God Bless you Brother! And Thank you So Much for the shout out! You are The Man!!! I already know your gonna like at peppermint! That stuff is crazy awesome bub!@Hillbilly Bee Keeping. .. God Bless you and your Bees!!!
Hi Randy! I'm so glad you shared about that grafting tool, I've had one for many years and it's a serious piece of kit. It comes with a replacement tongue. But then, I've never even done a hundred grafts in my life. It's also the tool that Natalie teased me about :) Pierce is making top-grade tools that are intended to last, this demo proves that out. Please give my kind regards to your fabulous wife :) Oh, and Happy May Day! All of those propolis and comb scrapings make the best swarm trap bait :)
Elizabeth says hi back to her favorite TH-cam Beekeeper. Don't tell Mr. Ed. Natalee was just jealous. She'll see the light when she gets a Pierce tool and comes off the plastic plunger. I have a Fedex soft pack in my truck full of propolis scrapings. You are correct. It absolutely does make the best swarm lure. The proof is in the pudding. Feral colonies will move into an old hive space that that has long since been devoid of any hive. The main attractant is of course the space it's self but the propolis keeps bees scouting those same places for years even when blocked off. Put off that home maintenance and let that entrance get opened back up and you'll be an unwilling bee haver again.
I am far from grafting but can't wait till the day I am. Pierce is on my wish list of tools to order I will be ordering when I am knowledgeable enough to do it justice. Thank you in advance for a great tool.
Top o'the morning to ya, Rooster Nation! Gorgeous spring day here in south central Oklahoma, enjoying beekeeping with one of my favorite beeks. Great to see you all, God bless!
You always have the best endings on your videos. I loved watching you walk to great music in this one! Regards to your Dad and Tommy - and your sweet wife and kids!
Nice update Randy. Great to see all the splits growing out for you and getting closer to new shed ready. Hope all is well down there for you, dad, and family.
Congratulations on being treatment free 👍 I just couldn't make it work out for me. I only tried nine seasons, so maybe I gave up to early. Thanks man, God bless
Rooster, You ROCK MY MAN - LOVE the Music and fast play at the END.... I am fighting Swarming continually here right now... it is wearing me out... Trying to keep production hives strong.... running out of NUC BOXES with all the splits... I think I did loose one to a Swarm.... let them keep the swarm cells.... Great Video my friend...
Live from the swarm vortex! Man, that's a lot of grafts, he wears out grafting tools, no that says something. . . New building?? Sounds interesting. Hurricane straps on your hives. lol I'd be chompin on a few of those mints myself. I used to make some stuff called beetle grease. It was crisco, sugar, and some essential oil. It think it had pepermint or spearmint in it. I spread pushed it down on the ends of the frames where they make the beetle jails. You running mediums, been taking advice from OkieRob again?? LOL The season here is 3-4 weeks behind what it was last year. Cool timelapse! Thanks for the video.
I got myself this grafting tool as I will be grafting for the first time this year. I heard a lot of good things about it and cant wait to give it a go. Also, that forged hive tool looks pretty awesome!
Hey Randy, Mr Ed just caught your swarm! Just kidding. Net even sure how far you are from each other but the thought crossed my mind and I laughed. Hey you win some and lose some, but the averages tell a story. You are mostly in the win column so there is that. Best wishes to you and yours.
I was hoping to see how the nifty grafting tool was used. I did find a quick demo video out there. Do a less quick demo of it when you get to the grafting stage.
good golly, a triple header, Rawl's, Berry's, and now, Mug up at the Roosta's. Thanks for the timely video. Who has the most swarms, you or Jeff? Have a great day.
I had a couple of hives but it has been 35 years ago, or so. It seems more complicated than it used to be. I was always told that you can’t move a hive a few feet away because they will go back to where the hive used to be. That it has to be moved 2 miles so they will reorient themselves. Truth or myth?
I didn't get why, on this one, you subsequently decided NOT to be concerned about them swarming. You also said the they were going through a "brood break, at the moment." I've never heard of that. Oh, and I wanted to ask if you said that 'bee bread' and pollen (packed in the frames) are the same thing. We ate some bee bread once and I honestly don't think there's anything that tastes better. The stuff we had tasted like a walk in the cool of the day in a high mountain forest. It was amazing!!!! Thanks for putting these videos up. I appreciate and enjoy it so much even though you probably don't have time to answer Q's.
I checked mine the other day 2 weeks ago I didn't see anything went into it today and there was a couple hatch ones I found didn't see a queen but I figured all them hatched off once I had to be one somewhere knowing my luck all of them left.lol
@@628DirtRooster I really like mine so far. I did notice yesterday that the bees are propolizing the vents in the inner cover/feeders though. Have you noticed that yet?
Well I’m fairly new at beekeeping and certainly feel stupid most of the time. I thought I could just add beekeeping to shepherding, a rabbitry and an egg operation….as it turns out I have to do beekeeping first and then run around like a head with my chicken cut off feeding sheep, dressing rabbits and collecting eggs! I’m only going to expand to 300 beehives but it looks now like I will finally have to take on an employee….I swore I’d never do that! So far I have stuck to waiting to find queen cells and then splitting..it’s not sure but it’s simple. I think I’d like to learn to graft queens though. I think you need to graduate from a hive tool to a 4’ crow bar! That’s some serious propolis!
Hi. I have a question and I'm hoping you can help. I done my first spilt and it appears there are mostly drones capped brood. Would you know why there are so many dromes? I didn't see any other brood but the drones. I only looked on two frames. Thanks for all of your videos, I've learned a lot from you.
@@JACjeeper I was going to same the same thing…sounds like when you did your split that something happened to your queen or that part of the split never had one so a worker took over the queens duty and all the worker can pay is drone brood! You can look up laying worker on YT and see many ways you can deal with them!
How long can brood sit without bees on them during a removal? I have lost the brood on a few occasions and not sure why. after a few hours of removal work, i reintroduced the bees to their comb in a hive box, the bees left the hive and formed a big beard and completely abandon the brood... this happened again the other night (78 - 75 degrees ) .. 4 days later, hive-beetle larva everywhere, had to toss all the brood comb. The honey comb was placed in plastic totes and no hive-beetle larva as of yet... its in the freezer now. I dont know what happened, dont want it to happen again, that's for sure.
Depends on wind, temperature, age of brood, how it’s stored during removal….. I don’t save brood. It goes in the melter. I give them heavily waxed foundations to build back. If there are enough bees you’ll have a few frames of drawn comb with eggs in it in a few days. If you really want to try and save brood only keep the older capped brood. You’ll never save open brood.
Randy you know the bees make me look stupid. We have had that discussion. Remember I am the guy with the queen marked bright green(2019 I think if I am not mistaken) and the green Anole. Yep they are smarter than me. Oh by the way never done any grafting. I don't know if I can see well enough for that. But hey I got 6 hives how many queens do I really need?
I’m wondering is it true that if you have disabilities like migraines, arthritis etc that you can let bees on the sore spots so they can sting you and you start feeling better? I highly allergic to the stings but it’s something I’ve heard since I was a youngun back in the early 60’s??
I'm living in Jamaica, I've been to Montana, wolf point where I worked with a 4th generation bee farmer and I've been in apiary management for over 8 years, I'd love to help and learn more ..
Love your content. I think I have watched almost all of your videos and enjoyed them all. This is the first I have had a bit of trouble swallowing. Sad to see illegal aliens showing up on your channel, like its no big deal.
Bees are looking great! Couldn’t help but notice you were rockin’ that 3:1 shirt in the last clip. I really need to get Natalee one of the Pierce grafting tools.
It's a cool shirt. Gotta sport that thing occasionally. I think Natalee would love Pierce's tool. She might even end up with 25 years on one. Who knows?.
Where do you get those grafting tools? I could not find a source for the good ones so bought a cheap imitation from China which turned out to be rubbish and unusable.
@@628DirtRooster Thanks. I found that out and emailed them because I am overseas and you cannot enter my overseas postal address on their web site. Wanted to see if there is a way to get this product to me. Unfortunately weeks end and they have not bothered to reply. If organizing postage is too hard for them I would have thought they could at least tell me.
God Bless you Brother! And Thank you So Much for the shout out! You are The Man!!! I already know your gonna like at peppermint! That stuff is crazy awesome bub!@Hillbilly Bee Keeping. .. God Bless you and your Bees!!!
The Honey Bee business has so many fascinating aspects to it, Ty for sharing your time. Blessed Days...
So much to learn.
Hi Randy! I'm so glad you shared about that grafting tool, I've had one for many years and it's a serious piece of kit. It comes with a replacement tongue. But then, I've never even done a hundred grafts in my life. It's also the tool that Natalie teased me about :) Pierce is making top-grade tools that are intended to last, this demo proves that out. Please give my kind regards to your fabulous wife :) Oh, and Happy May Day! All of those propolis and comb scrapings make the best swarm trap bait :)
Hi Fred. Greetings. Hope all is well. Thanks for your comments. We truly appreciate the support
Elizabeth says hi back to her favorite TH-cam Beekeeper. Don't tell Mr. Ed.
Natalee was just jealous. She'll see the light when she gets a Pierce tool and comes off the plastic plunger.
I have a Fedex soft pack in my truck full of propolis scrapings. You are correct. It absolutely does make the best swarm lure. The proof is in the pudding. Feral colonies will move into an old hive space that that has long since been devoid of any hive. The main attractant is of course the space it's self but the propolis keeps bees scouting those same places for years even when blocked off. Put off that home maintenance and let that entrance get opened back up and you'll be an unwilling bee haver again.
@@628DirtRooster Absolutely on all counts :) Thanks, Randy... Hugs to Elizabeth!
Wow Randy. It is so great to see that old Pierce grafting tool. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I am far from grafting but can't wait till the day I am. Pierce is on my wish list of tools to order I will be ordering when I am knowledgeable enough to do it justice. Thank you in advance for a great tool.
I have no idea what it is and I have no idea what it does. What the hell is the grafting tool
Can't beat a notification for a dirt rooster video! WHERE HOBBY BEE KEEPING IS A WAY OF LIFE
Top o'the morning to ya, Rooster Nation! Gorgeous spring day here in south central Oklahoma, enjoying beekeeping with one of my favorite beeks. Great to see you all, God bless!
Hope y'all are having a great weekend.
Y’all are so awesome.
Savin our pollinators.
Love & bless every single one of you.☀️🐝☀️
Great to see you back at it
Looks like your bees are doing great. Wide open. Great video as always thanks for sharing.
Deftones at 5:55! Can't beat a little music in the background while working bees. Nice video!
The Pierce grafting tool is by far the best grafting tool in the world.
I agree. I’m glad I finally got one.
Oh wow. This is a no small task. Thanks for sharing man. Awesome!
Thanks for watching!
Love the update Dirt Rooster. Keep up the awesome videos
Bees 🐝 and Music 🎵, you spoil us.
You always have the best endings on your videos. I loved watching you walk to great music in this one! Regards to your Dad and Tommy - and your sweet wife and kids!
Happy Mother’s Day Julie.
@@628DirtRooster
Thank you Randy!
The cells I got from Darren produced some of the best queens ever!! Seriously, they are great and major producers.
I have really good results with his queens. Must be the special touch from the expert grafting. :)
Great video Randy , bees always throwing curve balls, I seen you had Mr Ed on , I’m sure he’ll get a kick out of it that you mention him lol.
Old Mr. Ed loves when he gets to be on someone else's vidos.
I've seen those grafting tools but now I'm going to have to check them out for myself. Thanks for sharing.
It's a must have if you're grafting much.
Nice update Randy.
Great to see all the splits growing out for you and getting closer to new shed ready.
Hope all is well down there for you, dad, and family.
Hello my BEE BROTHER…. My bees are blowing up here …. The flow is on,,, running out of equipment here
@4:00
Yes sir. The bees keep me humbled nearly every day.
Yep, they’re slick.
Would love to see you use the tool sometime. Good stuff as always.
Congratulations on being treatment free 👍 I just couldn't make it work out for me. I only tried nine seasons, so maybe I gave up to early. Thanks man, God bless
The tenth year would have been your year. ;)
@@628DirtRooster LoL 👍
@@HillBillyEarl yeah I think it does.
thank for the video. great to see production activities for a good product.
You bet
Rooster,
You ROCK MY MAN - LOVE the Music and fast play at the END.... I am fighting Swarming continually here right now... it is wearing me out... Trying to keep production hives strong.... running out of NUC BOXES with all the splits... I think I did loose one to a Swarm.... let them keep the swarm cells.... Great Video my friend...
Hi Randy, man I love your choice of music on this vlog.
Thanks Mark
Bee goals this year-
1) keep bees alive
2) be able to and comfortable in just a veil.
Thank you for the videos.
very fitting that there is a rooster crowing in the background for almost your entire video xD
Live from the swarm vortex! Man, that's a lot of grafts, he wears out grafting tools, no that says something. . . New building?? Sounds interesting. Hurricane straps on your hives. lol I'd be chompin on a few of those mints myself. I used to make some stuff called beetle grease. It was crisco, sugar, and some essential oil. It think it had pepermint or spearmint in it. I spread pushed it down on the ends of the frames where they make the beetle jails. You running mediums, been taking advice from OkieRob again?? LOL The season here is 3-4 weeks behind what it was last year. Cool timelapse! Thanks for the video.
Enjoyed the video. They really glued that thing up.
Yes indeed they have a mind oftheir own.
Been using the peppermint 3 weeks now and only saw one beetle out of four double deep hives.
Working for me in S.C. peppermint candy
I got myself this grafting tool as I will be grafting for the first time this year. I heard a lot of good things about it and cant wait to give it a go. Also, that forged hive tool looks pretty awesome!
Hi I hear the call of the rooster in back ground😁 👍really love ur channel so interesting 🐝🐝🐝
Hey Randy, Mr Ed just caught your swarm! Just kidding. Net even sure how far you are from each other but the thought crossed my mind and I laughed. Hey you win some and lose some, but the averages tell a story. You are mostly in the win column so there is that. Best wishes to you and yours.
Cool video!!!👍
That's exciting that your getting a new building 👍.
You cleaned them up nice🙌.
JO JO IN VT 💕😄
Got the new building up. :)
@@628DirtRooster
Whoo hoo 🙌
JO JO
The tension on the spring is for thumb wrestling exercise.
Darren would be world champion.
Thanks for sharing and we all miss/lose a swarm or 2 lol
You got that right!
Does the peppermint actually help?
To be determined
I think you’re supposed to lick those peppermints before putting them in the hive. It releases the scent faster.😂😂
I give three to the bees and one to me. Keeps me beetle free.
I was hoping to see how the nifty grafting tool was used. I did find a quick demo video out there. Do a less quick demo of it when you get to the grafting stage.
like the new music
Gotta roll with it all we can do .
That’s a nice looking veil @18:00, does anyone know where it comes from?
China Ebay I think
17:22 I hought you were putting candy in the hive, I was like WTF why is he feeding sweets for the bees 😂😂
Spring fever
Hello. What happens as a result of the chewed out queen cells? I'm new to the Bee videos, so I know nothing about bees.
hope you have all your videos backed up for when you tube looses them all they are going by by
Everything for the past five years or so is backed up.
good golly, a triple header, Rawl's, Berry's, and now, Mug up at the Roosta's. Thanks for the timely video. Who has the most swarms, you or Jeff? Have a great day.
We’re tied
I think I saw the queen at 16:43 in the split on the right 1/3 of the frame the first frame you checked.
Don't worry about the swarm Randy. I'm sure Mr Ed will end up capturing them. 🤣😂🤣
I had a couple of hives but it has been 35 years ago, or so. It seems more complicated than it used to be. I was always told that you can’t move a hive a few feet away because they will go back to where the hive used to be. That it has to be moved 2 miles so they will reorient themselves. Truth or myth?
You can move a foot or so but don’t change the entrance directions, any more than that they get disoriented
Hi do you guys keep bee for a long time in those plastic nuc boxes I see in this video or just temporery ? Thank you
Why do you put the peppermints in the hives?
I didn't get why, on this one, you subsequently decided NOT to be concerned about them swarming.
You also said the they were going through a "brood break, at the moment." I've never heard of that.
Oh, and I wanted to ask if you said that 'bee bread' and pollen (packed in the frames) are the same thing. We ate some bee bread once and I honestly don't think there's anything that tastes better. The stuff we had tasted like a walk in the cool of the day in a high mountain forest. It was amazing!!!!
Thanks for putting these videos up. I appreciate and enjoy it so much even though you probably don't have time to answer Q's.
I checked mine the other day 2 weeks ago I didn't see anything went into it today and there was a couple hatch ones I found didn't see a queen but I figured all them hatched off once I had to be one somewhere knowing my luck all of them left.lol
I thought a queen cell has to be chewed out when she is ready to emerge. That queen cell was open. Sorry if I missed something and sound ignorant.
🐝🐝💜💜
Bees sure do a good job keeping us beekeepers in check. lol Nice to see you trying out Apimaye equipment.
Apimaye is proving to be worth the investment.
@@628DirtRooster I really like mine so far. I did notice yesterday that the bees are propolizing the vents in the inner cover/feeders though. Have you noticed that yet?
@@JCsBees I haven't seen that yet.
What is the grafting tool used for?
Making new queens.
Well I’m fairly new at beekeeping and certainly feel stupid most of the time. I thought I could just add beekeeping to shepherding, a rabbitry and an egg operation….as it turns out I have to do beekeeping first and then run around like a head with my chicken cut off feeding sheep, dressing rabbits and collecting eggs! I’m only going to expand to 300 beehives but it looks now like I will finally have to take on an employee….I swore I’d never do that! So far I have stuck to waiting to find queen cells and then splitting..it’s not sure but it’s simple. I think I’d like to learn to graft queens though. I think you need to graduate from a hive tool to a 4’ crow bar! That’s some serious propolis!
Gotta make sure you have the right bsi in your nucs.
bsi?
What's with the peppermint treats?
Hi. I have a question and I'm hoping you can help. I done my first spilt and it appears there are mostly drones capped brood. Would you know why there are so many dromes? I didn't see any other brood but the drones. I only looked on two frames. Thanks for all of your videos, I've learned a lot from you.
You have a laying worker most likely. Look for multiple eggs per cell/ poorly placed off center eggs.
@@JACjeeper I was going to same the same thing…sounds like when you did your split that something happened to your queen or that part of the split never had one so a worker took over the queens duty and all the worker can pay is drone brood! You can look up laying worker on YT and see many ways you can deal with them!
Thank you.
Randy what does your shirt say? I see it reads 3:1 but what verse?
I want to say Proverbs 3:1 but it actually refers to a sugar mix ratio for bee feed.
Please link to your hive tool.
In the video description there is an email address.
@27:21 Work them nukes! Great video brother!
👍🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
How long can brood sit without bees on them during a removal?
I have lost the brood on a few occasions and not sure why.
after a few hours of removal work, i reintroduced the bees to their comb in a hive box, the bees left the hive and formed a big beard and completely abandon the brood... this happened again the other night (78 - 75 degrees ) .. 4 days later, hive-beetle larva everywhere, had to toss all the brood comb. The honey comb was placed in plastic totes and no hive-beetle larva as of yet... its in the freezer now.
I dont know what happened, dont want it to happen again, that's for sure.
Depends on wind, temperature, age of brood, how it’s stored during removal…..
I don’t save brood. It goes in the melter. I give them heavily waxed foundations to build back. If there are enough bees you’ll have a few frames of drawn comb with eggs in it in a few days.
If you really want to try and save brood only keep the older capped brood. You’ll never save open brood.
@@628DirtRooster Many Thanks....
Mr Randy, what do you think of the Killer Bee guy? He's saying K,B are everywhere in the US. Yet he's into selling K, B honey?
Randy you know the bees make me look stupid. We have had that discussion. Remember I am the guy with the queen marked bright green(2019 I think if I am not mistaken) and the green Anole. Yep they are smarter than me.
Oh by the way never done any grafting. I don't know if I can see well enough for that.
But hey I got 6 hives how many queens do I really need?
Great video, but the music you ended with Rocks 🎸😎
Hello sir is it too late in a year to graft queens
Not in the USA
@@628DirtRooster i’m in Dayton Texas just asking thanks
@@GODWINHONEY Still plenty of time.
OH boy
This is about me
I’m wondering is it true that if you have disabilities like migraines, arthritis etc that you can let bees on the sore spots so they can sting you and you start feeling better? I highly allergic to the stings but it’s something I’ve heard since I was a youngun back in the early 60’s??
There is some truth to that.
@@628DirtRooster
Hmmmm
thats how you watch us lol
Ha! No, I'm usually driving when I'm watching y'all. I didn't even stay in the truck for Mr. Ed.
Who you kidding Randy, the candy is for you later.. you learned well from the 🐿️🐿️🐿️ 's😎😎😎
What about peppermint oil instead of using candy?
Some people are testing that out.
Where was Steve-O?
Steve is up north. He didn't come down this year. I'm not sure why.
I do love a good rooster video but i'm not sure i wanted to see or hear about your 'danglers' 😆
Noted!
"i'd like to find a queen on this frame" HA! yeah keep wishing, buddy
Hi Randy, I'd love to help.....
Yes please!
I'm living in Jamaica, I've been to Montana, wolf point where I worked with a 4th generation bee farmer and I've been in apiary management for over 8 years, I'd love to help and learn more ..
They Canterville Ghost the beetles ,
first!
Quickness!
You'll get uncharristcly (sp) slower the older you get.
I'm noticing that. :(
No matter how good the plan, bees will "outsmart" us somehow. Tell them you will send them to live with JP and I bet they straighten right up!
You never did show us how the grafting tool works.
I’ve shot some grafting videos but just never edited them.
Love your content. I think I have watched almost all of your videos and enjoyed them all. This is the first I have had a bit of trouble swallowing. Sad to see illegal aliens showing up on your channel, like its no big deal.
Al these guys are brought over on work visas. They don’t live in the states. They are only here for the season.
Bees are looking great! Couldn’t help but notice you were rockin’ that 3:1 shirt in the last clip. I really need to get Natalee one of the Pierce grafting tools.
It's a cool shirt. Gotta sport that thing occasionally.
I think Natalee would love Pierce's tool. She might even end up with 25 years on one. Who knows?.
Get that windshield fixed.
Where do you get those grafting tools? I could not find a source for the good ones so bought a cheap imitation from China which turned out to be rubbish and unusable.
piercebeekeeping.com/
@@628DirtRooster Thanks. I found that out and emailed them because I am overseas and you cannot enter my overseas postal address on their web site. Wanted to see if there is a way to get this product to me. Unfortunately weeks end and they have not bothered to reply. If organizing postage is too hard for them I would have thought they could at least tell me.
what about real poermint
This is my exciting news that I was trying to send to u you to you're email