I’m always amazed at how fast you make the decisions on placing the different frames…. I’d be there second guessing every placement. 😵💫 Thanks for all the bee information you provide to us! I really appreciate your knowledge and willingness to share with the everyday Jo Blo beekeper! 🐝 🌲❤️😊
I see that you are putting another brood box on the 10 frame colonies and feeding them. Why not put on a queen excluder and let them be production colonies? Or are you having them build more brood frames for splits?
Checked my bugs today 31 May and they are filling up with orange dandelion pollen and actually crowding the nest with it . I removed a capped feed and put a empty in the middle for the queen . It was crazy windy but it warmer now and they are flying . I found a few of those light golden brassy workers and drones .(cordovan)?? It will be interesting to see what your golden queens produce thanks for the video
this is how i wanted to make up my nucs this year, but the bees were just too far ahead and i didnt have enough boxes to put them in >< next year i'll have it figured out! we hope.
We’re building nukes too, two frames of brood and one shaken, dropping a cell in and a smalls amount of feed, chestnut should start blooming next week so they should draw out all of the comb
Carrie is like a machine. Goes alot faster using strong units vs scraps of weak ones I'm sure .. just keep praying for the weather all we can do i need big hit just one time all I asked.. scrapped up 48 more suppers after dark tonight.. going to start pulling honey in the morning I have team ready to go .. black locust is hitting hard warmed back up 80s crazy nectar coming in
They are thread protectors Can be bought at industrial supply houses as well 2" measured on the outside We drill a 1 15/16 or 1 7/8 " hole so they are a snug fit Once painted the hole is slightly smaller as well as propolis builds up its smaller as well . You dont want loose or the rain gets in "
I love that configuration. It's better than 10 framers for my conditions. There's a beek here that works with medium 6 framers like that..gives him more options for the brood space. And for nomadic beekeeping.. imagine the number of queens = colonies that can travel on the seme trailer space instead of 10 frame boxes. Our flows are short and we extract many times to get different honeys. So we do a lot moving around. How much time you have before canola ?
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog l still can't imagine it. It's all done here... the earliest year l can remember. There will be 3 weeks, a month maybe of slow flow to keep them self... and then is total dearth until October. But my fall flow can last into new year. I had Heather still in flow around Christmas last year. It's getting stranger every year.. bees adapt and the beekeeper too. Good luck with the new bees
She's lucky. I used to have her jobs.. a work group leader.. but my German boss just stood there with a timer and took note of how fast we can work on every job. 3min for that, 4 for this. And then added and aspect us to do a yard at that speed and me to teach every new worker how to be fast... Ian don't get ideas 😂. Just joking. I know you're a different kind of business owner
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog everything is better than having to spend time and money on food for those kind of numbers. And a mix of all that must be good
It definately stimulates them and right now we are getting tons of wild and domestic fruit tree pollen as well . Dandelion pollen is orangeish in color
@@lenturtle7954 the timing difference is amazing. Same hemisphere and our fruits are already on trees. These days l'm eating cherries. Early apples will be ready soon.
I’m always amazed at how fast you make the decisions on placing the different frames…. I’d be there second guessing every placement. 😵💫 Thanks for all the bee information you provide to us! I really appreciate your knowledge and willingness to share with the everyday Jo Blo beekeper! 🐝 🌲❤️😊
I see that you are putting another brood box on the 10 frame colonies and feeding them. Why not put on a queen excluder and let them be production colonies? Or are you having them build more brood frames for splits?
Giving the queen space to lay. Next round we equilize before they are sent into the flow
Can you tell us what you're doing according to plant bloom time? Thanks
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Checked my bugs today 31 May and they are filling up with orange dandelion pollen and actually crowding the nest with it . I removed a capped feed and put a empty in the middle for the queen .
It was crazy windy but it warmer now and they are flying .
I found a few of those light golden brassy workers and drones .(cordovan)??
It will be interesting to see what your golden queens produce thanks for the video
this is how i wanted to make up my nucs this year, but the bees were just too far ahead and i didnt have enough boxes to put them in >< next year i'll have it figured out! we hope.
I adopted your way of making nucs a couple years ago with the 6 framers and it’s awesome. 😎
I tell ya for comb honey it's only way to go.. 10 frame just little to wide for comb honey
We’re building nukes too, two frames of brood and one shaken, dropping a cell in and a smalls amount of feed, chestnut should start blooming next week so they should draw out all of the comb
Carrie is like a machine. Goes alot faster using strong units vs scraps of weak ones I'm sure .. just keep praying for the weather all we can do i need big hit just one time all I asked.. scrapped up 48 more suppers after dark tonight.. going to start pulling honey in the morning I have team ready to go .. black locust is hitting hard warmed back up 80s crazy nectar coming in
Are you adding queens later to these Nucs or letting them make their own?
It looks like you have assigned positions for the type of frame you’re dropping. Is this correct? What are those assignments?
Foundation
Honey
Good brood
Second brood
Utility
Foundation
Hey Ian, able to point in a direction where to get those top cover plugs?
Mann lake. They have two sizes. I've found they aren't UV stabilized though and only last a few years. I'll be replacing with wood soon.
They are thread protectors
Can be bought at industrial supply houses as well
2" measured on the outside
We drill a 1 15/16 or 1 7/8 " hole so they are a snug fit
Once painted the hole is slightly smaller as well as propolis builds up its smaller as well .
You dont want loose or the rain gets in "
BEE Maid also carries them if you are fr sask or alta
I love that configuration. It's better than 10 framers for my conditions. There's a beek here that works with medium 6 framers like that..gives him more options for the brood space. And for nomadic beekeeping.. imagine the number of queens = colonies that can travel on the seme trailer space instead of 10 frame boxes.
Our flows are short and we extract many times to get different honeys. So we do a lot moving around.
How much time you have before canola ?
July 1 it will start , but clover will be end of june
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog l still can't imagine it. It's all done here... the earliest year l can remember. There will be 3 weeks, a month maybe of slow flow to keep them self... and then is total dearth until October. But my fall flow can last into new year. I had Heather still in flow around Christmas last year. It's getting stranger every year.. bees adapt and the beekeeper too.
Good luck with the new bees
Love those 6s
🤨Ride that Honey🐝Ian🤠it's that time of year.🥰
Hola qué es ver el trabajo de ustedes 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝👏👏👏👏👏🇦🇷
Is that what we in Australia call cape weed growing in the grass?
You have some heathy dandelion's😂
Lots of rain, now if the bees could fly … so windy. Terrible mating weather
Nice 🎉
where are your hardhats working under that contraption.
You are the second guy to say that lately.
Good
Bees and other pollinators are absolutely necessary if we want to have food to eat. Bravo to the beekeepers!
Excelente trabajo chicos.....❤❤❤❤❤!!!!
So does Carrie keep a magnet in her pocket to catch her hive tool?
And certainly is fun watching you manage the "rapids" this year.
She's lucky. I used to have her jobs.. a work group leader.. but my German boss just stood there with a timer and took note of how fast we can work on every job. 3min for that, 4 for this. And then added and aspect us to do a yard at that speed and me to teach every new worker how to be fast... Ian don't get ideas 😂. Just joking. I know you're a different kind of business owner
Yep, im using two old harddrive magnets
@@carriemartindale-wetherup5243 brilliant
Do those dandelion give them something. I never seen my bees on it. But there's other stuff at the same time here
Huge nectar and pollen flows if they can access them (so windy this year)
Pollen not very nutritious but lots of it and the fruit trees bloom with it
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog everything is better than having to spend time and money on food for those kind of numbers. And a mix of all that must be good
It definately stimulates them and right now we are getting tons of wild and domestic fruit tree pollen as well .
Dandelion pollen is orangeish in color
@@lenturtle7954 the timing difference is amazing. Same hemisphere and our fruits are already on trees. These days l'm eating cherries. Early apples will be ready soon.