God bless you from Australia. You are the guardian of your hives. Didn't know it was so hard to keep them alive and healthy and fed where you live. I got an empty box and thinking of getting into this. You are awesome and I take my hat off to you mate. Keep showing all of us the way :-) thank you. Well done.
Sorry to be so offtopic but does someone know a tool to log back into an instagram account?? I was dumb lost the account password. I would love any help you can give me!
@Randy Preston thanks for your reply. I got to the site on google and Im in the hacking process now. Takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
Made up a dozen of your open feeders this summer. I like them alot. I was open feeding with larger totes and messing around with covering and uncovering for weather...Good solution to that problem.
Prsh. I nderuar une quhem Fatmir Morina jam nga Kosova. Edhe une jam nje bletar i siqert dhe e dua shum bleten. I kam permbi 100 koshere. Puna juaj me pelqen shum. Dhe kam deshir qe te bashkpunoj me ju ne ket drejtim. Me respect F .Morina..
My bees are in nuc they draw out half of frames and stop and I have brood I ordered wax foundation today Wil the wax foundation encouge bees to draw more comb ?
Would putting the top feed hole to the side of the hive, or in the corner help avoid the dripping on the cluster issue? You could put the screens on the side of the bucket lid in future replacement buckets, and add a hole to the top cover away from the center. Would there be any benefits to that, or will the cluster be large enough to still get a syrup shower? It seems like it at least would protect the queen and brood, and just get the outer layer of bees.
Hi Ian, may you tell me how you drill holes in the hive lids? I use Milwaukee Hole Dozer... if you have to make a dozen or more holes then no problem, but if a few hundreds ... it just pisses me off how long it takes.
This is great do u have a problem with water getting into your hive when it rains. Also do u make your buckets or do u buy them Thanks and have a wonderful day
Greetings from Southern Ontario. I'm learning a lot from your channel. Thanks. I'm curious about how much of that the dry feed will you go through? .Especially the Ultra bee
Ian, assuming that there is no outside nectar coming in, how long will one gallon of syrup last your as your bees are coming out of the winter? The goal is to keep the queen laying.
Ian, I wonder if you were to have a preset pattern hole stamper which will stamp holes the size of boardman feeders into yout plastic tops, would this stop the dripping problem? The holes are very fine and do not drip on the boardman feeder. Perhaps the same can be accomplished on the bucket feeders? I believe with a little thought and ingenuity, this can be accomplished? Thanks, Phillip Hall
Seems to me youd plant more than a "sprinkling" of clover....Good for the bees, good for the cattle, and the clover also fixes the nitrogen in the ground naturally. With that many acres, you could have the best clover honey in the land. (I'm sure you already do though :) )
Good morning, what is the liquid treatment that you use to treat bees and are you from Canada or the United States? I'm a beekeeper here from Brazil. I liked this system of treating bees.
Hi. I got plugs similar to yours (probably made by the same company) from BetterBee. But the leak a lot. I used a 2 inch holesaw to cut the holes. With a 1 7/8 inch hole the plug doesn't fit at all. Left a pale full of water upside down for a couple hours as an experiment, and about half the water drained out. Are you really not having that problem? Thanks Matt
Hi guys, i have two questions. 1) I have a beehive it has three floors. There is no queen cage inside. Which floor or floors put the eggs by queen. 2) I don't want to give to the bees sugar, i want bees eat their own honey; i wonder that it's possible. The weather is -10 in winter here. Maybe the honey get freeze and they can't eat. Thanks for the answers.
Ian, at what temperature do you need to stop feeding to prevent from chilling your bees to death? When your colony is really heavy with bee numbers, what is the coldest Temperature you can get away with feeding at? Thank you. Merry Christmas.
Good question, as you can appreciate, cooler temps will slow syrup consumption but if they are hungry, they will take the opportunity. But curing of the syrup may be slow due to the limited actual bee activity due to the cold
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I think he means for you migratory lids after you are done feeding to close them up. I am also curious where you get them and the size hole you drill in the lids
They eat the sugars and produce heat by vibrating their wings muscles without actually moving their wings They have the ability to somehow disconect the wings like a clutch
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Hi Ian, Thanks for the info. I have a small farm here in New Jersey. I currently have 60 hives. I purchased another 40 unassembled hives and will start to assemble them next week after Christmas. Currently I have been making my own syrup. Which I begin feeding in March. I like the way you overwinter in the building. You method had given me a new direction for next fall. Thank you for your posts, and I appreciate all of your knowledge. Thanks again, Jim PS Merry Christmas
I know I never would. It's not that the Cerecell feeders are bad. They are excellent. But Id never use a top feeder like that except in very specific cases. The pail feeder is quick and you don't have to be overly concerned with spillage. For some mating nucs or something it's fine but if I had to deal with the kind of volume of hives Ian deals with it would have to be pails. It's just the constant need to be careful so you don't spill it out all over. A good example is right at the end when he was weighing the hives in the snow. Consider the ease with checking the pails and removing them as compared to a Ceracell. Cerecells are excellent feeders. Probably the best dry and wet top feeder design I've seen commercially available. However, When the hive numbers get up that high or when time is extremely limited the time to deal with them would add hours to the jobs I think.
لم أفهم طبيعة عمل سدادة الدلو جيدا كيف هي آمنة ولا تضيع المحلول ، أرجو التوضيح أكثر في التعليق. شكرا I did not understand the nature of the bucket plug well how safe it is and the solution is not lost, please explain more in the commentary. Thanks
I am your subscriber. I often watch your videos. I have a question. I see you have wooden beehives. They are hard compared to hives made of polyurethane foam and polystyrene foam. I wonder why you chose wooden beehives?
In canada, It is commonly used throughout USA and CAnada. This is the "standard" beehive we have over here. This type of beehive will last way longer and it is more efficient to our climate...
Halo: I am a bee breeder from Algeria، is this nutrition sugar or glucose, by the way, we make it very easy to deal compared to North Africa, we have in Algeria, for example, the bees somewhat hostile.
Depends on the race of bee, but they can forage from resources more than 4km (2.5mi) away. Most of a hives nectar and pollen comes from within 700m of a hive though.
To certain extent, yes. Canadians are still stuck with the weight in pounds, possibly because Canada's next door neighbour is USA. In USA, they are all in imperial measurements.
You got to allow the Sugar Water to drip out, and away, from the hive before you place it on the hive. Once there's a vacuum then you won't have to worry about getting sugar on your bees.
Ian, what happened to the missing hive boxs at the places in your yard that only have one box now (see at 8:22 to the right of the screen the 2nd and 5th pallets) and then, what ever that reason, why don't you pair them up again leaving one pallet bare in that case? And maybe you should use something like below in your yards to tote those full pails about and save some of your back - make your own maybe with wider wheels and the wheels to the side rather than underneath - www.leevalley.com/us/garden/page.aspx?p=44960&cat=2,44639,33270&ap=1
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog If you set up a beekeeping operation in the Caribbean (no winters here) for honey and to help pollinate an organic farm do you need to feed syrup? Thanks for being so generous with your info👍👍
@@billkattkatt1693 - It all depends on what natural forage is available year round. Just because it is tropical doesn't mean there is available flowers year round.
And this is why I watch a lot of your videos, thank you for taking the time to answer my questions.
Excellent video, great information as always. Thank you Ian
Love your videos! Very relaxing and always learn something new.
God bless you from Australia. You are the guardian of your hives. Didn't know it was so hard to keep them alive and healthy and fed where you live. I got an empty box and thinking of getting into this. You are awesome and I take my hat off to you mate. Keep showing all of us the way :-) thank you. Well done.
Sorry to be so offtopic but does someone know a tool to log back into an instagram account??
I was dumb lost the account password. I would love any help you can give me!
@Markus Kelvin instablaster =)
@Randy Preston thanks for your reply. I got to the site on google and Im in the hacking process now.
Takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Randy Preston It worked and I actually got access to my account again. I'm so happy!
Thank you so much you really help me out!
@Markus Kelvin glad I could help :D
Made up a dozen of your open feeders this summer. I like them alot. I was open feeding with larger totes and messing around with covering and uncovering for weather...Good solution to that problem.
Prsh. I nderuar une quhem Fatmir Morina jam nga Kosova. Edhe une jam nje bletar i siqert dhe e dua shum bleten. I kam permbi 100 koshere.
Puna juaj me pelqen shum. Dhe kam deshir qe te bashkpunoj me ju ne ket drejtim. Me respect F .Morina..
This type of feeding is the best you’re doing a good job thanks lan
What heppen if rain is come..does water going true the hole with syrup in hive?
Thank you for a very informative video. I learn so much from you!!
вижу 30 вменяемых и честных пчеловодов. Спасибо Вам друзья, что вы есть!
А что вы имеете в виду?
we have steep temp change + 19 or 20 through day and down to 6 or 8 overnight as pail warms through the day syrup floods the hive
11:47 there's a stinger on your index finger. =)
& you just plowing along with your hard work ethic!
do you swap lids when feedind or is there a cap for the hive? thanks.
My bees are in nuc they draw out half of frames and stop and I have brood I ordered wax foundation today Wil the wax foundation encouge bees to draw more comb ?
Would putting the top feed hole to the side of the hive, or in the corner help avoid the dripping on the cluster issue?
You could put the screens on the side of the bucket lid in future replacement buckets, and add a hole to the top cover away from the center.
Would there be any benefits to that, or will the cluster be large enough to still get a syrup shower?
It seems like it at least would protect the queen and brood, and just get the outer layer of bees.
Hi Ian, may you tell me how you drill holes in the hive lids? I use Milwaukee Hole Dozer... if you have to make a dozen or more holes then no problem, but if a few hundreds ... it just pisses me off how long it takes.
This is great do u have a problem with water getting into your hive when it rains. Also do u make your buckets or do u buy them Thanks and have a wonderful day
If you get a week or so of warm(er) weather after the snow comes, is that enough for your hives to take the syrup and cure it out?
SuperSmith_
Hardly
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog I figured as such, thanks
Thanks for the video. ✌
Greetings from Southern Ontario. I'm learning a lot from your channel. Thanks. I'm curious about how much of that the dry feed will you go through? .Especially the Ultra bee
Hi.. can you describe your gizmo you use to weight your hives. Jerry. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
what bee race are you working with ?
Did i hear right.... he said 85 up to 95 pound per hive?
What do the signs or labels on your hives say and mean?
Very informative video. Thank you.
Where can I get the feeding buckets/pails?? Thanks
very nice set up
Can you share how you mix you syrup in bulk being a beginner it would be nice to know how you mix the big tanks
Do you think I could put honey in the pail feeders?
Ian, assuming that there is no outside nectar coming in, how long will one gallon of syrup last your as your bees are coming out of the winter? The goal is to keep the queen laying.
Ian, I wonder if you were to have a preset pattern hole stamper which will stamp holes the size of boardman feeders into yout plastic tops, would this stop the dripping problem? The holes are very fine and do not drip on the boardman feeder. Perhaps the same can be accomplished on the bucket feeders? I believe with a little thought and ingenuity, this can be accomplished? Thanks, Phillip Hall
Seems to me youd plant more than a "sprinkling" of clover....Good for the bees, good for the cattle, and the clover also fixes the nitrogen in the ground naturally. With that many acres, you could have the best clover honey in the land. (I'm sure you already do though :) )
Do you store the hives for the winter. At the end you are stock piling (with the forklift) the boxes with the bees inside?
He puts them in a climate controlled room where they stay in their cluster and efficiently use their resources.
hello what is this cork for food buckets from where the syrup drips and how can I buy one?
Do you have 5 or 6 frame-nucs?
How do you keep rain out of the hives when the pails aren't on them?
When do you change your syrup from thin to thick, relative to temperature and how long do you feed pollen supplement
Спасибо за Видео! Привет из России.
Sir what's surp?also how to do that
A question do you have problem with pails dumping when weather warms up after a cool spell
Dennis Harron
Drips , yes
How u arrange that process . step by step please
Good morning, what is the liquid treatment that you use to treat bees and are you from Canada or the United States? I'm a beekeeper here from Brazil. I liked this system of treating bees.
Hes in canada
Do you ever supplement feed with mushroom extracts I just heard it can give a massive lifespan and disease resistance boost
i notice you use a bucket feeder when the vacuum pressure changes does the dribble affect the bees does it attract pests like ants etc ?
Where can I buy the one gallon bucket’s with the metal screen the bees eat from.
How many pails full does one of your hives typically take down before winter?
Brent Wilson
Looking at roughly 5 gallons
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog Whoa, those are some strong colonies!
What they are giving to the bees in the bucket
How do you tip your sugar water buckets over with little to no spill? I dump a ton of sugar water and I don’t know what I’m doing different from you.
Is White Satin Powdered Amalgamated Sugar made from beets OK to make syrup for bees? Also, is “Brown” Zulka Morena Pure Cane Sugar OK to feed bees?
هل تطعم النحل في الشتاء فقط ، او طول السنة ؟؟؟ Do you feed bees only in winter or all year؟؟؟؟؟؟
Where do you get your Gallon pail supplies? Sounds like you kind of made them yourself. I have had trouble with my gallon pails leaking.
Thank you!
hello I am a beekeeper in France. or do you see bought the buckets for the syrup? thank you
How many days does a bee consume this bucket?
Hi. I got plugs similar to yours (probably made by the same company) from BetterBee. But the leak a lot. I used a 2 inch holesaw to cut the holes. With a 1 7/8 inch hole the plug doesn't fit at all. Left a pale full of water upside down for a couple hours as an experiment, and about half the water drained out. Are you really not having that problem?
Thanks
Matt
Matt, you have to poke a hole in the cap side...as a vent.
Hi guys, i have two questions. 1) I have a beehive it has three floors. There is no queen cage inside. Which floor or floors put the eggs by queen. 2) I don't want to give to the bees sugar, i want bees eat their own honey; i wonder that it's possible. The weather is -10 in winter here. Maybe the honey get freeze and they can't eat. Thanks for the answers.
What's the late season that it's kind of
Where can i get the pail?
Feeding that dry pollen, Beautiful sight !
Brooks Mill Farme
dry pollen kill bees..The bee's bowels are blocked.pollen must be fresh.
what is your recipe for syrup and that kind of syrup is (inverted or just sugar and water)
please, can you answer the question. Thanks
Ian, at what temperature do you need to stop feeding to prevent from chilling your bees to death? When your colony is really heavy with bee numbers, what is the coldest Temperature you can get away with feeding at? Thank you. Merry Christmas.
Good question,
as you can appreciate, cooler temps will slow syrup consumption but if they are hungry, they will take the opportunity. But curing of the syrup may be slow due to the limited actual bee activity due to the cold
How to make a bee stick
Los recipientes de color blanco que sustancia contiene, gracias.
Just curious, why do you take the honey and replace it with syrup?
thank you
very good
Hi Ian, where do you get the plastic plugs for the hive lids?
Aiden Bennik
www.beemaid.com
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I think he means for you migratory lids after you are done feeding to close them up. I am also curious where you get them and the size hole you drill in the lids
Waww How could these bees survive this frozen weather?
Wow i like you video .....good content ......from malaysia
How you make the sirop
Question number 2 Do you feel that most people's opposition to open feeding has to do with the chaos that ensues?
Can anybody tell me how is it possible to survive the bees in this snowfalling cold weather? ???
They eat the sugars and produce heat by vibrating their wings muscles without actually moving their wings They have the ability to somehow disconect the wings like a clutch
where can I obtain those smaller top feeders? Thank You
found em. Beemaid
how do you winterize your bees? Do you wrap or insulate the boxes?
He has a storage space specially designed and controlled temp/humidity at all time at all cost to store them during Winter. @25:49
Good information Sir
wow that was a fast winter lol
If you put your heater outside I'll melt the snow and spring will come lol
Climate change
Hi Ian,
Do you make your own feed or do you purchase it?
Thanks, Jim
James Puccio
Prepared sucrose 67% by the semi load
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Hi Ian, Thanks for the info. I have a small farm here in New Jersey. I currently have 60 hives. I purchased another 40 unassembled hives and will start to assemble them next week after Christmas.
Currently I have been making my own syrup. Which I begin feeding in March. I like the way you overwinter in the building. You method had given me a new direction for next fall.
Thank you for your posts, and I appreciate all of your knowledge.
Thanks again,
Jim
PS Merry Christmas
As you venture forward, be sure to understand what you are doing and manage to achieve those objectives
I have only bucket feed my bees. I will be trying this open feeding when time is right
Love honey bees
It’s like involuntary seeds sprouting
Do you feed syrup all year long ?
Ian if you didn't have such a huge investment in the pails, do you think you would use the Ceracell top feeders instead?
Flatwoods Bee Farm
Perhaps. But they are more costly
I know I never would. It's not that the Cerecell feeders are bad. They are excellent. But Id never use a top feeder like that except in very specific cases. The pail feeder is quick and you don't have to be overly concerned with spillage. For some mating nucs or something it's fine but if I had to deal with the kind of volume of hives Ian deals with it would have to be pails. It's just the constant need to be careful so you don't spill it out all over. A good example is right at the end when he was weighing the hives in the snow. Consider the ease with checking the pails and removing them as compared to a Ceracell. Cerecells are excellent feeders. Probably the best dry and wet top feeder design I've seen commercially available. However, When the hive numbers get up that high or when time is extremely limited the time to deal with them would add hours to the jobs I think.
Why cant you use a regular plastic pail with a lid and then drill only a few very small holes ?
لم أفهم طبيعة عمل سدادة الدلو جيدا كيف هي آمنة ولا تضيع المحلول ، أرجو التوضيح أكثر في التعليق. شكرا
I did not understand the nature of the bucket plug well how safe it is and the solution is not lost, please explain more in the commentary. Thanks
I am your subscriber. I often watch your videos. I have a question. I see you have wooden beehives. They are hard compared to hives made of polyurethane foam and polystyrene foam. I wonder why you chose wooden beehives?
In canada, It is commonly used throughout USA and CAnada. This is the "standard" beehive we have over here. This type of beehive will last way longer and it is more efficient to our climate...
I guess you could build a deck or dig out a lower drive to gravity feed the three tanks to the truck.
Sorry, but why not semisolid or even solid feeding?! Just asking.
Halo: I am a bee breeder from Algeria، is this nutrition sugar or glucose, by the way, we make it very easy to deal compared to North Africa, we have in Algeria, for example, the bees somewhat hostile.
behir hamza that’s just water and sugar
Bees must be fed in Canada because winter last about five months so probably this will last until spring.
How far will a bee travel for food?
Depends on the race of bee, but they can forage from resources more than 4km (2.5mi) away. Most of a hives nectar and pollen comes from within 700m of a hive though.
You measure temperature in celsius and volume in litres, but weight in pounds. Is that normal in Canada?
To certain extent, yes. Canadians are still stuck with the weight in pounds, possibly because Canada's next door neighbour is USA. In USA, they are all in imperial measurements.
You got to allow the Sugar Water to drip out, and away, from the hive before you place it on the hive. Once there's a vacuum then you won't have to worry about getting sugar on your bees.
lirg123
The bees lick it up
Bom dia, Qual fórmula desta alimentação?
Definitely not used to seeing bees fly in snow conditions! LOL
Ian, what happened to the missing hive boxs at the places in your yard that only have one box now (see at 8:22 to the right of the screen the 2nd and 5th pallets) and then, what ever that reason, why don't you pair them up again leaving one pallet bare in that case?
And maybe you should use something like below in your yards to tote those full pails about and save some of your back - make your own maybe with wider wheels and the wheels to the side rather than underneath - www.leevalley.com/us/garden/page.aspx?p=44960&cat=2,44639,33270&ap=1
Don Challenger
Culled hives
I fill them in later after the cull is done
Should you use a food grade bucket?
You are great sir ji
Very nice
Wow.. I think I learnt a trick.
I have experience in beekeeping, do you have work?
What kind of syrup are you feeding.
Standard sucrose 1:1 spring or 2:1 in the fall. I believe. I don't think he adds any essential oils.
Heavy sucrose
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog If you set up a beekeeping operation in the Caribbean (no winters here) for honey and to help pollinate an organic farm do you need to feed syrup?
Thanks for being so generous with your info👍👍
@@billkattkatt1693 - It all depends on what natural forage is available year round. Just because it is tropical doesn't mean there is available flowers year round.
if the syrup is simple sugar and the water does not boil or just a large amount of sugar prevents it
do you have a yellow jacket problem when you open feed?? How do you keep them away
i'd keep those under lock and key, we had someone poison our tanks outdoors and we didn't catch it in time. We lost about 600 hives fed that day .
Rick Mahnn that’s terrible!
Use a smaller hole to slow down feeding rate
Posle etava, miod nastaiashi.?