New beekeeper here in KY USA. The fall time bee attitude change was something I didn't expect! Made me feel much better about the attitude of one of my hives once I learned that it's normal for them to increase defensivenes this time of year.
Hi Laurence. I tend to run my bees on double brood boxes. Just wondering how I would condense a double brood configuration into a single box? How to move the bees down without leaving and brood behind?
I can see you are mainly using Poly hives, both brood and supers. Have you compared the production rates of poly brood with wooden supers over full poly?
@@BlackMountainHoney Thanks I'm considering building an insulated nation brood box and questioning the need to insulate the supers. Also hoping to use some temp sensors to compare winter solar gain vs less hive heat loss with an insulated brood vox vs uninsulated
Thanks for risking your hands for this! September feeding is a tricky balance and I always worry. I can easily put 10kg of sugar into my national brood and a half’s. Do you have number of kgs you ease off on? Fantastic videos BTW.
I've never really weighed them to keep records but I heft all the way through August and Sept. I've just bought a hive scale so will do some formal recordings next year to look at the fluctuations in weight throughout the year
Completely varies. Some have brood breaks now. Some are on 10 frames of brood! ARGH. I like to see at least 3-4 frames of brood in both nucs and full colonies around now
@@BlackMountainHoney what triggers the brood break? We thought we went queenless because no eggs or larvae seen (capped brood only) so I installed a new queen only to find the old one there at the next inspection, she was laying then too.
Have bad luck this year with my hive, had to replace queen, bees coming and going pollen coming in.. but the question, is it worth try save my hive. Put them into nuc, hope the best, what's left of it
@@BlackMountainHoney by the looks of your videos i guess it is easier - more efficient your style of beekeeping. bigger...stronger colonies (formed with boxes...)
New beekeeper here in KY USA. The fall time bee attitude change was something I didn't expect! Made me feel much better about the attitude of one of my hives once I learned that it's normal for them to increase defensivenes this time of year.
Yes. They can really become nasty. Once they are well fed and its colder they become pussycats again!
Hi Laurence. I tend to run my bees on double brood boxes. Just wondering how I would condense a double brood configuration into a single box? How to move the bees down without leaving and brood behind?
hi i'm in west of ireland i put a bit of protein in my 2 to1 mix i've still got a flow here, great vid's
Yes. Strange year. Strong HB and Ivy flow this week. Saving me money every day the sun shines
I can see you are mainly using Poly hives, both brood and supers. Have you compared the production rates of poly brood with wooden supers over full poly?
I've not run any comparisons and I'd say the production benefits are marginal. Spring build up and overwintering size is a noticeable difference
@@BlackMountainHoney Thanks I'm considering building an insulated nation brood box and questioning the need to insulate the supers. Also hoping to use some temp sensors to compare winter solar gain vs less hive heat loss with an insulated brood vox vs uninsulated
Thanks for risking your hands for this! September feeding is a tricky balance and I always worry. I can easily put 10kg of sugar into my national brood and a half’s. Do you have number of kgs you ease off on? Fantastic videos BTW.
I've never really weighed them to keep records but I heft all the way through August and Sept. I've just bought a hive scale so will do some formal recordings next year to look at the fluctuations in weight throughout the year
Think I need to pull some stores frames and replace with empty drawn comb, as after condensing down there was not much brood frames.
As long as there is 4-5 frames of brood/space then they should be OK
10 frames of stores is not good in Sept
Was just about to ask how many frames of brood would you expect to see in a nuc or an 11 frame hive now?
Completely varies. Some have brood breaks now. Some are on 10 frames of brood! ARGH. I like to see at least 3-4 frames of brood in both nucs and full colonies around now
@@BlackMountainHoney what triggers the brood break? We thought we went queenless because no eggs or larvae seen (capped brood only) so I installed a new queen only to find the old one there at the next inspection, she was laying then too.
@@SageandStoneHomestead if there is a lack of forage to feed larvae the Queen will stop laying
@@SageandStoneHomestead Just a natural thing they do to get ready for winter. Helps them cope with varroa as well. Some do. Some don't.
@@won2winit they are on a goldenrod and smartweed flow, lots of stuff coming in the door!
It is interesting that they sometimes do that.
Have bad luck this year with my hive, had to replace queen, bees coming and going pollen coming in.. but the question, is it worth try save my hive. Put them into nuc, hope the best, what's left of it
What is left of it? Number of frames of bees and brood?
@@BlackMountainHoney one frame, of bees.. no brood yet. Pass couple days ago I just replace queen
@@davidstephens4763 Eek. Doesn't sound good. Do you have other colonies? Id shake them out.
@@BlackMountainHoney no lost others, only able save one...
@@davidstephens4763 Oh dear. Best of luck. Get them dummied down. Feed them well. Hope for the best 👌
Are you familiar also with european AŽ system of hives?
Yes it looks cool. Ill add it to the list
@@BlackMountainHoney by the looks of your videos i guess it is easier - more efficient your style of beekeeping. bigger...stronger colonies (formed with boxes...)
FIRST YEAR NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH WASP