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I just bought a big load of new bee equipment., I'm in NE OHIO, wondering if u want to buy any , (complete hives) it's 2 deeps, a medium, screen bottom w insert, inner cover, telescoping cover, frames & foundation for all 3 boxes, a hive tool & smoker, plastic front feeder, & plastic excluder.. ALL of what i mentioned unassembled for $110... looks equivalent to like a bee castle or vevor .. I have about 40 to 50 of them to part with lol

It's been the year of Queen problems for me too Brian, completely replaced all my Queens with 2024 Queens and I lost about 50% of my production hives due to old queens. Now I'm on a 2-year queen replacement cycle.

A crazy year for queens here to brother. Love the short format!

Do you have link for them things on the front of the hives? The info things?

4:33 wow that dark queen is beautiful!

Great video Brian!!

Hi Brian! Thanks for tagging me. It's definitely important for timely management to know the status of each and every hive throughout the year :) Q- at 03:22 are you intentionally shifting your top boxes back for additional venting? Or, are they just a tad off? Thanks for sharing, everything seems to be going well for you :)

You are a clear speaker. Just words. Not a lot of uh, uh, uh…excellent video Brian!!!

Did you say "Milk Brood"? I like the term, does it mean open brood?

Nicely done and great information, Brian. So interesting 👍🏻

Just starting be keeping, love the video! I'm in Canfield, just down the road from you! Looking forward to learning from all of your knowledge!

Great video, as always, Brian! 👏🏽👏🏽

I direct released a queen today. Did not turn out well. As soon as I put her on the frame she flew off!!! I closed up the hive and will check back in a couple of days. I really hope she found her way home. Nice job on the video Brian

Thanks for the review Brian! Looking forward to seeing you place a colony 👏🐝

Good job, hope they grow and save enough honey to start next season off on a strong footing.

Good Stuff Brian, where do you go for new queens, does your supplier keep a good stock of queens, or did you raise them yourself ?

Grafting 22nd and making 35ish splits. Pulling honey soon. It's getting hot and dry.

Great video Brian.

Note that an emergence cell and a queen made with a worker egg are inferior queens that need to be replaced every year for peak production. A queen lays a superior egg in a swarm cell to replace her and the egg is larger than a worker egg A superior queen has been know to live for 9 years but that is rare now! Soon we will all bee force into that job security situation! Best of luck!

I absolutely enjoyed this video Brian. Well done. Great job!

Very interesting

I ended up introducting my new queens the same way this year. My setting up of the singles got started late, so the new queens sat inside for a good 5 days, more then I wanted but every one got accepted. I think a slower introduction is worth the added acceptance rate in my opinion. Thanks for sharing your experience and time with us Brian. Blessed Days, buddy...

Thanks for sharing with us 😊

Nicely done Brian 👍🐝😁 Hope all goes well with the new queens. Thanks for sharing. ✌️🐝😁💜🌼🍯

Great video! Love all the details!

Thanks Brian!!!

Grafting this upcoming weekend for July splits. Hopefully things go well

Brian, thinking about your Bourbon barrel honey. how is that coming along? i have a local distillery near me, thinking to talk w them. thx, Randy

I bought 2 mediums off Amazon. They were $39 for a 10 frame medium with frames. They had a $10 off coupon for one of them, so I took the chance and ordered them. I can't buy 10 frames/foundation for $39 so I had nothing to lose. Very happy with my purchase. The boxes were a little difficult to hammer together because they had so much wax on them. I started them and then took them apart and cleared the wax out of the way before I continued so that I didn't split the wood. After a little effort they went together nicely. I don't know if I really like the window, but I plan to use them and find out.

Congrats Bree from a fellow nurse and new beekeeper 👍🏽

is there a software to get the data directly from the weather station excluding the use of wunderground or weathercloud? I want to get the data into a personal data base in Linux or win.

*Hey Brian, it will turn around and get better. I feel like I am running in circles this year. Most of my queens are failing, swarming, no honey. It's a TEST year for many of us looks like. You have time to build them up. They will be good to go. Hate to see another worker in there.*

Someone walked away with my bees about a month ago. That's about as big a failure as it can get

Gotta do what you gotta do!

Hi Brian. Some times we have to think outside the box to fix some boxes.👍 Best of luck with the new queens, I get to check my new starts for eggs today.🤞Blessed Days Brian... Even if there is a queen moving that frame of eggs over will give you more of that cross genetic vigger to the colony. I think it was Randy Oliver that I watched talking about it.

Good hives and not so good hives. I do the same and offset supers for venting. Simple way to cool hives.

Pivot!

I'd love to offset my supers but as much as it's been raining I'd be afraid I'd ruin the chance of getting any honey at all.

That worker brood comb made into drone sized cells is such a waste of comb. Had a hive do that with a drone laying queen (unmated or poorly mated) so no indication of multiple eggs in cells and no idea it was happening until it was capped off. Had to melt down three medium boxes of freshly drawn comb as a result. Could have possibly used those frames for honey supers but then I'd have to forever more keep track of them and that would be tedious. Hope those new queens turn things around.

Good luck with New Queens 😊

OUCH!! That hurt. That is going to cut into the honey crop for sure. But you will have some good queens going into next year. I'd suggest replacing some more of your older queens this late summer. Those old queens peter out or they swarm. You want honey, not problems. Have a good week.

Wow what a great video Brian. Such a good job telling the story of what is going on. I think you are on your way! Hope they pack in some good honey for you.

Brian, I have step backed the supers in the past, just make sure that you close the supers up when the nectar flow stops or you will get rob out. As far as the laying worker hive I have found that the best way to fix the problem is just shake the bees out in the grass away from the other hives and take parent hive away off the stand.

Looks like you are on your way now! We do a lot of newspaper combines with our resource hive nucs to get them queen right if we have an issue. The following weekend all the frames with her brood and eggs she had been laying in the nuc gets put in the big hive and the nuc box pulled off and supers put back on so there is no delay in bees hatching out. I thought I saw you still had some resource hives back there, it is sometimes tough to pull them but that's what they are there for. You still may consider pulling some frames from those resource hives of capped brood and boosting those hives with the new queens. The season isn't over yet! Thanks for sharing Brian

Were your colonies equalized at the beginning of Spring?

Are u leaving a small gap on all your colonies above the excluder ?? And what about robbing ?? And when do you remove the gap ??

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed seeing a lot of hives inspected rather quickly, and the information condensed well.

Give that small colony a frame of capped brood give them a boost

Give that small colony a frame of capped brood give them a boost

You gonna like this system better I’m up in Canada and I do the same method you only need two box when your in swarm season that will kill that urge to swarm I will be dropping mine down areound June 30 when I make my nucs