrin or lambda-chalothrin I will pull my bees out before spray. Is it safe to put them back after 24 hours?
He is using reflectix. It is duct wrap. Helps keep drafts out also helps stop robbing through a warped lid. I use it on my 20 back yard hives now also. Works great.
This year is definitely a year to build nucs I do not really intend to but the colonies would swarm on me Worst case scenario I wil merge them in autumn and it will be a win/win situation
In the past, I watched you make a nuc battery to replace losses. Some of those losses were old queens, no doubt. Last year, you re-queened a lot of colonies and introduced a lot of new queens throughout the season that are now not even one year old. Are you rethinking the nuc battery? I mean, in the past, that queen was already one year old when she was transferred to ten frame equipment and then entered her second winter when you wanted to split her the next spring at almost two years old. Requeened production hives on ten frame deeps seem to offer bigger populations the following spring when she is only 9 months old, as seen this year. Your words 30% past vs 50% or move this year, also with less losses this past winter.
Not rethinking my nuc battery, in the process of recharging it! :) My nucs are fresh queens from last year as well as all the requeening that I focused our efforts on
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog you missed my point, my fault. Are the nucs offering by percentage as many splits as the larger re-queened colonies are? Where are you seeing losses, nucs, vs colonies with new queens. My losses are always nucs, requeened colonies are always alive come spring. How many splits are coming out of the nucs this year?
Oh I see , I’m definitely seeing larger colonies and potential splits from the requeened units. That group also holds the higher proportion of losses. Basically because those colonies come hot officer, honey flow and into winter. The nucs are built and preserved as smaller units until after their first winter and hold very little loss. They are built small and held small so no splits taken from them. They just launch into the honey fkow
Always nice when they feed themselves, it’s turning into a wet spring here in Saskatchewan
The weather will turn next week to sun (I hope).
Adding up to a big honey crop
The shots in the video are beautiful, Mr. Scorsese. Thank you and GO BRUINS.
There are more rainy days coming here, The bees really need extra room right now before the closed brood emerging like crazy. Time is Gold!
Happy days are here again .
Warm weather and pollen flows!!! 🎉
This week looks beautiful, time to start stacking boxes
Noise is frogs I'm sure. Foil stuff is reflektix duct insulation. Helps reduce drafts from warped lids. Will help stop robbing through a lid gap also. Started using it on my back yard hives in nebraska after I seen him using it.
Your dandelion bloom anything like mines been your going to need suppers on .. I let them plug up the brood nest with honey... hopefully they move it up so I can sell it to the packer for 3.00 lb
I’ve held back on feeding because of that but the colonies are light… they need sun to fly and bring in that nectar !! Always walking that damn line
Have you ever considered using single column super pallets? I see Kerry there doing lots of manual labour un stacking boxes on the truck, drive through and drop single stacks to the ground with the loader. I’ve also noticed when pulling honey you have someone on the truck doing manual work, we used to stack them in single stacks on ground then drive through and pick up one column at at time to load with the hive loader.
Still have Ice on Lake Winnipegosis, first day good vweather.
Anytime now the colonies will explode.
Have you unwrapped?
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog My bee were straving. Unwraped a month ago. Been feeding pure honey and pollen paddies
Hello. Me again with my novice questions. Why do you lift the hives? Do you check if there are royal cells at the bottom? What happens if the royal cells are in the middle of the hive and cannot be seen from the bottom when lifting it? Is it enough to just destroy them? What do you have access to when you lift them?
Not checking for cells. We tip to assess colony strength and box up the big ones to take a full split.
Thank you very much for responding. Then you check below, lifting the hive to see if the colony is strong, that is, if its population has grown...
I couldn’t help but notice that you had some Apivar in your back pocket. Are you using it during the honey flow?
No treatment during the flow. I’m adding second strips to colonies that have expanded past their original 6 frame bees size
Ian I need your expertise. The chemical they will be spraying on canola is either going to be bifenthrin or lambda-chalothrin I will pull my bees out before spray. Is it safe to put them back after 24 hours?
I know you have probably already told us but what is the foil you use on the hive tops? Where is it an available? Thx
He is using relektix
He is using reflectix. It is duct wrap. Helps keep drafts out also helps stop robbing through a warped lid. I use it on my 20 back yard hives now also. Works great.
i love bees
What is the noise in the background, sounds like some sort of massive cricket.
I bet it is frogs. Lol
@@sidwilkins3078yes frogs, spring creepers.
Froggys
Cheers guys, them frogs be noisy
This year is definitely a year to build nucs
I do not really intend to but the colonies would swarm on me
Worst case scenario I wil merge them in autumn and it will be a win/win situation
Hey Ian I love the title
In the past, I watched you make a nuc battery to replace losses. Some of those losses were old queens, no doubt. Last year, you re-queened a lot of colonies and introduced a lot of new queens throughout the season that are now not even one year old. Are you rethinking the nuc battery? I mean, in the past, that queen was already one year old when she was transferred to ten frame equipment and then entered her second winter when you wanted to split her the next spring at almost two years old. Requeened production hives on ten frame deeps seem to offer bigger populations the following spring when she is only 9 months old, as seen this year. Your words 30% past vs 50% or move this year, also with less losses this past winter.
Not rethinking my nuc battery, in the process of recharging it! :)
My nucs are fresh queens from last year as well as all the requeening that I focused our efforts on
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog you missed my point, my fault. Are the nucs offering by percentage as many splits as the larger re-queened colonies are? Where are you seeing losses, nucs, vs colonies with new queens. My losses are always nucs, requeened colonies are always alive come spring. How many splits are coming out of the nucs this year?
Oh I see , I’m definitely seeing larger colonies and potential splits from the requeened units. That group also holds the higher proportion of losses. Basically because those colonies come hot officer, honey flow and into winter. The nucs are built and preserved as smaller units until after their first winter and hold very little loss. They are built small and held small so no splits taken from them. They just launch into the honey fkow
Need more videos please
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