Everyone loves your hives and I think I need to let you do all the videos and I will just film and edit them. You sure do know how to make a monster hive!!
I had one swarm themselves to death too. I added eggs and brood. They have a queen now finally. I went and picked up a swarm trap tonight that has a swarm in it. A video to come tomorrow. Thanks Ricky!
Thanks Rodney for making me feel better. This hive was going to be my baby for the year and now it is so far behind. I will be looking forward to your new swarm video!!
If you keep trapping those swarms and placing them back into your apiary you’ll begin creating a great survivor stock that is naturalized to your area. Unfortunate as it maybe when they get away only strong colonies make swarms as big as you mentioned. I would surround your apiary with 10-15 traps up in the trees. You’ll be glad caught some strong swarms when you start having an amazing stock of survivor drones to mate with your queens. I love your creativity by the way.
Your friend's hive is amazing! Hopefully he is the one with the tractor. He might need the bucket to add more supers and take them off! Great video and glad things are going well.
My friend’s name is Rick like me and he is already using 2 blocks to get up to the top of the hive. Lol 😂 soon he will need a ladder. He is just as crazy as Jeff from bees and tractor. We are all doing great and your number are growing quickly on your channel. Won’t be long until you pass me up!! Well done my bee friend….
@@horizontalbees3480 it's great to see different types of hives and how you work them. I'm still old school using vertical supers. I also work with Australian native bees which don't use frames. They make little honey pots called sugar bags. I love just to sit and watch them as they are so fascinating. Thanks for sharing 👍🐝🐝🍯🍯
@@TrickyTrev01 Trevor when I went to Mexico I got to video some of those special bees. They were so cool and we got a pint of honey from them. The flavor was so incredibly delicious, much better then normal honey. I hope to post that video one day.
So glad you enjoyed a bee video on Amazon. Thanks for thinking about us!! Amber is the light of my life and I’m praying one day she will be a great beekeeper. God bless you iJ!!!!
Thanks Harris for your support and your so right, the bees have there own ideas.. lol maybe one day I will understand them better !! Keep up the good videos my friend because I have been learning a lot.
Hi Rickey, those hives are looking good! Couple of questions, do the bees have acces to all the frames in the hive? Wouldn't the bees expand faster if they were in the middle of the hive? I work with vertical hives, sometimes after winter the colony is right at one side of the hive and i always shift them to the center so they can expand both ways and build up much faster. Great video, love to watch a fellow beekeeper working in the bees 😊
I agree with you they do better in the center of the hive. In a horizontal hive you can really see them build in one direction and here they build towards the setting sun. The brood nest is always near the front entrance. Honey bees are so smart.
Yes my hives have access to all the frames. The only time I change this is if they are a new hive of bees and there are cold Spring days. Great questions!!
Great video Rickey! Don't know how I missed it, TH-cam suggested it to me tonight and I knew from its title I had not seen it before. It was very interesting. Near the beginning of the video back to one side of that first hive you opened was a large tilled garden plot. Is that yours? Show us videos of your gardening too, that would be neat to see.
Stan we had a great garden this year with some huge potatoes 🥔. Yea we can do a few garden videos, but I’m not a garden expert. We just grow and can the items need to get us through the year. I’m sure you mis your beautiful garden!!!!!
Ricky, love the videos man. To up your cinematic quality, this is just a suggestion: on your personal hives that you do your videos on, make a cheap camera mount when showering frames. You can give a better view of the frame since you primarily work on this yourself. If you use a GoPro, just take some wood and make a "A" style cross bar to hold the camera. Again, great video!
Thanks for the great advice!! I will let my wife know that she needs to buy me a GoPro ASAP.. lol 😂 love the ideal of making a cheap camera mount for my videos and I will be trying this idea very soon. Thanks again bee friend!!
@@horizontalbees3480 look on eBay, the hero 9 just came out, so people are dumping their hero 7 and 8s. Honestly a hero 7 records insanely good. I found a hero 8 for ~$100-150 last year.
The one with 2 levels Super you Can run 2 Queens on the side(2 familys) wit comun storage in the midle. 10Q-10honey-10Q and will be a lot of honey in those storages.
@@horizontalbees3480 six or seven. Finally had one come to one of my swarm traps too, then they started building comb on the underside of the box 🤦♂️. I collected them off that in the rain and they seem to be doing well.
Thanks, I suppose it comes down to preference and what someone's impression of what's best for the Bees is. I think as we age and still want to enjoy the hobby without the heavy lifting the Horizontal designs become more appreciated. Thanks again!!
Haha your neighbours a pretty cool bloke. Awesome video mate. Hope you, your wife and Ambee are well 🍺🍺
Bradley my friend and I really get in to trouble sometimes.. lol the family is so great!! Thanks for asking.
Dang Rickey...your hives and bees are looking great!!
Keep up the good work brother
They are growing!! I’m just glad I don’t have any of your killer bees up here.. lol 😂 thanks for watching.
@@horizontalbees3480 well....I was going to offer you some😂
Wow, bees just go to others hive? Thats interesting.You have a beautiful surroundings there.
We are blessed with a beautiful place to live. Thanks for watching.
It is so fun to hear thos oldtimer stories, love it. It is always fun talking to oldtimer beekeepers and their stories about the old days 😁
There stories have so much good information in them. I believe to listen to all information and choose what works best for me.
@@horizontalbees3480 exactly what i do too, all the info on one big pile and than sort it out to what works for me
Lol very polite thank you for the queen. Haha.🤷♀️😆
What else can you say but thank you for a great queen.. lol hehhehhe
Thanks for watching
Ricky you going a good job you most definitely will have more honey than me, be safe and blessed my friend
We might have a little more honey only because we have a few more hives. Thanks for watching my bee friend!!
Some great looking hives man! You get my old man to cut his hair yet? 🤣
I need someone to hold him down so I can cut his hair.. lol..
Great video. I can never seem to talk loud enough. Thanks for the great video on my hive. Maybe one day I'll bee world famous like you. LOL 😎
Everyone loves your hives and I think I need to let you do all the videos and I will just film and edit them. You sure do know how to make a monster hive!!
I had one swarm themselves to death too. I added eggs and brood. They have a queen now finally. I went and picked up a swarm trap tonight that has a swarm in it. A video to come tomorrow. Thanks Ricky!
Thanks Rodney for making me feel better. This hive was going to be my baby for the year and now it is so far behind. I will be looking forward to your new swarm video!!
If you keep trapping those swarms and placing them back into your apiary you’ll begin creating a great survivor stock that is naturalized to your area. Unfortunate as it maybe when they get away only strong colonies make swarms as big as you mentioned. I would surround your apiary with 10-15 traps up in the trees. You’ll be glad caught some strong swarms when you start having an amazing stock of survivor drones to mate with your queens.
I love your creativity by the way.
Looking good🥰...learning a lot.....we had someone bring Bee's out (way way more Bee's for the plants), next yr we will try our own....
I can wait to see you get honey from your hives. One more of Gods great creations on the farm!!
Your friend's hive is amazing! Hopefully he is the one with the tractor. He might need the bucket to add more supers and take them off! Great video and glad things are going well.
My friend’s name is Rick like me and he is already using 2 blocks to get up to the top of the hive. Lol 😂 soon he will need a ladder. He is just as crazy as Jeff from bees and tractor. We are all doing great and your number are growing quickly on your channel. Won’t be long until you pass me up!! Well done my bee friend….
Great video Ricky. Awesome information.TrickyTrev 🇦🇺👍🐝🐝🐝🍯🍯🍯
Thanks Trevor for your support and for watching.
@@horizontalbees3480 it's great to see different types of hives and how you work them. I'm still old school using vertical supers. I also work with Australian native bees which don't use frames. They make little honey pots called sugar bags. I love just to sit and watch them as they are so fascinating. Thanks for sharing 👍🐝🐝🍯🍯
@@TrickyTrev01 Trevor when I went to Mexico I got to video some of those special bees. They were so cool and we got a pint of honey from them. The flavor was so incredibly delicious, much better then normal honey. I hope to post that video one day.
Hello Rickey I saw a 53-minute Amazon Prime Video about bees. My Garden of a Thousand Bees. I thought of you and Amber. It's amazing.
So glad you enjoyed a bee video on Amazon. Thanks for thinking about us!! Amber is the light of my life and I’m praying one day she will be a great beekeeper. God bless you iJ!!!!
@@horizontalbees3480 Thank you and God bless you family too. Amber will be s great one with you and your wife's guidance.
wow amazing its a natural honeyzzz yummY nice sharing video dear
Nica your so kind thanks for watching
bees look happy
They are buzzing around enjoying this sunny weather!! Lol
Good job my friend...like...Best regards!
dosent seem to matter what your plan is, the bees will change it. I really like the style of the second one you were in. glad to see you busy
Thanks Harris for your support and your so right, the bees have there own ideas.. lol maybe one day I will understand them better !! Keep up the good videos my friend because I have been learning a lot.
Do you build Layens hives? I'm new to beekeeping and I chose Layens because I am in a wheelchair and I can't lift heavy boxes
This is really a good job..
Thank you!!
Hi Rickey, those hives are looking good! Couple of questions, do the bees have acces to all the frames in the hive?
Wouldn't the bees expand faster if they were in the middle of the hive?
I work with vertical hives, sometimes after winter the colony is right at one side of the hive and i always shift them to the center so they can expand both ways and build up much faster.
Great video, love to watch a fellow beekeeper working in the bees 😊
I agree with you they do better in the center of the hive. In a horizontal hive you can really see them build in one direction and here they build towards the setting sun. The brood nest is always near the front entrance. Honey bees are so smart.
Yes my hives have access to all the frames. The only time I change this is if they are a new hive of bees and there are cold Spring days. Great questions!!
@@horizontalbees3480 thanks, very interesting. Yes, bees are so smart 😁 have a very nice day Rickey
Great video Rickey!
Don't know how I missed it, TH-cam suggested it to me tonight and I knew from its title I had not seen it before. It was very interesting. Near the beginning of the video back to one side of that first hive you opened was a large tilled garden plot. Is that yours? Show us videos of your gardening too, that would be neat to see.
Stan we had a great garden this year with some huge potatoes 🥔. Yea we can do a few garden videos, but I’m not a garden expert. We just grow and can the items need to get us through the year. I’m sure you mis your beautiful garden!!!!!
Awesome man! Hives are looking good :)
Thanks buddy!!
Ricky, love the videos man. To up your cinematic quality, this is just a suggestion: on your personal hives that you do your videos on, make a cheap camera mount when showering frames. You can give a better view of the frame since you primarily work on this yourself. If you use a GoPro, just take some wood and make a "A" style cross bar to hold the camera. Again, great video!
Thanks for the great advice!! I will let my wife know that she needs to buy me a GoPro ASAP.. lol 😂 love the ideal of making a cheap camera mount for my videos and I will be trying this idea very soon. Thanks again bee friend!!
@@horizontalbees3480 look on eBay, the hero 9 just came out, so people are dumping their hero 7 and 8s. Honestly a hero 7 records insanely good. I found a hero 8 for ~$100-150 last year.
@@NsellersUSMC Wow Nicholas your a great help. Thanks again!!
The one with 2 levels Super you Can run 2 Queens on the side(2 familys) wit comun storage in the midle. 10Q-10honey-10Q and will be a lot of honey in those storages.
Keep them coming, I am looking forward to seeing the growth of the new colony. It’s been a swarmy year in NE Ohio too.
Scott how many swarms have you caught in Ohio this year?
@@horizontalbees3480 six or seven. Finally had one come to one of my swarm traps too, then they started building comb on the underside of the box 🤦♂️. I collected them off that in the rain and they seem to be doing well.
@@scottthornandhisbeesandtrees This swarm in the first horizontal hive did the same thing to me. Can’t wait to see some updates on your hives.
Where do you get your strips?
good job
Thank you so much!!
Oh em jay !! Am afraid of honey bees ohh haha
I was afraid of the to when I started.. lol 😂
So what is the most popular hive style to build?
Our Standard horizontal is the most popular hive by about 50%. Thanks for watching!!!
Thanks, I suppose it comes down to preference and what someone's impression of what's best for the Bees is. I think as we age and still want to enjoy the hobby without the heavy lifting the Horizontal designs become more appreciated. Thanks again!!
Nice
Thanks Vedant!!