I had no idea you guys had a Facebook page! We eat your honey everyday! We are on an animal-based diet and love it! I won't have any other honey! I discovered you from the Columbia health foods store, and then recently bought direct from you since I was able to get more and not have to drive too far.
The bear is like a cop, everyone splits when they see one 😂I will say this. Remember to put the stress away and take the time to unwind. Jobs will be there later. They will be there tomorrow. Don’t overwhelm yourself. Having a vacation is great!! We didn’t get one this year . Those deer got pretty hefty!! This year seems to be such a hard year for keeping bees. The robbing has been so bad this year. Yellow jackets have been terrible this way too. Piedmont NC
Bees can cause frustration this time of year, for sure. Cut your losses on the weak ones and make the splits in the spring when it is easier to grow bees.
Deer hunting season must be coming soon. Ours starts Nov 9th. Thanks for posting another video. Seems like all beekeepers are about ready for winter but your winter will not be twiddling your thumbs. Yah, time is money and updating your bottling system must be a high priority. Keep us updated.
If it cuts into many other outdoor activities, I would only have a few hives. Live to deer hunt as well as turkey. Has almost ended my Fishing career 😅
can you show us a bit of the busnies side in the winter time? the bee are very intresting but also how you scale and build a busnies(cost; supllies; equipment, pruduct you provide; next year game plan),remember watching you paint a LOT of equipment back cople years before, hope for your sucsses!
Winter May not be long enough if you keep adding winter projects🤔 sounds like a bottling machine would be almost like hiring a helper. Glad you have the demand for your product, it’s a good problem to have.
Hi Nathan, good to see ya. All that Aster making stinky girls. Does that dude realize that Bear is tougher then him🙄that is not good for them to be that calm around people, that can be a problem. 😮💨The Winter projects sure seems to take over as soon as the bees are put to bed, I have a 1/2 dozen of them myself. Thanks for sharing Nathan, Blessed Days...
Loved the progression of the bucks getting bigger each time. Hopefully you will show us the boss next video. The pre rut is starting or about to start around here.
thanks love your vlog. I've lost 6 of my 20 hives since honey extraction In August. managed to save 100 frames of honey and resources. Frozen and ready for splits in The spring. just hate to see Those dead outs this time of year
Its amazing just how much a beehive can consume when there are no resources out there. I saw several nuc boxes abscond because of starving. The domino effect of robbing is no joke, I saw activity around all my hives over several weeks, one at a time. Any colony that had a weak queen became a deadout. I went back to rescue a weak colony into a nuc box and it was already gone, but was able to save most of the honey placing it on another colony.. Sugar is expensive to maintain bees and pollen patty has gone up so much its hard to afford anymore.. After the hurricanes, not a stitch of brood after the goldenrod was all washed down
Have lost 1 of my 8 hives do to robbing so far . Feeding still for about 2 more weeks. Hopefully, I will be able to double my hive count next year with buying nuc's. Great video.
That hole in the bottom board looks like the modification for mite trap. See Bob's latest videos. He has a customer that has modified the bottom boards for this purpose in that same exact location.
I wish i could find places to keep bees lol. Also i seen somewhere recently that glyphosate is really rough on the bees unless they are resistant to it. There was a popular beekeeper that was breeding glyphosate resistant bees. I wish i coupd remember his name but i guess the usda came and basically stole all his hives.....
Yeah down time! LOL I'm trying to get the garden harvested, finished off and cleaned up, planting winter crops in the poly tunnel and hoop house... grass and leaves need mowing and collecting and still need to put up the winter wind break for the bees and do some repairs to the foamboard boxes to insulate the hives... then there is the painting of the replacement woodware, nuc top feeders and bottom boards. Feeders and excluders need cleaning and storage and on top of all that trying to get the Christmas cards made (make my own) and starting a list of things to purchase and collect at the Expo! Been collecting wingstem and purple. White aster just now finished blooming and seeds are developing and will be collected too. Hope you have all your projects penciled into the calendar! Noticed the same thing with queens not shutting down with heavy syrup feeding... One way I dealt with queen laying issue was to find the queen and move her down to the bottom box with space to lay under an excluder... this allowed a restricted area for winter brood nest rearing and for the syrup being fed to be stored in frames above the excluder when older brood hatched out. Worked pretty good but still had a rouge queen or two move up again when excluders were removed who then did more egg laying above... dang bees! Got a good price on some last season prosweet so topped up the hives with that at the end. Getting enough food storage has been a challenge this year - I figure there will be lots of nuc sales next spring due to underfed fall bees starving out because folks didn't pay attention to weights of hives in the fall or who only fed like they normally do which would not work this year. We too have a good 10 days of warm weather ahead (with no rain in sight either so another drought which will affect all the farmers) but then I hope and pray it will get cooer and stay colder. Found some tiny mice running around the bee yard so mouse guards are on too. I've only used fondant as an emergency/contingency food (just to be sure) the bees have enough to get them through the end of February and month of March which I consider to our most critical winter food survival time especially if we have plenty of wet, cold weather and the bees cannot fly when maples are blooming. More and more I seem to be seeing folks adding the HiveAlive or fondants as a standard method of winter feeding... not sure I'm on board with that yet not to mention the expense! and have spent plenty on fall feeding this year! Had to do most of my feeding in late afternoons due to the robbing issues at least then they were shortly going down for the night and the syrup could be taken down and stored/cured. Hope all those bucks are still around when deer season starts. Have one buck scraping one of the newer small linden trees... built a "cage" around it to protect the tender bark. Doing all we can and praying for a good outcome!
Hey Nancy, I thought you ought to be slowing down?! Good idea on moving queens down, but I'm not sure there's enough to me to go around to get that work done. I've thought of adding prosweet this time of year just to throw some weight on hives quick. It's probably too late to change horses midstream, but I might do that next year. Great to hear from you!
@@DuckRiverHoney Yeah just sharing my thoughts on what I did with respect to those rogue laying queens, not very transferrable to a larger operation I know. I see MannLake is offering prosweet deep discounted for the Expo... going to be bring several buckets home with me since the price is right to have for next fall... mixing syrup in my kitchen is not fun! Every year is different so we will see what next year brings - hopefully a decent amount of rain. Seeing posts on facebook of folks overwintering hives on bakery or HiveAlive fondant that had no other food stores (I have to wonder why there were no food stores?) and it appears the hives overwintered just fine but I have to wonder about the nutritional value of fondant as the primary overwintering food. HiveAlive is too pricey to justify opening my wallet.
My bees starve to death feeding 1:1 all summer. It's 50% water. It seems like bees consume most of the sugar in 1:1, just dehydrating the water out of it. 1:1 is also twice as many visits filling feeders vs 2:1. One to one has no shelf life. I switched to 2:1 just to cut down on the work and fuel for traveling, bees don't starve if it rains for a week, and they still raise brood while putting on weight. Do a hive inspection feeding 1:1, and they looked packed out. Two days later, they can starve, same for the heft test, and all that water is very misleading.
I'm sure you're busy and UA-cam probably isn't paying much. I wish you would crank out more videos I'm trying to copy a lot of what I'm doing after what you're doing.
have you had a problem with some of your summer honey crystalizing? I'm from Benton county TN, which is northwest of you. I had nearly 80 galloons. I bottled 5 gallons and left the other in 5 gallon buckets. 3 months later it's all turning to sugar. moisture is just shy of 17
I had no idea you guys had a Facebook page! We eat your honey everyday! We are on an animal-based diet and love it! I won't have any other honey! I discovered you from the Columbia health foods store, and then recently bought direct from you since I was able to get more and not have to drive too far.
The bear is like a cop, everyone splits when they see one 😂I will say this. Remember to put the stress away and take the time to unwind. Jobs will be there later. They will be there tomorrow. Don’t overwhelm yourself. Having a vacation is great!! We didn’t get one this year . Those deer got pretty hefty!! This year seems to be such a hard year for keeping bees. The robbing has been so bad this year. Yellow jackets have been terrible this way too. Piedmont NC
Bees can cause frustration this time of year, for sure. Cut your losses on the weak ones and make the splits in the spring when it is easier to grow bees.
Deer hunting season must be coming soon. Ours starts Nov 9th. Thanks for posting another video. Seems like all beekeepers are about ready for winter but your winter will not be twiddling your thumbs. Yah, time is money and updating your bottling system must be a high priority. Keep us updated.
Thanks Russ, always good to hear from you.
no clue why I have always been drawn to bee hives, and wanting to start a bee business. thanks for putting these "talks" on UA-cam.
I wasted no time I started last in 2022 February
If it cuts into many other outdoor activities, I would only have a few hives. Live to deer hunt as well as turkey. Has almost ended my Fishing career 😅
can you show us a bit of the busnies side in the winter time? the bee are very intresting but also how you scale and build a busnies(cost; supllies; equipment, pruduct you provide; next year game plan),remember watching you paint a LOT of equipment back cople years before, hope for your sucsses!
Winter May not be long enough if you keep adding winter projects🤔 sounds like a bottling machine would be almost like hiring a helper. Glad you have the demand for your product, it’s a good problem to have.
Hi Nathan, good to see ya. All that Aster making stinky girls.
Does that dude realize that Bear is tougher then him🙄that is not good for them to be that calm around people, that can be a problem. 😮💨The Winter projects sure seems to take over as soon as the bees are put to bed, I have a 1/2 dozen of them myself. Thanks for sharing Nathan, Blessed Days...
Put a screen between you and the threat and people often disassociate from being in danger
Loved the progression of the bucks getting bigger each time. Hopefully you will show us the boss next video. The pre rut is starting or about to start around here.
Great INFO trying to pull the trigger and get my bee operation up and going
As far as the Robbing is going do you think open feeding would help. 😊. Another great video thanks for sharing. Good luck Hunting too 😊
I'm trying to fall in your footsteps in business. I'm a lifelong businessman. Will you please show end of season wrap up business was?
thanks love your vlog. I've lost 6 of my 20 hives since honey extraction In August. managed to save 100 frames of honey and resources. Frozen and ready for splits in The spring. just hate to see Those dead outs this time of year
Good video! Excited to see your conex containers come together
Mine picked up a bunch of weight on the goldenrod here. Really had a great goldenrod bloom this year in north alabama
Mine have lost weight on the fall flow.
Its amazing just how much a beehive can consume when there are no resources out there. I saw several nuc boxes abscond because of starving. The domino effect of robbing is no joke, I saw activity around all my hives over several weeks, one at a time. Any colony that had a weak queen became a deadout. I went back to rescue a weak colony into a nuc box and it was already gone, but was able to save most of the honey placing it on another colony.. Sugar is expensive to maintain bees and pollen patty has gone up so much its hard to afford anymore.. After the hurricanes, not a stitch of brood after the goldenrod was all washed down
Have lost 1 of my 8 hives do to robbing so far . Feeding still for about 2 more weeks. Hopefully, I will be able to double my hive count next year with buying nuc's. Great video.
Communial feed about 125 yards away from your hives. Should reduce robbing.
Great video
Keep up the good work. This is real business conversation
Thanks Ian!
That hole in the bottom board looks like the modification for mite trap. See Bob's latest videos. He has a customer that has modified the bottom boards for this purpose in that same exact location.
I bought my first 40 foot high cube this summer and it’t already full and I want another.
They fill up quick!
I wish i could find places to keep bees lol. Also i seen somewhere recently that glyphosate is really rough on the bees unless they are resistant to it. There was a popular beekeeper that was breeding glyphosate resistant bees. I wish i coupd remember his name but i guess the usda came and basically stole all his hives.....
Good morning Great stuff
That hole in that Bob Bonnie deep may have been for controlling small hive beetle. Maybe.
Unlikely. Possibly could’ve been for ventilation and was screened at some point.
Yeah down time! LOL I'm trying to get the garden harvested, finished off and cleaned up, planting winter crops in the poly tunnel and hoop house... grass and leaves need mowing and collecting and still need to put up the winter wind break for the bees and do some repairs to the foamboard boxes to insulate the hives... then there is the painting of the replacement woodware, nuc top feeders and bottom boards. Feeders and excluders need cleaning and storage and on top of all that trying to get the Christmas cards made (make my own) and starting a list of things to purchase and collect at the Expo! Been collecting wingstem and purple. White aster just now finished blooming and seeds are developing and will be collected too. Hope you have all your projects penciled into the calendar! Noticed the same thing with queens not shutting down with heavy syrup feeding... One way I dealt with queen laying issue was to find the queen and move her down to the bottom box with space to lay under an excluder... this allowed a restricted area for winter brood nest rearing and for the syrup being fed to be stored in frames above the excluder when older brood hatched out. Worked pretty good but still had a rouge queen or two move up again when excluders were removed who then did more egg laying above... dang bees! Got a good price on some last season prosweet so topped up the hives with that at the end. Getting enough food storage has been a challenge this year - I figure there will be lots of nuc sales next spring due to underfed fall bees starving out because folks didn't pay attention to weights of hives in the fall or who only fed like they normally do which would not work this year. We too have a good 10 days of warm weather ahead (with no rain in sight either so another drought which will affect all the farmers) but then I hope and pray it will get cooer and stay colder. Found some tiny mice running around the bee yard so mouse guards are on too. I've only used fondant as an emergency/contingency food (just to be sure) the bees have enough to get them through the end of February and month of March which I consider to our most critical winter food survival time especially if we have plenty of wet, cold weather and the bees cannot fly when maples are blooming. More and more I seem to be seeing folks adding the HiveAlive or fondants as a standard method of winter feeding... not sure I'm on board with that yet not to mention the expense! and have spent plenty on fall feeding this year! Had to do most of my feeding in late afternoons due to the robbing issues at least then they were shortly going down for the night and the syrup could be taken down and stored/cured. Hope all those bucks are still around when deer season starts. Have one buck scraping one of the newer small linden trees... built a "cage" around it to protect the tender bark. Doing all we can and praying for a good outcome!
Hey Nancy, I thought you ought to be slowing down?! Good idea on moving queens down, but I'm not sure there's enough to me to go around to get that work done. I've thought of adding prosweet this time of year just to throw some weight on hives quick. It's probably too late to change horses midstream, but I might do that next year. Great to hear from you!
@@DuckRiverHoney Yeah just sharing my thoughts on what I did with respect to those rogue laying queens, not very transferrable to a larger operation I know. I see MannLake is offering prosweet deep discounted for the Expo... going to be bring several buckets home with me since the price is right to have for next fall... mixing syrup in my kitchen is not fun! Every year is different so we will see what next year brings - hopefully a decent amount of rain. Seeing posts on facebook of folks overwintering hives on bakery or HiveAlive fondant that had no other food stores (I have to wonder why there were no food stores?) and it appears the hives overwintered just fine but I have to wonder about the nutritional value of fondant as the primary overwintering food. HiveAlive is too pricey to justify opening my wallet.
I think robbing is the most aggravating part of bee keeping. Every other Issue you have some time to correct the problem or at least try.
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Well, there's a bear that will have to be relocated.....awesome footage though!
My bees starve to death feeding 1:1 all summer. It's 50% water. It seems like bees consume most of the sugar in 1:1, just dehydrating the water out of it. 1:1 is also twice as many visits filling feeders vs 2:1. One to one has no shelf life. I switched to 2:1 just to cut down on the work and fuel for traveling, bees don't starve if it rains for a week, and they still raise brood while putting on weight. Do a hive inspection feeding 1:1, and they looked packed out. Two days later, they can starve, same for the heft test, and all that water is very misleading.
Super random but what boots are you wearing in the clip where you are brushing burrs off your pants?
Vivobarefoot Forest. Been wearing these for two or three years now, just replaced my worn out pair.
I'm sure you're busy and UA-cam probably isn't paying much. I wish you would crank out more videos I'm trying to copy a lot of what I'm doing after what you're doing.
the most annoying intro music of all time, channel and videos great!
have you had a problem with some of your summer honey crystalizing? I'm from Benton county TN, which is northwest of you. I had nearly 80 galloons. I bottled 5 gallons and left the other in 5 gallon buckets. 3 months later it's all turning to sugar. moisture is just shy of 17