So after you combine them all like that and the queens battle it out do you go in and find the last queen and kill her and then just requeen everything?
@beefarmerjake that's a big state. I am curious how similar the conditions are to Baton Rouge. North of dallas, east of San Antonio, east Texas, corpus Christian ? Thanks
Love your channel, I'm just starting a small side operation in East Kentucky. Wanting to see how many hives I can run with no employees. Just trying to get to 100 for a start. Great to see what it's like in the big leagues. One Question, why are commercial beekeepers winter losses so damn high?!?! Not just you, but like you said 40% across the board. Is it just because you don't throw good time after weak colonies to try and fix them? Or is disease load higher because of number of colonies in a small area? Thanks for the videos, I'll be hanging around.
Many beekeepers don’t stay on top of mite load in the fall. My winter losses were actually quite low 6-8%. I include cell take in my losses so that adds 10-12% loss every year.
We made some that way as well! Just definitely slower. I wish we could keep every viable queen but our fall losses would only increase. I tested out a batch last year. A lot of them died or didn’t make grade for almonds…
After you drop the cells in the split. Some of the queens will not make it back. How do you handle those colonies, the time between if the queen did not get mated vs it becomes a drone layer
jake, I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for making and posting them. Have yall ever done this stack method and then introduced mated queens instead of cells? I was wondering about trying it in some outyards where I dont have the drone saturation of the home area....
Thanks for the great info. I'm a commercial beekeeper in CA and I'm going to try your method for splits. How long do you leave the bees stacked 7 high? Do you wait till the evening to move your splits to the new location?
Nice! Yes say we split them and stacked them on a Monday, we would stack them down Tuesday evening/night, move to a new yard, and drop a cell the next day!
Hey Jake how about an update on your dad's truck. How's it going try to catch you later Jake come and talk to your dad but I've been busy just like everybody else
excuse me, I'm writing to you with Google Translate, I don't know how understandable it is? I would be very happy to talk about beekeeping with you, I admire your videos, but you work with bees in a completely different way
please go in depth on the stack method of splitting
Thanks Jake! I enjoy your videos. Hope y'all have a great year.
Thanks! You too!
Really appreciate your content. Thanks!
I appreciate that!
Watched your video last year and did all mine this way this year it made the process so much easier and all colonies are looking great so thanks!
That’s awesome to hear!!
So after you combine them all like that and the queens battle it out do you go in and find the last queen and kill her and then just requeen everything?
Where are you getting your bottom boards\ pallets and lids from?
We build them
@ awesome I have no land or shop. Bummer
Will these splits make a normal harvest during your upcoming "Tallo" flow? Thanks
They won’t. About 30% what a strong colony would.
Great video...what is your location?
Texas!
@beefarmerjake that's a big state. I am curious how similar the conditions are to Baton Rouge.
North of dallas, east of San Antonio, east Texas, corpus Christian ? Thanks
Love your channel, I'm just starting a small side operation in East Kentucky. Wanting to see how many hives I can run with no employees. Just trying to get to 100 for a start. Great to see what it's like in the big leagues. One Question, why are commercial beekeepers winter losses so damn high?!?! Not just you, but like you said 40% across the board. Is it just because you don't throw good time after weak colonies to try and fix them? Or is disease load higher because of number of colonies in a small area? Thanks for the videos, I'll be hanging around.
Many beekeepers don’t stay on top of mite load in the fall. My winter losses were actually quite low 6-8%. I include cell take in my losses so that adds 10-12% loss every year.
Great video. I still make mine by pulling brood-old school I know, but t just can’t bring myself to kill off the queens. 😊
We made some that way as well! Just definitely slower. I wish we could keep every viable queen but our fall losses would only increase. I tested out a batch last year. A lot of them died or didn’t make grade for almonds…
Hello! would you be interested in how they kept bees? how do you prevent swarming?
Good video. When your workers are speaking spanish will you tell us what you said.
Can you talk about how you manage mites .. how you treat .. what you treat with and how often
After you drop the cells in the split. Some of the queens will not make it back. How do you handle those colonies, the time between if the queen did not get mated vs it becomes a drone layer
We make up pro nucs in each yard to cover around 10%. The idea is those will mate and we can plug them into colonies that didn’t take.
Do u sell nucs? Im south of Fort Worth
I do not.
jake, I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for making and posting them. Have yall ever done this stack method and then introduced mated queens instead of cells? I was wondering about trying it in some outyards where I dont have the drone saturation of the home area....
Thank you for watching! I personally haven’t, but I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t work.
How many splits do you do a season?
We split everything every spring!
That is an efficient way of making splits and it makes sense. Appreciate you sharing your details 😊 However, you Spanglish needs some help 🤓
lol I know enough to get into trouble😂 trying to learn SPANISH not Spanglish
Do you have many agressivo Africanized Bees on Tx?
Im from Brazil
Here all colonies are africanized
No we do not
Hello!
where can I order such a Bee dress? can you help me with it? it is not available here in Hungary.
The guy in jeans is crazy
Half of us usually wear jackets. It’s not too bad!
Please go into more depth too on splits … you mentioned dropping a cell.. do you do that instead of introducing a mated queen
Next video we’ll be putting some cells in
Thanks for the great info. I'm a commercial beekeeper in CA and I'm going to try your method for splits. How long do you leave the bees stacked 7 high? Do you wait till the evening to move your splits to the new location?
Nice! Yes say we split them and stacked them on a Monday, we would stack them down Tuesday evening/night, move to a new yard, and drop a cell the next day!
I like the look of your bee suit. What brand is it and do you like it? Thanks
It’s a Dadant partial vent! I love it! I’ve been using these for 4-5 years.
Hey Jake how about an update on your dad's truck. How's it going try to catch you later Jake come and talk to your dad but I've been busy just like everybody else
We’ve been very busy! The truck is on the back burner unfortunately. We’re going to do some major things to it though!
excuse me, I'm writing to you with Google Translate, I don't know how understandable it is? I would be very happy to talk about beekeeping with you, I admire your videos, but you work with bees in a completely different way