Watching you and your bees makes me feel like a complete non-beekeeper. Your dead outs are stronger than my strong hives, well, almost. All your hives are such MONSTERS! You Canadians, ehy, have mad skills with the bees & wood working! You rock Ian! Thanks for posting your vids... They're so informative!
I find the bees are removed quite a bit easier when blowing em out from then bottom.If you know what I mean. By placing the super so the bottom is on top, then blowing em out.
Ian ..have you ever considered getting yourself a drone?.....can you imagine the shots you could get of your canola fields or your sunflowers in full bloom..or even the combines from a couple of hundred feet up..just a thought
I have often thought of the drone shots, but then I remember the bees. They would not go well together! Lol Maybe it would be possible to enclose the blades with mesh to keep the bees safe? Does anyone make a bee suit for a drone? Lol
@@ke6gwf I have a DJI Mavic Pro. Awesome drone, and does not mix with Bees. With prop guards, doubt mesh could work. Also, if you post videos and are Monetized, in the States you need a commercial drone license. Not sure of Canadian Drone laws.
Hi Ian, nice video. I'm wondering why you blow the bees out rather than just perching the supers on their ends between the pails (2 high). The bees will fly or walk home on their own. Pick up the cleaned up boxes in a couple days. No blowing, no stress, no bending over to pick up boxes off the ground, the boxes stay dry being up off the ground, and no critter activity as long as they are picked up in a couple of days.
@@philbeeman My thought is that the home bees would feel they need to protect their honey and they would fight for awhile before they finally realised it's a hopeless cause ??
@@russellkoopman3004 It's bit late for sure they blow it out for the win !!! It's their victory onto spirits i guess ... Whatsoever ... Don't look back as future is unknown ... That's a pretty easy one but ... Hell yep ! Nevermind ... Dare, care, ride safe, clean, have fun ... From France with . Not better, nor worse ... But not equal at all neither . Thanks.
Ok I'm confused. New beekeeper starting this spring. It looks like he puts 2 pollen patties right next to each other. Then puts thermal paper over, with a home in the middle, then the top cover then the bucket of syrup. Doesn't the patties block the syrup from getting to the bees?
Ian how do you tell when the bees have transitioned from summer bees to winter bees? What signs do you see on the frames that the queen is now laying winter bee eggs? Thank you
Hi, have you tried to replace upper boxes down without blowing bees out of frames? No stress method. They would move the storage from down to up to empty cells in the nest. I asume it would be also better than "training robbing bees" or spreading some potentional disease via robbing way among their population. (I just would like to know your view based on experience). Protein food is good now in autum? No any golden rod pollen in your location as a protein source? I plan to add protein in early spring as a trigger.
so your adding 2 huge paddies and 2/2 gallon buckets for the winter and letting the bees rob the supers. how do you store all those supers with no moths?
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Same here in Wisconsin, USA. I do put them in the freezer since winter is a ways away, but our cold temps make it easy to avoid wax moths while storing them. The biggest problem is the mice, so you have to make sure they can’t get in! Nice video, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us small beeks. 😊🐝
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog isn't there enough nectar and pollen coming in from the wild to do that. Also won't giving pollen patties cause the queen to lay more workers?
We had to requeen 700 hives last week that went queenless after a formic treatment. Some yards with old queens had 50% queenlessness. How long would you delay the bulk feeding so that these hives can build up there winter nest? They had a short brood break because of the lack of a queen and the effects of formic.
Love how the brothers gave you a "drive by" and blew chaff and dust all over you guys. Way to say get in the harvester and stop messing with those stingy bastards
If you just pulled a box of bees off and set it aside, they would probably react as if they had lost the queen. They have no idea where their original hive is, and best case scenario they fly out and go to a random hive, but they might also just die in the box. Young bees would be the worst off. By shaking and blowing them in front of their own hive, they can just follow the crowd, and the smell of the queen, back home, and all the hives stay balanced. Then the foragers can later fly out to it, but they know their way home then.
Is it easier to get pretty girls to go on tractor rides with you when you have an enclosed, quiet, air conditioned cab with two seats, rather than sitting on the fender in the hot dust? Lol
As you put the supers up for the feed to be robbed out, why do you bother blowing the bees out? Surely if you just left the supers close to the hive but upturned, they would find there own way back to the hive at dusk...
Ha Ian why did u blow the bees and set the boxes out to be robbed could u also just leave the bees in the boxes and then get robbed out any way and they go back home on there own.
Could there be nurse bees up there that haven't flown yet and haven't done an orientation flight? For a time they would also protect their super and fight robbers.
I’ve never used a leaf blower, and for some reason that made me chuckle. . Bees were like, oh no a wind storm. . Crazy how the season just flew by. .
Wow what healthy Hives. A Farmers work is never done. Up before the Sun and still working into the night. God Bless and Peace from WV USA
Watching you and your bees makes me feel like a complete non-beekeeper.
Your dead outs are stronger than my strong hives, well, almost.
All your hives are such MONSTERS!
You Canadians, ehy, have mad skills with the bees & wood working!
You rock Ian! Thanks for posting your vids... They're so informative!
Ian, amazing how much everyone can learn from you.I love it keep up the great job.No one puts out a better educational video than you.
Loving how you keep us updated with all the steps you do! Then the bonus combine footage at the end is a nice touch :)
Good information thanks
One thing we are not allowed to do in Melbourne , illegal to let robbing of hives ,they claim can transfer disease. Peter Australia
Yes, gotta watch your regulations
Always like the content you share
Huge thumbs up just for the stands you are using in the thumbnail photo, LOL
I watched this video right after watching a video from Louisiana. Kinda the same theme . . .
I'm amazed taking them down to a single with feed that they don't swarm.
Mine be in the trees in two weeks I tried it once wasn't gonna work for me
I find the bees are removed quite a bit easier when blowing em out from then bottom.If you know what I mean. By placing the super so the bottom is on top, then blowing em out.
Good work😃
Good morning from Grand Forks
Must be no Eviction Moratorium in Canada :-)
How do all those bees fit in a single box???
No looking back, we cant go that way and keep pushing ahead.
Best wishes for the fall !!
Where did you get those stands.
Built them
Ian ..have you ever considered getting yourself a drone?.....can you imagine the shots you could get of your canola fields or your sunflowers in full bloom..or even the combines from a couple of hundred feet up..just a thought
I have often thought of the drone shots, but then I remember the bees. They would not go well together! Lol
Maybe it would be possible to enclose the blades with mesh to keep the bees safe?
Does anyone make a bee suit for a drone? Lol
@@ke6gwf I have a DJI Mavic Pro. Awesome drone, and does not mix with Bees. With prop guards, doubt mesh could work. Also, if you post videos and are Monetized, in the States you need a commercial drone license. Not sure of Canadian Drone laws.
Hi Ian, nice video. I'm wondering why you blow the bees out rather than just perching the supers on their ends between the pails (2 high). The bees will fly or walk home on their own. Pick up the cleaned up boxes in a couple days. No blowing, no stress, no bending over to pick up boxes off the ground, the boxes stay dry being up off the ground, and no critter activity as long as they are picked up in a couple of days.
And in 3 or 4 days, for the ones that got lost, you could have a PSA give directions, and maybe a lyft ride for the ones with bad hearing.
Yes good suggestion
Old habits die hard
I was wondering the same thing. Why run the blower at all?
@@philbeeman My thought is that the home bees would feel they need to protect their honey and they would fight for awhile before they finally realised it's a hopeless cause ??
@@russellkoopman3004
It's bit late for sure they blow it out for the win !!!
It's their victory onto spirits i guess ...
Whatsoever ...
Don't look back as future is unknown ...
That's a pretty easy one but ...
Hell yep !
Nevermind ...
Dare, care, ride safe, clean, have fun ...
From France with .
Not better, nor worse ...
But not equal at all neither .
Thanks.
Ok I'm confused. New beekeeper starting this spring. It looks like he puts 2 pollen patties right next to each other. Then puts thermal paper over, with a home in the middle, then the top cover then the bucket of syrup. Doesn't the patties block the syrup from getting to the bees?
There is access to syrup between patty
does the dust from the machine have the same effect as smoking the hives?
Ian how do you tell when the bees have transitioned from summer bees to winter bees? What signs do you see on the frames that the queen is now laying winter bee eggs? Thank you
I watch the brood staging. When it starts to slow down and complete, that last generation is your winter bees . It’s a progressive set up
That beeping would drive me crazy.
Just during unloading so you don’t ever leave auger on
Hi, have you tried to replace upper boxes down without blowing bees out of frames? No stress method. They would move the storage from down to up to empty cells in the nest. I asume it would be also better than "training robbing bees" or spreading some potentional disease via robbing way among their population.
(I just would like to know your view based on experience).
Protein food is good now in autum? No any golden rod pollen in your location as a protein source?
I plan to add protein in early spring as a trigger.
Can you give me the spec's of that air blower?
great vdieo
Why do you place those buckets on top?
That is sugar syrup feed...the bees need to be fed once all of their honey is removed and there is no more nectar available for them to gather.
I thought you used escape boards?
Yes I do when pulling honey
what were you cutting at the end of the video
My guess canola.
Canola
so your adding 2 huge paddies and 2/2 gallon buckets for the winter and letting the bees rob the supers. how do you store all those supers with no moths?
If you see his setup he has old trailers with refrigeration units he can use to store them in so moths can not eat them up
Old man winter
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Same here in Wisconsin, USA. I do put them in the freezer since winter is a ways away, but our cold temps make it easy to avoid wax moths while storing them. The biggest problem is the mice, so you have to make sure they can’t get in! Nice video, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us small beeks. 😊🐝
Why feed protein so late in the year?
Feeding open brood
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog isn't there enough nectar and pollen coming in from the wild to do that. Also won't giving pollen patties cause the queen to lay more workers?
It’s used as a supplement
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Do you have better winter survival when you bring it down to a single as opposed to a double?
Here is his video describing his single box management...
ruclips.net/video/386qWGnt_CU/видео.html
Why do the bees not swarm when there are that many bees in a single brood box, lots of protein and heavy syrup?
The nest is headed towards preparing for winter
Ian, approximately, how many bees would you guess is in one of the hives?
20-30,000 now
Top Job Ian
Curious… why blow them out? Why not just set them aside to find their way to the nestt???
I want to spare the bees the nasty robbing frenzy. They are blown or shook out and back home in 10 min. No fuss no muss
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog gotcha. First time I’ve seen you blow out bees. Nifty metal frame you were using. Did you DIY them?
How much protein do the 6s get? 2-3 lbs?
1-2 lbs
How many queens do you blow out on the ground?
None unless the queen was able to fit through the queen exculder to lay in the top box
Are they robbing out the un capped store's ?
We had to requeen 700 hives last week that went queenless after a formic treatment. Some yards with old queens had 50% queenlessness. How long would you delay the bulk feeding so that these hives can build up there winter nest? They had a short brood break because of the lack of a queen and the effects of formic.
We're just over the boarder from you and we keep to a similar schedule. We'll have the 4th/5th pound of protein sub on next week.
I’d make sure they have 4 frames to work on, keep the syrup to them but less than dumping it on them
Amazing
I can’t say I’ve seen you use this method before. Is it something new you’re trying?
I don’t always use the second as a feed box. This year I had to emergency feed due to drought
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I mean using the blower. I've not seen you do that
Ya, I only blow out feed boxes now. I use escapes exclusively for honey. I hate the robbing with blowers
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Love how the brothers gave you a "drive by" and blew chaff and dust all over you guys. Way to say get in the harvester and stop messing with those stingy bastards
LOL
Hot and sticky, dusted up
Why do you blow out the bees if ur just gona let them rob them out off to the side? Are there too many young bees that would return to home colonies?
If you just pulled a box of bees off and set it aside, they would probably react as if they had lost the queen.
They have no idea where their original hive is, and best case scenario they fly out and go to a random hive, but they might also just die in the box.
Young bees would be the worst off.
By shaking and blowing them in front of their own hive, they can just follow the crowd, and the smell of the queen, back home, and all the hives stay balanced.
Then the foragers can later fly out to it, but they know their way home then.
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Is it easier to get pretty girls to go on tractor rides with you when you have an enclosed, quiet, air conditioned cab with two seats, rather than sitting on the fender in the hot dust? Lol
A complete mess when you remove your honey
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As you put the supers up for the feed to be robbed out, why do you bother blowing the bees out? Surely if you just left the supers close to the hive but upturned, they would find there own way back to the hive at dusk...
I want them back in without bother
Ha Ian why did u blow the bees and set the boxes out to be robbed could u also just leave the bees in the boxes and then get robbed out any way and they go back home on there own.
Could there be nurse bees up there that haven't flown yet and haven't done an orientation flight? For a time they would also protect their super and fight robbers.
Ya, I want all those newly emerged bees to their own respective colonies. Might be an extra step but that’s how I do it
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