When to Harvest Your Honey for Beginning Beekeepers
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2024
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In this When to Harvest Your Honey for Beginning Beekeepers video, Doug the Bee Guy explains what to look for to know if the honey is ready to harvest for the beginning beekeeper. This honey harvest video will cover information about honey moisture content, percentage of capped honey and for the beginning beekeeper.
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So grateful for your lessons. Getting brave enough to buy my bees next spring !
I have attracted a swarm last 2 years, and I have no idea what I am doing, just watching UA-cam videos
Bees are easily the coolest creatures . Honey is one of my favorite foods . My grandfather always had bee hives when I was a kid , and now I want to start a couple
Wow this was extremely helpful! Thank you!
Thanks so much for your comment. I'm glad you got some good knowledge from the video.
Love your videos. As a new bee keeper I find them very helpful and educational. Plus entertaining. Thank you
Thanks so much for watching and commenting. I'm so glad you are getting some value from the videos.
Thanks Doug. Going to open mine for 1st time tommorow this helped with what to do and what to look for.
Glad it helped and thanks for the great compliment.
Great video
Now, please be nice to yourself. Your information is well taken, thank you!
How many days to months to harvest?
Thank you Doug enjoying the episodes
Good video! You use the double nucs for honey production like I do.
Thanks! Yeah I like that setup as I get older. I started with all deeps 13 years ago, and those 95 lb deep supers are really heavy.
Hi im new to beekeeping. I notice you have holes on the front of all your supers. I've rig is a 3 box and the only entrance is at the bottom of the hives. Should I drill holes like yours???
Also, what is that plastic sheet you peeled off of the top super?
How do you keep grass trimmed around the hive? I'm worried about getting stung
Do it with the suit on?
At around 15:55, is that a swarm cell that they're trying to make?
I see you have exit holes in the front of your supers, is this on both sides? I am in western TN, is this something that I should do as well?
its only in front
Hi, New to the hobby but not new to picking up bees in need.
Debating a spring honey harvest to ensure the bees survive the winter.. what's your thoughts to it?
First swarm catch about 3 weeks ago and abouts to do a brood check...2 stings taken
Thanks so much for the great question. I would think that a swarm will need all the resources they can get to build up and survive through the winter. Besides taking the honey in the spring when they need it to build up to their maximum population, would you also take their wax and destroy the comb to get the honey? If so, that comb also takes a lot of resources to create. The bee scientists say every pound of wax takes about 8 lbs of honey to produce. So I would build them up to a large hive and take some honey next season. If they don't survive than you can take it all next spring.
Thanks so much for watching and commenting on the video!
@@DougtheBeeGuy no worries enjoyed the video and when you said about harvest times I thought it would make more sense in the spring from the remaining stock pile.
Can't say I intend to take any honey, wouldn't mind trying but for me it's more about relocating swarms from the estate to a friends apiary... He likes to leave them to it... Has one hive that even tho had frames, they went all over...
Another had bubble bees move in after the honey bee winter fail.. and again a swarm of honeys have taken it back over.
Fancy making a skep this summer, just for the skills I'd have to learn..... And for the daughters giggles at me putting hands in cow poo lol
Wow making a skep sounds like fun! We usually buy them for decoration and have them until they rot away. I've never put bees in one though. There are some pretty cool videos of keepers still using skeps on UA-cam.
@@DougtheBeeGuy on the heath... Awesome old school documentary..
Found it..
ua-cam.com/video/hn5OxMXCSz8/v-deo.html
Hey doug. I was wondering if you sell your honey. I would love to buy some.
When do bees cap those hexagon? Does every holes that is capped has eggs?
when its ready. no egg sonce the queen cant go to 2nd level probably it has queen excluder