How To NEVER Buy Bees Again w/ Ryan Nimms | Beekeeping 101
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- I had such a great time helping Ryan at @hootervillehoneybees8664 . These are only half of the nucs Ryan is making to take into winter this year.
I'll be interested to see how they do this winter with the Michael palmer style split deep boxes!
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Hello, beekeeping with one or two boxes with 10 frames each is a thing of the past. The future is beekeeping with nuclei. I have been beekeeping for six years now with one normal box in which there is a brood box in which the queen is limited to five frames of bee brood with a follower board, I just stack the boxes for honey at a height. When I notice the beginning of swarming, I take out all the frames with closed bee brood and form new nuclei,queen remains in old colony. That's how I double the bee colony. With the closed bee brood, a good part of the mites also come out. The colonies from which I took out the frames remained with the old queen and five empty frames in the bee brood, which remained without a good number of mites. The bees have no more brood and only bring honey. The queen lays empty frames again in 5-10 days. The future is in the nuclei in terms of honey, mites and colony survival, they are all incredibly healthy and it's amazing how much honey they bring. BR
PS. The math is simple, ((queen lays 1.800 eggs/day) x (21 days) = (37.800 bees)) ((5 LR frames) x (7.500 cells) = (37.500 bees)) there is no need for a higher number of frames in the bee brood ( carnica) for Italian bees 6 frame.
Great video. Thank you. Good to see some different camera angles. Ryan defiantly plows thru the hives. He has a lot of work to do as a one man show. Quick and dirty most of the time but very efficient and informative. Always raw nothing staged
You’re such a sweet person I wish you did group hive inspections haha I’d so sign up to come watch you do an inspection and talk about bees! I’m a first year beekeeper ♥️ happy beekeeping
Hmmmm well this is something that I would be willing to do. Where are you located? And YOU are too kind! Thank you ♥️
Great video. Thank you both.
Fantastic job. I'm impressed by the amount of honey in each hive. Economically viable project
Love your videos! We are doing similar things treatment free in mid Mich.
I see one tip at the very end. When installing the caged queens always point the candy plug slightly downward just in case it were to melt on a hot day it won't slide into get your queen accidentally.
Keep up your awesomeness! Great work Ryan also!
It's very interesting to watch how other beekeepers open their hives. Ryan moves through like a bulldozer. I am fascinated by keepers like Ryan who are able to overwinter nucs, let alone overwinter nucs with spring momentum. However, now I feel a sudden urge to paint all my equipment! 😂
Oh ya I have watched Hooterville for years I like his channel. I'll will run a similar side by side, I got the idea from him in fact. He saves a lot of time with the virgin introduction instead of letting them make their own. Lets them start off Running. Thanks Emily for sharing, looks like it was a fun day. Blessed Days...
At first, I saw all the dead grass around the hives from spraying roundup, and I was like, there are actually two people who do this. Nope, just Ryan
I really liked this video, thanks! Curious as to what he's spraying to kill the vegetation growth and how it doesn't affect the bees. Very interesting!😊🐝
Same weed killer farmers are using around me. Once I get it down to dirt I'll just pull the weeds. Want the grass gone so I'm not covered in ticks at the end of the day.. all 3 yards are new this year.. figure when I finally do harvest that 90k honey crop I'll end up with 150k hospital bill from Lyme disease so I take out the grass first
@@hootervillehoneybees8664 I suspected it was something like Roundup. Thanks for your reply! 🐝
@@robertcampbell943 there's 20 boxes of honey in that first yard we're pulling tomorrow.. had to setup a drying room capped honey just over 21% to high won't taste right and might ferment . That second yard has 30 boxes ready to pull. My son Trev will help this weekend
I wish Ryan was wearing a mic. I think i would have gotten alot more out of the video. But i do appreciate the video all the same.
Nice job! Michigan Beekeeping!
Interesting video! Im curious, we usually do on the spot queen rearing where we'll do something similar but instead of adding a queen we notch a few spots on a frame with 1-3 day old eggs and allow them to make their own queen cells. Wondering if this would be possible to combine the two strategies, maybe just starting a week or two earlier to allow the queen to get mated?
You are doing a killer job on your videos. I started bee keeping as a boy .everything in bee keeping has changed . It's way more tactical now .! I don't know if your viewers understand the Dubble noculus. stacked on one hive with the excluder. It's a master piece. Kel Alpine California .next to JS Harbison canton. Kels
Thank you for sharing!!!
I need more nuc's! wow, $2 a pop! That's awesome.
What are the silver pieces he's putting on top under the cover? Insulation?
I'm six weeks in. Fantastic to watch the two of you work and share the theories. What was it he said about coconut oil?!?
Good information
Been keeping bees 2 years and have only bought 1 queen bee, mean hive. Until a tornado went through my bee yard I had 13 hives. Knocked me down to 3 in minutes. I now have 7 hives.
Great Video
What do he use to kill all the grass/weeds?
As a beekeeper do you have trouble watching someone else work their yard? Every time you go in for a close up I'm reaching for a hive tool that's not on my couch. 😂
She does nice work got you feeling like your there
At the 18:05 mark, did you ask if "he's making honey" or "Money"? in either case, does 40 hives / yard not produce? I'm confused by your question..
Yes I asked if he was still making any honey with 40 hives in a yard. Something to think about is that more bees doesn’t always equal more honey, at a certain point the scale will tip and the bees will start consuming more food than they are bringing in just because too many bees in a spot that can’t support that number of hives will leave only enough nectar for whichever hive is the first to find it.
@@beefitbeekeeping Okay. Now I see what you're saying. Makes sense.. On that note, when are you going to make a video on extracting your honey (pulling boxes/frames, uncapping, spinning, etc.)?
That yard has 80 acres of hay if they ever cut it we have Dutch clover flow could handle way more than 40 units plus is surrounded by black locust and basswood autom olive ect
Holes on the top of the cover? What about water from rain? I'm trying to figure out the best ventilation though.