Thanks Kamon & Laura for taking the time and effort to produce all of your videos! I’ve learned so much from watching your channel. RTR! Hopefully our Michigan beekeepers are doing well.
Kamon your “outside the box” beekeeping approach is outstanding! You do what you have to do for your area. Obviously this does not work for everyone, but you are providing us with the basics, and that encourages us to think “outside of the box” ! 👍
Saw a video from Mike Palmer and he said that introducing an actively laying queen can be done. A queen shipped in isn't actively laying and is harder to introduce. Then you add a couple of frames of her bees and brood makes it better yet. Good lesson for us people in the box. Thanks Kamon!!
Kamon, everything you did made sense, all the "variables" added up. The original colony was in the process of superseding their queen due to bad performance, i.e. drone laying queen, and you introduced good brood a good mated queen and her bees to protect and spread her pheromones. Another reason why nuc colonies are so important as resources for sustaining your apiary. Thank you for this dynamic teaching this is not one that could come from the books. Experience is the best teacher, again thanks for keeping it real and sharing your knowledge with us. Many blessings to you and your family for 2020!
Hey Kamon, Since spring is close I know a lot of beekeepers are getting their Equipment in order, can you do a video to show the hive bodies you built? Debating building some but not sure If it is worth building the hive bodies or not out of plywood since I can get hive bodies for 14.50. I will be building tops and bottoms so would love to see a detailed video on your tops at least since you have a few different designs curious which one worked out the best for you.
I agree we have to step outside of that traditional beekeeping mindset and do things a little out of the ordinary at times. I'm glad to see that this hive has accepted that Queen and is doing well. Thanks for sharing.
Great video. In south Louisiana I am putting patties and sugar water on my bees at this time. They are brooding up well. Not looking carefully at very many frames. I would probably have missed that I had a laying worker. And would not have had a queen in a 3 frame nuk available. " Be prepared"
Should name this the Christmas Hive and give her a green dot to go with the red, nice and festive! (I am aware that this is a dumb idea with no actual benefit.)
Very good video again. Loving watching these and learning during this virus shut down.. I keep hearing you say no essential oils. I think they have a place in bee keeping. I may try to ask you about a few cases I think they work when you do your next stream.
Sounds like YOUR Queen Bee makes great Biscuits!! You've mentioned it several times now! If you take a lesson from yourself or Jimmy and apply it to your beekeeping food is important to keep the home HAPPY! HAPPY NEW YEAR & LORD BLESS YOUR FAMILY ALWAYS! ;)
Kamon, thanks for all the great information. I really get a lot out of your videos. Question- If I overwinter 2 double nucs (10 frames each) and sell a nuc (5 frames) out of each in the spring with the queens, I am left with two queenless nucs. What would you do with them at that point? Combine? If so, how?
I was thinking about using the OTS method to notch a frame so they make a queen, but I was thinking of combining them somehow since I am going for honey and not to expand my apiary.
I can see the advantage of feeding, but the essential oil also masks the scent of the new queen somewhat and that can be a good thing depending on the genetics of the bees. My bees are all swarm captures, and they like their old queen and her smell. Thus my bees do better when I feed and put sugar on with teatree and anise. My bees don't like some other essential oils as well but peppermint is just so so for me. Very light, not much. My winters are much colder than Tennessee, and right now it has been 38 for 5 days with some drops to 20 at night and to get them interested in the sugar I need to give them a tiny bit of smell.
Please post here about nucs. I’m not on FB. That hive looks great. That red queen is off to a good start. What’s up with that open stack of hive boxes behind you?
Hi, I have a question that is unrelayed to this video. I have a colony that has a working worker, I want to combine it with a queen rite colony. if you have the time, i would really appreciate any help you can offer.
I do. We ussually have to do that a few times a year. Oftentimes it is on a colony that will not get queen right and I am fed upand not willing to waste another queen cell.
Bees need Carbs, feed carbs! Bees need Protein -Feed protein! Laurel please tell me if he eats his meat first and eats his hamburger without a bun, LOL. OK, OK he is not a bee...........
JP I am not sure I am having a really diffucult time keeping up with everything. I think the facebook group is great but I am working 2 full time jobs not including the channel I am hoping to be rid of my other job this spring but it is going to take some serious work to get there. I am still deciding if I want to re open the facebood group. It is just one more thing to moderate.
I took a frame of bd eggs & larvae this wk from a good nuc colony then intro it to a queen who had very small no of bees w her. Looked good this summer (a split) but she stopped layin. Raised her from the split. Saw her she looked gd this wk & had laed (had not much brood cppd) before the addition. She lyd just what the bees could cover Didn't see any major fightin after adding bd. Had some SHBs. Had some pollen patties (a little) & dry sugar. for them. Will see if she lays now.
Fredinand, If I had to wait for every perfect and sunny day to take care of my bees it would be impossible to keep up with all the work it takes to run hundreds of hives. You have been reading the wrong information. This colony will make honey and at least one nucleus colony.
@@kamonreynolds I second that opinion😂 like if you wait for a warm enough day to feed bees that need it,they'll likely be dead from starvation..I like common sense beekeeping, good job Kamon
Thanks Kamon & Laura for taking the time and effort to produce all of your videos! I’ve learned so much from watching your channel.
RTR! Hopefully our Michigan beekeepers are doing well.
Kamon your “outside the box” beekeeping approach is outstanding! You do what you have to do for your area. Obviously this does not work for everyone, but you are providing us with the basics, and that encourages us to think “outside of the box” ! 👍
Saw a video from Mike Palmer and he said that introducing an actively laying queen can be done. A queen shipped in isn't actively laying and is harder to introduce. Then you add a couple of frames of her bees and brood makes it better yet. Good lesson for us people in the box. Thanks Kamon!!
Kamon, everything you did made sense, all the "variables" added up. The original colony was in the process of superseding their queen due to bad performance, i.e. drone laying queen, and you introduced good brood a good mated queen and her bees to protect and spread her pheromones. Another reason why nuc colonies are so important as resources for sustaining your apiary. Thank you for this dynamic teaching this is not one that could come from the books. Experience is the best teacher, again thanks for keeping it real and sharing your knowledge with us. Many blessings to you and your family for 2020!
I was worried about checking my hives today when it’s 50 and sunny. Thanks for changing my plans.
if you get a frame with brood on it only keep it out for a min or 2 and you should bee fine :)
Hey Kamon, Since spring is close I know a lot of beekeepers are getting their Equipment in order, can you do a video to show the hive bodies you built? Debating building some but not sure If it is worth building the hive bodies or not out of plywood since I can get hive bodies for 14.50. I will be building tops and bottoms so would love to see a detailed video on your tops at least since you have a few different designs curious which one worked out the best for you.
I agree we have to step outside of that traditional beekeeping mindset and do things a little out of the ordinary at times. I'm glad to see that this hive has accepted that Queen and is doing well. Thanks for sharing.
Here is how we installed the queen and her bees without paper and without a cage! ua-cam.com/video/jsRQKrAVJNc/v-deo.html
Great video Kamon!! Thinking outside the box is where progress is made
Great video. In south Louisiana I am putting patties and sugar water on my bees at this time. They are brooding up well. Not looking carefully at very many frames.
I would probably have missed that I had a laying worker. And would not have had a queen in a 3 frame nuk available. " Be prepared"
Thank you
Variables vary, invariably!
Thanks !!
Should name this the Christmas Hive and give her a green dot to go with the red, nice and festive!
(I am aware that this is a dumb idea with no actual benefit.)
Very good video again. Loving watching these and learning during this virus shut down.. I keep hearing you say no essential oils. I think they have a place in bee keeping. I may try to ask you about a few cases I think they work when you do your next stream.
Sounds like YOUR Queen Bee makes great Biscuits!! You've mentioned it several times now! If you take a lesson from yourself or Jimmy and apply it to your beekeeping food is important to keep the home HAPPY!
HAPPY NEW YEAR & LORD BLESS YOUR FAMILY ALWAYS! ;)
Kamon....how about a T-Shirt that says "Ask five beekeepers the same question...and you will get ten answers"
Kamon, thanks for all the great information. I really get a lot out of your videos. Question- If I overwinter 2 double nucs (10 frames each) and sell a nuc (5 frames) out of each in the spring with the queens, I am left with two queenless nucs. What would you do with them at that point? Combine? If so, how?
Why not purchase a queen or raise one to place into them?
I was thinking about using the OTS method to notch a frame so they make a queen, but I was thinking of combining them somehow since I am going for honey and not to expand my apiary.
I can see the advantage of feeding, but the essential oil also masks the scent of the new queen somewhat and that can be a good thing depending on the genetics of the bees. My bees are all swarm captures, and they like their old queen and her smell. Thus my bees do better when I feed and put sugar on with teatree and anise. My bees don't like some other essential oils as well but peppermint is just so so for me. Very light, not much. My winters are much colder than Tennessee, and right now it has been 38 for 5 days with some drops to 20 at night and to get them interested in the sugar I need to give them a tiny bit of smell.
You should make a shirt that says "Variables keep it fresh"
Nice Kamon, could you use that intro on a hive that you squash an old queen and pop a new queen in in a couple of hours?
have not seen one of your videos since last year.happy new year keep your bees dry. when do you start feeding pollen patties.
Look!!! Squirrel!!!!!
Please post here about nucs. I’m not on FB. That hive looks great. That red queen is off to a good start.
What’s up with that open stack of hive boxes behind you?
Just some boxes I am pulling off of a few. the big ones need 2 the smaller ones I dropped down to 1 deep
Hi, I have a question that is unrelayed to this video. I have a colony that has a working worker, I want to combine it with a queen rite colony. if you have the time, i would really appreciate any help you can offer.
Great video with the giggles, but I don't think I saw one of your cats. Need to watch again and check the background. 2nd watch and yes a cat
Thanks Kamon, how do you terminate a hive if they are too far gone, loke loaded with DWV? Kill the queen and shake the hive into the grass?
I do. We ussually have to do that a few times a year. Oftentimes it is on a colony that will not get queen right and I am fed upand not willing to waste another queen cell.
The first frame you pulled appeared to have bees with k wing??? Or am I just seeing things???
Bees need Carbs, feed carbs! Bees need Protein -Feed protein! Laurel please tell me if he eats his meat first and eats his hamburger without a bun, LOL. OK, OK he is not a bee...........
Hi Kamon - welcome back. When are you going to open the group on Facebook back up?
JP I am not sure I am having a really diffucult time keeping up with everything. I think the facebook group is great but I am working 2 full time jobs not including the channel I am hoping to be rid of my other job this spring but it is going to take some serious work to get there. I am still deciding if I want to re open the facebood group. It is just one more thing to moderate.
@@kamonreynolds I understand. I have missed it 😭😢 I'm sure everyone else feels the same.
How about nucs, some guys sell in Nashville in March? R they good?
can u explain the difference between old bees and winter bees
how many hives/colonys do ya have? it looks like a mega city ya got goin there,,, thank ya fer the video
300+
@@kamonreynolds wow !! how do ya take care of them all,,, the most ai seen in real hands-on is 6,, ai want bees but not thet many rite away
ADD much? Squirrel 🐿
I took a frame of bd eggs & larvae this wk from a good nuc colony then intro it to a queen who had very small no of bees w her. Looked good this summer (a split) but she stopped layin. Raised her from the split. Saw her she looked gd this wk & had laed (had not much brood cppd) before the addition. She lyd just what the bees could cover Didn't see any major fightin after adding bd. Had some SHBs. Had some pollen patties (a little) & dry sugar. for them. Will see if she lays now.
Cone on man just to make a video u open a beehive while raining and 40 degrees? That hive probably will die. Wet bee dead bee
Fredinand, If I had to wait for every perfect and sunny day to take care of my bees it would be impossible to keep up with all the work it takes to run hundreds of hives. You have been reading the wrong information. This colony will make honey and at least one nucleus colony.
@@kamonreynolds I second that opinion😂 like if you wait for a warm enough day to feed bees that need it,they'll likely be dead from starvation..I like common sense beekeeping, good job Kamon