How to Prepare Colonies for Winter - Episode 3 - First Feed - How to Overwinter Beehives
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2021
- How to Prepare Colonies for Winter - Episode 3 - First Feed - How to Overwinter Beehives
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Thanks for all your tips.❤️✝️❗️
You are so welcome!
Please can you cover the advantages of using inverted bee syrup compared to home made sugar syrup?
Its quicker and less messy. Id say its now been fully covered.
Thanks for the video man :)
Cheers BHB. Hope your bees are doing well
@@BlackMountainHoney lost a hive due to wasps but otherwise doing well. All the best to you :)
Where do you get the plastic covers on the ashworth feeder as I have the metal 1s on the abelo feeders
Just how they come on the Swienty feeders. Abelo ones are way better!
Hi Lawrence, so I followed this method so far and my bees tried swarming yesterday, I opened hive and have cups and queen cells charged. Do you think this is due to the weather warming up?
My other hive seems ok but did find some cups in there to.
Any advice on preventing them swarming this late on?
Id ensure plenty of empty comb for the queen to lay. Make sure the queen is still in there. Remove ALL cells and hope or the best.
You sure its not emergency cells or supersedure?
@@BlackMountainHoney Thanks for replying back Laurence 😊
Queen is still there, I put super back on 🤦🏻♀️ (I know I chicken’d out)I found another queen cell on checking today almost closed, so maybe one I had missed . But no sign of any newly made cups or emergency cells so fingers crossed. Will go into winter on single brood at end of month when they have calmed down a bit. Think my fault was I fed them syrup maybe a bit to soon, which congested the brood space 🤦🏻♀️🐝
Hi Lawrence we have been using rapid feeders,our hives were on the very light side four days ago. They were draining them twice a day and started to put on weight. When we changed the apiguard yesterday it looks as if most of the hive is full of nectar, this will be a problem for the queen to find space to lay? What do you advise please
Just give them a few days to process it. Should be fine. They have found something nice!
I've found if they back fill with nectar it works as a good brood break for the Varroa as long as she has some space. Plus oxalic and your laughing
So i take it then you can overwinter colonys on single National deeps. Or would those bees overwhelm them. I have herd conflicting advice just thought i would check. Cheers
Ask 3 beekeepers a question and you'll get 5 answers. I winter some colonies on a single national deep, double deep and brood and a super. It depends completely on the size of the colony and the type of bee.
Yep. We now always compress to a single box. Gives good overwintering but more importantly for us, means we arent waiting for them to fill a double brood in spring. We miss the spring crop every year on double brood.
Hy 👍👍👍
Do you feed any pollen patties at this time or year?
Not for us in North Wales. Plenty of natural pollen around still
did you help those bees in the water?
of course 😀
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