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Fun video. Beautiful country. “Label Putter Onner” lol. We all need one of those. Good stuff my friend and good luck in the almonds.

I love mine. Its a game changer. No more cords, inverters etc.

Nice comparison. Some commercial beekeepers say that the compact is faster in good weather but is a little bit slower once it's cold outside.

Love how you show everything raw and honest. Looks so dry and cold. Nice mountains in the background- how far are they away from you in that last shot?

haha you got us with your label makers was waiting to see a big machine lol

I guess they’re okay if you need them. Thanks!

Summer, Fall, Winter. I get it now! Nice video. We are still in the 80s here and super dry. No significant rain since Helene.

What are those mite treatment tablets you were trying?

Hey Bracken…call them A-tabs. I bet they take the A-tabs done in a couple 3 weeks. If they don’t, leave it for them to finish in the spring. And yes, it’s ideal if you put a feeding shim on top so lids will seal up.

I think Beekeepers have the best Offices. I Dropped the Apitablets on mine about a week ago just before this last rain storm we got, I'm mostly using them for an "All-In-One Vitamin Pack" for Fall. I have not checked if they have consumed them all or not yet, I'll check when I put on my Winter Feeding Shims. Thanks for sharing your time, Blessed Days...

Give us update. That place looks beautiful !

I watch a video of the Canadian Bee keeper and he said the compact vaporizer takes a little longer to recover than the one you have, especially in the cold weather, so it uses more battery power. Just a taught. I use the tablets also, i find some bees will eat them up and some will eat at them slowly. I did notice mite drop on the sticky boards when i put them in so i like them and they do provide food for the bees also , so i quess it's a win win. Thanks for sharing.👍👍👍

Good stuff Bracken. Those first colonies were very nice. Will be interesting to see how those colonies up on the mountain do.

Where can I get those gloves???

4:41 what is small paper yellow & red purpose?

Bees are looking good!

Hey Brian thank you for sharing. Please protect your lungs,do it for your children.

Bracken I can’t help it sweetie…the momma in me is really worried about you doing OA with no respirator on!! Please take care of your lungs..you only have one pair!! Sorry for nagging..just can’t help it! Thanks for the video! Dennis and I always enjoy watching!

Man everyone is fancy with their cordless Vaporizes😁that'll get the job done.

I think you should put 2 gallon inside feeders with little bit of honey bee healthy to encourage the taking and add some fondant.

Lovin it bud! Keep it up

Put cleats on your boxes, will never drop a box like that again.

Too bad about the box!! Nice recovery!

During late October last year, I had a colony that was so infected with mites that it developed what I'm sure was parasitic mite syndrome. The cluster was so tiny I didn't expect it to make it through winter. I gave the colony OA vapor mite treatments three weeks in a row in October/November and continued one OA treatment every month through January, then one more in March. The colony survived and came out much healthier in the spring. But you have a much larger operation than I do so maybe this isn't a sensible option for you. - Darren

The queen is at 3:46 xD

I had 2 hives re-Queen themselves recently. 1 in late Sept and the other in the middle of Oct. I’ve seen the Sept Queen and she looks great and laying. I checked on the Oct queen yesterday and didn’t see her but did see eggs. 🤞🏻 it’s not a laying worker (only 1 egg in the cell and it was dead center in the bottom of the cell)

The new queen was visible at 3.56 on the frame.

I've almost done that also LOL. Good looking bees.

Great feeling to graft then watch them produce for you. Awesome

Great video showing real beekeeping. I just also had a pleasant surprise on a hive that I thought had no chance of successfully requeening itself in Michigan in September, but they did 🤞

You got me beat. I thought I was bad with 41 mites. This was up from seven prior to treatment with Apiguard. Don't know what happened, but I had more than one that there were more mites after treatment. Yet, there were others that the mites were completely knocked out. In the midst now of doing OA every 4 days for the next month. And snow is not far off here in N. Idaho.

Don't beat yourself up too badly!!! Most of us have been there and done that! If you think its bad now, wait another 40-50 years.

With those colonies that are “mite bombs” is there a way to save that colony? My thought process is that we should try to save all bees, but maybe the deadly viruses have spread and the colony is doomed regardless of treatment?

Good morning, the first hive with 0 varroa. is she VSH, SMR. if so: raise queens on it!.... 🤔 Grumpy >> but 0 varroa Thank you for your very informative videos. 👍

Yeah man that’s tough. I have been having some mite problems as well. I say hit them hard with OAV and see what happens. Thanks for sharing. This shows the importance of checking for mites. You done know what you are dealing with until you check.

so is the field sloped so the water runs to the other end of the field

Worldwide beekeepers problem. Mites

Oav dose every 3 days for 24 days

OAV is all yah got now!

👋😁

Interesting. Our winter wheat is 3” tall now, rained just right to start it out in SE Michigan. I thought we’d be a lot farther behind in our season than yours. One of our best investments was a used seed tender (maybe after your house gets built 😉).

That is so dang cool!

is that two different driveways where you started planting the wheat field and do you have to irrigate seen the water ditches and green pipe sticking up out of the ground.

That boat looks very neglected my friend 😮 should fire it up instead of the tractor😁

Are you going to be preparing any hives for winter? Or are they all going to California? Just wondering how you do it so I can try to increase my success

Glad you’re growing bees and keeping after those mites! I’m sure your friend is happy the hives went to you 🤞