New beekeepers this is the best advice you will ever get
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Everything changes from month to month in bee keeping, if you don't change how you bee keep through out the year you will lose. Watch this video, share with everyone you can. No one teaches advice like this. Please like and subscribe to barnyard bees we are here to help the new beekeepers. Please share and forward this video to others.
I don't know anything about Football...but I caught your drift. August is "GAME ON!"...lots of stuff happening. Bees are getting ready to swarm, last big flow ready to happen in lots of areas, pests and predators are in full swing, close to harvest time ....
I don't have bees but I've been learning about them and I'm taking a local bee keeper class now! Thanks for sharing the videos!
You are quite welcome. Hope you get ya some bees soon...
David, I live in upper SC and I am just at the end of finishing my beekeeping classes with the local bee association. I'm so excited to receive my nuks. Your videos have been super helpful! Thank you!
You're right David, "No one teaches advice like the 'Barnyard Bee Man' ". Thanks for all your videos and help!
I’m in south east Georgia and our season starts in early March with blooms and nectar flow
My first year bee keeping. Love the videos. Learning all the time. I have one strong hive at this point. I am going to leave them alone through winter but will be making splits come spring. I appreciate you sharing how its done.
Congrats on your beekeeping! I hope it’s still going well 3 years later! I’m going to start beekeeping for the first time this coming spring (2021) and I can’t wait!
@@The_A_Cast so how are the hives going?
I wish I cared at all about sports so I could understand the analogies lol
Yeah I stopped watching cause it was about 3 min in and I didn’t know what the hell he was saying
This is the best video on this particular aspect of beekeeping I have seen. I am getting ready to start raising bees in Mississippi and need all the help I can get. I'm going to now go back and watch EVERYTHING you guys have posted. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was thinking of volunteering to help someone keep their bees if I can find anyone where I am going. Anyone in the Delta and need help?
thanks so much information just started late last summer with 2 hives still doing good, God Bless
I love your videos and the way you explain things on them. Also, I'm amazed of how you handle bees with no suit or gloves or anything and you are so relax around them keep it up and thanks for all the helpful advice!!!
I really appreciate what you said. Because you save people lots of problems with pointing out to start in spring. I actually forgot, that many people don't understand it: Start when Nature starts. Don't try to outsmart it. Rather, e n h a n c e it. I don't want to steal from bees. I offer trade! I offer them home that they accept. In return for mortgage, utilities, they pay me Rent. In Honey. That's what they leave me just before Winter.
1. Bees don't set up beehives like slums. And while yours are condos, they are still in Clusters . While social, each social entity like Hive should be separated. That allows bees from different hives to divide territory, rather than compete in the same direction.
2. Your beehives could be vertically taller. That would allow the bees to decide how much brood to breed and how much honey to collect. No need to disrupt their annual cycle.
their cycle is annual. I don't know if people comprehend, that if cycle is annual, therefore harvest should be annual? lol. don't get it? stop "stealing" honey before harvest. You are like Enterpreneur who, takes seed money before he makes profit. You disrupt Queen Bees calculations about her Economy! They know better how to plan t h e i r lives, because their lives depend on their knowledge, given by God.... but You know better?
They plan for a year. Think about it. If you provide them with proper housing, they don't need to heat or ventilate, thus, dont' shake and need Energy in the form of Honey.
So if they have house that doesn't require heating or cooling much. There will be overflow of honey.
3. Please, stop this myth of Smoking bees. It's sick. Go smoke your own home, or neighbours, or strangers. Am I the FIRST who exposes this fallacy? This insanity? OK. credit to me for exposing this LUNACY.
Thank you for that sir u just saved one of my week hives God bless you.
Thanks for this helpful video! Just ordered my bees from Barnyard Bees as a first-time beekeeper, appreciate the info. Great topics.
So you use a starter strip and two wires running the frame. And look at how straight the comb is drawn. I'm hoping to develop more nucs this spring. Is there a trick to getting the foundation drawn straight. I've read to place it between two drawn frames. But you don't seem to be doing this. This looks a lot easier to draw and I'm not spending a fortune buying plastic or wax foundation.
You showed me that this can work.
Interesting statement about the mini nucs. I never thought about that. I've built them and wanted to start using them this spring. Maybe I'll be experimenting with both the mini and the nuc for queen rearing this year. Thanks!
Instead of going through all that just cut a foundation to look like a pyramid. Install narrow side facing down. (It'll look like a V) place in Central of brood. Do this in brood box area with 1 frame and it'll encourage drone production and even queens. The outer frame you can leave foundationless if you choose but I typically wait for a healthy brood build then rob the middle (the V) and a1 honey and 1 egg frame and move your queen to a new box area. Keep some workers on the frame and they'll make a new queen. Be sure to install a new partial frame where you stole one from
Im starting bee keeping too and in north ga area too I hope to gain lots of knowledge from other bee keepers in the area. Thanks for your help.
I am brand new to beekeeping. I bought a veil, smoker and several formed frames with foundation treated with wax. I watched videos and built like a double deep nuc box as a swarm trap will set up tomorrow in backyard. I am in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania so still cold. I have the essential lemongrass oil which I will bait with. Probably won’t be swarm season until next week or so but thanks for sharing your experience. I will let hint know
I can tell you are in a WARM climate. We have snow in April! No splits in April for sure. Thanks for the video!
I love the 2 and 5 frame nuc boxes! Thanks again David!
boric acid and sugar will kill the ants in Texas fire ants were bad i used a throw away cup plastic spoon and mixed regular sugar with roach proof that's mostly boric acid. sprinkles around a mount and they are so addicted to sugar they will kill the mounds. just so the sugar is coated maybe 2 or 3 teaspoons per cup of sugar. around the bee's tho I'd leave in a plastic tub with holes so ants could get in an bee's wouldn't get into it. Keeps them safe :) Great Video thanks for sharing
The timing of things depends on where you live. Here in Maine we may have snow still on the ground. May is planting season, so at the beginning of May is the best time for us.
I am a newbee in the NE area. After a dismal year of losing my 2 hives and 1 cutout to varroa I realize I need to put the odds in my favor by doing splits. I also need to understand breaking the brood cycle and treating with OAV. Then maybe, I'll be successful at overwintering and keeping bees. The problem with our area is we don't see much forage until mid-May. Also, with a shorter season in our area, I was thinking it would be harder to split a package than a nuc. The nuc is established the package is not. I do have some drawn comb from my failed hives that might help them. Also, doing a split using an additional (mated) queen would likely speed up the hive's ability to establish itself as a colony quicker. Given the shortness of our season that seems to me to make the most sense. THEN, if I can get the colonies to overwinter I can begin to work on raising my own queens to facilitate my own splits. I suspect you have a bit longer season that I do. Thank you for the video - very helpful.
did you leave the frame with a day old larvas in that hive? cause that hive need to raise the new queen
I've just now ordered some of your bees.
Trying to learn everything I can before getting into this. I don't want to kill the entire hive because of lack of knowledge. Thanks again Mr. David
Well, how'd it go?
you and dirtyrooster I like watching both your channels... learn alot
An old man told me if you have to put sugar water for bees, you’re taking too much honey! you’re doing it wrong! I agreed
Very nice info,thanks
Picking up my nuc today. Old man says I'll be doing a split by the Fall (Jacksonville). Here goes nuttin!
The more you talk, the more we learn. Thanks !
I don't think I'm going to do any more two frame mating nucs. I think I'll just do all four frames. Seems to me that the queens seem to like the extra space better and they are easier to work with the frames and they don't pack with bees as fast. The two frames are too narrow and they still take up a lot of material to build.
Thanks David.
I would like to see you break it down from your 8 frame into 5 frame never seen it done would like to know how it could be done
I suppose you have a video on the plans for your nucs as well as the materials you used? Wondering what type materials that was. Thanks.
nice video this is Dave I'm a brand new beekeeper Las Vegas Nevada can't be walking around my bees with no a bee suit on too much during the day anyway night times okay I'm thinking about trying to do African eyes my hives by getting rid of my African queen and putting in a gentle type Queen what do you think
Good job great explanation Thank you
I always wanted to keep bees, but my limited time doesn't allow, but maybe in the near future. The result is all the honey. I don't know how much time it will take to sell the honey. I can't possibly consume all the production. So how long does it last before it turns sugary and solid?How best to rid of honey besides giving it away? Are there wholesalers that will take it? I don't have time to sell bottles at a weekend stand.
i live in kansas it is in the 90 s is it to late to do a 4 frame split and walk away two frames and a feeder inside 50/50 sugar mix
@18:00 it's not a matter of Bee evolution. They don't have to evolve fast like you say. It's called Natural selection. This is why hives out in remote forests, feral hives don't have all the problems beekeepers have. Feral bees faced all the same diseases and pests that our "kept" bees did ...and many wild, feral colonies died off, but the ones that survived are the ones that already had some trait or characteristic that allowed them to survive. They did not have to Evolve fast like you were talking about after 18:00 or so ...they already had the traits, and the ones that didn't died off are removed from the genepool. What you're left with out in remote forests are the result of natural selection. ----Not trying to dog on your video's. They are great and I really enjoy them...just wanted to point them out. This is precisely what happened to people in Europe in the 14th century and why more people now have the CCR5 gene variant...and we dont often see bubonic plague or AIDS in people with that gene. People who inherited maternal and paternal copies of the CCR5-delta 32 gene are completely immune, while heterozygotes have partial immunity. It is very likely that this life-saving allele occurs as a random mutation and that it was selected for by the devastating black plague epidemics that swept over Europe beginning in the 14th century. During the first wave of plague, between 1347 and 1350, one fourth to one third of all Europeans died from this disease. Natural selection favored those who by chance had inherited the CCR5-delta 32 gene variant. Repeated waves of plague over the next three centuries resulted in an increase in the frequency of CCR5-delta 32 in the European population. ----Thanks for all the really great vids. I appreciate the time you take to produce and share them !
Wild bees are not that rare here in NC
Starting my first hive. How do you determine a “strong” hive?
Great info .
I'm a new beekeeper and my question is if you take the queen out will the other bees make a queen.
They will try to raise a queen.
Ok I'm green at this now and I have made box's and I'm ready to put out being green what will help me out the most trying to get a sworn to take action to my empty bee box's?
my sisters hives have failed the last two years and she has run out of time. I have helped her some and studied bees for years. I am near Chattanooga are you to far away to sell to me? I have a friend that makes sour wood honey in north Ga.
Thank you for the quick reply. I have the equipment just need some bee's . I caught a swarm but did not queen them as I thought I had the queen but she may have been weak. If you sell Bee's I am interested. Also do you get any sourwood early season? Enjoying your videos. Thank you sir.
Not a Gentleman by the name of J.D is it? Age has got him and he is giving it up. Tons of equipment and experience if you wish to get any of his stuff or spots He might be open to it. We can see. You seem like a good guy from my area. I would enjoy the chance to visit down the road. Maybe you can host an ole vol Peyton Manning fan for an hour or two? ,Make it worth your while. I have to have my honey. Nectar of the south. Lol..
I see you have some foundationless frames there. Do you use them in all your hives? And do you have a video on foundationless frames?
Where do you sell your honey... website? I'd like to order.
What no donation JK poking fun would send if needed or asked for. Keep it up yards looking stronger every vid.
I live in wva my elevation is 3400 feet.So my season starts late aprill
I have two hives, but in the spring when queens mate again, I found the hive gets more aggressive after they mate, how can I be sure that I keep the genetics of the calm queen. I am planning on getting up to 10 hives in total this next spring.
RustyManTv you will have to purchase queens from someone who can control the drone population around their mating facility. letting the bees supersede the queen or swarm and leave behind swarm cells to hatch out, your new queens will be mated to the local drones and it sounds like those stocks are a little hotter than you want.
What is the width of the hive that holds five frames?
Good stuff
Also, what type of Honeybee is this? So docile!!
The hive you took the queen from do you put a new queen back in the hive you took the queen from.
It should rear a new queen so long as you have a partial or nonfoundation frame
I will contact yall to get started in beekeeping i am close in rome ga.
Are your Nucs made from Advantex or OSB?
Wouldn't the hive that you split make their own queen?
Do you have queens available? And cost to ship?
6:37 you can see the queen
I struggle with vertigo, and your videos are the best I’ve found, but you walking around with that video drives me sick. I really wish you’d use your tri-pod, bcuz unfortunately I’m going to have to quit watching your videos. I thought I was sick for 2 days but every time I watch your videos is when I feel sick
David 🤗
have you gotten any nucs for sale still?
Your videos are very informative enjoy watching them. Do you have plans for your mini mating nucs available.
So will they make a new queen?
where can I learn about how do make a mating yard?
thanks so much! love your videos! when i do as you say, do I just use the nurse bees that come with the frame into mating nuc or do I have to put more bees in mating nuc?? take care--stan
Do u have any bees for sale today?
Roll tide!!! Lol
How do Bees make their own queen
Extra royal jelly to a young larvae
How do you deal with ants?
Go Bison. :)
Alabama plays Florida State to begin the season.
Quick question can you use a deep super as a honey super?
Topic starts at about 7 minutes in
I've heard that voice somewhere before...
"Hi. I'm Larry. This is my brother, Daryl. This is my other brother, Daryl."
C'mon, I know I'm not the only who heard it...
did you mean for making a mating nuc to take a frame of YOUNG EGGS?? ....you said capped brood?? don't they need a 36 hour larvae or younger to make a queen
natserog a mating nuc gets capped brood vs eggs and young larvae so the workers and nurse bees don't have to feed the (capped)brood. And they emerge and build the numbers quickly. A walk away split requires the queenless hive to have eggs and young larvae so they can recognize they are queenless and still have time to build some emergency cells to develop a new queen.
Jim Rankin still not understanding
How a mating nuc makes new queens without eggs? 😳
natserog a mating nuc is made up to support a new virgin queen that the bee keeper puts in there. since multiple new queens cannot exist in a hive, if you want more than one new queen, by the time they emerge they must be separated into separate new colonies. in a walk away split, you are depending on the bees to produce replacement queen cells (hence the need for eggs and young larvae) and the new virgins fight or the first one to emerge kills the rest.....but it doesn't matter cause the colony only needs one.
thanks Jim...apprecaite you patience...trying to wrap my hand around it. So as you get capped queen cells you place that frame in mating nucs. --thanks!
natserog yes, usually the problem is there are multiple queen cells on the frame, so to increase your yield of queens it is helpful to separate them out so only one hatches out in each mating nuc. this has lead to the development of lots of techniques to either make the bees draw the queen cells on the comb in a manner they are easier to cut out without damage or to have them draw the cells on artificial cups that are more easily removed and put into the nucs . making a split means that part of the colony will be queenless in a separate hive. those bees can either be provided a mated queen, a newly hatched virgin or a ripe queen cell or just left with eggs and larvae to develop their own under the emergency impulse.
Yeah, I don't get the sports references.
Aren't you concerned about the toxins in the pressboard?
You might want to look into the safety. I had to sign a waver when I bought my manufactured home because of the formaldehyde and such. Of course the bee homes aren't air tight, so maybe it doesn't matter. But I'd check. Just curious.
I am just starting in beekeeping...can i do a split can i split the first year.
Depends on your hive.
You say evolution can't happen in the available time frame for treatment-free beekeeping, but TF beekeepers are not claiming evolution. They're claiming adaptation. Furthermore, we've been doing it for quite some time now. So the idea that it doesn't work is about like the idea that heavier than air machines can't fly. It was once the accepted view, but it was never fact.
Why are you asking about dogs and cats and kids? Are we not talking about bees? Why not stay on topic?
This is the sort of red herring that leads you to say outlandish stuff like in the video and to try to post your videos in the Treatment-Free Beekeeping Facebook group.
Barnyard Bees You should know all this stuff since you were trolling my group. I've been keeping bees for 15 years and I don't have to replace any because I have already gone through the process of losing the weak bees and have come out the other side. It's always fun when people tell me it's impossible, because I've been doing it for so long! They told me back then it was impossible too. And every step along the way. But we keep doing it.
Barnyard Bees It's really too bad all you have is red herrings. You could really reach out and change the world. Instead you peddle ignorance.
Barnyard Bees Why are you trying to change the subject again?
Barnyard Bees Yes, treatment free beekeeping, not frame construction. How many hives you have doesn't really matter. If you quit treating them, most of them will die. I don't have that problem. You're keeping weak stock alive artificially.
what do you try explaining football?
no division 1 team ever plays a div 2 team in football
I so wanted to listen to this video, but with all this sports talk - well, you lost me! Perhaps I try again at another time.
April? Depends entirely on where you live.
ROLL TIDE!!
Zzzzzz
I think you should prepare better for your videos. You are wordy and all over the place. With all due respect.
Best advice you will ever get : USE GLOVES.
People doing video should say where they live
I don't watch sports so he lost me when he gave the example.
have you gotten any nucs for sale still?
David, I have been a beekeeper for almost forty years and I always pick something up from your videos. I really appreciate you and Don especially. The two of you have gone a long way towards helping new guys and gals. I am going to switch to your stock in the spring. All of my stock is "HOT" and has made my sixteen year old lose interest. It kind of takes the edge off of your interest to stand in a cloud of pissed off bees and wonder if they are going to find a weak spot in your suit!
I've been a beekeeper for 15 years here in Scotland and with a bit of adaptation your advice is spot on even for here. I've been rearing queens using Apideas (mini mating nucs) for some years now and I'm finally sick of them. Last year I stocked a dozen of them with bees and without exception they all absconded. Right now I'm in the process of building two frame nucs to replace them. The two frame nucs use more resources but the versatility of having compatible frames with all of my other kit outweighs that. And you're absolutely right - the beekeeping season is a race against time no matter where you are. Late season splits need to be strong to make it through a winter and having a mated queen to give to them gives them a huge head start in life. Thanks for the vids - I usually find US stuff of limited use for me here in Scotland but yours is a notable exception sir. If any of your viewers haven't discovered Mike Palmer from Vermont and his insights I would recommend they do so without delay. They'll find much in Mike's stuff to complement your advice.
You are right, Mike Palmer is a very educated and experienced keeper, I hope you have watched his video on the importance of getting stung.
Do you feed your bees with sugar water?
@@piffy5594 probably not in the cold.. but Spring I would bet he does..
Canadian here, winter is hard, lol.
Excellent points
Your videos have helped me so much! Thank you. Feeling more confident doing my 1st split in spring.
You are quite welcome.
Appreciate the education. Very informative. Thank you. In the Pacific NW here we are limited to warm weather so spot on for us! Again thank you. 🙏
you lost me when you started talking about sports. never watched them.
In Baseball Terms - you hit it OUT OF THE PARK with this video! WTG David!!!
Future video suggestion:
Harvesting honey with a twist - I'm sure small/medium/commercial bee keepers use different methods - maybe touch on the better avenues possible within each sector.
Man..... now I'm itching to get a some bees@ and as soon as I can get some property sold, I'm going to become the Outlaw Conductor....My Bees will ROCK!!!
~God Bless Our Country~
Sorry these questions come in this UTube video. 1) you can tell by their sound what's going on at least I feel comfortable saying that. 2) robber bees. This is the question. My girls are being robbed. I've done all the methods - which included, by the way - and awesome short term answer. Take that wet sheet and drape it over the hive. Looks really weird, but it works. That being said, robbers are relentless. Got myself a robber screen. Installed it last night.The girls are having a horrible time finding the entrance. They're all over the screen, so confused it's painful to watch. How much time does it take for them to figure out where their new entrance is? Hours? I'm getting frantic with worry. Thanks for any assistance you can offer me.
Yard looks nice. Is that corn growing up in the hive stand? lol
Pro tip... keep a stick of butter in your tool box. ;)
I’m getting 3 hives next week from a beekeeper that can’t do it anymore. Any advice is welcome. Any video in particular I should watch.
Good video David. Late season splits are always harder to keep alive. You are right about April splits. They are far more natural that time of year. Good video!
Excellent. Very informative. Thank you! You will be my first RUclips. Subscription!
I am starting to get curious about beekeeping. How often do you get stung by your bees?
Wear a suit