Glad to see this. I saw he threw a deep nuc box on top of his medium like the pic I sent you. Your pics of your friend here you sent me a couple of years ago inspired me to try this and I agree with him on the honey collection. Thanks Langford.
Malcolm Megibben one of Freds out yards has nuc hives just like his home yard and the other 2 are all 10 frame hives. I wish i had met him 40 years ago he is such a wealth of knowledge not only in bee keeping but in life also. And as you can see his bees are gentle just like mine he works his with a veil i work mine in shorts and a t-shirt.
So happy I found your channel! I started beekeeping this year and I'm keeping mine in 5 frame nucs. I was a little late getting started so I'm just building the colonies this year. One thing I didn't realize, they grow and store honey really fast! I didn't think I'd be adding supers so they started getting honey bound. I've been struggling getting the honey up into the supers and giving room for the queen to lay. Can you make a video on how you manage the hives. All 4 of my haves have double deep 5 frames now. My queen has limited space, but I think I'm fixing it. Thanks again!
Christian bind i will try it might be a week or 2 im starting to pull my second round of honey from the nucs and my outyards which are 8 frame hives so ill be busy for a bit along with nuc and queen sales. Stay tuned ill get to it.
Looks a little tippy at .20 seconds being only a foot wide and 6 feet tall but I imagine it's stable since he does them all like that and obviously knows what he's doing. Interesting videos
Where I live it is windy, how high can you go before that stack tips over? I was thinking there is a point where the nuc hive is not stable, thanks for sharing
Do you have a book on this method your using ? I've just purchased three jumbo lang poly nuc boxes with 6 frames each .Was thinking to use two boxes for brood and the third for honey .
@@JP-nx9rm i would have no idea. i have never ran 10 frame equipment. the thing i like about nuc keeping is i can pull 5 frames of honey and extract it for different flavors.
Are you using queen excluders on your much? Just got my hives this past April and not sure the direction I want to go.i see a lot of nucs out there and top bar hives and I like some with all of them
The man in the video mentored me he does mostly all nucs. He let's them build up and splits build up and split till the swarm notion is over and then they get 10 deep frames and then a queen excluded. That big hive in the video was split 4 times before he started supering for honey.
Jerry deGroot winters get down to single degrees 1 or 2 nights and 10 or so in the 10 to 20 range i winter all of my nuc hives in single 5 frame boxes with a dry sugar ontop of them. I had 12% loss where the state of Tennessee was 80%
I know it's late in the season but I have no idea on harvesting honey,can you do a clip on breaking down the hives to harvest honey(how to move the bees down and how much honey to leave for winter) thanks for your help
I do not know what I am doing. I have 2 hives consisting of 2 10 frame deep and 2 10 frame supers. I have let let them do their thing all summer to try and build their boxes and I have a lot of honey and what I think are 2 strong hives. What next. I am wanting honey and grow my hives. Thanks
@@jarnold8803 where are you located? i would say when spring gets here i would watch them really close due to this being the queens 2nd season they will have the tendency to swarm. As they start drawing queen cells to swarm take the queen and 2 frames of capped brood and make a split. the hives as they wait for the queen to emerge and get mated they will bring in more nectar because they have no need for pollen due to no open brood.
Woolie B's Apiary I am just outside Bonham Tx. There were a lot of bees in 2 10 frame brood boxes with a lot of honey. I lifted hive #2 and it is heavy. Hive #1 is not as heavy. I was thinking of splitting the hives when there is consistent warm temp. They are bringing a little yellow pollinator in on warm days.
@@jarnold8803 being in TX I would watch for africanized bees. I work mine in tshirt and shorts most days. Open mating queens run that risk. Give it a try or you can purchase a queen. I would buy one from someone other than the big queen producers they are not well mated if at all.
This must be "The Yard" by MOUNTAIN BEES you were trapping ,and viewer complained...Looks to me like if he split these all basically, some more than once, he weakened them to where they wouldn't swarm and now they are in full fledged honey production mode, not swarming, I would find it difficult to believe that these bees could be the "Mountain Bees" especially since they were coming from OTHER Direction,that's dead give away they weren't these bees.I caught monster swarm in my yard other day,feral,saw tree..But I got a bunch of hives 100 yards from trap, and I KNOW they weren't my bees,watched coming and going to woods for a month before they swarmed (opposite direction of my hives) and they are more darker than my bees, and they work way colder and earlier than my bees.Some people comments mean well,but will learn someday Alot of things that are irrelevant to an experienced beekeeper who can see through lots of little things like what color his bees are-- he knows they're Not his,by how hard the feral bees are working compared to his hives, the temperature the Swarm caught is working compared to his other hives, lots of little indicators to reassure The Beekeeper that he caught feral bees or at least not his... Even if they are close to his hives..once he has enough knowledge to read em..
No this is not the same man due to there is a COMPLETE series of videos with the FOUL mouthed beekeeper and more to come this year. Fred is my mentor who has kept bees for 64 years now. His yard is just outside of Chattanooga TN not at the foot of the smoky mountains. As you stated experienced BEEKS can tell if they are yours or feral by color direction of flight ect. I personally do not want other peoples bees. i want those that have or are in the process of dealing with varroa and the viruses and bacteria that managed bees have not. Tennessee has a winter loss rate of 74.6% of hives over the last 2 years my loss rate has been 11 to 12% and some of that has been my fault. ie selling queens in sept and the new ones not having time to build the nuc hive back for winter.
Woolie B's Apiary I see..I completely agree with you also,I am trying to get all the wild bees that been making it on their own with no help i can..And we have some in these wooded hills in southern Missouri,we don't have the huge farming,etc.etc. where I'm at, mostly wooded,not like northern Mo,or even the boothill, so far I've caught one,I gonna make Queens off of and do mite wash with them later,but no treatments probably,my other hives handle Varroa pretty well,but still can't outbreed the mites yet completely, my plan is to someday have good enough bees not to treat ever.. just split to make up for losses.However I got a long ways to go before all my hives are feral enough.Thanks for sharing your knowledge Ive learned some good stuff from you,thank you
i take mine down to 1 single 5 frame deep box and i put a piece of newspaper on the frames and 4 to 6 lbs of dry sugar on it with a 3 inch shim. i check it every month to see if they need more. they build up in the spring very fast. my loss rate over the last 4 years has been 6 12 12 12 % running 150 hives
Fred took 3 or 4 splits from this hive before he supered them to take the swarming out of them. He did leave the queen which I do not do I make my first splits by moving the queen.
Love to watch your videos Dad !!!
Very nice. I like this. Hope you can show more nuc videos. Its wonderful. 800 lbs also with only about 10 colonies is amazing.
Glad to see this. I saw he threw a deep nuc box on top of his medium like the pic I sent you.
Your pics of your friend here you sent me a couple of years ago inspired me to try this and I agree with him on the honey collection.
Thanks Langford.
Malcolm Megibben one of Freds out yards has nuc hives just like his home yard and the other 2 are all 10 frame hives. I wish i had met him 40 years ago he is such a wealth of knowledge not only in bee keeping but in life also. And as you can see his bees are gentle just like mine he works his with a veil i work mine in shorts and a t-shirt.
Good job Woolie!
Nice to c, best on all.
This is really great to see this information. Thanks for posting about it!
So happy I found your channel! I started beekeeping this year and I'm keeping mine in 5 frame nucs. I was a little late getting started so I'm just building the colonies this year. One thing I didn't realize, they grow and store honey really fast! I didn't think I'd be adding supers so they started getting honey bound. I've been struggling getting the honey up into the supers and giving room for the queen to lay. Can you make a video on how you manage the hives. All 4 of my haves have double deep 5 frames now. My queen has limited space, but I think I'm fixing it.
Thanks again!
Christian bind i will try it might be a week or 2 im starting to pull my second round of honey from the nucs and my outyards which are 8 frame hives so ill be busy for a bit along with nuc and queen sales. Stay tuned ill get to it.
No worries! I have subscribed and the notification is on so I'll see when you post.
Thanks so much!
Please do make more videos on the nucs producing honey
Looks a little tippy at .20 seconds being only a foot wide and 6 feet tall but I imagine it's stable since he does them all like that and obviously knows what he's doing. Interesting videos
Where I live it is windy, how high can you go before that stack tips over? I was thinking there is a point where the nuc hive is not stable, thanks for sharing
Do you have a book on this method your using ? I've just purchased three jumbo lang poly nuc boxes with 6 frames each .Was thinking to use two boxes for brood and the third for honey .
no this is something that Fred aka the fouled mouth beekeeper has been using for 30 years. it mimics a tree cavity.
@@WoolieBsApiary compared to a traditional 10/11 frame hive , what percentage on average would you say on average is the increase in honey crop?
@@JP-nx9rm i would have no idea. i have never ran 10 frame equipment. the thing i like about nuc keeping is i can pull 5 frames of honey and extract it for different flavors.
We do what works for us.
Are you using queen excluders on your much? Just got my hives this past April and not sure the direction I want to go.i see a lot of nucs out there and top bar hives and I like some with all of them
The man in the video mentored me he does mostly all nucs. He let's them build up and splits build up and split till the swarm notion is over and then they get 10 deep frames and then a queen excluded. That big hive in the video was split 4 times before he started supering for honey.
What are you winters like to survive them? Great video
Jerry deGroot winters get down to single degrees 1 or 2 nights and 10 or so in the 10 to 20 range i winter all of my nuc hives in single 5 frame boxes with a dry sugar ontop of them. I had 12% loss where the state of Tennessee was 80%
Hey Lankford i just sent you an invite to a nucleus beekeeping fb group. I hope you’ll join us and share your wisdom. Thx
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do you ever use a queen excluder to keep the queen in just the brood box
I know it's late in the season but I have no idea on harvesting honey,can you do a clip on breaking down the hives to harvest honey(how to move the bees down and how much honey to leave for winter) thanks for your help
Are you wanting this done this spring when I harvest honey or a pretend there is honey in the frames next week?
I do not know what I am doing. I have 2 hives consisting of 2 10 frame deep and 2 10 frame supers. I have let let them do their thing all summer to try and build their boxes and I have a lot of honey and what I think are 2 strong hives. What next. I am wanting honey and grow my hives. Thanks
@@jarnold8803 where are you located? i would say when spring gets here i would watch them really close due to this being the queens 2nd season they will have the tendency to swarm. As they start drawing queen cells to swarm take the queen and 2 frames of capped brood and make a split. the hives as they wait for the queen to emerge and get mated they will bring in more nectar because they have no need for pollen due to no open brood.
Woolie B's Apiary I am just outside Bonham Tx. There were a lot of bees in 2 10 frame brood boxes with a lot of honey. I lifted hive #2 and it is heavy. Hive #1 is not as heavy. I was thinking of splitting the hives when there is consistent warm temp. They are bringing a little yellow pollinator in on warm days.
@@jarnold8803 being in TX I would watch for africanized bees. I work mine in tshirt and shorts most days. Open mating queens run that risk. Give it a try or you can purchase a queen. I would buy one from someone other than the big queen producers they are not well mated if at all.
This must be "The Yard" by MOUNTAIN BEES you were trapping ,and viewer complained...Looks to me like if he split these all basically, some more than once, he weakened them to where they wouldn't swarm and now they are in full fledged honey production mode, not swarming, I would find it difficult to believe that these bees could be the "Mountain Bees" especially since they were coming from OTHER Direction,that's dead give away they weren't these bees.I caught monster swarm in my yard other day,feral,saw tree..But I got a bunch of hives 100 yards from trap, and I KNOW they weren't my bees,watched coming and going to woods for a month before they swarmed (opposite direction of my hives) and they are more darker than my bees, and they work way colder and earlier than my bees.Some people comments mean well,but will learn someday Alot of things that are irrelevant to an experienced beekeeper who can see through lots of little things like what color his bees are-- he knows they're Not his,by how hard the feral bees are working compared to his hives, the temperature the Swarm caught is working compared to his other hives, lots of little indicators to reassure The Beekeeper that he caught feral bees or at least not his... Even if they are close to his hives..once he has enough knowledge to read em..
No this is not the same man due to there is a COMPLETE series of videos with the FOUL mouthed beekeeper and more to come this year. Fred is my mentor who has kept bees for 64 years now. His yard is just outside of Chattanooga TN not at the foot of the smoky mountains. As you stated experienced BEEKS can tell if they are yours or feral by color direction of flight ect. I personally do not want other peoples bees. i want those that have or are in the process of dealing with varroa and the viruses and bacteria that managed bees have not. Tennessee has a winter loss rate of 74.6% of hives over the last 2 years my loss rate has been 11 to 12% and some of that has been my fault. ie selling queens in sept and the new ones not having time to build the nuc hive back for winter.
Woolie B's Apiary I see..I completely agree with you also,I am trying to get all the wild bees that been making it on their own with no help i can..And we have some in these wooded hills in southern Missouri,we don't have the huge farming,etc.etc. where I'm at, mostly wooded,not like northern Mo,or even the boothill, so far I've caught one,I gonna make Queens off of and do mite wash with them later,but no treatments probably,my other hives handle Varroa pretty well,but still can't outbreed the mites yet completely, my plan is to someday have good enough bees not to treat ever.. just split to make up for losses.However I got a long ways to go before all my hives are feral enough.Thanks for sharing your knowledge Ive learned some good stuff from you,thank you
How do they over winter in the five frame
i take mine down to 1 single 5 frame deep box and i put a piece of newspaper on the frames and 4 to 6 lbs of dry sugar on it with a 3 inch shim. i check it every month to see if they need more. they build up in the spring very fast. my loss rate over the last 4 years has been 6 12 12 12 % running 150 hives
@@WoolieBsApiary do you prefer the nucs over 10 or 8 frame hives?
@@Tyler-B91-i8e i run 5 6 8 frame equipment. i have 1 10 frame and she is a beast 4 deeps and brood in all of them
Do you have a problem with swarming since you restrict the queen to 10 frames?
Fred took 3 or 4 splits from this hive before he supered them to take the swarming out of them. He did leave the queen which I do not do I make my first splits by moving the queen.
Thank you sir
What's your price on shipping a queen to central Alabama. 👍
Eric's Everything $8 1 to 3 day us postal service