Maintaining a Healthy Apiary without Feeding
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 เม.ย. 2024
- Today we talk about how far you can go without feeding as a beekeeper. There are issues with feeding bees sugar and in this video we tell you why.
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that was a great close up for the joke. LOL I will probably buy one from them once I get something going in my yard. I'm a newbee :)
I'm a sucker for puns. 😆
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Just one of your best videos! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much!
Definitely rolling right key here is your patience and the many different types of plants your growing, always like hearing from ya. Seems like if there's only one plant and its not brilliant then they got nothing. It's a question for design. Take time before planting, several different plants that taper into each other. No feed increased natural resources
Having the right plants is definitely a key to success!
That's great... thanks for sharing. We used to melt in our suits. Gets hot it down here in the south😂
I agree with what you said about the feeding...I had done the "common" feeding when we first had hives a few years back. But natural beekeeping makes so much more sense to me
Oh believe me on those hot days having a very light suit is a godsend!
I think almost all beekeepers will feed at some point because it's such a common technique these days. We did it a lot in the past and always believed it had to be done. When we found Lazutin we were amazed at what our Bees could do on their own. Having self sufficient Bees is a true blessing!
@@SecureAcresNaturalBees I feed because I steal all the good stuff!🫠😋
I'm just starting out - get my bees at the end of the month. I want to go as natural as possible so thanks for sharing!
Get you a copy of "Keeping Bees with a Smile" by Fedor Lazutin. It has all the information you need to be successful. Thanks for watching!
I will have my first bee colony this year but I truly believe to keep as natural as nature intended. It’s the best policy for them as well as us! 😊
That's a good policy. Wishing you the very most success!
@@SecureAcresNaturalBees thank you 🙏🏻
It will be a great adventure and learning experience
'Give your bees a chance.' I like that.
That being said, I tried to speak about this in our bee association. Because I agree with your explanation.
Now they think I'm a tree-hugging hippy, somebody to avoid.
I'd love to see you speak to them.
I'm sure some of them would listen, but others may be stuck in their ways! Our style of beekeeping is a lifestyle change, many people will be skeptical about it because of it's simplicity. For those that try our methods, they will find that keeping bees can be easy and rewarding at the same time!
@@SecureAcresNaturalBees 'Our style if beekeeping is a lifestyle change'. Exactly!
Let them think what they want... When your bees don't have to be medicated and you have abundant honey and hives, then they'll start to wonder and ask questions. Just keep sharing with them. You never know what can happen. You might help out one person and that's all it takes 😊
Good subject Wes...feed or not to feed. It is true that honey produces hydrogen peroxide and that is part of the colonies immune system. Sugar syrup does not produce hydrogen peroxide. There are many considerations, think goals. Beekeeping is local. get local bees however you can. They will outperform imported bees. Georgia bees don't always do so well here in New Hampshire, our winters are longer and colder than in many parts of this country. In 4 seasons, the only swarms I saw were from my bees, with the exception of my first. I watched my 6 swarm traps for almost 2 full seasons. Finally in mid-August I got the call, bees are in the box, Wow, I had bees! Well, there is a saying about what a swarm caught in different months is worth...and the reasoning is about the bees getting adequate time to collect resources for the long winter. Even Dr. Leo says there may be times when you will have to help the bees along. I was a newbee. I had no honey, fall was here and my bees had barely built-up comb on 6 frames...I feed them sugar syrup, they lived, even thrived, and I split them that very next spring. If I would have had honey that I knew did not contain pathogens like American Foulbrood, I would have fed them honey....How to know about foulbrood? As an uneducated beek, I had no clue. Please read about diseases that can be transmitted when bees consume infected honey. Consider biosecurity when open feeding any type of carbohydrate. Remember that letting a deadout colony get robbed out, could potentially spread some serious diseases if that colony died as a result of Foulbrood or some other pathogen. Learn to identify honey bee maladies, get a field guide, there are many out there, get many guides. Be informed. Then make your decision. Remember, beekeeping is local, have a great day!
Thanks for that! I'm sure the bees up in New Hampshire are ready for any kind of cold weather. Are they the darker kind? I know dark bees are better adapted to the cold but I didn't know if they were prominent up where you live.
@@SecureAcresNaturalBees Wes, after waiting swarms for as long as I did, I went to the best genetics from regional treatment free beekeepers in New England; Troy Hall, Andrew Munkres at Lemonfair apiaries and Kirk Webster. All the bees are muts and mostly dark. I was given a Georgia raised carni queen. She produced a lot of lighter colored bees, and I was able to make some splits, but she did parish in her first winter. Thanks for asking, take care, Brice
Okay
I left my fall honey on last year and almost lost several colonies due to them being honey bound. I had better results by feeding the year before.
Well I don't think you should leave excess honey in the hive after the fall. Excess honey means more room they have to heat in the winter which can have bad results.
How often should I be inspecting my Layens hive? 14 frame
The short answer is you don’t have to inspect if you don’t want to. We do very little inspections in our apiary and our bees do fine.
I talk about it in this video:
Practical Beekeeping with Minimal Interaction
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Right on man! My bees know how too feed themselves! Good thing cause I`m broke! And using that transporter all the time will cause you to gain a few pounds too A?
Fortunately our style of beekeeping is cheap for most families! Love the transporter, it supports my lazy beekeeping. 😆
Thanks for the video. I wanted to ask you about the 14 frame Layens hive you bought from Dr. Leo. I see people posting that the 14 frame hive is too small and you have to have at least the 20 frame hive. What is your opinion on the 14 frame hive and how has it worked for you? Thank you.
I think the 14 frame is a perfect size. We have 14 and 19 frame hives but the 19 frames never fill up all the way. Personally I think it's too much space. Maybe if you had a really good honey flow you could fill them all up but we've never been able to. I recommend the 14 frame.
Thank you for your input.
Baffle the bugs, don't baffle the bees with sugar and fake pollen. What was the website and the discount code again?
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I was thinking about buying a white suit from them soon. Might be cooler.
You may have a good point, but why not re-queens those wickets hives with a good genetics hive that let all die… to me it doesn’t make sense. Plus we as humans we get sick.. a cold so we should not take med or drugs to get better we should parish, because we have a wick defense… Yes about sugar, but you can also add victims or nutrients to the sugar water until the colony gets it’s balance.. not for ever but just to help them.. If they become a strong colony & don’t produce enough honey… requeen it.. that is all.
We don't re-queen because that would mean I would have to either grow my own queens or bring in queens that aren't local. I don't really want to do either of those things.
I don't feed the bees for the same reasons I don't treat the bees with chemicals. I want strong genetics in the apiary so I let be Bees do what the Bees want to do. It might seem cruel but Honeybees don't want any interaction with humans anyway so I'm respecting their wishes and maintaining good genes in the apiary.
The fact that you don’t have to raise queens to requeen a hive… how many queens cells you destroyed to prevent swarming or you let your bee free to swarm as they please? Any way out 4 cell you can take one & added to a hive that you feel is not doing great it won’t hurt
If a colony has good genetics, then they will replace the queen themselves if she has issues. A weak colony will allow a weak queen to remain and they will perish. No work needed on our end. We allow our Bees to swarm as they please, then we hang up swarm traps all around the property and catch those swarms.
This man speaks the truth. There’s so much bologna surrounding bee keeping! Truth is stop feeding sugar water…they will thrive if their genetics are strong! I can attest to this! I think the reason many beekeepers give up is because of poor “commercial” bee keeping advice. Think about it folks….do commercial beekeepers want you to succeed? There’s a major difference between the backyard beekeeper and the commercial one. No sugar water needed for the home apiary!
good luck with that bud
Thanks for the kind words. 👍
No seriously, good luck. Good luck harvesting a honey crop and not having to feed your fees to make up for all their time and hardwork. Also good luck with dysentery problems. Enjoy your annual loss of colonies.
@@georgetaylor9154 get honey every year! Just gotta know how to work it buddy!
@@jkd0114 yeah sure you get some honey here and there. Good luck with that approach to anything more than just a sinlge , or two, garden/backyard colonies. Even at the small backyard level, good luck to your sustainability and financial bee outlook. What type of growth do you think you can possibly stimulate without feeding?
The screen said; Say ‘something’ first. Ok. “SOMETHING”. Now what do talk about?c20-24inkRWBEE
I raise sugar bees😂
It's all good. But it's not a requirement!
@@SecureAcresNaturalBees 😂🤡. Maybe not required for someone who also doesn't believe in feedng any other live stock type farm animal.
@georgetaylor9154 Honeybees are perfectly capable of surviving on their own, livestock are not. Love the comparison between cattle and insects though!
The screen said; Say ‘something’ first.
Okay. “SOMETHING”
Now what do talk about?