Splitting Colonies for Queen production
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2023
- Hey guys had an awesome time with Bruce from Bruce's bees, working and splitting my Hahira colonies. was a lot of work and pre planning but the plan came together. appreciate Bruce and Wayne for helping me split and keep things moving
you can check out Bruce's experience on his channel. @brucesbees
here's the link for his video
• Working Bees in South ...
What a great analogy to compare sugar syrup to pop tarts or a freshly baked Danish! Great way to understand what the girls prefer.
Mr Bruce and Seth...definitely go getters...gotta thanks Bob B for helping to make Seth make his dream happen...
Yessir it’s all thanks to Bob Binnie 🤘🏻👍🏻
Amazing👍👍👍
Seth, you have become a real asset to the beekeeping industry. No, I did not say ass! We will all be waiting for your every video.
Good job guys!! Reminds me of Papa and when we shook package bee’s in the 70’s UA-cam is a real neat thing.
Great video!! It's fun watching folks having fun....and learning a bit is ALWAYS good!!
I really enjoy being able to follow you and your adventures. thank you for taking the extra effort to bring us along.
Formic works nice in the north but with one strip it needs to be warm if it's not over 60 in the day I use two. But I switched two years ago with really good results.
I didn’t get to slide second strip in so it same moderate results splitting to create a brood break with a little OA to clean them well enough until fall
Stay on the path like your mentor has set for you we were glad to see you stand up and say the Queen should stay a white dot and not be deceitful and paint a yellow dot over her your a true appalachian at heart
Ill do it every once in awhile just to keep it kind of convienent to find her next time around and lets me know at some point she needs requeened. that particular queen had a very distinct mark still.
I had already watched this on Bruce’s channel but this is a great video
You sure packed a lot of work in this video. I like those days that start at 3am and finish in the dark. Your do what it takes to be successful. Thanks for sharing.
excited to see the new truck in the near future. keep up the hard work.
Oh see that is just a rain storm up here, you all can keep your tornado warnings.😂Ty for sharing your time Seth.👍
Hahahahah I’d be fine with a little rain and no naders either 👌🏻👍🏻😅
Seth is a go-getter, an great guy.
Wow that looked really fun weekend . I would loved to have been in on that . Keep up the great work!!. THANKS
i do be afraid of too many cooks in a kitchen, but this looks like fun
It was kind of nerve wracking but Bruce is a great beekeeper so I was a little less nervous
Great job Seth 👍👍🐝🐝👍🐝🚚
Sebastian from UK 💪👏💪🐝🐝
Great job Seth!
Beekeeping in the rain just has to be done, especially here in Ireland 🇮🇪. Love the videos, keep em coming
Oh I bet over that way it’s always trying to rain 😅👍🏻. Will do my best to keep cranking them out
I believe there was only 3 unused nuc boxes at the end of the day.
Awesome video! I love the energy. I can't wait to get things going in a fee weeks. Looks like above freezing temperatures in a week so it will be game on. Pollen has been coming in on flying days for over a month so I am sure the girls are ready to go! Good luck with your bees!
Oh man heck yeah that’s awsome. Where abouts are you from?
@@sethhillABR northwest NJ, red maple just popping !
Oh yeah it’ll be on fire just yet wish you all the best this season 👍🏻
Y'all made a good team.. I bet Bruce was little stiff after that..
it took us all a few days to recover from that stent.
Great Video Seth, Hope to come down your way sometime and do some videos. Have to plan sometime soon. Good stuff
Yessir absoloutely
Great video Seth !!! Invite come bout 4 1/2 hrs north and work bees with poor fellow in the Appalachian mountains 100+ colonies , be down there 13 th April to pickup 50 queens from bob grafting my own as well . Love to work bees with you sometime. Godbless ! Pete
Hey Seth. Could you have easily of done your splits above a double screen board and popped ur cells in?
Absoloutely for sure they have better mating in there own individual nuc boxes. But double screen board work well
@@sethhillABR appreciate it
Hey Seth, fantastic work, can you do a video where you explain that formic treatment you used?
Yes I can
@@sethhillABR awesome! Thanks!
I Thank God for sending yall Seth, I prayed for help 1¹/² yr ago and found Bob, Kaymon and Bruce's videos. Very educational. This will be my first year attempting grafting, quick question: I'm guessing you raise queens in active hive with a working queen then what day do you put cell in new nuc? And do you have to go back and check for new cells and destroy? Or do they know they have a new queen coming? And what about the mating? Do you just check for eggs in 3weeks? I've watched all your videos with Bob but have missed those points. Thanks bro. Praying God draw you close to Him. Yall have been a true blessing
If your installing a queen you should go and kill old queen cells if your installing a cell your cell should in theory hatch before any of the ones they have created so the virgin will sting theirs down and you’ll be left with your queen every once in awhile they won’t accept your cell but that’s the way we try to do it
Awesome, that's what I was hoping you'd say. I greatly appreciate your help. If I can help you in any way please let me know.
Enjoy the videos young man. Where do you access those black in hive feeders?
I get them from Mann lake
@@sethhillABR Thank you sir!
You and the crew at Blue Ridge never seem to have ventilated jackets. Figured the solids would be too hot in Georgia summer?
They’re not bad I actually prefer the cotton to the ventilated once you break a sweat they breathe pretty good
Man what a day!!! Thanks for letting me work alongside you my friend. One of the better experiences I have had as a beekeeper!
I’m glad you had fun man I would have been struggling with out your help that day your welcome anytime in my bee yard 👍🏻
Love watching the work! :) I have heard you use the term 'dead spot' a few times - please explain what you mean with that.
Empty slot on a pallet.
It’s a spot in the yard where there is nobody present and it’s kind of nice to have a few in these instances you can move a hive to if you need to
Hey Seth. What's the name of the town. You have the queen mating nucs at. It looks really flat there
It’s called ray city but it’s about ten minutes from Hahira Ga
How many splits can you make from one hive a year?
Depending on how much you want to grow. I personally have split my hives on an average of ten times in one year.
What is you option on plastic frames?
I’m not sure this is my first trial with them the bees love them but I belive the hive Beatles will to so we shall see
Does a 2 frame split this time of year have enough time to make a honey crop this year in your area? Here in Ohio our season is shorter. We can raise queens in April, make most of the honey in early June
Yes absoloutely sour wood for sure with a frame from a smaller colony it might make spring honey in a single brood box
@@sethhillABR that's awesome. I would love to try some sourwood honey. I've heard great things about it but Georgia a long drive from Ohio... probably going to try to order a pound online
What is that tractor all about ?????
seth where do you get cells this early in the year ????
I grafted my own this time but any big outfit down south that fools around with raising queens will be more than happy to probably sell you some.
Seth. So you don’t worry about the queen staying in original colony while pulling brood for splits?
I do but for the sake of time it’s faster just to glance if I miss a few that’s ok when you miss more that’s when wrench’s kinda get thrown in plans LOL
@@sethhillABR this is exactly what i was thinking about today before I watched your video. Save that extra step of shaking bees down the day before.
I don’t mind shaking because of you pick the right kind of broods you can actually wait a few days or almost a week if you can get everything you need above but going five hours here or there definitely not the way to go 😅👍🏻
R ur trucks Ram 4500 with 11’ flatbed?
Bobs are mine are 2500 hds right now his has a 13’ on there I belive he built all of those beds except the aluminum one
@@sethhillABR Did he just buy the cab and chassis and have the bed custom?
What is with the black migratory hive covers? Why black?
They are a used ply wood that got damaged at a cheese factory the only down side to them is they are dark but they’re super cheap I can make a lid for like four dollars by the time it’s cut and painted or waxed dipped
That’s what I’m talking about! Thank you!
Gday Seth what do ya use for the fire ants
I use some kind of powdered ant bait any brand works pretty good just be sure to mix it in the nest well they’ll be gone in a few days