Awesome stuff Jason. I set the first 3 boxes as 5 frames and will add the other 5 frames when the girls get the first 5 filled out (want to battle the chances of queen wanting to leave and not get too much for the girls to have to fill out right of. I will be doing a video on finished set up in the next few days as bees will be here in just a few days :) thanks Jason for all of your advice. and will you have that you could send me later?
Thanks Jason. That's exactly what I was looking to hear. There are ten tons of "what should you do" videos, but not so many "when should you do it" videos. I appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos.
Hi Jason - some good tips there. I just put some dry pollen out ( Ultra Bee - I love that stuff ) today when I saw the girls out in the yard hitting up some weeds not sure what it was but they have tiny white flowers on it. I also noticed them making a bee-line for a patch of woods to the south of me not sure whats over there but the are bringing something back. This is my 3rd Year & happy to report all my colonies are doing well so far. I hope I don't jinx them :)
3rd year beekeeper here. I've got 2 mentors with over 20 years of experience helping me but I look forward to your weekly videos. It helps me gain other perspectives on what and when to do. Keep it the videos coming!
Thanks for the tips. Hope all is good with you and yours. Today was 28 degrees and all 5 of my hives were flying. Sun hitting the tar paper must have fired them up. I’m in Tully, NY so ours temps are probably close to yours. Nicer days are coming. Downloaded Google Keep and used it today for my pictures and notes. Thanks again.
I am a new beekeeper and I like the way you explain things mate, thanks a lot. been learning a lot from people like you, Second year of beekeeping and I am gonna need to raise queens this year for my splits. 21 hives going to winter, 19 made it till now.
Thanks. I try to make myself stand out from others by making my video easy to understand. Congrats on the 19 making it through winter. You'll have to checkout my queen rearing playlist, it's called "JC's Queen Rearing Series".
2nd year beekeeper here as well. This answers a bunch of questions that I have been wondering about. My biggest concern was when to do first inspections and pull the remainder of the sugar fondant bricks out, and when to start feeding syrup in the hive top feeders. I have had dry pollen substitute out around the yard for a few weeks. I figured that the bees would find it and get what they need. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. Being in southern Indiana, we're not that far apart in latitude.
Thanks Jason! Timely advise for all of us 2nd year beekeepers. A whole new experience coming out of winter with bees. Gonna take advantage of the 60 degree weather the next couple days and hit all my hives with Apivar strips and maybe help them clean up the bottom boards a bit. Thanks again.
We're in Texas. The bees don't stop making brood because we don't have a real winter. We had a ridiculous, unheard of blue northern two weeks ago. We lost a hive because they clustered over the brood and starved. Weird for Texas. We don't feed them protein because they don't need it or take it anyways. We're syrup feeding splits already. The daffodils are out and so are the clovers and wild carrots. We have split over crowded hives and suppered others already. The trees like maple won't bloom again this year because of the late freeze. We're zone 8a. We do walk away splits because queens aren't available in late Feb or early March when our bees are over crowded and ready to swarm. 4 frames of bees are needed to keep warm at night in our winters I have 90% to 100% success with walk away splits here in North East Texas in our spring. If they fail I just recombine them with the original hive.
I gave my hive some foundationless frames a week or so ago and I just checked them. Two of the frames are drawn with almost completely drone comb and one frame is filled with drone brood of all ages. I panicked until I saw a couple full frames of worker brood. My question is what do I do with a frame full of drones? Should I just let them be? Feed them to the chickens? Move them to the outside of the box in hopes the bees use them for storage after the drones emerge?
@Mark Lowry I would not panic, it's natural for drones to be raised this early. Without drones virgins could not get mated. If you want to support queens in your area being mated I would leave the drone brood alone. If they keep going bonkers with drone brood then I would be concerned. Did you add a bunch of foundationless frames at once? Are they checkerboarded with frames of foundation?
Thank you for excelent content. Sory about my english I am from middle europe - Slovakia. But please ... when and how you start queen raring? I am 4. year hobby beekeeper, this year with losses about 80 percent. Ending with 3 colonies for now. Just dont know how to recover. For next winter I am planing to winter with 9 hives and may be 6 backup wintering nucs. This is my backup plan to survive my wintering ratio :) next time. I have experiences in splitting and swarm catching ... but no experiences with queen rearing. How many fails did you experience before first sucess in queen rising. Do you thing it is good idea to try it as backup strategy for this my lost honey year? When I collect 5 - 6 frame starter how long can I play with it to try make some queens? Thank you.
Great advice. We are so far north in the Upper Peninsula Michigan, that the locust trees won’t grow. The last tree you can find is about 200 miles south of here on i75. Thanks for sharing. ☮️-Kirsten
Great informational video! I find myself in the same situation as you are with locust blooms. Mine is with pollen counts. They are really high all around me but in East TN in the Tennessee Valley, we still have very low pollen counts.
I remember waiting on my first package to be ready for pickup years ago, it felt like time was dragging and April would never get here. At the same time I was very nervous. Now I am addicted to beekeeping and have several hives. Best of luck with your bees and make sure to subscribe to see my newest videos.
Bees have been gathering pollen for a week in Springfield, IL. Opened last week and colonies have 3 frames of brood and lots of bees. Also drone brood.
It's best to use a couple treatment for mites that way they don't become immune to just one treatment method. That said, I like oxalic acid vaporizer treatments and Mite Away Quick Strips (MAQS).
Hey Jason! Let’s revisit the FDA approval of OA treatment. There’s some bad info spreading around. I showed him what I was told to buy OA pharmaceutical grade - 99.8% . Our state bee inspector about flipped . He said and showed me the strength of OA that is approved. 88.6% and either use dribble method or vaporizer. After he inspected my hives for mites and found one mite from a total sampling from 9 hives . I have three hives struggling . He found that those hives have European foulbrood . I have to destroy those combs and disinfect the hive bodies with bleach water . I guess this comes with the territory!
A walk away is just that, You make a split (brood frames in all stages , stored food and lots of nurse bees) then once the bees realize they are without a queen they will in theory raise their own from larva in the brood frames.
If you are going to do walk-away splits then you need to do it when the hive is getting near looking to swarm. Also you need to make sure you have plenty of drones as the bees will not raise a queen if you do not, even though they won't mate with your drones. I have had nearly a 100% success rate with them, but you must wait until the hive is ready to split itself. Too many beeks are guilty of treating drones as an unnecessary load on the hive, if we all thought like that there would be no drones to mate with the queens, you should have between 15 and 20% drones in your hive at peak mating season.
@Trevor Marron You are a 100% right that drones are needed and you should watch your hives drone population as a guide to how other colonies in a area a raising them. Usually my bees are rearing drone in the next few weeks which allows me to graft at middle to end of May. I also agree that making walk away splits is best when the colony is preparing to swarm. In my opinion any other time can be a waste.
Oh boy. I just got done feeding syrup and pollen patties to all my hives. Last year I didn't get enough syrup on them before winter and all my hives are light. Had to block off several hives due to robbing. Forecast is 60 F for the next 3-4 days so I gave them food to hold them over for a couple of weeks. I will cut off the food before it cools off and hope they don't get dripped on to much. All 7 hives are alive and kicking and most look strong. If they would of had more stores I'd have waited. Kind of a juggling act with bees.
Feed sugar bricks, just sugar, blitz with some water until it turns to snow, cook in oven until all moisture gone. Keeps them going, it’s over brood, no risk.
3ed year beekeeper and here is my question, I wintered over with a deep brood box and 2 supers packed full of honey inspected the supers the other day and the top super is 100% honey and lower super is 50% . Can I harvest the top box? I live in north Texas high's in the 60-70 lows in 40. Lots of pollen being brought in. Thanks
@Michael Mueller Log books are nice but only when you take the time to enter the information. lol That's my biggest issue getting the info wrote down somewhere. Do you know where Utica is? I am about 20 minutes from there. In the RUclips world we are neighbors! :)
When you are considering doing a split, do you order the new queen and do the split when she arrives, or do the split and let them go without a queen a few days so they might be more likely to accept her?
Do the split and let them go without a queen for a few days. Once the queen’s phermones are no longer present, they’ll be more receptive to a new queen.
I do not agree with Ted. Put new queen in with just brood frames and nurse bees and queen will be accepted. It is the old forger bees that do not like a new queen, so leave the old colony where it is with the old queen and forgers.
My plan is to get 10 nucs this spring (1st week of may) let them build up for a month should be dang near 2 deep full of brood. If I can't find the queen I will gently shake all the bees from top box to bottom box then put on queen excluder. I will come back next day and take 2 brood full of nurse bees and 2 resources (1 pollen and the other honey) and I have some drawn empty comb for the 5th frame in a new 5 frame nuc. My plan is to order 10 queens piror for these hives from the same lady who supplies my nucs. I want the hives to be queenless for no more than 24hrs before putting the new queen in.
@Douglas Wolfgang We all have our own methods but I personally would suggest you order the queen then make split 24 hour before installing her. In most cases you will get a tracking number so you know when it's arriving. The 24 hour period will allow for acceptance, to allow any longer is just not needed. I also agree if @Plain & Simple's suggestion if you can't make the split 24 hours ahead of adding queen. But you must know how to transfer only nurse bees for this to work.
Thx for great tips. I may have lost a colony cuz I added sub pollen too early. Colony lost numbers then it got cold. I'll split my existing colonies and recoop hopefully. Best laid plans. Also Bro Adam queens are alittle mean.
Good morning Jason great video I’m here in Columbus Ohio I’m a third-year beekeeper. I went into winter with 7 hives double deeps and one nuke so far so good I fed sugar bricks over winter when should I start taking them off I am feeding some substitute away from the hives. And thanks for your great video really helped me a lot
Great info buddy. We are starting to see some maple pollen and some orange pollen coming in southern Ohio. Can you do a video on things to watch for early (starving, swarm control or anything else you can think of). Thanks for sharing.
great info.... as always. I've had great results with my walk away splits. I get what you're saying though. much higher rate of success with the 30 dollar purchase of a queen. When are you going to get some bee friendly shirts? What's with all the black colored gear? I want my girls to like your merch as much as I do
@MichaelJRicke Glad to hear you had great results with your walk away's, sometime it does go well. It just find when you rely on walk away as you only method of producing queens it will catch up to you sooner or later. Also I don't think purchasing a mated queen is the only option, there are numerous methods to rear your own queens right in your backyard, why not use one or them? I only buy mated queens when I am in a pinch. lol I want to thank you for bringing the lack of color in my merch to my attention. WOW, most everything in there was black. lol I started to make some changes last night and will continue too over the next few days. If you take a look now you will find several color options. Thanks again!
Good Morning Jason....we have 4-5 good 60+ degree days coming....I’m putting some Apivar in my hives....also building 5-swarm traps for the inevitable...warm days are coming brother....just hang in there....
Yes and I'd love to see you over there. It's currently around $5 with my coupon code. (Lifetime Membership) Beekeeping Blueprint Community with code (JASON): community.beekeepingblueprint.com/checkout/community-access
Bonkers ain't the word for it went from a single eight to a triple eight lower frames eight frames of brews second level 8 frames of brood she will be hel to keep in
@Brian Leach Wow, your on the ball! I haven't started doing anything yet but offering pollen sub in a bee yard feeder. Not sure how many I lost just yet but there is a few for sure. Are you local?
@@JCsBees I live in Jackson ohio I lost 7 out of 9 so I have started putting out traps all ready and I need all the help I can get second year I. Bee's so I'm still green you know lol
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Awesome stuff Jason. I set the first 3 boxes as 5 frames and will add the other 5 frames when the girls get the first 5 filled out (want to battle the chances of queen wanting to leave and not get too much for the girls to have to fill out right of. I will be doing a video on finished set up in the next few days as bees will be here in just a few days :) thanks Jason for all of your advice. and will you have that you could send me later?
Thanks Jason. That's exactly what I was looking to hear. There are ten tons of "what should you do" videos, but not so many "when should you do it" videos. I appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Jason - some good tips there. I just put some dry pollen out ( Ultra Bee - I love that stuff ) today when I saw the girls out in the yard hitting up some weeds not sure what it was but they have tiny white flowers on it. I also noticed them making a bee-line for a patch of woods to the south of me not sure whats over there but the are bringing something back. This is my 3rd Year & happy to report all my colonies are doing well so far. I hope I don't jinx them :)
Very helpful Thanks JC
No problem 👍
No problem 👍
3rd year beekeeper here. I've got 2 mentors with over 20 years of experience helping me but I look forward to your weekly videos. It helps me gain other perspectives on what and when to do. Keep it the videos coming!
Your very fortunate. I mentioned the need for a mentor on bee club live chat Monday night, and got ZIP. Just to busy to help a first yearer I guess.
Thanks for the tips. Hope all is good with you and yours. Today was 28 degrees and all 5 of my hives were flying. Sun hitting the tar paper must have fired them up. I’m in Tully, NY so ours temps are probably close to yours. Nicer days are coming. Downloaded Google Keep and used it today for my pictures and notes. Thanks again.
P.S. Downloaded Google Keep and tried it out today.
As always great information! Thankyou from Massachusetts.
Thanks for watching!
I am a new beekeeper and I like the way you explain things mate, thanks a lot.
been learning a lot from people like you, Second year of beekeeping and I am gonna need to raise queens this year for my splits.
21 hives going to winter, 19 made it till now.
Thanks. I try to make myself stand out from others by making my video easy to understand. Congrats on the 19 making it through winter.
You'll have to checkout my queen rearing playlist, it's called "JC's Queen Rearing Series".
2nd year beekeeper here as well. This answers a bunch of questions that I have been wondering about. My biggest concern was when to do first inspections and pull the remainder of the sugar fondant bricks out, and when to start feeding syrup in the hive top feeders. I have had dry pollen substitute out around the yard for a few weeks. I figured that the bees would find it and get what they need. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. Being in southern Indiana, we're not that far apart in latitude.
Thanks you JC and by living some what close to you your tips and when to do things really help
Thanks Jason! Timely advise for all of us 2nd year beekeepers. A whole new experience coming out of winter with bees. Gonna take advantage of the 60 degree weather the next couple days and hit all my hives with Apivar strips and maybe help them clean up the bottom boards a bit. Thanks again.
Always good sound advise, thanks Jason.
Good information! Thanks for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the video and refrencing the temps and trees. I will be able to use this in my area of southern Ontario.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the video Jason. Being a 2nd year bee keeper it was very timely and helpful. Thank you for the help!
Glad it helped!
We're in Texas. The bees don't stop making brood because we don't have a real winter. We had a ridiculous, unheard of blue northern two weeks ago. We lost a hive because they clustered over the brood and starved. Weird for Texas. We don't feed them protein because they don't need it or take it anyways. We're syrup feeding splits already. The daffodils are out and so are the clovers and wild carrots. We have split over crowded hives and suppered others already. The trees like maple won't bloom again this year because of the late freeze. We're zone 8a. We do walk away splits because queens aren't available in late Feb or early March when our bees are over crowded and ready to swarm. 4 frames of bees are needed to keep warm at night in our winters I have 90% to 100% success with walk away splits here in North East Texas in our spring. If they fail I just recombine them with the original hive.
Thanks man. This is purely a hobby for me (and my wife fights every minute of it) but I would love nothing more than to do this full-time.
Best of luck!
I gave my hive some foundationless frames a week or so ago and I just checked them. Two of the frames are drawn with almost completely drone comb and one frame is filled with drone brood of all ages. I panicked until I saw a couple full frames of worker brood.
My question is what do I do with a frame full of drones? Should I just let them be? Feed them to the chickens? Move them to the outside of the box in hopes the bees use them for storage after the drones emerge?
@Mark Lowry I would not panic, it's natural for drones to be raised this early. Without drones virgins could not get mated. If you want to support queens in your area being mated I would leave the drone brood alone. If they keep going bonkers with drone brood then I would be concerned.
Did you add a bunch of foundationless frames at once? Are they checkerboarded with frames of foundation?
@@JCsBees -- I added 4 foundationless frames and 2 with waxed plastic foundation. And I more or less checkerboarded them in.
Thanks for the information
Thank you for excelent content. Sory about my english I am from middle europe - Slovakia. But please ... when and how you start queen raring? I am 4. year hobby beekeeper, this year with losses about 80 percent. Ending with 3 colonies for now. Just dont know how to recover. For next winter I am planing to winter with 9 hives and may be 6 backup wintering nucs. This is my backup plan to survive my wintering ratio :) next time. I have experiences in splitting and swarm catching ... but no experiences with queen rearing. How many fails did you experience before first sucess in queen rising. Do you thing it is good idea to try it as backup strategy for this my lost honey year? When I collect 5 - 6 frame starter how long can I play with it to try make some queens?
Thank you.
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Great advice. We are so far north in the Upper Peninsula Michigan, that the locust trees won’t grow. The last tree you can find is about 200 miles south of here on i75.
Thanks for sharing.
☮️-Kirsten
Great informational video! I find myself in the same situation as you are with locust blooms. Mine is with pollen counts. They are really high all around me but in East TN in the Tennessee Valley, we still have very low pollen counts.
I’m new to your channel and new to beekeeping. My first bee package arrives in April. Thanks for your videos.
I remember waiting on my first package to be ready for pickup years ago, it felt like time was dragging and April would never get here. At the same time I was very nervous. Now I am addicted to beekeeping and have several hives. Best of luck with your bees and make sure to subscribe to see my newest videos.
Great video, I order a queen castle from Kellybees. So this year will be my first trying to graph and make my own queens 😎
Bees have been gathering pollen for a week in Springfield, IL. Opened last week and colonies have 3 frames of brood and lots of bees. Also drone brood.
As I approach my 1sy Year Anniversary on Earth Day this is a Most Timely video. Thank You
Awesome! Glad the video was helpful. Make sure to subscribe to see my new releases.
I have a question. What is the best mite treatment in your opinion?
It's best to use a couple treatment for mites that way they don't become immune to just one treatment method. That said, I like oxalic acid vaporizer treatments and Mite Away Quick Strips (MAQS).
Good video. You didn't mention the approximate time you start doing mite checks. I am in the same climate as you so just curious.
Mite checks should be done as soon as weather permits then followed by a treatment if needed.
Hey Jason! Let’s revisit the FDA approval of OA treatment. There’s some bad info spreading around. I showed him what I was told to buy OA pharmaceutical grade - 99.8% . Our state bee inspector about flipped . He said and showed me the strength of OA that is approved. 88.6% and either use dribble method or vaporizer. After he inspected my hives for mites and found one mite from a total sampling from 9 hives . I have three hives struggling . He found that those hives have European foulbrood . I have to destroy those combs and disinfect the hive bodies with bleach water . I guess this comes with the territory!
Sorry for a typo- I meant 97% . Some RUclipsrs were suggesting the 99.8% OA .
Could you explain what a walk away split is Jason
A walk away is just that, You make a split (brood frames in all stages , stored food and lots of nurse bees) then once the bees realize they are without a queen they will in theory raise their own from larva in the brood frames.
So when do you do mite control?
Mite control is something that needs to be done pretty much all season or else the mite population gets very high and your bees will get sick.
If you are going to do walk-away splits then you need to do it when the hive is getting near looking to swarm. Also you need to make sure you have plenty of drones as the bees will not raise a queen if you do not, even though they won't mate with your drones. I have had nearly a 100% success rate with them, but you must wait until the hive is ready to split itself.
Too many beeks are guilty of treating drones as an unnecessary load on the hive, if we all thought like that there would be no drones to mate with the queens, you should have between 15 and 20% drones in your hive at peak mating season.
@Trevor Marron You are a 100% right that drones are needed and you should watch your hives drone population as a guide to how other colonies in a area a raising them. Usually my bees are rearing drone in the next few weeks which allows me to graft at middle to end of May.
I also agree that making walk away splits is best when the colony is preparing to swarm. In my opinion any other time can be a waste.
Oh boy. I just got done feeding syrup and pollen patties to all my hives. Last year I didn't get enough syrup on them before winter and all my hives are light. Had to block off several hives due to robbing. Forecast is 60 F for the next 3-4 days so I gave them food to hold them over for a couple of weeks. I will cut off the food before it cools off and hope they don't get dripped on to much. All 7 hives are alive and kicking and most look strong. If they would of had more stores I'd have waited. Kind of a juggling act with bees.
Feed sugar bricks, just sugar, blitz with some water until it turns to snow, cook in oven until all moisture gone. Keeps them going, it’s over brood, no risk.
@@liamaiden2313 Thanks Liam. I did that also but I didn't like the robbing I was observing. This kept them busy doing something else besides robbing.
Any suggestions on spring oxalic acid timming? Thanks
3ed year beekeeper and here is my question, I wintered over with a deep brood box and 2 supers packed full of honey inspected the supers the other day and the top super is 100% honey and lower super is 50% . Can I harvest the top box? I live in north Texas high's in the 60-70 lows in 40. Lots of pollen being brought in. Thanks
I got a log book. I’m in central Ohio, Groveport area. Thanks for your advice ❤️✝️
@Michael Mueller Log books are nice but only when you take the time to enter the information. lol That's my biggest issue getting the info wrote down somewhere.
Do you know where Utica is? I am about 20 minutes from there. In the RUclips world we are neighbors! :)
@@JCsBees yup I know its whereabouts. I’m joining the Central Ohio Beekeepers Organization. My bees will be ready the last week of April.
Marion County, OH here. Appreciate the videos, this will be my first year starting down this road.
How many frames of bees does a frame of brood make
When you are considering doing a split, do you order the new queen and do the split when she arrives, or do the split and let them go without a queen a few days so they might be more likely to accept her?
Do the split and let them go without a queen for a few days. Once the queen’s phermones are no longer present, they’ll be more receptive to a new queen.
I do not agree with Ted. Put new queen in with just brood frames and nurse bees and queen will be accepted. It is the old forger bees that do not like a new queen, so leave the old colony where it is with the old queen and forgers.
My plan is to get 10 nucs this spring (1st week of may) let them build up for a month should be dang near 2 deep full of brood. If I can't find the queen I will gently shake all the bees from top box to bottom box then put on queen excluder. I will come back next day and take 2 brood full of nurse bees and 2 resources (1 pollen and the other honey) and I have some drawn empty comb for the 5th frame in a new 5 frame nuc. My plan is to order 10 queens piror for these hives from the same lady who supplies my nucs. I want the hives to be queenless for no more than 24hrs before putting the new queen in.
@Douglas Wolfgang We all have our own methods but I personally would suggest you order the queen then make split 24 hour before installing her. In most cases you will get a tracking number so you know when it's arriving. The 24 hour period will allow for acceptance, to allow any longer is just not needed.
I also agree if @Plain & Simple's suggestion if you can't make the split 24 hours ahead of adding queen. But you must know how to transfer only nurse bees for this to work.
@Noah Gainer Sounds like a awesome plan! Your bee yard is gonna grow very fast!
"Pollen and surrp" 😆
Thx for great tips. I may have lost a colony cuz I added sub pollen too early. Colony lost numbers then it got cold. I'll split my existing colonies and recoop hopefully. Best laid plans. Also Bro Adam queens are alittle mean.
Great info.
Last season was my 2nd season. I made 3 walk away splits and all were succsessful. Maybe just dumb luck.
@86offroad Glad to hear the walk aways worked for you, that's not usually the case.
Good morning Jason great video I’m here in Columbus Ohio I’m a third-year beekeeper. I went into winter with 7 hives double deeps and one nuke so far so good I fed sugar bricks over winter when should I start taking them off I am feeding some substitute away from the hives. And thanks for your great video really helped me a lot
Holy smokes here in south Mississippi we making splits now yall can keep the cold 🥶
You can keep the hot...
Great info buddy. We are starting to see some maple pollen and some orange pollen coming in southern Ohio. Can you do a video on things to watch for early (starving, swarm control or anything else you can think of). Thanks for sharing.
Just being in Cincinnati what a difference. Pollen sub tomorrow. Maples blooming and pollen coming in.
Bee Plus is a phone app that is useful to me.
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Nice advice. Not certain we might be one to two weeks behind. The pussywillows started 4 days ago.
great info.... as always. I've had great results with my walk away splits. I get what you're saying though. much higher rate of success with the 30 dollar purchase of a queen.
When are you going to get some bee friendly shirts? What's with all the black colored gear? I want my girls to like your merch as much as I do
@MichaelJRicke Glad to hear you had great results with your walk away's, sometime it does go well. It just find when you rely on walk away as you only method of producing queens it will catch up to you sooner or later. Also I don't think purchasing a mated queen is the only option, there are numerous methods to rear your own queens right in your backyard, why not use one or them? I only buy mated queens when I am in a pinch. lol
I want to thank you for bringing the lack of color in my merch to my attention. WOW, most everything in there was black. lol I started to make some changes last night and will continue too over the next few days. If you take a look now you will find several color options. Thanks again!
i need some help. when you rotate the brood boxes can i put a queen excluder between the brood boxs?
Why would you want excluder between brood boxes and not between brood boxes and supers? I rotate on my 1st inspection.
@@JCsBees trying to go to a singel brood box. should i not do it
Good Morning Jason....we have 4-5 good 60+ degree days coming....I’m putting some Apivar in my hives....also building 5-swarm traps for the inevitable...warm days are coming brother....just hang in there....
NE Oklahoma here. I'd say our schedule is about a month ahead. Give or take due to weather.
JC.... do you still have your private channel available? the one for $5
Yes and I'd love to see you over there. It's currently around $5 with my coupon code. (Lifetime Membership) Beekeeping Blueprint Community with code (JASON): community.beekeepingblueprint.com/checkout/community-access
In E TN I have production supers ready early, but hold off installing them until the wild cherry bloom fades.
Could you address Fall splits vs Spring?
I put on a little tiny pollen patty the other day I hope I don't regret it. 70°f next few days here in sw Iowa
It's a gamble but I hope it works out for you.
What planting zone are you in?
Six I believe.
@@JCsBees thank you! That puts your timing in perspective to here in Lakewood, Colorado. We're 5b, so pretty close. Thanks for all you do!
The one dislike was from a Varroa Mite.
@CB Bees I agree a mite but not voarra, this mite is human. lol
@@JCsBees Lol
thats a great deal for a nuk compared to my area up in the U.P. of Michigan lol to bad im far away.
JC this is a great video, I needed to here all of this !!!!!
Bonkers ain't the word for it went from a single eight to a triple eight lower frames eight frames of brews second level 8 frames of brood she will be hel to keep in
Jason christman I started feeding all ready how mine hives you lose this year I would like to meet up with you here soon
@Brian Leach Wow, your on the ball! I haven't started doing anything yet but offering pollen sub in a bee yard feeder. Not sure how many I lost just yet but there is a few for sure. Are you local?
@@JCsBees I live in Jackson ohio I lost 7 out of 9 so I have started putting out traps all ready and I need all the help I can get second year I. Bee's so I'm still green you know lol
@@JCsBees I going to put 13 traps up and sat my hive box's out next for trap's
@@JCsBees just remember I'm green now lol
this is my first year in bee keeping i like to have some honey got my hive threw winter n. e ohio
Sadly moisture killed my hives in south Akron
It looks cold up there.
pollen is flowing in california
@Kevin Jackson Yeah, as I mentioned I have a friend who lives out there and he's been sharing that there was a nectar flow.
@@JCsBees nectar is just starting in mariposa
Hi I sent you a email I'm need some information thanks