How Do I Split Bees?
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- Опубліковано 20 бер 2023
- Hello everyone, This is one of many shots I got from my first speaking engagement talking about bees.
this video covers the splitting side of things there will be a few more videos about some beekeeping basics.
If you would like to contact me about bee Business you can email me with
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We finally getting some more real Beekeepers who don't sell unnecessary gadgets or products but teach methods. Great job
Thank you 👍🏻
Seth you're very well spoken and a joy to listen to as you teach about bees
Pretty cool Seth. All the ways to make splits in one video with explanations or rationale for the use of each one. Really appreciate this.
Glad you liked it!
Hi Seth! Saw you 1st on Bobs channel. Just subscribed. Great video brother!
Please keep on speaking great job and |I need all the help I can get lol In Canada its hard keeping these little suckers alive @ -40 & I do not care if it is C or F Keep up the great work Seth & Thank you
The bees don’t care either 😂😂😂 it’ll be hard watching me but hopefully I can give you some good tips
On top of smart, he is absolutely one of the greatest guys you will ever met. And can buy great bees from him also !
YOU GOT THE TALK,,keepin it simple on explanations like Bob,,i see he's a great teacher listenin to u BUZZ ON MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great talk Seth! Im going into my 3rd year with 18 hives in kentucky coming out of winter. I havent lost one yet, ive lost some swarms last year though haha. I built some double screens to try this year! Keep throwing out those vids, they are alot of help.
Awsome man you’ll love em I’m sure
The amount of high quality, practical information in this video is a breath of fresh air! Great stuff Seth
I edited out all the bad stuff 😅😂
He sounds a lot like Bob Binnie! Lol I'm learning this year and wish the clubs the wife an I joined had guy's like this who teach with experience and confidence. Great job explaining how you went from 8 to 80. I was watching the video on Bob Binnies UA-cam where you said 8 to 80 and I rewinded it a couple of times to make sure that's what I was hearing.👍
Great job Seth, you did real good at explaining what you are doing and how you do it, and along with teaching many beginners. Good stuff Seth!
I appreciate that! your a great teacher yourself
Great video Seth. Thanks for the information!
Absolutely great video. I really like that you're getting experience presenting to these bee associations. Keep it up...
Excellent demonstration and discussion. Enjoying your channel!
I like that you show several different methods, and explain the pros and cons :) Now, if snow would melt over here so I can start working with my bees, that would be awesome :D
Good job seth. You did an awesome job keep up the good work
Great tips Seth 🐝🐝💪💪💪
Thank you for such share this great information 👌👍
Sebastian
Love to see the entire talk. Great information thank you for sharing. James Australia
Seth, you did a great job on this video, good information to have in my arsenal this spring!
Great video Seth! Thanks for sharing buddy. My son lives in haywood County. I love coming up there. Thanks again for sharing!
Nice job Seth! Well explained.
Thanks!
Sure dressed up sharp. Only thing missing was some Dapper Dan! Nice presentation!
Thank you sir my town is a geographical oddity bout two weeks from everywhere 😂
I'm gonna set the mood with my queen, tonight! Love ya Seth!
I am as far as you can go southwest and be in Georgia. Would you be willing to talk to our club? This is pure genius
depends on the time of the year in the late fall and winter time absoloutley.
Well done young man!
Know your worth Seth! You're going places just watch out for scabs.Great job!
Top notch video Seth, IDK where you were giving this talk, but April swarms ? I had a 4 frame nuc swarm 2-21-23 then my strongest double deep swarmed 2-23-23 with 7-1/2 frames bees and good amounts of drones, she left enough bees and queen cells behind that I was able split the double deep as well, I was there so I caught both swarms.
That was up in Haywood North Carolina there about an hour north of us
Good, job! Myself I will be splitting with 2 frames of brood and a matted queen end of April depending.
yessir i like to do it that way if I need nucs on short order ill go three but two is just about right for every situation other than that one.
I love that 8 fr divider board in that 10frame, LOL! I enjoy your videos. Been splitting like crazy. Up to 55 colonies already, gonna break 80 quick! could make a hundred if I push.
its awesome how fast you can grow once you figure out how to split a hive successfully.
Good job seth
Use to talk fishing Infront of groups like that.. not easy room full people all staring waiting for you to mess up.. I think that went well for you.. might add to it.. why don't they mate well on pallets .. why do bees get loud queen less things like that details that would make your speech little different than Bobs .. he breaks it up with old stories people love it ..
Great job Seth. I put cork floaters in the cap & ladder feeders, that way the bees can "ride" the cork floaters versus drowning. Just a thought. It works for me.
What l like the best and its always there and clean is a square piece of plastic mosquito mesh.. put vertical in the feeder. Best ladder they ever had for keeping everything clean. You'll never find a dead bee with it inside
i might have to try that when I get my big colonies home
@@sethhillABR yeah, that harder one.. that you can fold or roll and it takes the shape... lasts forever. Or until it gets lost in the grass
Mr. Ed of Jeff Horcheff bees splits his bees with a fillet knife!😂🤣😜😹🍀
How many hive do you really want???
And how much equipment do you have,???
This guys a legend, really looking forward to his UA-cam future, really enjoy his video’s
Question: I am in Virginia and was told when setting up a bee box to put it in full sun because they like the heat but other beekeepers say keep the beehive in a shady place and/or sheltered in the winter. What’s your best advice for placement - full sun or half-shade?
There’s benefits to both the sun provides you no hive Beatles and a happy hive in our area for the most part I like to find a spot with about half and half that way in mid summer the bees can get a break from the heat they are kinda like people they like to sit in the shade every so often
Drop half a dozen little flakes of plastic milk jugs (food grade plastic ) less than 3/4 " circles or small geometric shapes the pieces have to be able to float to the bottom without hangin up hence the size .
I use 8 of these cap and ladder feeders and it has totaly TOTALLY eliminated the drowning .
I pull a ladder smoke inside the feeder the bees crawl out of the second ladder and the smoke keeps bees fr flying in while filling the feeder once full put the ladder you pulled back in
I used to be sick with the dead bees in the ladders
Now no dead bees!!! No matter how small the hive !!!
When you add in the plastic foundation frames (undrawn), are you adding any new or additional wax to the foundation (e.g. rolling on melted wax) or do you rely solely on the wax the comes straight from the vendor on the foundation?
if I can get the frames from the manufacturer in a timely fashion ill just rely on there wax job if they have been sitting in my shop for a month or two ill go ahead and apply some wax with a roller
So a double screen board is economical in brood and bees in the split? Dosent hurt the old colony so mutch. Regards Swedish me ;)
Good stuff Seth! You should come to Ohio and give a class. Lol
Maybe one day! Thank you
Y’all just be making fun of how he talks. That’s why I stay down here in Ky.
@@mark-wn5ek actually spoke with Seth at Hive Life, he very smart when it comes to bees and would be a great speaker. His accent is a plus, could listen to him talk forever because of how fun he makes it. But thanks for the reply.
Simple question... what size hole do you use for a good fit on jar lids? You and Bob's lids seem to have a good perfect fit.
If your not worried about painting them a harbor freight 2 3/4 inch hole saw bit is dead nuts but for paint you have to custom order a 71mm hole saw
Thanks! Typically I use frame feeders but this year I want to add the traditional jar feeder on the lids of my homemade nuc boxes and this really helped save me a step or two.
Great information Seth! Where do you find those jar lids and what size hole do i drill, Thanks bee brother!
A 70 mm jar lid mason jar lids work if you use a harbor freight 2 3/4” inch whole saw with no paint it’ll fit perfect
@@sethhillABR71mm if you paint it! Bob Binnie and I discussed this in January.
Good job Seth
@@sethhillABR Thanks my Friend!
@@OklahomaBeekeeper THANKE BROTHER!
Hey Seth. When doing a split above a double screen board and adding a mated queen, you can pull that split in two weeks. Correct? I know when you add a queen cell, you like to wait 3 weeks.
You can that’s perfectly ok in warm weather in cold weather we like to wait about three again so she will be hatching her own bees or if you want to move them just move them at night main thing is to keep as much of the field force as possible with the split 👍🏻
@@sethhillABR we split them 4 brood frames strong with at least two capped. That should give us some margin for error. Picking up 30 queens from you guys in morning for these splits.
Hey seth, i have a question not related to the video. Can u combine two strong colony at the start of honey flow? If yes does that colony make more honey than when they are separated?
it will we call it a colony and a half, because you have two queens producing bees to make honey. Usually this is done by use of a double screen board when you make a spring split. Wait for said split to grow to about 80% of the box if the timing is right and pull the double screen board out, and use a queen excluder directly under the top colony and super between the two colonies. Now if you just want a fast way to re-queen you could remove the queen from the bottom and do the same thing and you have killed two birds with one stone so to speak.
Thanks for that abundant info..👍
Seth, wouldn't it be better, to split colonies before swarming? So take 2 frames of brood and leave em with 6-7, to prefent them from swarming?
The bees will produce a new queen anyways
You can but the swarm cells make better queen than an emergency cells unless your installing queens or grafting your own queen cells then yes you would definitely want to split before they start swarming
Why do a queen go on a mating voyage when their is drones in the hive
Well the reason for down south is the drones come on sooner sognificantly
Wow, an 8 frame box is smaller than a 10 frame?? Never would have guessed
you would be surprised LOL