Inspecting BeeBarns and Demaree Review
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About this video: In today's video we will finally get a chance to look inside the bee barns to see their progress. I have not fully inspected these hives since March/April and I am curious to see how they are getting along without weekly inspections. I will also share my opinion of the Demaree manipulation we did this spring and begin planning for next season.
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Thank you very much for sharing your hard-earned knowledge about the Demaree method. I have a handful of hives in my backyard and I plan to use the Demaree on a couple of them next spring.
Outstanding. Just remember, it's a ton of work.
Now that you mention it, I haven't heard any of the keepers in the south hardly mention hive beetles let alone say they have huge numbers of them. Even the mite washes I've seen are little to literally no beetles. Now I'm curious about the Canadian keepers, I'll have to check them out.
I really think the cold snap lat year wiped out an entire generation of beetles.
Thanks
You are welcome.
Thanks for the update. No big stings again.
I wonder about the Army hive. Maybe a bad queen - inbreeding or old queen?? You may get a chance to rework that hive in a couple of weeks. Hope you have a good week
I will be reworking the hive. They did have some eggs in there but no capped brood. They were also lean on bee bread which is why I gave them a pollen patty. Chances are they have a new queen who just started laying. We will give it a couple of weeks and have another look.
@@BugFarmerBees That makes sense.
I find 8bget honey in brood box when I'm late getting supers on, like this year, ugh. Spring was so warm we were all behind.
It was a busy flow this year for sure. I just can't seem to get caught up.
I was debating between the Demaree and Snelgrove board. Advantage of Snelgrove, less manipulation and you end up with a new queen if it all works out.
Snelgrove board? Something new incoming. Thanks.
In your bee barn build video you used what looked like some kind of rectangular tubing for entrance tunnel was wondering what it was thanks mike
www.tinkercad.com/things/gt6mm29Ngg0-bee-barn-tunnel
Check out the Hive Gate entrance. Works great for me better than the Guardian.
I will look into it. Thanks.
Happy 4th!
Back at ya buddy!
In your bee barn build video you used a rectangular tube for your entrance tunnel was wondering what it was thanks mike
It was a tunnel I made and printed. Here is the link if you need it: www.tinkercad.com/things/gt6mm29Ngg0-bee-barn-tunnel
I tried a Demaree on two hives and in addition to all the work involved, I don’t get why someone would encourage the colony to produce swarm cells to squish. It’s basically a labor intensive swarm dare…
@JawandoOokomondo-cb7fm and some viewers with their pissy comments who can't even spell think they are clever and have a worthy comment. Some animals eat their young when they are sub par...I suspect that you barely escaped
@JawandoOokomondo-cb7fm again, if you hate the channel so much....move on. I'm pretty sure he'll survive the loss of your presence. Some may even celebrate it or is this your way of thinking you're witty and wanted
I agree.... waaaayyyyy too much work for me in the future. I may do a couple next year at the home yard to document the process but I can say for certain I will not be trying it on 20 hives again.
He just moved on ;-)
Ha enjoyed your video. I to did the dameree I did it on all of my production hives before they got the idea to swarm. I liked it. I got 312lb of honey from them but like you said it is a lot of work. Now my location is a city big difference then you wish it was country I would not have gotten that much honey if it was not for the Damaree. I had 2 that I did not do it to and they gave me nothing. I will probably do it again next year. I did play with it some so I could make some more hives so I had 3 that became 2 queen hives. they were massive, but when it came time to get honey, I got very little from them because there was just so many bees but i did get 3 new real nice colonies from this. It is a lot of work and heavy lifting I used deeps to. anyway, I did buy 20 more queens hoping to have at least 4o production for next year I cannot make enough honey to sell to my customers. so I increase the numbers for production. hoping I will get more. I need to get at least 600 lb to satisfy the customer's I have. when I get the honey, I just call the people on the list, and they tell me how many pints they want it will be nice to be able to call them all but just can't. I run out fast. Any way at this time I have 60 hoping to have 40 production in the spring of next year so we shall see.. again the video was great. hope all works out for u. God Bless have a good week
It seems you and me have similar operations. I can say that 40 production hives will give you more than 600 pounds. I harvested over 1300 lbs from 40 hives this year and most of that came from the 20 at the farm. Anyway, the demaree is hard to pull off. Very labor intensive. next year I may do a couple of demarees here at the house but the farm will be a standard operation. Thanks for stopping in to have a look and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate you.
@@BugFarmerBees Thanks I hope so
I have a Bee barn style frame hive I was into the other day, It has a Russian Queen. They do seem to want to make a mess out of the frames but they do have a lot of bees flying in and out of the hive. I did manage to pull all the frames out but didn't find the queen but like you said with all those bees in that hive they must be one in there somewhere.
In a lot of cases if I can see a lot of bees, a relatively calm hive, and some eggs or brood then I am satisfied there is a queen in the box. On the other hand, if here are sparse numbers and the hive is loud and aggressive, then I start looking in other colonies for donor eggs.
I checked my flow hive today and I had like 10 to 15 hive beetles it’s gonna be a fun summer
Make a beetle sucker 5000 :-)
I've never done the Demaree. It seems like a lot of extra work.
@JawandoOokomondo-cb7fm if anyone would know stupid, it'd be you
Inless??? Yes.... stupid.
i don't have any bees, but my lawn is mainly clover and they are coming from somewhere to tear it up. how does the high heat and humidity in Georgia affect the bees compared to the high heat and not so much humidity here in OK. do they forage as much when it is higher??? are they grumpier when it is hotter???
To be honest I don't know because the only place I have ever kept bees is in this sweltering soup bowl. I would suspect the only difference is how easily it must be for the bees in your area to dry their honey. Here it is difficult because of all of the moisture in the air.
How many more months before you can get back into that hive with all the bridge comb and honey? IF time is the issue then you must make the time or do it now. It will only get worse the longer you wait. SO if it were my choice id get it done now. After the video of course and be sure to record so you can make it your next vid hehe 😁
Soon. :-)
I tend to not worry about swarming much, i keep an eye on them in april when swarm season starts, if i see a hive preparing to swarm i pull a split with the queen and 1 or 2 more on swarm cells. I can still make honey off the splits by running them as a single, once the population gets pretty high i add another deep and make it a double. I end up with either new hives or new queens to replace other queens. Did you get the honey i sent you?
I did receive a package but haven't picked it up yet. I will swing by the post office first chance I get. But Thank you for the honey. I cannot wait to try it.
Hi Kevin. I received the package today. Thank you so much for the honey and the nice hand written letter. I really appreciate you. Thank you so much.
I would have swapped a few frames from the 3rd hive to the first hive.
I was thinking about it but wanted to see if we could "restart" the queen in the Army bee barn and get her to repair the hive before winter. It is kind of a project :-)
What is a Krinok bee?
It's a Crynock. They are some bees given to me by my friend whose name is Crynock. According to him, his bees are a mix of beeweaver and italian. Either way, they have been a great addition to my apiary. They build quickly, bring in a ton of resources, and can be rambunctious at times. Overall, If I need a queen in the apiary, I will take from the Crynock colonies if given the chance. They just work.
I know u are not much for the heated hives anymore But , I made one last year ONLY to prop up a small colony that got hit by mice in mid December, IF I have to do that again I will only keep the temp about 40-45F, I think it was a mistake keeping it at 65-70 F, although they lived thru winter I think it was to much heat for that tile of year, I'm in NE Ohio. . Thoughts?
I am a 70F kind of guy when I heat my hives. It seems to be the sweet spot for Georgia.
I add oxalic acid to my sugar syrup spray as an added kick to the mites..
Is that a thing? Does it work?
@@BugFarmerBees NO, it's not a thing! Feeding bees OA doesn't eliminate mites. And when you do an OA dribble your first feed the bees sugar syrup to keep them from consuming too much OA,
@@BugFarmerBees yeah, it’s basically the approved OA dribble method and has taken the edge off high mite populations as a part of an integrated pest management program. I’m a hobby keeper with currently 22 colonies. I record which hives and what days I spray, I do alcohol washes monthly, and this plus hygienic genetics and brood breaks, keeps my mite loads from 0-1%
Fake
So where is your content?
Most folks don't understand what they reveal about themselves when they tear others down.
@@BugFarmerBees Exactly, they think we are as stupid as they are.