An Efficient Single Brood Chamber Colony (June 26 Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2018
- In this video I'm taking another look through the scale hives as we prepare for what should be the peak honey flow of my season (but I've been wrong before). Part 1 of 2 because I spent too much time explaining how efficiently this yellow hive is using their space in the brood chamber.
Part 2 to follow
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Two scale give videos at once. What a treat. Thank you Devan.
Thank you Devon ! And you don't talk to much... you do a great job of explaining things!
Just to let you know you videos were helpful to me prior to my receiving my 1st 2 Nucs 3/15 /18.
Extracted honey this year and plan to raise queens in 2020.
Grateful for your time in teaching so many.
I am new to bee keeping and in the information phase . I really like your one brood box system . I live in Sarasota , Fl. Because our winters or very mild it just makes sense because of the weather and easier to keep track of your queen and hive . Thank you again
Very nice hives! It looks like a nice productive colony! Thanks for sharing!
This was the first video I watched from you. Very good and informative. I will catch up. I am hopefully starting this year or next year. I haven't seen anyone with one deep and that many mediums. That's a very productive hive.
I love your videos. They have been so helpful. Please do one on wintering hives! I live in northern Idaho and am worried about getting them through winter
Our spring flows are over. I always know when the mimosas are in bloom the flows are over. I'll go to my storage trailer and sure enough, whatever is there gets robbed out by thousands of bees. I'll have to begin extraction soon which I don't like to do. I enjoy working the hives more. I'm thinking of just producing nucs, queens and equipment to sell and not deal with the extraction process.
By the way, the reason they are putting pollen in the bottom super is because it's where they store it. To prevent this place the queen excluder on top of the super (making a one and a third). He calls it a buffer. I learned this trick from a comb honey producer. He does this to keep pollen from getting in his comb honey. And, it does work. Remember the pollen they are storing in there is for the dearth, or for later in winter when the colony begins brood rearing.
Thanks Devan for taking the time to help fellow beekeepers. My question is going into fall what do you do with honey supers that are only half capped and not ready for extraction.
Thanks Devan for your interesting and informative videos, do you clip the queens wings and if so what advantage do you see?
I love this video it is very understandable. I am a new bee keeper. I wish I could run one brood box, but I live in upstate NY where the winters are very cold, windy and snowy - I think I will have to have two full brood boxes to make it through the winter? Right? I too have had swarming when my brood boxes are not full - but I think i better understand now to remove the queen cells and cups when i have a laying queen - i wasn't doing that..
Devan, have you done a video on how/what/when to feed your bees. With the type of canvas inner cover you use, do you just use a frame feeder? Thanks in advance....enjoy ur videos!!
You probably hear this a lot, but if I were waving my hands all around my hives like that I would be getting very stung.
Devan, thanks for your fine videos. I'm putting a link to your series on our club's web page.
Devan are you making any more new bee videos? please respond. Your one of the best, thank you.
amazing videos. just a few questions. For the the brood chamber you use a different size brood super compared to the honey supers, would it not be more efficient having all of them the same size? Also how do you not squish the bees when putting back the brood frames? :)
Nice higrise here !!!
Thanks for your fime asnd explanation - and sharing.
Are you going to leave
A SINGLE Brood box through the next winter ? ...
and
how much honey they need for winter season if a single brood chamber ...Sept- March.
????
Thanks !
After watching a series of your videos I went all out with single brood chambers now I do live in the south our winters are not brutal but can get some weeks of teens in January into February but not a lot of snow,when I was running dbl I would feed 2.1 up to about mid October maybe into November then go to mountain camp sugar about 15 pounds,I’ve seen different people taking it all the way down to the single through the winter but still not sure how I’m going to do it,I’m not sure if I’ve seen any videos from you wintertime feeding single brood box,any input. Thanks
When does the queen bee leve the hive? In one of my hives this summer i have removed the queen cels and after that it tur out that there is no queen in the hive.
I dont know if am clear and you understand my question.
The queen bee leve the hive after the new queen emerge or there is some time frame i can use as guid line?
I meda a mistake! First removing the queen cels in panic that the old queen can swam and i guss she alrady done the swarm.
Please advice.
Thanks and all the best
Devan how do you get the bees to move above the excluders running single brood chambers?
Does it matter if you put the super at the bottom or the top? Do the bees worm more efficiently if you put the empty super at the bottom? (less climbing???)
I would like information on how you add frames to your brood chambers. I know I need to update frames or rotate, but would like to know how you do this. When to do and how many? Plastic or other foundation?
Hi, I have just started learning how to have hives, what all plants are growing in your area for such a good harvest as in my area there are only pollens, and how much area does these plants cover to give u such a great harvest??
Very good teaching !! I have a question. I noticed that you had 9 frames in those two medium boxes. Are you putting 9 frames in a ten frame box? If so I bet they will be some pretty and thick honey combs!! Can you tell me more about this method? Thanks Phillip Hall
When you have foundation, put the standard number of frames in, to ensure the combs are drawn neatly. Only when you have a super of drawn comb should you take out one, and then adjust the spacing equally. The bees will indeed draw these out nice and heavy. Having fewer frames is a more economical use of your equipment and is more efficient for your extraction operation.
I like it! Thanks !!
devan I guess that yellow hives work best time to rethink colour schemes
Thanks a lot for this Devan! Quick question, I'm considering having my bees in a single brood chamber as you're doing, but I'm puzzled about winter. Do you just take out all of the supers and exchange some of the frames with capped honey? Or do you feed before winter so that they have enough reserves to go through it? Thanks for any insights
You remove all supers and heavily feed sugar syrup. He has other videos.
June 26 being your peak honey flow, you are still adding supers. At what point will the hive start filling the brood box with reserves? You will need 70-90 lbs of reserves,no? Do you always plan on feeding to get up to that point?
Devan, I’m getting back into beekeeping after 3 years. Caught a swarm yesterday and added it to a single box. Once 8 of the 10 frames fill up, is that the time to add the excluder and the first super? So you recommend feeding? This is a small/medium swarm. Thanks for your help!
I noticed you only put 9 frames in your supers. Is that for more room?
Hello Devan,
I really like your videos and your style of beekeeping. I am first year beekeeper. Do you leave screen bottom board open or closed for/throughout the winter? Also, do you have any videos of how do you reduce such a big hive population into one brood box for winter or when is the good time to do so? I am afraid of swarming by bees.
Thank you.
will there be any problem if you keep all the Hives Side by side without spreading across the farm ..
hey bro nice video but how do you prevent swarming using single brood box
I would like to know that too. But I’d also like to know how to prevent swarming with two brood boxes because I have two this year that already swarmed with two brood boxes! (Newbee here)
I am getting my first nucs this year, I was wondering if i use this method would i immediately put the excluder and first super on?
Walker Bee Ranch no, you would let them build out the new brood frames, until they have a total of 8 or 9 built and covered frames, then you would add the super
I have had moderate success overwintering bees for three years now, so in no way as knowledgeable as you are. But after watching this video, I was wondering why you don’t take the frames that are full/capped honey out, and replace them with the empty drawn comb frames.
I’m thinking about trying the one-brood box concept this year, so trying to do research.
I like your videos and I think you do a great job with just the right amount of information.
How Do you winter your bees during the winter with all those bees in the hive during the summer months? Your brood box is full now, I don't understand. I am a new beekeeper
Where did you get your tool belt with the magnet?
Why do you use medium supers instead of deep ones?
Like your videos. I found a hat and Vail like yours and will be getting it soon
I have one...used it one time...bees got in and stung me....never again...lol
How do you store your comb ?
Can you just put the new suppers on the top of the old ones ?
Are you running Italian queens?
Do you use an upper entrance also?
What do you use to weigh your hives?
I know this is an older video. Just thought I'd go ahead and ask anyway. Why are you only using 9 frames in each medium instead of the 10 it was designed for?
How do you stop the queen from swarming
hello, where did you buy your tool belt?
when you add supers do they have drawn comb already?
I would love to be a beekeeper!, but what can be do in the winter time?
Waiting, preparing your material for next season.
Can you tell me please, how you prevent swarming? I.m also using single brood chamber
@@LOGIBEAR01 ok thank you. But for some reasons i cannot use 2 brood chambers. If i add a second supper would that do the work? Curently they are on 4 from the 12 frames of the supper. thank you!:)
Why are brood and poolen wax so much darker?
On average, how many bees would you squash on one of these inspections?
The inspections occur once a month,and once every 2 weeks on new hives ,so probably not that much
How do you know when it is time to harvest?
When frame honey is covered with wax.
Devan I use all medium boxes. This year I tried doing 2 mediums as a brood chamber and then added an excluder. I’m rather new so I don’t have much extra drawn comb. I placed a super with empty foundation above the excluder. The bees packed the brood chamber as full as they could get it and began to draw swarm cells. I went into the hives at least once a week and still missed a couple to swarms. They refused to go above the excluder and draw wax. Is this genetics? A failure on my part? A combination? I only had one colony out of 7 move above the excluder and begin to draw wax. Thanks.
You need to lure the workers up into the super by swapping a couple of brood frames from the brood box into the super. Obviously you want to make sure the queen is not on the brood frames that you move to the super. You want to separate the empty frames that you're moving into the brood box by full frames to make the bees build out the comb in parallel. The brood in the super will hatch out, but then the workers will be used to coming up through the excluder and and will start building out your foundation. The workers will then start using the old brood comb for honey. This is called checkerboarding.
Does anybody know where Devan is nowadays ?
Sad he hasnt posted for some time 😢
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Shouldn’t the new supers go on top?
are those langstot hives?
langstroth yes
so obviously u don't put a couple frames with brood from the brood box in your super