Enjoyed it. 6 to 75 is definitely ambitious. But 30 is also pretty darn good. Should be able to explode this year. And you have learned some valuable lessons along the way. New subscriber here.
It can be discouraging. But, people do not just watch for the highs - they also watch for the lows and feel like they are going on this journey as well. We all also learn from these things. I hope to go from 7 to around 20 this year. I always tune in and watch!
Jared, before putting an effort, and splitting them again please sit down and think about : here we NEVER put more than 50 hives (normally 30)in a single location UNLESS there is a huge crop cultivation you need to pollinate. .Bees travel a certain distance, and there is a maximum amount of nectare and pollen per hectares. If you put more bees than the amount that can feed by themselves in a certain area, they will struggle to grow in numbers so they will not be ready for overwintering So, my little suggestion is that you take some of those hives, and establish another location on the opposite part of your homestead or elsewhere at a reasonable distance ( at least 3 miles)
Thanks for the advice man, I’ve actually got permission for a yard for honey production 5 miles away that I plan on expanding to this year or next. But right now all my hives are Nucs so I can probably keep higher numbers?
That’s definitely something to be proud of and it is a big deal that you grafted them queens! Definitely something to be proud about! Thanks for the video! I’ll subscribe to your channel!
Don’t get discouraged man. Bob Bonnie has been bigger into carnolians. It took me 4 years to get to 50 hives and I haven’t even counted dead outs. I’ve heard 20% is the norm. During inspections I’ve learned to just look for the signs of a queen instead of searching until I find her. I’m hoping you make this a business also so I’m rooting for ya! Never ceases to amaze me how helpful and down to earth beekeepers are! Keep it up bro!
Looks like we both are in the same boat ..I too lost more hives in my first winter than I thought I would ..however I learned some very valuable lessons .. for me I believe or I now know that I split way to late and also I didn’t feed enough pre winter to sustain those I had starve out ..I’ll do a much better job this year ..as will you ..!! Greetings from south Alabama
Keep at it man! It’s a numbers game, don’t be discouraged. A month from now you’ll be wishing you had more drawn comb, just to keep the survivors from swarming lol. The cows knocking them over freed up those combs, and because of that, you can be reasonably sure they didn’t die from a brood disease. Might be time to think about securing more yards too. The carrying capacity for any given spot might not be as high as we’d expect. For example it turns out I have a commercial beekeeper neighbor by the home yard and didn’t know until recently. Good luck this year I’m willing to bet you’re going to have a ton of bees!
You still did way better than me, i hoped for 20, turned 5 into 14, then just lost one two weeks ago here in Taft. I appreciate your videos, they've definitely inspired me.
30 is not bad for such an aggressive split, keep feeding and build a plan. Use some to build others like brood factories, having so many in one spot means they won’t have enough natural forage to build fast, so artificial stimulation will be needed if you want to grow them and not just survive.
Beekeeping isn't easy. You can keep growing your colonies and hopefully leaning from your mistakes. A lot milder weather down there than here in Canada. I would definitely recommend only having a maximum of 50 in a bee yard. Fall feeding and medicating a must!!!
Yo, bee dude up in Ohio. Based on what I can see, you're in a forested area without a huge amount of forage. Looks also to me like way too colonies in one place. Splitting them too fast before they've grown and established. And lastly, with colonies of the size I can see, they all need a thick set of sugar bricks over them to get thru the winter. A frame or two of honey is essentially nothing. Especially to one side. They're starving out. And or dying from small numbers and can't keep warm. When I set up smaller ones for winter if I have them, it's not in brood box. End of season I move all the brood if any, into 6 frame nuc boxes. 3/4 pine. Full 8 lb frames of honey on the outers. If there are a few more frames of brood, I have bottomless addition 6 frame boxes to go on the first. Remove all the empty redundant frames. Making these as compact as possible.. Warm and toasty. Any slots left open in the upper tier, fill with honey. If you haven't got the honey, have ready so very heavy syrup, like 1:2, and fill drawn comb with it. Then on top of that apartment, add a 2-1/2 rim spacer with 3/4 vent holes covered with mesh. Fill it with 2+inch sugar bricks. Toss the lid on. Once mine are past robbing season in the fall I leave the entrance about 3". Easier to clean the dead out. And don't forget to keep the snow off if any. If the entrance is closed from snow, they're dead in 24hrs. Biggest issue we have now is these warm spells. Laying starts waaay to early. Then is crashes cold. Remember, "Winter" for them starts when the food is gone. And is over when the the Silver Maples, Dandelions and Snow Drops are blooming. Up here in Dayton, that's 5-6 months without forage. So for smaller colonies, you need to lay up solid stores for them. And be prepared to add more. Just my observations. Jon's Got Hives.
Here in Australia pushing 35. I think its possible to get 10 from 1 hive in a year and thats from wise keepers. Constant feeding brood boosting supplements and sugar syrup for comb production. If i had a walk in freezer with stickys "extracted" frames for expanding nucs with good laying queens i can see the potential of 10 hives from one in a year.
Im fixing to do a few double screen board splits, i noticed capped drone so hopefully by the time new queen is born and ready to fly/mate it will work.....i hope. Double screen split last year qas successful but it was 1st week of March.
Sometimes beekeeping will break your heart. I’ve been beekeeping for 15 years in Savannah, TN and lost several small clusters to that cold weather this year. They just couldn’t move to the food.
Going from 6 to 30 is more than most beekeepers do in their lifetime.... keep that in mind. Last year I started with 3 colonies coming out of winter..bought 1.. grew up to 15...thought I'd hit my target of 45....then a bear wiped out 12...after all damage was fully accounted for, down to 1.... sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Just pick up and move forward from where you are.
Not bad at all In july of 2022 I had 2 hives then during 2023 went for 17 (1 lost during this winter) 16 atm and shooting for 50 this year keep posting
6 into 30, you still have me impressed! You did better than me! Don't forget even though some die you still built resources off those colonies that died.
I feel your worry I started with 1 and caught 4 swarms from it and made splits up till august and ended with 16 and 1 from my dad but thank God I have just lost 1 for now??? We will see. I been laying the sugar water and sugar to mine every warm day. Im excited to see how you do!
Id rotate some of the weak hives to the strong hives spots, like bob Binnie does on his latest video, it will gain the field force. I forgot that trick and will probably do that first then in a few week start double screen board splits.
Don't count your bees before they hatch 😂 I count my bees each spring. Since 2020, I went from 2, to 1, to 6, to 14. If I had counted them ahead of time I would have said since 2020 I have had 2, 4, 7, 17. Going from 6 to 40 is great!! Keep up the good work.
Enjoyed it. 6 to 75 is definitely ambitious. But 30 is also pretty darn good. Should be able to explode this year. And you have learned some valuable lessons along the way. New subscriber here.
Thanks brother! the more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know. But I’m excited to see what happens this year!
Love your honesty & sincerity. Yes, 6 to 30 is still excellent. 6 to 20 is excellent! Keep it up brother!
It can be discouraging. But, people do not just watch for the highs - they also watch for the lows and feel like they are going on this journey as well. We all also learn from these things. I hope to go from 7 to around 20 this year. I always tune in and watch!
Jared, before putting an effort, and splitting them again please sit down and think about : here we NEVER put more than 50 hives (normally 30)in a single location UNLESS there is a huge crop cultivation you need to pollinate. .Bees travel a certain distance, and there is a maximum amount of nectare and pollen per hectares. If you put more bees than the amount that can feed by themselves in a certain area, they will struggle to grow in numbers so they will not be ready for overwintering So, my little suggestion is that you take some of those hives, and establish another location on the opposite part of your homestead or elsewhere at a reasonable distance ( at least 3 miles)
Thanks for the advice man, I’ve actually got permission for a yard for honey production 5 miles away that I plan on expanding to this year or next. But right now all my hives are Nucs so I can probably keep higher numbers?
Keep up the progress, your videos are brilliant and inspiring too 🐝🐝🐝🍯💛
That’s definitely something to be proud of and it is a big deal that you grafted them queens! Definitely something to be proud about! Thanks for the video! I’ll subscribe to your channel!
I'm so glad you're back! I really enjoy your videos. Don't be discouraged, a bad winter can hit anybody. Looking forward to more videos.
Don’t get discouraged! You will come back even stronger! Wanna know what cold is like, come up here to northeastern New York!
Good job Jared. Keep setting the bar high so you keep reaching up
Thanks! Will do!
Don’t get discouraged man. Bob Bonnie has been bigger into carnolians. It took me 4 years to get to 50 hives and I haven’t even counted dead outs. I’ve heard 20% is the norm. During inspections I’ve learned to just look for the signs of a queen instead of searching until I find her. I’m hoping you make this a business also so I’m rooting for ya! Never ceases to amaze me how helpful and down to earth beekeepers are! Keep it up bro!
From 6 to 30 ain’t bad. Make sure and protect the comb from your dead out. Will make things go much faster this year. Good luck. You’re doing good.
That’s awesome my friend, I wish I lived close enough to you to visit your operation
Keep after it! I've got similar goals.
Picked up 1 nuc and 3 colonies summer 2023 and looking to grow this year.
Thanks for the update,was wondering how things are going.👍
Looks like we both are in the same boat ..I too lost more hives in my first winter than I thought I would ..however I learned some very valuable lessons .. for me I believe or I now know that I split way to late and also I didn’t feed enough pre winter to sustain those I had starve out ..I’ll do a much better job this year ..as will you ..!! Greetings from south Alabama
Keep at it man! It’s a numbers game, don’t be discouraged. A month from now you’ll be wishing you had more drawn comb, just to keep the survivors from swarming lol. The cows knocking them over freed up those combs, and because of that, you can be reasonably sure they didn’t die from a brood disease.
Might be time to think about securing more yards too. The carrying capacity for any given spot might not be as high as we’d expect. For example it turns out I have a commercial beekeeper neighbor by the home yard and didn’t know until recently.
Good luck this year I’m willing to bet you’re going to have a ton of bees!
You still did way better than me, i hoped for 20, turned 5 into 14, then just lost one two weeks ago here in Taft. I appreciate your videos, they've definitely inspired me.
Looking good. I went from 6 to 3 it was a rough winter
30 is not bad for such an aggressive split, keep feeding and build a plan. Use some to build others like brood factories, having so many in one spot means they won’t have enough natural forage to build fast, so artificial stimulation will be needed if you want to grow them and not just survive.
Beekeeping isn't easy. You can keep growing your colonies and hopefully leaning from your mistakes. A lot milder weather down there than here in Canada.
I would definitely recommend only having a maximum of 50 in a bee yard. Fall feeding and medicating a must!!!
Yo, bee dude up in Ohio. Based on what I can see, you're in a forested area without a huge amount of forage. Looks also to me like way too colonies in one place. Splitting them too fast before they've grown and established. And lastly, with colonies of the size I can see, they all need a thick set of sugar bricks over them to get thru the winter. A frame or two of honey is essentially nothing. Especially to one side. They're starving out. And or dying from small numbers and can't keep warm. When I set up smaller ones for winter if I have them, it's not in brood box. End of season I move all the brood if any, into 6 frame nuc boxes. 3/4 pine. Full 8 lb frames of honey on the outers. If there are a few more frames of brood, I have bottomless addition 6 frame boxes to go on the first. Remove all the empty redundant frames. Making these as compact as possible.. Warm and toasty. Any slots left open in the upper tier, fill with honey. If you haven't got the honey, have ready so very heavy syrup, like 1:2, and fill drawn comb with it. Then on top of that apartment, add a 2-1/2 rim spacer with 3/4 vent holes covered with mesh. Fill it with 2+inch sugar bricks. Toss the lid on. Once mine are past robbing season in the fall I leave the entrance about 3". Easier to clean the dead out. And don't forget to keep the snow off if any. If the entrance is closed from snow, they're dead in 24hrs. Biggest issue we have now is these warm spells. Laying starts waaay to early. Then is crashes cold. Remember, "Winter" for them starts when the food is gone. And is over when the the Silver Maples, Dandelions and Snow Drops are blooming. Up here in Dayton, that's 5-6 months without forage. So for smaller colonies, you need to lay up solid stores for them. And be prepared to add more. Just my observations. Jon's Got Hives.
Here in Australia pushing 35. I think its possible to get 10 from 1 hive in a year and thats from wise keepers. Constant feeding brood boosting supplements and sugar syrup for comb production. If i had a walk in freezer with stickys "extracted" frames for expanding nucs with good laying queens i can see the potential of 10 hives from one in a year.
6 into 30 is awesome you should be proud
Im fixing to do a few double screen board splits, i noticed capped drone so hopefully by the time new queen is born and ready to fly/mate it will work.....i hope. Double screen split last year qas successful but it was 1st week of March.
Sometimes beekeeping will break your heart. I’ve been beekeeping for 15 years in Savannah, TN and lost several small clusters to that cold weather this year. They just couldn’t move to the food.
Good to see you back!
Going from 6 to 30 is more than most beekeepers do in their lifetime.... keep that in mind. Last year I started with 3 colonies coming out of winter..bought 1.. grew up to 15...thought I'd hit my target of 45....then a bear wiped out 12...after all damage was fully accounted for, down to 1.... sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Just pick up and move forward from where you are.
Man that sucks! Thanks for the encouragement. Good luck with your bees👍
Not bad at all
In july of 2022 I had 2 hives then during 2023 went for 17 (1 lost during this winter) 16 atm and shooting for 50 this year
keep posting
And electric fence is real cheap way to keep animals out, just 4 post, one or two strands wire and a solar fence shocker
Dang... 60s!!...last frost date fer me is june 15th!! Great job.
Hey way to go. You gotter by the tail now, keep going
6 into 30, you still have me impressed! You did better than me! Don't forget even though some die you still built resources off those colonies that died.
I feel your worry I started with 1 and caught 4 swarms from it and made splits up till august and ended with 16 and 1 from my dad but thank God I have just lost 1 for now??? We will see. I been laying the sugar water and sugar to mine every warm day. Im excited to see how you do!
Id rotate some of the weak hives to the strong hives spots, like bob Binnie does on his latest video, it will gain the field force. I forgot that trick and will probably do that first then in a few week start double screen board splits.
You got this!
You are really good Beekeeper ❤
Thanks!
The thing about it is, you’ve just learnt a valuable lesson and you’ll never do that again that’s what makes good beekeepers great beekeepers
👍👍👍
Don't count your bees before they hatch 😂
I count my bees each spring. Since 2020, I went from 2, to 1, to 6, to 14.
If I had counted them ahead of time I would have said since 2020 I have had 2, 4, 7, 17.
Going from 6 to 40 is great!! Keep up the good work.
😂 yep, I had such great success on earlier rounds of queen cells that I got a little over confident… thanks!
No problem you learned something valuable but now you have way more than Quito start with it is still very good
Chin up man seems like your doing fine to me.
Hey Jared.. there’s a lot of people on here watching you.., can you please post more often ?
Don’t give up mate
U just got to say to yourself-" Ride on Lil ponys,, Ride on"
6x5 = 30
30x5 = 150
150x5 = 750
Only 2 years left before you’re big into this
Not Hive Life- it’s now North American Bee Expo
You’re right, I got mixed up.
@@JaredBeekeeping sorry, Im the grammar police...cant help it
I think that they were too small a cluster to move during the cold is why those at 6min 12sec died😂
Strap your hives down! Don't take the chances of a hive getting knocked around.