Beekeeping: Tips For Adding Honey Supers For More Honey
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Beekeeping is rewarding when the hive produces honey. I'll share some tips today to help your hives gather more nectar for more honey.
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Whoa, you made it all the way down here! Thank you ♥️ Love you
Great video David
Love the commentary
And how you let us beeks see who you really are
Glad you did the small blooper real it shows people your just like us !
Glad you enjoyed it Jr
Love your content. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge ❤
Thanks for watching!
I'm amazed at the different temperment of every hive. I have some you can do anything with them and they just accept it. I have another one you cant even walk past without them getting upset.
Indeed, kinda like people 🤣
I love to hear a teaching on honesty and character to an evil world that doesn't believe in it. Be blessed david.
Love your videos david, you could use a division board on the edge where the frame dosent fit might stop them building brace comb
Hi. Instead of doing this I will just take 2 frames of capped brood and put it over the queen excluder. Put foundation in there place. You can repeat that in a week or two most likely. This will get the bees filling honey and working in your super. They normally pull the foundation in brood nest fast. It prevents swarming on three levels. One is having them put honey In super. Two is having them pull foundation in brood nest. By It interrupts the bee space causing them to pull new empty cells. Number three is moving away the capped brood greatly reduces swarming. In fact moving all capped brood away from the brood nest can completely stop or prevent it. I’m using this method as I don’t have much pulled combs for honey stores.
I cannot do that as you can see in the video because the frame that was below the queen’s glitter those are all deep size frames, and my honeys super is a medium size frame, so the frames would not fit up there
I understand. I actually use a deep and medium for brood chamber in most cases. I use deep and medium honey supers so I guess it’s a bit different. However it’s planed out. Having the queen on only one frame for 2 weeks is going to restrict the amount of bees she can produce. If there was 6,000 cells open on the deep frame she would fill that in 3 days time, for the remainder of the 2 weeks she would have been able to lay another 18,000- 22,000 eggs that she is restricted from laying. In my opinion stopping those 20k bees from being produced is going to limit your honey production especially if done at a particular time. Using a queen excluder doesn’t restrict honey production to that degree in my experience or really at all. Whereas losing a queen for a couple weeks would greatly decrease honey production. It’s your ‘experiment’ (not actually an experiment in a scientific way, more playing with a single colony) and I’m sure you will take all things into consideration when you share results. Enjoy your day
I learned a trick at the NIBA meeting from an experienced beekeeper on using an excluder. The trick is to put the excluder on but pull it back a about an 1" to 1"5 from inside edge of the box. The logic is the queen will tend to move up the center of the bottom super. The odds of her moving to the opening and going around the excluder is not a high probability. I tried it on two colonies and it work perfectly. The workers used the opening to enter and leave the super without the excluder hinder them. The down side it the excluder will be hanging out side the boxes. Did not create any issues.
Or turn the queen excluder sideways
Or use a 8 frame excluder on 10 frame box..
shout-out to your glasses for fixing the audio there
Thanks for the values talk. Excellent.
Glad it was helpful!
Really liked the values chat. Only thing I'd note is that a lot of employers are not loyal to you.
That's true but you can still do your best
Bonus bees for the new hive. With honey as a gift! They'll love it.
Glad you noticed that.
Hey David! Have you ever experimented with what I know as "Palmer Pair" named after Mike Palmer?
It's a two-queen system whereby the bottom 2 boxes (side-by-side) are nucs, each with an excluder. Shared between them on-top is a single full-size set of supers above the 2 Qex. Sometimes it requires a little simple woodwork to ensure all gaps are covered against rain etc.
The theory goes that each brood-box feels small compared to the total space and the queen has restricted laying but not from being honey-bound nor becuase of pressure from other bees. Result being that bees mature quickly into foragers and you make more honey than a single hive. But more importantly and what interests me, is that they almost never swarm because the combination of brood pheremone vs total space vs bee density etc never triggers it.
Please would you try this for us all to see? I will be trying it next year but I think it would be fantastic to hear your take on it and public findings especially given your honesty and integrity which I respect and think many of us value.
Yes I have tried this years ago, and I'm sure some people like it but not something I use. I encourage you to try it and see what you think.
That frame looked pretty full already. Do you think it would be 'better' to put the queen in that excluder on an empty frame so she could continue to lay while confined? This is an interesting idea and one I might try with some comb honey supers.
Last year i made similar method but easier way without stressing the queen this much , i put the queen with 4 brood frames in the first box and sided it with a foam board so workers wont build wax on the empty space , then added the queen excluder and supers above !
If you are adding a queen excluded, whats the purpose of the foam?
David, why not put the extra frame into the new super in place of a new frame?
Because that frame is from a deep box so it is 3 inches larger than the honey super box.
@@beek OK👍
Absolutely love the bloopers.
Do more bloopers!
You got it!
your awesome i live the same way .
Thank Kelly, thank you sooooo much for being a subscriber. I appreciate so much!!! You've been a subscriber for 2 years. That's loyalty.
9 frames of honey not capped over all the way on some frames starting to go double amount.need to speed up capping somehow?
I bought one on Amazon great little device but i did have to calibrate because it was way off out of the box just use some extra virgin olive oil and set the Brix between 71-72 and then it is good to go to test the water content of your honey...
Some refractomers need to be calibrate.
Question for you, David, I purchased one of those isolation cages to help in Queen rearing but my issue is that is looks as if the queen can escape as there is a gap between the cage, the frame support (on the box) and top metal cover of the cage... I've had to shove some wax in there to try and seal it, etc.. Have you seen this issue? I wonder if it's not boxes as they are pretty old.
In the past I’ve used them and I never had a queen escape but mine were built different and didn’t have that much of a gap up there. I’m gonna check mine this week so we’ll find out👍
@@beek Pleas let me know what you find. I can see how much of a great tool this can be.... unless she is able slip away! LOL
I have a quick question, to all or who can tell me if they put their hive entrances at a certain position, as east west etc? Need help with this thanks!
That's a great question to ask during our livestream as many people would also benefit from the answer as not everyone reads the comments. The livestream is this Thursday at 7pm central time. Here's the link: ruclips.net/user/live2aTaxvH3sXc
Seems like this might also be a form of mite control to break a full brood cycle.
Interesting!!! Please elaborate, im looking to address verroa without chemicals
The question is: can we do bees and be able to live ?
Dump your petrol powered mower and get yourself a Battery powered version as my Bees don't even know I am mowing around the hives, I can even use the weed eater to trim the grass and weeds as it's also battery operated.
Nice suggestion
G-day mate. With that frame you couldn’t put back. Why couldn’t you put it up onto the super box.?
It's three inches too big to fit in honey super
Can you get stung using those gloves ?
I never have been. They are pretty think and have canvass below the rubber
@@beekare they dishwashing gloves?
So good to hear this information hard to find fact based information on RUclips, again thanks David.👍🏽❤️❤️❤️🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
So glad you liked it.
I appreciate your willingness to try something out of the norm. I hope it works the way you want!!! Great video. I really appreciate your values. You're my kind of person!!! Keep it coming David!!!
I appreciate it Kyle!
Verse 16:68 of chapter 16, (The Bees), says, "And your Lord inspired the bees: 'Make your homes in the mountains, the trees, and in what people construct'". The verse continues, "Then eat of all the fruits, and go along the pathways of your Lord, with precision. From their bellies emerges a fluid of diverse colors, containing healing for the people. Surely in this is a sign for people who reflect".
These verses mentioned the bees as females, also mentioned belly in plural suggesting that the honey comes from several compatments in the bee's body, and lastly the chapter number is 16 which is identical to the number of the honey bees chromosomes number.
Another great and interesting video! If you are traveling down I57 tomorrow and would like to stop for supper in Marion, let me know. Depending on the timing my family and I could buy you dinner in town. I’ll be doing a removal from a chimney in town tomorrow.
Appreciate the offer but on a tight schedule
David, love the video showing how you guys re-video practice everything. Another day in the 90's and very muggy. HAVE A GREAT DAY 👍
Glad you enjoy the video Jay! Some days I can rattle off content and never miss a beat without a script and other days, can't get it right.
Excellent video David. I like the bloopers. Our time together in the bee yard is very rewarding for me.
I wondered if people would enjoy the bloopers, thanks for letting me know
I'm glad I'm not the only only one having ideas hitting me at 3:30am!!
Must be our age!(I'm 63!)
I’m 36 and the same happens to me. I think it has to do with how obsessed you are over your bees 😂
No kidding!
Those were funny. Thanks David ps you have helped me out exceedingly!!
Glad to hear it!
Have fun in TN. It's hot down here in West TN today.
I’m headed to Martin Tennessee. Where are you at?
@@beek Memphis
Hey David, I'd love to see a side by side in your experimental yard of you using a queen excluder on one hive and this device on another hive. I'm interested to see just how much the queen excluder does/doesn't slow down their progress.
Over my decades of beekeeping I started by using a queen excluder, then went to not using it. But 1 out of 10 hives I'll have a queen get up into the super, so this is a great solution.
What does it mean when a hive is honey bound? How? Where? What do you do?
Great question for the livestream. Here's the link for this week: ruclips.net/user/liveWyDOnzRy5O4
Does the ultra be pollen go bad to where the bees will not be interested?
I have some that’s a couple years old. They don’t seem to care about it. Pretty sure we’re in a dearth.
I would play it safe and get some fresh powder
That queens a mile long 😊
Thanks, queens can be slightly different in size which usually doesn't effect their performance.
Where do you get one of those cages ?
Oh that is a perfect question tonight on my livestream. I hope you can be there and post this question. Here's the link: ruclips.net/user/liveWyDOnzRy5O4
Great video thanks David and Sheri I got one of those cages looking forward to seeing a follow-up video 😊
Good deal BRIAN. Let me know how it works out for you too and I’ll be sure and make a follow up video.
I really like your videos I have learned a lot. I was wondering if you could use 7 dust to help control the Beatles and possibly the mites in the hive. I didn’t know if it would harm the bees or not. Just Thought I would get your opinion on that
That will definitely kill Bees
@@beek good to know. Thank you
I have a question david. I pulled the top cover this morning and noticed what appeared to be 4 or 5 cockroaches in the top cover. Should I be concerned?
Pretty comment to see those roaches up there on the outside edges of the top cover. They’re just wood roaches and never bother the hive.
@@beek thanks david!
I find they won’t I have never had a issue running doubles will that fit with 9 frames in there
Thanks for showing the personal side of yourself, David. Up until the bloopers we thought you were (almost) perfect. !!!
You and I were raised from the same cut of cloth. Same set of values. Thank you for being yourself!
Thanks Tony, glad you enjoyed the video and a bunch of us have lots in common 👍
Love that idea!
So glad!
honey excluder!!!! haaaaaaa!! most mistaught thing in beekeeping.--just not true
Yea, it's kinda hit and miss for me and like I said in the video some people love them and there are times they work great and you have to use them.
Bonus footage!!! I love it! Safe travels this weekend!
Thank you! Will do!
Followed your guidance today on added queen excluders for a week to try and narrow down where my poor laying queen is. Absolutely blow away with how much they have filled frames since my last check a few weeks ago. Very little drones laid in either hive on the drone comb. Some are starting to hatch so swapped them out anyways and put them in the freezer. Have to admit they have some capped honey on the frames so I had to sneak a taste. Is it possible I’m prejudice? That honey was the best honey in my life and I eat a TON of honey. 😂
Thank you for all the help you offer so many. Hopefully I can figure out these drone comb frames and my queen issues.
Have a Blessed weekend! Thank you for being so awesome! ❤🐝
Thanks for sharing and isn't it crazy how great our own honey really does taste so much better!
Looking forward to seeing how that cage works out, and great coffee time David. Basic morals seem to escape people these days it seems. Thanks for sharing 👍🐝✌️💜🌼🍯 Safe travels this weekend.
Thanks Jessica, glad you liked the video.
I love your values. I was raised in the same fashion. Thank you for sharing this it meant a lot to me
Good to hear, and thanks for watching.
Great video David!
Glad you enjoyed it
Been doing something similar. I just put brood up above the qx and leave it to hatch out. They don’t make queen cells because they think it’s still part of the nest. This works even if you have carnis who like to pack honey tight or even if the brood box is not full of honey. They just back fill emerging brood with honey. Two or more frames is good
I can’t do that because my brood frames are larger and will not fit in my medium size honey super
@@beek I know you could stick a supper frame into the brood a month before honey flow. But will be interesting to see. Bet what you are doing will work
Isn’t there a little opening at the top edge? Can the queen climb out there?
I've wondered about that and I'm going to find out I guess. It will be a good experiment because I too have wondered that.
I think there is too.. I've stuffed wax or duct tape around those spots since I didn't trust it.
@@beek great. I will wait for your results before trying. Thanks.
David, you are the best person to be you and we love that you are true to you!
You are so encouraging and kind and I appreciate your comments
@@beek can I ask a massive favor?