Ian maybe you could out some rectangles of plastic on top of the pails (and a brick on top to keep it stay put). The problem you got, is bees prefer to pop over water, and white color somehow mimic water pool for bees. You can often see that on white cars beeing near to bees on cleansing flyights.
I use a 3 gallon chicken waterer to water my bees. Add rocks to the feeding rim to keep them from drowning. No issues with algae buildup or anything else really. Could add some salt or other minerals if needed to the waterers.
Hi Ian, If you haven't already ... This year, before you put your feeding pales out, cut out a notch from the pale bottom side rim so the rain water isn't allowed to collect from the inverted feeding pale. I don't like seeing bees drink poopy collected rain water.
six frame nucs. Interesting. I've noticed that when you develop your nucs in the spring you can put two queen excluders on top and then add supers for honey production. I see a lot of four frame next to four frame nucs. Then only one super goes on top for production I like you idea. Gives the bees more space to build and store food for winter. Got it.
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Your job is to create a space for her so she chooses to stay. As with any employee, it is a combination of compensation, benefits, relationship with boss, and overall working conditions.
Your conditions are a challenge I wouldn't want to deal with. Never a shortage of pollen here, so we don't have to feed protein, and hives stay outside all winter. Respect to your dedication.
Hi Ian, we just pail feed with a deep box on to cover that top box. I know it is a pain to have to remove kids to pop pails on and off, and to check them but it keeps them clean and keeps everything out of them. Clearly it works easier with less hives but it is time consuming. For me, it keeps my Livestock Guardian Dogs out of the pails, keeps pails from blowing away and stops birds and bees from crapping on them. We do things the "farmer" way here as well. Chat later.
We just got crapped on by mother nature, she left 25+ cm of snow. I was hoping to not see anymore of that stuff but it's becoming normal to have a snow storm near Easter. Hope your hives are doing well. I was hoping to get out to check on mine this week but with this mess we got, I will leave them alone and have to wait. I suspect we will have to feed a bit of syrup as well, our big hives came through nicely but those 6 frame nucs are a little lighter than I like. Hope your winter losses were low and keep up the good work.
Yes, that last and late April snow fall - for me all it means is don't put the shovels away yet - for a farm operation or you with hives maybe more serious interference and implications.
I understand that you have thousands of buckets but if you cut a notch at the center rim and side rim it will allow most of the water to run off of the top of the bucket. Can be quickly and easily done with a cordless grinder while the buckets are on the hive.
I have seen bees drink from swimming pools, I wonder if a dilute solution of chlorine bleach water could be used in a spray bottle to sterilize the water on your syrup buckets. This is just a guess at a course of action.
You could put a circle of plywood or something where the water collects on your feeders and that would prevent the bees from drinking there. But with the size of your operation that would be a lot of time spent ripping material sheets to size and then cutting circles.
looks like you need a conical shape on top of the buckets so rainwater can't collect on top of it. Frustrating I'm sure! On the yeast infection.. Yep.. just like us humans.. get out and move around clears a lot of sickness... so hard to do when you don't feel well though!
Since the bees are more or less centralized this early in the year would it not be fruitful to provide them a watering source until they are set out into pollination yards? You could have a ibc tote on some cinder blocks and have a float valve in a pail full of rocks below it. Then they would already have a water source located and might be a little less tempted by contaminated water. Suppose thats a solution for next year though. For now maybe a couple buckets of sand would go a long way added on top of the poop buckets just to eliminate the possibility of it happening again.
You *CAN* do something about the shitty water - make several notches on the corner edges (rims) of the bucket bottoms, so the water drains off. Ya, its a lot of notching, but it will allow the water to drain off.
Personally... i would roll out to the yard with a container of water on the bee trk and use a water pump and hose down all the hives like ya would do on a dairy farm. Gotta keep it clean becuase them bees use water to hydrate honey stores.
@@rickheine8317 mmm... idk... not the same effect... because the goal is to clean all the hives exterior from winter cluster stuffs. By doing so one reduces risk of transferance to other/same hives... think bee drift... morning dew on a poopy hive box... etc
Your nucs look great! Can you give us the numbers and strong, weak and deadouts you had on your nucs? Looks like you are successfully wintering them. ✔️ I am very interested in doing this as well.
Hi Ian, gotta question. My hives started booming pretty early this year and the last few years I switched over to rearing my own queens for my splits. I'm located in Northwest Iowa so even though we've been seeing 60-70 degrees F for a high we still have snow in our forecast, so I'm thinking it's too early to set up cell builders and grafting larvae; but i'm afraid if I don't i'm going to see some early swarming. Most of my hives have about 2 boxes full of bees already and are loaded with brood, pollen and unused stores from last fall, and there's beginning to be a lot of drone brood. We won't be above 50 for what looks like 5 days so should I setup some builders and start grafting right when we warm back up? I hate these Midwest Springs, so unpredictable
Thanks so much for all your videos. I I noticed in this one you are no longer using flexible inner covers or any for that matter. I also noticed your migratory covers have an inner rim and not the traditional outer cleats. Would love to hear reasoning. I abandon inner covers a bunch of years ago but still use telescoping covers I tried the bubble inner covers and am not a fan. Would love to hear from you
I appreciate that with the scale of business you have, it will certainly increase your workload significantly and is therefore not practicable, but if you used an eke under a roof, the bees would not have access to the outside of the pales?.
Hi Ian Are you just crushing individual bees up on a slide? Then taking a look under ghe microscope? If so, are you crushing the whole bee or just the abdomen and do you add any liquid to your sample. THX
I've noticed that your 6 frame hives don't have any top venting, and you're adding syrup to the hives too - Do you get moisture problems? All the books say you need top venting in winter to wick out the moisture, or the bees will get wet.. What is your opinion on that? ( But of course the bees don't read the books.) ;)
he's feeding sugar water on all the hives - which is what he said. Just out of winter, just flying, he knows some of the hives may have no honey left - and he needs to buy himself time to be able to get in the hives and assess them. So they put sugar syrup on all the hives, so no one starves out now, and he starts adjusting and trading frames of honey on those that have low population and lots of honey, giving a honey frame to those that have high population and low on honey and returning a frame of brood or space to lay in to the low population lots of honey hive that needed population boosting. win - win. watch the video again.
@Poison Ivy I know. I was hoping he'd realize that asking for others to give him information instead of watching the video made him look stupid. I came to realize that it didn't. But answering made me look stupid!! LOL Live and learn!
So what killed those bees. Just because they are on the top feeders is not conclusive . Drinking nosema spores won't kill bees instantly. Recommendation to all bee keepers is all ways have source of water for your bees. Especially backyard beekeepers.... So they won't bother your neighbors water . neighbors who might not like bees.... In collecting bees are you trying to collect old bees on perimeter of frame ?
OK so the one negative (so far with 4,085 views) is due to the fact that some bees were killed to do testing on the health of the apiary. you'd rather he let them all die?
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I call it tough love. Some may think it unlikely that beekeepers love bees. I think it more unlikely that anyone can keep bees that does not love them.
Шестирамочні нуки це бомба! В мене точно такий димар
Ian maybe you could out some rectangles of plastic on top of the pails (and a brick on top to keep it stay put). The problem you got, is bees prefer to pop over water, and white color somehow mimic water pool for bees. You can often see that on white cars beeing near to bees on cleansing flyights.
I use a 3 gallon chicken waterer to water my bees. Add rocks to the feeding rim to keep them from drowning. No issues with algae buildup or anything else really. Could add some salt or other minerals if needed to the waterers.
Hi Ian,
If you haven't already ...
This year, before you put your feeding pales out, cut out a notch from the pale bottom side rim so the rain water isn't allowed to collect from the inverted feeding pale. I don't like seeing bees drink poopy collected rain water.
As a beginner in Canada, this is very interesting! Thank you for making the video!
six frame nucs. Interesting. I've noticed that when you develop your nucs in the spring you can put two queen excluders on top and then add supers for honey production. I see a lot of four frame next to four frame nucs. Then only one super goes on top for production I like you idea. Gives the bees more space to build and store food for winter. Got it.
I always enjoy your videos. I also can't imagine how valuable Kari is to the bee operation. It would be a bugger losing her.
Raj Beekie
I know, then I’d have to work harder
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Your job is to create a space for her so she chooses to stay. As with any employee, it is a combination of compensation, benefits, relationship with boss, and overall working conditions.
Your conditions are a challenge I wouldn't want to deal with. Never a shortage of pollen here, so we don't have to feed protein, and hives stay outside all winter. Respect to your dedication.
Greetings, my friend. Follow your work. Thanks for the video you're asking. Greetings from Serbia
Hi Ian, we just pail feed with a deep box on to cover that top box. I know it is a pain to have to remove kids to pop pails on and off, and to check them but it keeps them clean and keeps everything out of them.
Clearly it works easier with less hives but it is time consuming. For me, it keeps my Livestock Guardian Dogs out of the pails, keeps pails from blowing away and stops birds and bees from crapping on them.
We do things the "farmer" way here as well. Chat later.
We just got crapped on by mother nature, she left 25+ cm of snow. I was hoping to not see anymore of that stuff but it's becoming normal to have a snow storm near Easter. Hope your hives are doing well. I was hoping to get out to check on mine this week but with this mess we got, I will leave them alone and have to wait. I suspect we will have to feed a bit of syrup as well, our big hives came through nicely but those 6 frame nucs are a little lighter than I like. Hope your winter losses were low and keep up the good work.
Ben Little our weather has been terrible for bees this year. Snow on ground and raining. :/
Yes, that last and late April snow fall - for me all it means is don't put the shovels away yet - for a farm operation or you with hives maybe more serious interference and implications.
I understand that you have thousands of buckets but if you cut a notch at the center rim and side rim it will allow most of the water to run off of the top of the bucket.
Can be quickly and easily done with a cordless grinder while the buckets are on the hive.
I have seen bees drink from swimming pools, I wonder if a dilute solution of chlorine bleach water could be used in a spray bottle to sterilize the water on your syrup buckets. This is just a guess at a course of action.
You could put a circle of plywood or something where the water collects on your feeders and that would prevent the bees from drinking there. But with the size of your operation that would be a lot of time spent ripping material sheets to size and then cutting circles.
2 sugar 1 water syrup enough for bees for water. If you give just sugar bees need water. Beekeeper very cliver. He gave protein for eggs nice work.
Very informative, thanks for sharing.
Possibly some sort of domed cap you could place on the buckets that would force the water to run off?
Thanks for the videos
What kind of trees do you have there that provides good pollen? Thank you for taking us along your journey!
Take a leaf blower to get rid of the most of the poop water.
looks like you need a conical shape on top of the buckets so rainwater can't collect on top of it. Frustrating I'm sure! On the yeast infection.. Yep.. just like us humans.. get out and move around clears a lot of sickness... so hard to do when you don't feel well though!
Since the bees are more or less centralized this early in the year would it not be fruitful to provide them a watering source until they are set out into pollination yards? You could have a ibc tote on some cinder blocks and have a float valve in a pail full of rocks below it. Then they would already have a water source located and might be a little less tempted by contaminated water.
Suppose thats a solution for next year though. For now maybe a couple buckets of sand would go a long way added on top of the poop buckets just to eliminate the possibility of it happening again.
Blow the water off with a leaf blower and three small cuts on the bottom of the bucket with a saw ?
Is it possible to put a 100 gallon tank of water and a pressure washer on your bee truck?
One person drives & the other person sprays the buckets?
You *CAN* do something about the shitty water - make several notches on the corner edges (rims) of the bucket bottoms, so the water drains off. Ya, its a lot of notching, but it will allow the water to drain off.
Maybe you could sand/grind/melt (subtractive) or glue/melt (additive) the bottoms of the buckets so they don't collect water?
Brighten Miller , yes I got to agree grind 4 or 5 notches on bottom rims of the buckets and then water can run off bottom, problem solved!?
That would weaken the buckets a lot. And doing that to a thousand buckets is no easy task.
Nozevit lines the gut of the bee and prevents nosema spores from imbedding themselves into the lining of the gut. Cheap insurance.
Personally... i would roll out to the yard with a container of water on the bee trk and use a water pump and hose down all the hives like ya would do on a dairy farm. Gotta keep it clean becuase them bees use water to hydrate honey stores.
Put on dome tops
@@rickheine8317 mmm... idk... not the same effect... because the goal is to clean all the hives exterior from winter cluster stuffs. By doing so one reduces risk of transferance to other/same hives... think bee drift... morning dew on a poopy hive box... etc
Can you maybe, if money permits,find pails for next year,that do not have a dip in them,so as not to hold water.
Your nucs look great! Can you give us the numbers and strong, weak and deadouts you had on your nucs? Looks like you are successfully wintering them. ✔️ I am very interested in doing this as well.
I am not out of the woods yet, we need nice weather...to avoid dwindling...
Hi Ian, gotta question. My hives started booming pretty early this year and the last few years I switched over to rearing my own queens for my splits. I'm located in Northwest Iowa so even though we've been seeing 60-70 degrees F for a high we still have snow in our forecast, so I'm thinking it's too early to set up cell builders and grafting larvae; but i'm afraid if I don't i'm going to see some early swarming. Most of my hives have about 2 boxes full of bees already and are loaded with brood, pollen and unused stores from last fall, and there's beginning to be a lot of drone brood. We won't be above 50 for what looks like 5 days so should I setup some builders and start grafting right when we warm back up?
I hate these Midwest Springs, so unpredictable
Bummer on the poop incident!
Hopefully no foulbrood!
Do you find stronger buildup in the center (warmer) hive on the 3 hive pallets?
Robert Bennett
nothing that I’ve found
Thanks so much for all your videos. I I noticed in this one you are no longer using flexible inner covers or any for that matter. I also noticed your migratory covers have an inner rim and not the traditional outer cleats. Would love to hear reasoning. I abandon inner covers a bunch of years ago but still use telescoping covers I tried the bubble inner covers and am not a fan. Would love to hear from you
i dont have inner covers on the nucs because i didnt get around to that yet, flexible innercovers on the rest of my apiary
I appreciate that with the scale of business you have, it will certainly increase your workload significantly and is therefore not practicable, but if you used an eke under a roof, the bees would not have access to the outside of the pales?.
Hi, what bee suit are you wearing?
Thanks
Gruff (Bee Farmer from Wales 🏴)
Gwenyn Gruffydd
www.beemaid.com
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog thanks 👍🏻
Hi Ian what would be the min temp that you would open the colony to do your manipulations?
when they are not flying , today was boarderline
are you replacing old dark brut frames ?
Does the jacket you wear have a thick layer underneath
what action do you take when you find Naszema?
Hi Ian
Are you just crushing individual bees up on a slide? Then taking a look under ghe microscope? If so, are you crushing the whole bee or just the abdomen and do you add any liquid to your sample. THX
its very crude, just crushing up the guts on the side and looking for nosema
I've noticed that your 6 frame hives don't have any top venting, and you're adding syrup to the hives too - Do you get moisture problems? All the books say you need top venting in winter to wick out the moisture, or the bees will get wet.. What is your opinion on that? ( But of course the bees don't read the books.) ;)
Don’t you hate it when you have to change out veils from your companies coming over outfit and use it with your real suit
Lenore talon
😂
What could you do if you found Nosema
Can you share what you use in your smoker? Thanks!
Arlisa Patrick bitch bark, smells nice
What?? Do you mean Birch bark??
Yes
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog Thank you!
What would you do if you had nosema?
Remember, most viruses are too small to be seen without a scanning electron microscope, bacteria and rickettsiae can be for the most part.
Ian, in the past years have you seen high nosema levels when you test at home like this ?
Sir, are you using protein made from bread yeast ?
I notice you're re-inserting the side first frame on the opposite side of the box. Is that for expedience?
Russ Ian E. Lection-Hacker
I’m not sure, just farmer field application, pretty crude
What are you using the inverted pails for ?
he's feeding sugar water on all the hives - which is what he said. Just out of winter, just flying, he knows some of the hives may have no honey left - and he needs to buy himself time to be able to get in the hives and assess them. So they put sugar syrup on all the hives, so no one starves out now, and he starts adjusting and trading frames of honey on those that have low population and lots of honey, giving a honey frame to those that have high population and low on honey and returning a frame of brood or space to lay in to the low population lots of honey hive that needed population boosting. win - win. watch the video again.
@Poison Ivy
I know. I was hoping he'd realize that asking for others to give him information instead of watching the video made him look stupid. I came to realize that it didn't. But answering made me look stupid!! LOL
Live and learn!
Plastic vs wooden vs plastic foundation?
Do you sample there poop? I know lots of disease can be found out through poop.
I am looking at the bees gut infection
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
But wouldn't the poop show infection. It does in humans..
I’m
Assuming so yes
I place my metric over counted bees
I’ll scoop a sample of poop up too, to see
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
Thank you, for responding..I appreciate your videos. I'm hoping all your hives are healthy.
Понимать бы еще что ты говоришь.
So what killed those bees. Just because they are on the top feeders is not conclusive .
Drinking nosema spores won't kill bees instantly.
Recommendation to all bee keepers is all ways have source of water for your bees. Especially backyard beekeepers.... So they won't bother your neighbors water . neighbors who might not like bees....
In collecting bees are you trying to collect old bees on perimeter of frame ?
paul dow
Those bees drowned, their wings get caught as they are still in their spring first flight type mode and are clumsy
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog . so they are cold and slow and re-stretching their wings kinda....
Yep
опять субтитры отключены ... на слух перевести не судьба
Lol
The dangers of massproduction.
OK so the one negative (so far with 4,085 views) is due to the fact that some bees were killed to do testing on the health of the apiary. you'd rather he let them all die?
that negative is from some guy i pissed off a while back because I am a farmer who uses roundup
P. S.
This was a great video - LOTS of great content and basic lessons on a massive scale. Thank you!!
Oh I miss understood your comment!
Yes, I sacrifice some to understand the rest
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I call it tough love. Some may think it unlikely that beekeepers love bees. I think it more unlikely that anyone can keep bees that does not love them.
I want to work with you.
15:00 dead out?
StreetMachine18
Yep
why you bee gat disease?they not healthy ?the bees always is no problem. some bees hive look not health.
SpyingDutchman i watch full video, in the video they say is health, but some hive looklike not health