🔵Single Brood Management Inspection
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You can’t toss that box! Memories man
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog sentimental bee box!
@@BeesBikinis Agreed. Run it through the table saw to give it a trim and make it a medium, a swarm trap or a feeding chamber or something....
Gotta preserve your history!
PS - I'm just putting together my 1st 2 hives. and was led to believe you shouldn't paint the lips. Glad I caught this fact in time, Added "Paint the box lips" to the punch list for spring here in Central NY.
Ha! those memories are turning into termite food!. Laurel will tell you I am not a sentimental guy that holds on to stuff that can't be used! Besides! I am running out of room here!
@@kamonreynolds Guess you have a point there, My sentimental equipment from over the years is getting to look like a technological Sanford & Son back lot. I have the "collectors" gene which makes it hard to get rid of anything which might someday be useful. Problem there is after a while you can't find anything when you need it and end up buying one anyway.
Maybe give it all a Viking funeral on the 4th of July or something like that. With all the video you have, historical info for the kids etc. is probably better represented by that than would be served by a few old hives anyway.
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog, aren’t you repurposing your old boxes this year? you’re right not to throw anything away! You might need it when times get tough. Hence your pile of old boxes (in a recent video of yours)
The Bee on the Mike was translating for you...😁
lol
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
LMAO I love the bees talking into the mic
Fantastic camera work well done
You, Bob B and Ian Steppler need to do daily videos to help me with my bee addiction!!!!! Very enjoyable and educational
I know it’s a older video. But like watching them Over. When need to know something I start going through them again. Great camera work. 👍
Thanks WW Outdoors. Hope your spring is excellent!
@@kamonreynolds hope your is good to 👍
Hello Kamon 👋👋👋👋 another great Video...
thank you good insight and teaching
Love it!! great job Kamon!
Thanks Kamon. Great video.
Excellent video Kamon.
Really appreciate your help. You are very helpful. Will watch more.
Great info! I was wondering what percentage of the brood box is typically stored honey in say September? Have you ever inspected the bottom (brood box) in September? Please keep these videos coming!!
very helpful info that I've never heard before, thanks for the hive management tips!
Every little bit of info I learn is priceless thank you for the educational support as usual it means a alot...
Holding the smoker with the knees was an epic pro move, I’m still working on keeping mine lit! Kudos and happy beekeeping from VA!
Running single brood box will save you $$ as you will only need to put varroa strips in a single box where the queen is laying. If you have less treatment going into the hive thats probably more friendly on the bees as a whole as well.
Great videos man. And thank you for all the info thanks to you and a few others. Got my first hive this year and she doing great almost got two full deeps drawn out and population is booming. Thanks and keep it up. Stlouis Mo
2nd year beek here in the state of Utah, I've fallen in love with your videos. Thanks
I really like your videos. I've only watched a couple of them in the past few months but after this one I liked and subscribed. Y'all have earned a new fan. Thank you
Love all the info!! U explain things so we'll!
Thank you !
Wow pure power.. your queen perfect. Bravo you are awesome..
Thanks !!
Thanks for all your videos they have really helped me a lot
I did my first hive inspection the girls are drawing out the new frames I added and I found the queen and she was laying in the new comb right before my eyes it was so beautiful ..The information you've taught me has been coming in handy thank you ..!!!
Live chats, videos, bees, racing the wife, where do you find the time?!? I have trouble just getting the chores done... My hat's off to you. I really enjoy your videos and I must say, you've taught me a lot. Keep up the great job!
I'd like to try out the single brood chamber method. Thanks for the info. Looking forward to how this hive plays out.
Love your videos Kamon! My package Saskatraz bees are coming Tuesday! Looking forward to having bees again. I wanted to share my own gardening and bee experiences and made a RUclips channel and well. Thanks for the inspiration and your advice!
I learned with a single brood chamber hive. So much easier and have never even thought about double brood. Over winters easily for northern Canada, and so easy to manage. Thanks for sharing!! Sometimes I forget that beekeepers do things differently.
If you are using all metal excluders, "which side up" is more important as the manufacturing process can result in a "bow" that could allow queens to pass. I believe this is the main reason the there being an "up and down" side. I, like others, run "metal mid rib down".
Great run thru. I use single brood chambers and prefer them. I agree, give the bees a lot of upper space, allow the bees plenty of room to move nectar up away from the brood chamber. This also gives emerging bees "floor space". Backfilling the brood chamber is the biggest problem newer beekeepers and hobby bee keepers have. Know when the flows start, gear populations toward that. Pull back the strength early. When the flow starts and if you give them room, their mind set changes to the hording instinct. Love your videos.
Another very informative video. Suggestion; for those of us in the same geographical area your references to the weather are helpful. If possible at the beginning of the video if you could give us a date and time of the recording it would help. Thanks
Kaman, do a video on how a sideliner or commercial beekeeper does a hive inspection . I am a inspiring sideline that I feel i take to much time when i am inspecting my hives.
I will try to do that in the future Charles. Thanks
For those of is using deeps, mediums and shallows, the "wear damaged" boxes can often be downsized on a tale saw to give them new life in many cases. If not repairable but the sides are still usable, I cut them down to ends and use them to build nuc boxes. That gives me a new nuc box with good hand holds on the ends!
Excellent
Thanks for the info, thinking of trying some single brood box this year.
Update us please on how it's going. My favorite thing about RUclips is hearing about how people are doing with their experiences.
David Mathews II Come check out my channel, there’s a lot going on👍. Been so busy with splits and queens getting mated, I haven’t had a chance to figure this single brood box out. The flow has come on strong and all my boxes are plugged with nectar 🤪
I just went single for three hives since the buildup is done and the flow is now here. They were late bloomers, so I’m trying it for the first time to capitalize on the flow. But it will cause me to have to feed them for winter. My doubles I can get away with a lot of times without fall feeding. Ready to see how it goes. Drawn supers over an excluder.
We are an entire nation of beekeepers running single brood chamber (Italy) and during the nectar flow to push the bees up to the super we reduce the frames (by using a divider) to 8/7/6/5 and sometimes even 4 frames, depending on how strong the queen is... If you're more interested in these tecnics just drop a call, every nations has its methods and tricks.
That is an excellent bit of information! Thank you for posting that!
Great video. What kind of bee suit are you wearing looks better most i have seen and does it protect you. 🤞👍❤🐝🐝
I run a few as single deeps and am amazed how well it works but I'm finding my bees do better if I leave them one medium extra in the fall. It's hard leaving that 3.5 gallons behind but...
How it works: in spring when the flow starts I can find the queen, put her in the deep, cover with excluder, add two more supers and I've already got bees "upstairs". It works great.
Kamon, if you were to see moth damage and larva on a frame would you pull the frame and destroy it or would you try to save the frame by freezing it?
You mentioned freezing the pollen store frame if need be. New bee here, a frame of pollen stores from freezer can be used in another colony?
Thank you for all your great content.
Hi Maggie thanks for watching 😊yes they can be frozen and given to another colony.
@@kamonreynolds thank you so much. Your content is much appreciated
I have 1 deep with 2 mediums in both of my colonies. Wanting to reduce, split, move each hive into single medium hives and supplement a medium on top to collect honey. Putting excluder between to keep queen out of top box for the entire foraging season. Then splitting hives once more at top of fall, September, and reduce their numbers to be a strong small hive through winter. I'm thinking of stacking one hive on top of another for warmth sharing to sustain them through the cold months. Also, thinking of using double sided boxes for warmth. Most bees utilize trees for homes. Most trees, in my opinion, are twice as thick as your typical box. I think that helps them to be sustained better in winter. I can always add a 2" extender on top of boxes, under the lid, with screened air holes for summer air circulation. Does this make sense? Thanks Kamon for all your videos and knowledge!!🐝
Hi Kamon. Here in the Murfreesboro suburbs we're trying to keep smaller colonies: single 8 frame. But to keep the bees from swarming we seem to keep splitting and making increase, also somewhat alarming for the neighbors! What's the answer, short of selling off nucs or finding outyards and buying more equipment?? Have you ever caged a queen to reduce laying for a while?
This concept is great if all you’re running is deep boxes. I can see now that I need to go with deeps only.
Don Bearden we run deeps for brood chamber and medium for honey supers
We do the first doubling down in deeps, then remove a split, then add mediums without excluder. Then we put the excluder between the deep brood chamber and the first medium super.
Once bees above the excluder emerge, then the cells can be reused to store nectar. :-)
We go singles as well, with 10 frames. We use Ian’s method of expansion in Spring and it works really well. Thanks Kamon for another video :-)
I gonna try but I don't see how queen must shut down and wait on place to lay,last fall I had a triple deep no Excluder with 13 Frames of brood
Baddest Bees, Ian uses 2 brood chambers in the spring but pushes the queen down for winter.
@@henrysimmelink4748 I thought he let em build up into 2 box just enough to pull split and then shake em down, I got 10 Frames brood in triple with supers now,one box with honey and pollen can't be enough room for my Queens to lay but never say never lol I'm going to try it
In a nutshell, the queen is allowed to expand, during rapid growth in the spring, into a second deep brood chamber. Then, a split is taken (without the queen). Then another replacement deep is added for her to lay in, giving her all the room needed to create a decent-sized/big colony just before the main flow. At that point, you’re still dealing with a double deep. Then he puts a queen excluder over the bottom deep. Any brood now above the excluder will emerge and the cells used for nectar storing. Then it’s reverted back into a deep single box brood management system. We love this
@@jocelynbertrand1196 good explanation
Kamon, Picking up some NUCs this week. Can I use a pollen frame from a hive that did not make it through last winter, in Massachusetts, in the new NUCS?
There is nothing wrong with that and it would benefit your new bees as long as it isn't infested or diseased. I assume it's been frozen.
On the furry mic could you wrap some hardware cloth over it to keep the bees off the fuzz and yet let the sound come through?
People should base PATTERN off of Open Brood or better yet eggs ,alot can happen after that stage, Great Job as Always Kamon
If you were to use a frame style feeder, would you put it above the excluder?
Cover your bear wind breaker with a white cloth...!!!! Just a thought.
saw another video with someone that put a white sock over and it worked fine
Kamon, thanks for sharing. I have only one question. Would it be enough to add a second deep box on a strong colony in May-June and when the main flow has started put the queen in bottom box, add an excluder and "second" brood box on top to avoid swarming if i dont have enough equipment for making nuc or there`s no need to expand my apiary ?
They will be burning up some of that wild cherry honey during the incoming artic cyclone. Good luck!!!🤞
i guess I am pretty randomly asking but do anybody know of a good website to stream new series online ?
@Tristan Zayn i use FlixZone. Just search on google for it :)
Hey Kamon, check out the Rode video movie maker wireless lav mic system. It works great and no wind noise in the worst conditions. It works great through the bee suit also. Thanks for the video.
got a link?
thanks
@@FloryJohann Check out one of Jerome's youTubes. He lists his equipment that he uses. He is one of my favorite vid guys to watch. He does a great job editing and extras.
Can you just move the frames into a new brood box (same order) and put the new box in the same position or will that lead your bees to abscond?
What did you do with the nectar frame you pulled out?
Hi kaman and laurel. I just got 2 pkg.'s of bees1 on Saturday 1 Sunday . My first ever! Install went great on Saturday. Sunday, installvwas really good, different temperament. HOWEVER, an hour and a half later, hail, a torrential downpour and cold...😥... how many bees can be lost and the hive survive?
Tons. But I don't expect you had any appreciable losses from what you said above. How's it going now?
I had to check my playback speed after that intro :D
Actually was wondering if you could do a video on varroa mite management, prevention, and treatment. Recently did a hive inspection (only have one hive right now) and saw several varroa mites. Since it's a new hive, I'm not going to do a alcohol wash or sugar wash to risk losing bees. Unfortunately I just done have that many bees right now to risk dying. Is oxalic acid treatment harmful to the bees?
Kamon,great vidios,check out Bob Binnie on top feeders.He uses 71 mm. hole saw for bottles.Fit better,do not tip.
re 9 frame brood box. When you add a second deep, should it also be 9 frames, or 10 is ok?
As the hive grows and honey suppers are added to a single brood box how do you manage the large number of bees when you take the honey off?
Yanks the supers and throw on a box of foundation and feed. Get more combs that way!
Hi Kamon....great chat last night. I have 5 hives with 2 that are double deep brood. Quite honestly, that's all I really want or need to manage. With that said, if I don't want additional hives, will I have to live with some occasional swarming if I don't want to split for additional hives? Thoughts?
Todd, I have a similar quandry with single 8 frames! Maybe try applying some of what Ian Stepler does: add more deeps to prevent swarming, then late in the flow, mash them back down below the excluder. Let them back fill the emerging bees with honey. See ruclips.net/video/386qWGnt_CU/видео.html
Hope that helps.
My feeble thoughts are that it might be nice to do a couple of splits to keep the bees out of the trees. In the fall you can take and combine the nuc with a hive that has an old queen. You could have a drone layer later in the year and you have a young queen waiting. If you didn't need the queen just combine with a smaller hive to help their winter survival.
Great video Kamon, do you have to have drawn comb above the excluder, as the queen can't get above, or will the bees draw more regardless. Also is it dependant on feeding above the excluder well.
The bees will fill the drawn comb with honey.
@@kentconn1285 thanks Kent I have put on an excluder in the past but found the bees did nothing for new comb on new foundation. I wasn't doing any feeding though.
Do you have a good video on changing over from a deep to a medium?
Hey! Kamon how can i get my bees to draw comb quicker?
Its my first year beekeeping and so far you seem to be most informative that I've found. btw appreciate the videos!
Nectar or feed. Colony has to be growing and expanding also. if you are fixing to have a honey flow start than feeding right before is not a good idea. If you are not planning on getting honey anytime soon feed them
Where is the link to that video you mentioned where you had to slow them down because they were too strong too early?
cant get rid of that box for the memories. take it and use it to store your wax in it or something and tell the kids a story about the box you see this box this is how I got your mom Im sure you can think of something. I was in my double deep hive today went through it an I was there for a good while maybe 45 min. to an hour did not find the queen I marked a couple weeks ago saw all kinds of brood no swarm cells though. Also seen how they are drawing out the 4 new frames i put in for them
I'm considering going to single deep brood chambers. I currently have 8 frame equipment. What do you think about doing single deep management in 8 frame boxes? What if anything do I need to do differently than if I used 10 frame boxes?
How often do you check the brood box?
Hmm... maybe you should wear a bee costume out there, might make the bees feel like you were one of them...
Good video!
I know this is a little off of the topic right now but what do you do about ants in your beehives
So first off I'm new to being a beek. I have a friend who is showing me the ropes right now and I have my hives next to his. Hes very natural in his technique and does not recommend a queen excluder. My first hive is in his boxes hes letting me use and my other hive is in my boxes I bought. I'm doing what he recommends in his boxes and I'm experimenting in my hive to compare. My question is regarding the excluder i put on my 2nd hive and given how "off" this year has been I put a medium on instead of the other deep box. I noticed there are bees up there after 3 days but not a frames worth right now. How do I entice the bees up there since I cant use any deep frames? Just let them slowly wander there?
You can top feed. You can open the top entrance and close the bottom with screen. You can wait. You can put a frame of brood up there. You can put it below the brood box for a while instead of straight on top. Right? There are any number of ways that will work out well. The least offensive way may be to put it below the brood chamber (ideally with a frame of brood) for a little while. A week or so. These are all things I used to do when I ran Langstroth hives. That's my 2 cents. Please reply with any questions and with an update. I hope you have good success!
what do you burn in your smoker?
Can’t believe you have a bee jacket on
Hi , I’ve seen many of your videos and enjoyed them very much. My name is Jorgo and I am a new beekeeper, only one year and don’t have much experience. It would be amazing if you could answer 2 of my questions. I have 5, 2 story hives all of them deep. But I am noticing that 3 of them have a very high population and I want to add another story to those 3. They all have a queen excluder and the ones I want to extend are medium size. One question I have is should I be moving the queen excluder to between the 2nd and 3rd story when I add it? Also the second story there are 5-6 frames with honey should I take it out or leave it in? Is 50-60% copped. Thank you Jorgo Gjika
Leave that honey and excluder where they are. Check bottom box like he shows in this video and move frames to other boxes as needed. That's what I would do. I hope it goes well for you. Update?
@@goodcitizen3780 thank you
@@jorgogjika646
Just be sure to check those bottom boxes and move any frames as needed to keep them from getting bound in. Please let us know how things are going. It's always so interesting to hear how it's going for other people. It's like rooting for a football team. You just want everyone to win with beekeeping!
Should beekeepers buy packages of bees from their area or is it ok to buy Bees from southern or Deep South states if you are from a northern state? Do southern honeybees do well up north or should be try to get bees from.our climate/area?
Always try to get local survivor bees whenever you can. They will always do better for you. Good question. I'm south Louisiana and I have to say we don't really have winter. My bees have brood and drones all winter long. Last winter there were maybe 7 days, spread out over the season, that the bees couldn't fly. I don't think they would do well in the cold areas.
Can a Nuc colony be managed in a single brood system?
Question: I had Queenless ten frames of bees from a cutout but had Queen cells..two weeks later Queen emerged and she stayed but 7 frames swarmed off..what happened do you think? I'm clueless
I do cutouts. Sounds like you put too many full frames. I rarely fill more than 6 frames and leave the rest for them to draw or else put the rest as drawn frames. Never had a cutout swarm that way. I hope it's going well for you now.
Kamon,
Do you use excluders on all your honey colonies? I had not used them and I very seldom see any brood above my second deep. I tried one this spring with drawn comb above in the super. It seemed to really slow them down getting up and filling the super with bees. Should I just give them longer to acclimate to the excluder or add a upper entrance?I am located in Missouri. Thanks for all the great information.
mattburleson1976 add a couple of frames of uncapped brood in supers and the bees will be up there in seconds!
@@jocelynbertrand1196 You could put the super on for a week and let them start working it and then put on the Q excluder, I think that may help.
Also you can put that new box and excluder under the brood chamber for a while. The open brood suggestion is probably best in your situation. Both of the above will work. Also top feeding. And top entrance work well. I used to train my bees by screening off bottom entrance for a week while I opened the top entrance. Hope it's going well for you. Update?
Well I added the excluder and pulled one honey frame from another hive(deep brood,medium honey supers). Came back a week later and it was packed with bees. I am thrilled and start to inspect and no wonder they are there as I have 6 packed frames of brood. Queen slipped my inspection . So I got the Queen below and inspected again today. I don’t think I will have a problem with the excluder now that they are so used to going through it. I may, as mentioned above, let her lay up a frame or two then send her below. The mistake I made actually seemed to work pretty well. Thanks for the replies. I didn’t get the notifications. Good luck this season.
@@mattburleson1976
Oh wow! Lol glad it's turning out good for you. For me top entrance was a must when I ran Langstroth single brood chamber. Now I run all long Langstroth with excluders and I run them as single brood chamber. I have 3 doors in place of top entrance since I'm horizontal. Excellent production and it's more efficient for the bees having a door on the other side of the excluder. Keep us updated if you think about it please. I'm always so interested to know how it's going with everyone.
How do you get them off deep frames onto medium frames?
Question I just in stalled a package of bees around the 7th of April I went out to check them on the 23rd and I found lots of nice brood and a queen cell and a few drone cells is that normal? What should I be looking for? Any comments would be helpful. Thank You
That's all very normal. The girls get confused often and make those queen cells even when you have a good queen. Some drones are a good thing. You found what you were looking for. A laying queen. Now look to see how they progress with brood and stores. They will need room so watch that they don't get bound up with way too much pollen and/or nectar. Its normal to be nervous starting out. It means you care. =-)
Update us please.
Sound like a lot of long bee farts!!! hahahaha
Kamon, do you keep your openings reduced throughout the year or do you open them up in spring? Thank You in advanced.
All hives 10 frames are stronger have full openings this time of the year
@@kamonreynolds Hi Kamon, do you ever use robber screens or just try to keep colonies at equal strength?
How much are ya'lls nucs? And do ya'll ship them or do I need to come pick them up?
They are pickup only and we currently are sold out.
What brand is that jacket?
love your videos. like them longer. i missing thet sound of the bees. still to erly for me to work my boxes
I went to singles and more honey!!
Kamen I'm interested in buying some bees how do I make contact with you.
What hood are you wearing here? Is that the Brutal Bee?
The Ultra Bee?
Hi kamen was going through my hives today had a super seizure cell in the honey super above the excluder no eggs no larva just the cell with an egg in it how is that possible
Where in Tennessee are you located
Probably fury animals show up at night raiding the boxes, and why the bees hate a hairy mic.
If the queen fell onto the floor, why wouldn't she walk straight back into the box?
I am in Ohio so it does get colder here.
kamon, not sure if you'll see a comment on this old video. a number of my boxes are 8 frame boxes...can i run single brood box with 8 frame hive?
It would be slightly harder Chip. Got to keep the queen in laying room so you would need to pull some brood out and put if possible a empty comb back in. Depends on how strong the queen is laying how much pollen is coming in etc.
@@kamonreynolds Thanks, Kamon. You're the best.
have you ever had chalkbrood ?
Is there an “up” and a “down” to those wood framed excluders?
Yes they are stamped
The older excluders are not stamped with “up” or “down”.
@@slmronan I see, the metal mid rib goes down
Appreciate your help. Will mark mine with sharpie.
Single Hive Management! I must be hard headed. I watched Ian's video on the same, and had hard time understanding. I watch all his vids and yours and see what you are doing, but can't grasp fully. Must be old age. Could I like do the same type management with two, eight frame MEDIUMS, since they may be approx. close to one ten frame deep? A deep ten from box has about 90K cells and a medium eight frame has about 99,200 cells. Comments? Thanks for sharing.
I started reducing my 8 frame mediums down to singles this season and it works great. All the brood hatched above the excluder and the workers are packing the nectar in like crazy. I'm having to add boxes for more nectar building.
@@janiceseigler6317 How do you all those bees in a eight frame medium & keep from swarming? Can you give me your procedure so I can understand what I am doing, please?
@@richardkuhn8115 This is the first season I started applying the single broad box method with my eight frame mediums. I split some of the hives then added a queen excluder on the brood box then started adding supers above that. Other hives I just let the brood hatch and they started filling the frames.
I have been monitoring the colonies very closely. They are in the nectar storing mode right now. So far so good. It is working. I will continue to monitor closely so when the flow is over I may have to move the queen excluder back above the second box to give the queen more room. I can say that a couple of my colonies have 2 1/2 suppers completely filled. Also, I have so many plants and trees around my home that come into nectar flow consecutively. The flow has been going on since the first of March here in southeast Georgia.
@@janiceseigler6317 Thanks for info. O am going to try this on my four hives. I still don't fully understand. I can't find any step by step instructions o how to do this. I wish I was more intelligent, but with age have lost ability.
Well, I did Not get to even try this. All four of my hives are going to swarm. Three of them did, and the forth one is about to. They all had three brood boxes on and a super above the excluder. I have not had to feed them as they had resources coming out of winter. The forth hive has two capped queen cells so they will swarm this week and there is nothing I can do, at least that I know of.
For some reason i read the titlen as "Chicken Below the excluder" i was a bit confused about that😂
That might go viral!
need more impute