Post-Harvest Splits | It's time to prepare next years colonies.
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
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About this video: Now that the harvest is completed it's to to split these massive demaree colonies and double our production colonies for next season. The goal is to enter spring with 60 colonies next year.
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I enjoyed every minute of the video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks a bunch. I really appreciate you.
Great video.
Thanks Mike.
Looking good. Glad you had a good harvest.
I put my Hillco extractor on a wooden platform made out of 2 by's and put coasters on the bottom. You can make it wide enough to put some weights (sandbags or ? ) to help hold it down. Then you can still move it later and you don't have holes in your floor.
Great idea and now up for consideration. It's all really going to depend on my honeyhouse room design. Thanks a ton.
another great video and thank you to your boss for giving you time for our entertainment
Agreed!
Great video! Congratulations on your daughter’s graduation.
Thanks.
Glad to see things are going good for ya down there. Going to pull supers at the end of the month and start treatments as soon as they come off. Then fall splits for next season. Hope to have 30 to 35 colonies for winter. Good luck on those splits.
As soon as I finish my splits I will be treating for mites. I will have James McNally from Alberta down here this week to help me out. Between the two of us we can certainly get some work done.
@@BugFarmerBees that will be a good time. He should be a great help for ya. I have seen many of his videos too. Great guy to learn from. I always do my treatments first then split. Saves a little money on treatments. Get them clean, do the split and don’t have to worry about new queens getting messed up by any of the treatments. Can’t wait for the next one!
Haha! Stung in the butt!
I so badly wanted to insert a Forest Gump clip at that moment. :-)
@@BugFarmerBees I said it in my head when I saw it! haha Great stuff
Now I feel like working some 🐝 bees! I was going to plant a 🍑 peach tree 🌳
Plat the peach tree then work some bees. I worked the home yard yesterday after a season of neglect and still have 5 hives to split at the farm. It's a good thing it's fun because it sure is a ton of work. :-)
@@BugFarmerBees it really is!
I just cleaned my extractor in place. I just catch the waste water in a bucket, just make sure it doesn't run over. 😁
Hi Joey. When is Mr. Ed doing his harvest? I am sure it will be a big one this year. Anyway, I saw Hillco had a hose stab that fits onto their extractor. I think I will buy it and use it to drain my extractor in place too.
The weirdo frame can be a problem when it gets glued down or connected to a lower frame during a strong flow.. Stung on the back side, it happens. Anger the bees some more, thunder storms add to their attitude.
I was zapped in the gluteus maximus :-). I will remove that medium frame as soon as I receive more deep foundations and I fan cobble some frames together.
I'm on the floor. #beebutt 😂
It was a beebutt. I felt like the prosecutor in the bee movie!
Can you please recommend the collapsible frame hangers you have on your bee barns?
Sure. Here you go: a.co/d/1HZ21oy
As you are expanding that apiary, you might wish to rethink your numbering system.
I think I will get those little round tags to place on the lids.
In your introduction the water bowl fountain where is it from ?
The feeders? or the location where filmed? filmed on back porch, feeders from better bee I think.
I got a great boss too! I'm retired.
That is the best possible boss!
Do you have Italian roots ? The way you speak, the gestures, and all the rest ....... give me the feeling that your a bit of 'Italian' .
Not Italian, but I am a Yankee :-)
Not a queen but a cup/cell at 11:24
EDIT And two more at 12:15 (together with the queen)
I saw them but they weren't charged :-( If they were charged it would have been awesome.
@@BugFarmerBees I also saw a Queen cup at 9:25. thanks for great videos.
you are just so funny. But I do have a question on your late splits If I understand right u are letting them make there own queens. That will make it july for the new q. Is that time enough to get them strong for winter. do you have cold winters. I know u heat your hives. I dont I am in Virginia. I do not remember what state you are in. Thanks and have a good week. Hope your butt sting gets better soon. That was funny.
I am doing post harvest splits for a couple of reasons. First, because I did the Demaree manipulation in the spring most of my hives are booming. Now that the honey has been pulled and the hives have fewer boxes I need to split the hives to provide space and prevent swarms. Secondly, I also want to double my colony count for next year and begin the year with fresh queens. Splits this time of year should do that for me. In doing my splits so far I have only seen one red queen so most every queen will be a year or less old by the next flow. If I have time, I will pinch the red queen and start with a new one in that hive as well. As for the heaters, the farm yard isn't heated and I chose not to heat the hives in my home yard last season. I don't know If I am going to heat any hives this year. TBD.
@@BugFarmerBees I did the Damaree as well I think I will try this on just a few. Just to see if it will work here where I live my flow is over now, we will have no more so I will have to constant feed them. this will be a test for sure. Thanks for the fast reply. Hope you have a great weekend
Where do you get your queens from? You mentioned that “Tom, you’re outdoing yourself”
I recon you don’t recommend butt bumping with bees.😂
I admire your sharp wittiness :-)