Winter Losses - It Is A Sad Day In The Valley
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- We will go through our colonies and determine who is alive and who is not. How will we do? We will add sugar bricks and Fondant patties to the ones that are alive. #beekeeping #beekeeper #honeybees #beehive
Sorry about your losses. We know as bee keepers that you can build your colonies back with splitting hives and trapping free bees in the Spring. I lost one out of three myself. God bless you and your family.
That is part of it, we will build back. Thanks for watching and good luck this season.
Hate it for you Tim. You’ll get some splits off the four and then you’ll catch you some swarms and we’ll be watching as you get those hive stands filled back up. I got plenty of open spaces to fill too. Old Glory is looking good. Just keep the food on them since they’re at the top already. Inverted sugar with that fondant is the best. Take care Brother!!
Thanks Mike, we will bounce back. Talking to locals, there seems to be a lot of losses up here this year. Good luck brother.
00:07:35 mine don't eat the dry sugar either 😢 fondent is the bomb
I need to learn how to make my own fondant, I will work on that this year and put it in the freezer, thanks for watching.
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Easy.
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Easy fondent.
That 4th hive sure looked good. Glad you got some food on them.
That has been a very good colony, if they pull through, I definitely want to get some splits from her. Thanks for watching.
@@theboonecountybeekeeperwhen you split do let them raise your own queens?
Good video and I appreciate the work you do for our viewing
Thank you for watching, I enjoy making the videos. Good luck this season.
Garrard county central Ky. area. 24 hives and all are full of bees and plenty of resources. I didn’t treat for mites at all last year and no issues. Don’t understand all the various issues with beekeepers coming out of this winter. Great honey flow last year with 3 pulls, may , July and September. Just sharing my info. Good luck to everyone
Good luck to you as well.
50-50 success rate a disappointment but like you said it could've been worse. Great seeing old glory's girls keeping on. Good luck come spring.
Thanks for watching Frances. Love ya.
I didn't see any entrances on the hives can be there just cannot see them😮
Major loses in my yard too, thinking poor mite treatment caused mine. Just learn from our mistakes and start over lol.
Hate to hear that Brian, good luck buddy and thanks for watching.
Lost a bunch below you it was bad for us. Good luck
Been a tough winter for sure, got some things I want to try next year Lord willing. Thanks for watching.
You've proven once again that the best bees are live bees. Keep on keeping.
Sorry for your loss that hurts. If it you makes you feel better we are down 25 out of 100 so far... and the weather ant looking good this week here in Canada -34C over night.
Hate to hear that, loss is a part of beekeeping but we don't like it for sure. Canada is a beautiful place but that cold weather is rough. Good luck this season and thanks for watching my friend.
This is my fortieth year as a beekeeper and it's still gut wrenching finding "dead-outs". However, I've completely changed my overwintering practices in recent years which has improved the survival rate greatly; my winter losses range between 10 to 15%.
*I feed a thin syrup during the dearth of late summer to stimulate brood production and ensure an abundance of "winter bees".
In Fall I reduce all colonies to a ten frame, insulated brood box without top ventilation. These "condensing hives" go against everything I previously believed about overwintering hives. But Randy Oliver does a great job explaining the benefits, and science, of such a setup. Lastly, feed them with a heavy syrup in Fall until they're very heavy. And, remarkably, a decade ago I requeened my entire apiary with VSH Italian queens; I haven't taken any measures to combat mites since. It's like turning back the clock to a time before Varroa. Hope this testimony helps. And thanks for sharing your endeavors.
I have been doing a lot of studying on the condensing hive and I am going to try it next year. A different way of thinking but it seems to work and it does make a lot of sense. I wish I was keeping bees back before Varroa. Thanks for the comments and for watching. Good luck.
Sorry, Tim ☹ I discovered a few losses myself.
That is just the sad part of keeping bees, thanks for watching and good luck this year.
I had six and lost all but one and probably need to put some food on it when I get a chance. Hope your luck gets better.
Hate to hear that, winter is tough some times. Good luck and thanks for watching.
Only watched one other video of yours so I’m not familiar with your mite treatments. I had about 50% loss last year and it was all due to mites. This year I had about 20% loss. Way better but still not ok. I think these little buggers are not staying phoretic very long and the mite treatments are not working as well as it should. I did a couple videos talking about this and what I am going to do this year to try to prevent such high losses. It’s very disappointing when You see you bees doing so well late summer, but by mid late fall you can tell they are dwindling to much in numbers.
I treated harder this year than ever before. 42 day cycle of Apivar and many rounds of OA. Even hit them at Thanksgiving and Christmas time with OA. I am going to try Apigard this year and going to change my over wintering method to a condensing hive. Al but 1 looked really good going into winter, the one was kind of short on bees and I was worried about them making it, the others really surprised me. Thanks for watching and good luck this season.
@ Yeah, people have lost their faith in apivar, however I still hear a lot of people losing their bees even with the other treatments. That’s why I am thinking the phoretic period of these mites are not what they use to be. I think they have a little resistance to the treatments but I think the mites behavior is what’s getting us. I think the mite washes are not showing the real number on mites in the hive. They use to tell us what we wash is only a 3rd of the mites but I think it’s way lower than that. I think what we wash is closer to what not 6th. When we do out mite washes and we think we are ok, we actually have way more and it setting up all that brood with diseases and viruses
Hi from southern New Zealand 👋 rough break, feel for you, losing bee's is the worst but you've got some great looking bee's, especially in the American flag hive👍😁 not going so great right now down here, lot of yellow jackets and asian paper wasps robbing hives😬 got entrances reduced which isn't ideal in 90 degrees heat but the bees are getting on top of the robbing wasps now, lost a lot of stores though and it's really really unusual for wasps to be attacking so early. Been destroying wasp nests like it's a new sport, five so far this week. God bless you from southern New Zealand 👋😃
I completely understand about those yellow jackets, I never saw year like last year. Wish you the best, good luck.
That sucks losing hives. I have 3 hives. I lost 2 during early winter but the 1 is doing great. What state are you in?
I am in West Virginia. Never fun losing colonies but that is a part of beekeeping. Good luck and thanks for watching.
why the fondant and sugar? fondant should be good for carbohydrates
Just making sure they have plenty to last them until spring
Did you treat your bee before going to winter?
Yes, several rounds of OA and full round of Apivar. OA at Thanksgiving and Christmas as well.
@theboonecountybeekeeper watch that "safe" oa..itll kill all your older bees and shrink your clusters.
@@theboonecountybeekeeper. When did you do your apivar treatment, how many strips per deep hive body and for how long?
Good luck this spring.
fake apimayes?
Yep, cheaper version