Building a Beekeeping Business from 6 Hives
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2023
- Hi Im Jared Brubaker, I’ve had bees for 3-4 years but was a bee haver not a bee keeper because last winter all 5 of my colonies died. But im glad for the experience and now I’ve decided to take it serious and take it all the way to making money🤞I’ll sell bees until I can afford to make honey😁 Thankfully I can learn from the best on TH-cam like Bob Binnie, Kaymon Reynolds, Mike Palmer and others! But if you see something I can improve I’ll gladly take Your advice too. Thanks for Watching!
Hi Im Jared Brubaker, I’ve had bees for 3-4 years but was a bee haver not a bee keeper because last winter all 5 of my colonies died. But im glad for the experience and now I’ve decided to take it serious and take it all the way to making money🤞I’ll sell bees until I can afford to make honey😁 Thankfully I can learn from the best on TH-cam like Bob Binnie, Kaymon Reynolds, Mike Palmer and others! But if you see something I can improve I’ll gladly take Your advice too. Thanks for Watching!
I watch a LOT of beekeeping videos and this is one of the most enjoyable ones I’ve seen in a while. I love the concept and I’m definitely subbed to follow along. I’m pulling for you! God bless, brother
20+yrs experience here. You are the most knowledgeable new-ish beekeeper I have seen. You have chosen great mentors. Good luck with the project!
Thanks Todd!
Isopropyl alcohol in a spray bottle and spray off your clothes gloves and suite. Wait until it drys before you go back to inspection. Phermones from previous stings definitely made those bees hotter at the end. I would definitely breed from a gentle colony and phase those mean ones out 😂 just my two cents. Good luck!
Thanks for tips! I’m definitely working on those gentle genetics. Thanks!
A little trick on aggressive hives; smoke as usual; then when you set your smoker down; set it on the ground directly in front of the entrance; that way they are getting smoke odor continuious while your working; works really well to calm them down
Thanks for the tip, I’ll do that!
Good for Jared. You can double your proceeds by going with 4 frame mating nucs. Just add2 more dividers. It’s a bit more crowded but you can cycle through them every 2 or 3 weeks, pull the queen or 1 frame of brood/eggs and start small nucs early in the year. You can always revert back to 4 frames towards the end of the season.
So happy how your grafting is turning out . One thing I did not hear you say was if you put pollen frames on each side of your grafting frame . Yes the pollen pattie is good but putting pollen frames help out to get a real good queen. It looks like you are really going to do good at this an keep it up do not give up on it . Hope you can get your bees tamed down. Thanks
You are doing amazing my friend. It’s my belief that you will do very well in this adventure. You started off extremely strong.
Please keep us updated on your progress and keep posting videos my friend, you have an act making videos; I sure like them and would like to see more
Good Luck and God Bless you
Thanks for encouraging comment Brother! God Bless!
Try wearing a baseball cap under the bee hat... the brim keeps it from falling forward...😊
Hi Jared, wish you all the best, you may be better with 5 frames and a dummy frame which would make it much easier to go through them, I must admit I could not stop laughing at your nasty bees and the way you just kept going!
Commercial beekeeper here for 43 years and nee sub.Smoke the heck out of them before you open. Youre doing well and success is for certain ,best wishes 👍
Awesome! Thank you!
If you end up with really hot hives don't be afraid to cull them. Life is too doggone short to deal with hot hives.
6 yrs here...love my bees...great job brotha...and may God Bless ALL you do😇😇😇
That’s great Frank! Thanks!
I think you are awesome, very informed and very determined. Keep on. Good luck.
I usually only make a few queens at a time because you need the bees and boxes for each round, and if the weather changes you can lose everything. Another queen producer mentioned to graft on an eight day cycle if you have a loss its easy to recover.. A queenless colony can be very mean, another factor is commercial bees were interbred for years and that is also a factor. I buy a few different queens to introduce unrelated drone genetics for open mating (something to consider).. Expect about a month for the colony to build up after the queen is mated. The biggest issue is making drawn comb for all your splits, after the main flow its hard to get the bees to draw foundation. Good luck Brother.
Thanks Brother!
Same advice I gave (genetics). 👍
Man your doing a great job! I just passed 100 hives this year in northeast GA not too far from Mr Binnies place. His videos have helped me so much!
Thanks! Wow is a 100 a full time job? Yep Bob is awesome!
Depends on how much you want to feed, how long your season is and how many you keep alive over the winter. 😅
Yep😁
13:32 brother I know the feeling!! lol! I can hear pain and frustration, lol
Love the honesty and humility in this video!
Thanks Myron!
15:35 Bom trabalho sucesso acompanhando no Brasil 🇧🇷🤝👍
Thanks!
Well done. Im from Australia and i have had my hive one year. I chose to do a split so my hive would not swarm. I did a 2nd split to close to the first split. I knew by doing that it would be a sacrifice of not getting honey. Thats ok as I didn't loose the hive. So i had 2 queenless hives. I was successful in getting a queen in one hive. The other hive I lost to darn moths. We are in winter now and I have a strong hive with a super of honey. The other hive I am feeding sugar syrup 2 to 1
Thanks! Nice job on your split, good luck with your new hobby!
I subscribed.
Going to follow along and see how those turn out.
Thanks Walt!
Just a thought but if you had started with Caucasian or Carniolan bees there would be no need for a bee suit and you could mow and weed eat around them without getting attacked and they are a cold hardy bee so they make it through winters much better. I have been using them for years and would not consider any other breed. I can work my bees in shorts and short sleeved shirt. They also produce a lot of honey. Good luck and it is great to see new beekeepers getting started.
Thanks redbone! Yeah gentle bees wood have been a better plan, but with new queens they’re getting a lot better.
Hi Jered, wow, that's amazing. I'm in my 5th year and still not grafting. Last year I lost all but 1 hive out of 22. So, I started over this year with a lot of drawn comb and honey. The frames with honey were stored over winter in a walk in freezer at the local food bank. Now, I'm up to about 55 colonies. I bought 20*+ packages in the spring to get started. Then I have purchased 20 queens to make splits. Caught a couple swarms. Sold 6 nucs earlier this year. And, have more bees to sell. Hoping now to catch Sourwood honey this month. I have one very hot hive. I'm fixing to split it much like you have done. Except I plan on just using the brood to strengthen my weaker hives. If I ever find that queen she'll be dead! About your suit. I see it's loose around the waist. Mine was like that after years of use and my wife put new elastic in it and that really helped keeping the bees from entering my suit. Also, I wear a baseball cap under my vail and that keeps it from covering my eyes. I'm in Otto, North Carolina just above the Georgia line. Only about 30 miles from Bob Bennie's Blue Ridge Honey Company. So, I've spent a fortune down there! I'm really hoping to recover some of that in 2023 on the Sourwood harvest and 2024 on selling nucs, bees and honey. As Bob says there's a lot of ways to sell bees. Going to find out next year! Keep these videos coming and I'll be following you.
How’s the sourwood flow Richard? It sounds like you’re a busy man, it’s probably a good thing that I don’t live closer to Bob, I’d probably spend to much😁 good luck on beekeeping venture!
I’m in the process of making a video but there won’t be very many videos yet. Thanks for following!
Go for it brother! Praying for your success and blessing. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Brother! I appreciate the prayers! You’re welcome.
What Ive noticed is, bee keeps who split their hives a lot & grow there own queens, end up a few yrs later with 1/3 the hives (huge losses). Its due to having the same genetics. Its healthier to buy some queens (& bees/hives) from others to increase the gene pool (strength).
Thanks for the advice, I’ve got other beekeepers around me that buy queens every year so I think I’ll be alright. Right?
I started my 2nd year with 5 hives. I'm currently at 17 and shooting for 25 in the next few weeks.
That’s Great! Good luck👍
Very nice video. I love how you put this thing together!
Thank you very much!
Make sure your hives have enough resources to make it through the winter.Have enough wood ware for expansion.........
Love it !! Can’t wait to see how many you have next year
Thanks! The splits are doing great. I’m building a bunch more equipment so I can split again in a week or two.
How the colonies doing now ?
I was your first subscriber 😂 good to see the channel doing well, I’m trying to do sone queen grafting and expanding next year
If you are having trouble finding the Queen
Add new frames to each box at every level of colony
Take some frames out of each box
Put them into a new box at the top of hive
While doing this put Queen excluders at every level
The new eggs , larve , brood will show in added frames
...... make splits
Hope this helps
Thanks for the tips Bob.
You should be very pleased with that take from your grafts, awesome job! If you want to get most of the bees off the graft frame when you withdraw it you can smoke it lots as you withdraw, and if you're super gentle even lay it down and smoke some more. That'll send most down into the box. I love your enthusiasm, I've subscribed and look forward to following your journey.
Thanks for the tips John!
I think your success will depend highly on the type of stock you have to sell. Different people like different traits.
You are following the right mentors. Great way to start.
I appreciate that!
Jared, remember that the new queen has to make mating flights, so it can take some time before you see anything; some say as much as 20-30 days.
Let us know if that queen finally came back; and how the others are doing. Oh! And how you’re doing after the bee stings.😊
Thanks for the reminder, I think I did hurry a bit😁 I’m hoping to put an update video out tonight!
They only have about 2 weeks from emerging to get mated. Longer if you are doing instrument insemination.
I wish you all the best. Please monitor and minimize Drone production from the hot hives. Or you'll be promoting and selling hot bees, and reducing your own enjoyment.
Great job on the video, looking forward to seeing you journey.
James - Oz
I love this channel ❤
Ha Jared good job I never caught what state your from. What holds most people back from growing to hundred is the expense of the equipment
Thanks Alan. I’m in TN. Yeah that’s definitely a big expense, I’m building a lot from free scrap just to get me started. I’ve got almost enough equipment for a hundred 10 frame singles right now.
Well done with those cranky bees, have herd many people say too be careful not to bang the hive when working on it, will keep whatching, good luck.
Thanks Fred!
Good luck Jared , just found your channel. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Bradley! You’re welcome.
Greta job! That’s a beautiful looking grafting frame! Keep at it 🙂
Thanks Emily!
Awesome, finely someone I can relate too, I've been a bee haver for 7yrs till I prayed to God Almighty for His help....and He Blessed them and sent Kaymon and Bob Binnie to teach me how to keep them (and a few others)for past 1.5yrs . This us first year I decided to quit buying bees and do splits like I've learned from them. Starting in February, turned 4 into 14:) hope all goes well
Good Job Brother, praise God! I’m learning almost everything from Bob and Kamon too, Kamon only lives an hour from me but 1000’ lower In elevation.
Awesome comment, brother! It’s a wise man that seeks the council of the Lord. Such a shame that more folks don’t try it.
I planned on trying Bobs grafting 2months ago but due to work and lack of assurance in trusting myself....you have inspired me my friend, maybe I'll get it soon. Thanks, my friend
It may not go well the first time but it’s worth it! Thanks Scott and good luck 👍
Think I might give that a try! Thank you for the info.
Thanks and welcome!
Good luck on your bee journey. I also am trying to get into the buzzness.
Thanks, Good luck to you as well!
Outstanding
Thanks Bruce!
That was a great video, I subscribed so I can see how it goes.
Those are some mean bees lol, mine get hot on cloudy days that are cooler,but not like those lol.
Getting the bees is the cheep part if tou make the queens, but what about boxes And frames, that's what starts to add up.
I'm cheering for you, God bless brother.
Thanks brother! I’m building a lot of my boxes out of scrap from work but I think I’m willing to spend the money I have too to build the business.
I’ll definitely subscribe to this journey.Good luck
Thanks Bro!
Nice vid. Jared, the sky is the limit.
Thanks Tim!
Good luck, with your bee adventure.
Thanks Brother!
Iam starting up a bee business myself here in Denmark.
My bees are a bit more peacefull😆,
And not so HOT, i can work wirh my bees, Without any protection..
Your doing good.
Jared you have. It posted in a long time…. We need an update on your operation
I just subscribed im on year 4 and doing exactly what your doing. Bob, Kaymon, Bruce and Brian have helped me significantly and dont even realize! I started in 2020 and this is my 4th year. I started and managed to get up to 30 in 2021 but the mites and winter humbled me real fast. Im up to 70 now and should be fully operational next year!! With some hard work and the right attitude you will.hw just fine. Looking forward to following you on the journey!
Sounds like you’ve got it going on! Those are some great guys, Have you been to the hive life conference?
@@JaredBeekeeping I was planning to go this year but work was relentless. I'm considering making the 6.5hr drive down from the middle of WV for the next one though!
I have to say you being able to graft should help you grow exponentially. Are you planning to over winter in nucs? I think you might be better served building up a base of larger colonies and have them as comb builders to help generate the nucs... I have 50 10 frame colonies and 20 5 frame nucs I plan to take through winter as double 5 framers.. I will split those in late April and sell off the over winter queen as a 5 frame nuc. Then I'm never out. I can let the new queen get mated throw on a second box in time for flow let them build and repeat at same time splitting 25 of my 50 deeps into nucs and selling off 2-3 splits of each one of those.. It is going to take an exorbant amount of drawing comb every year to make it viable. I hope to get up to selling 200 nucs a year though. I think it is very possible especially if I can learn to graft. I plan to try that next year!
Good luck. Those are some mean bees.
Thanks! Thankfully They’re starting to calm down a LOT already with these new queens.
A little info that may be useful for queening. When making queens with better temperament it will be more valuable if you draw queens from mild stock and breed back to mild stock drones. You may have a queen that will produce mild bees but your next generation from those queens if you graft can be just as aggressive as the first. It'll take typically 60+ days to see if you were successful on temperament and if you do it twice your looking at the whole season to possibly end up in the same spot where you started. Good luck on your endeavors and you'll understand after a while what the difference is between pollination bee stock and regular beekeeping bees. You'll experience many trials and tribulations but just keep learning and keep moving forward.
Thanks for tips Kye! So far the bees have calmed down a lot, thankfully I’ve got other bee keepers around me so my queens should be mating with them right?
@@JaredBeekeeping if you are virgin queens are mating close to your original hives there's no guarantee that they aren't mating with drones from the aggressive hives as well when they mate. However if you can do your best to isolate the virgins near an area of desired bee temperament you'll have a better chance with their temper. Always remember drones don't have fathers they have grandfather's.
EXELLENT 👍😊
Remember the more hives you have the more the cost and more time taken. I would bring in atleast 6 new queens i would purchase out side your area better temperament then breed from them can take a few good years till you have that kind of bee that makes you feel you have achieved your goals. You will need in my opinion buy at least 2 new queens a year outside your area to get good genetics
Those bees were queenless...he doesn't necessarily have hot genetics and if he's wanting numbers hotter are better
The good thing is, a friend has 150+ hives within 3-4 miles from me and he buys a lot of new queens every year, he’s bought a bunch of queens from Bob Binnie so I get those genetics for free! 😁
@@JaredBeekeeping sweet ! I'd like some Caucasians although my Feral carnies are alot like them ,glue whole bottom bars ..
Try Carpathian bees I have been using them for over 3 years gentle stay on the comb, don't want to swarm as much better there out flying in the rain as soon as it's a little cold there still the first out of the hive foraging the amount of honey I have off them is amazing. Winter time they have smaller clusters so less stores there using but as soon as spring is here they take off. Nice gentle bees I tend to watch them about 1 to 2 feet away with out attacks on me lovely bees.
Love your video I'm trying todo the same thing u are
Thanks! And good luck to you!
Talk about mean bees! Helped my neighbor with her Russian bees and they lit me up.
Sounds like my first time helping my neighbor, they were Russians to lol!
Go for 50 sting ones ,keep your mite load low. Good luck 👍 😊
It’ll probably happen at some point! Good queens, dead mites and good nutrition!
You're awesome. I only have one hive and they are mean. I'm scared of them.
Thanks! Mean bees are NO fun!
I feel your pain with those hot girls. hoping those queens return with success.
8:30 warmth , heat is why double Nucs work The heat is transfered , shared between the two Nuc boxes
Great channel. I am quite new into the hobby. I assume your 6 hives were double brood chambers 20 frames in total? Just divide brood and resources evenly amongst 4 splits?
Yep that’s basically what I did!
Dbl nucs work fast because combs above are already heated..also don't use smoke when trying to find a Queen..especially in a double deep..
That makes sense about them drawing comb but why not smoke when looking for the queen? Does it make them run more?
@@JaredBeekeeping yeah!
Mine are meanest after 3pm, foragers are starting to come back in
I think I’ve noticed that too.
Spritz them on the frames with sugar water it will keep them busy
Thanks for the tips Kathy!
Good luck with your beekeeping? I sure would hate to be around those mean bees.
Thanks! They’re getting much gentler already thankfully.
How many stungs do u have with that 3 layers suit?
None through the suit.
You went straight to grafting?
Get a queen castle or 6 and splits get really easy.
Got to start some time I guess 😁 I’ll check into those queen castles. Thanks!
Hi Jared..How is it going with your bees.
Not growing as fast as I hoped, but I’m up to 50 now, I’m trying to video most of it! Thanks for asking.
You're going to 'sell bees'. Who buys the bees? I've also started my Apiary, 1 strong hive in march, that I've split into 4 hives, 1 walk away split 1st week of april. And two nucs that I added queens to. I'm in KCMO trying to determine if I can do some serious splitting like you've done. I want 400 hives... but who buys the bees when your ready to sell? I understand almond contracts, and farmers market honey. But this one I would like to learn.
Bees die in the winter (USDA suggests 40%) beekeepers buy nucs and packages in the spring to build-up their apiary. In the spring, people get demanding wanting queens before its warm enough to get good mating. Nucs sell out months before spring. In late summer, you can lose a queen and its hard to get a replacement after mid June. In August/September is a great time to Re-Queen to have a fresh queen for the spring buildup (around March) long before the new queens are ready.
Yep what @heavymechanic2 said, I’ll sell to my local bee club but that also why I started this TH-cam channel so I can sell to my people/audience and so that they can see my bees and me before they buy.
I just bought a plastic box today and I put honey and sugar in it so please let me know if it will attract honey bees thank you.
That probably won’t work, look up “swarm traps” for the information you’re looking for.
The only thing that’s going to attract is ants and other insects. And let’s say it does attract bees, are you prepared with equipment and knowledge? Have you done any research about bees? Like I’ve said before it’s not the chemicals that are killing bees it’s humans that have no idea on how to keep them.
Hey buddy might wanna change those gloves
You may right, I think I’ll get some proper beekeeping gloves.
@@JaredBeekeeping are you aware that bees HATE leather gloves? Beekeeping gloves are made out of goat/lambskin for a reason. Highly unlikely that you have that many angry hives and I'm over here working all my hives barehanded ;)
@@ryanstreckfuss9590 it’s not the gloves, I can work my friends hives no problem but these bees will attack you 50’ away at least before I requeened them.
Those bees are Africanized at least partially
#WhenManTrys2BGOD👁
Grow like an oak.. Good luck.
Thanks Peter
Interesting what you’re doing, but I would not want to buy the bees if they are mean. Ideally you would be using the calmest bees to make your queens from.
I agree, that’s why I borrowed a gentle hive from a friend to graft queens from. Thanks for watching!
Geez man where the heck did you get those bees? I would’ve just gave you them for free for being that mean
Pal’s Apiaries, a migratory bee keeper that was selling bees here in Tennessee.
Smoke ur bee suit with ur smoker...
They hate cow hide leather, try sheep skin gloves.
Thanks for the info Don! I didn’t know
Hey, watching my hives inflammation fade day after day until they completely vanished was such a relief, I went with what I pointed out and within the first 10 days or so the urticaria/angioedema was barely visible! I just go'ogled the latest by Shane Zormander and after 20 days my skin has never been healthier!
I work with five different bee types(carnica, agt, aca, perna and italian) in 20 hives. Agt, aca and perna are carnica too but they are from different families of carnica. There are also different bee keepers around. But why? Why do I do this? Think that your fathers and mothers families try to start a town in US. Your uncles and their wifes; your aunts and their husbands all have children. If your town is a closed area(to other families to join) you will need to marry to your cousins. All your cousins will marry with eachother. In a few generation your town can be bigger but at the end there will be big genetic illnesses. Because you are all from the same family. Bees can fly nearly 10km. The queen can mate the best males in this area. If there is no beekeeper around or if you try to produce new colonies from same queen; there will be a big genetic family bee town(all are nieces and nephews) in your yard. A few years later your bees can die (because of genetic risks) but you won't understand why.
So you need to add new genetic bee families to your yard. If you want to have new colonies you need to split in honey season. The splits will be made in 1th day, 6th day and 11th day. To make a split you will take one all closed celled comb, one all open with new eggs layed in it, one with honey, last one with polen or perga (bee bread). Fifth day you will remove all closed queen cells and leave just open queen cells. The bees know who can be the best queen for their family. They will feed the best ones. At the end they will choose one from the bests. You will do this for all your splits. Put enough sugar cake in it and don't look for a month. After a month passed check your colonies, just look for the closed cells. If it's like mosaic(some here, some there) this means your queen mated with someone from her family. It's an unwanted situation. If her closed cells are like a book(starts a place and goes to end) you have a great queen. If the split swarms don't look after it. Swarming is unwanted too. Also bumbling too much is unwanted. If there is a colony like that take all closed cells from the hive and give that combs to others. The unwanted colony will be finish soon or later.
By the way I teach computer programming. I also love bees. Beekeeping is not my main source of income job. I produce honey and sell it. I will start a beekeeping job after retirement. I started like a hobby but I read lots from all over the world. I read the literature from universities. Maybe you will ask can't I use queens from same family. It can be used for one season. You need to leave them to death after taking honey. Like plug and play equipment. Build the colony take honey than leave them for your goodness.
those angry bees are scary... maybe you should move slower and make sure you don't squash any bees while handling the frames and equipment... I'm no expert, I'm just passing on what I"ve heard from others with more experience than me... I'm a newbie beginner too...
If this was my very first time with bees they would probably ruin it for me but thankfully I know what nice bees are like! Thanks for the tips Gabe!
Hot women are nice, hot bee queens are not!
You got that right!
Good on you! Subbed. anyone wanting to build something is good by me. Best of luck!
Thanks! I hope I don’t let everyone down.
Those bees are Africanized at least partially
Those bees are Africanized at least partially