Beehives Neglected or Letting Bees Be Bees | Checking an Out-yard
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- Folks, beehive outyards allow me great versatility but are also easy to leave alone for weeks if I'm being honest, and I am. I tend to let this yard in town go for more weeks than I need to sometime, but the last time I was there, I did leave them in good shape. But I still need to get out there and see what's going on, so I invite you all along as we take a ride out there and while I'm driving, I'll leave you in my home yard while I harvest honey.
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Talking to your self is the sign of a highly intelligent deep thinker.😊
Yes indeed!! I’ll buy that!
Thanks for that I think with my outside voice. Not sure about highly intelligent but I’ll take it
“I guess I just didn’t want to get too much involved today…” story of my life haha. Looks like you are having a good year this year Mike. We finished the rest of our honey this weekend. Record harvest. Now to keep them alive the rest of the year and get ready for 2025. And figure out how to sell all this honey!
I’ve yet to watch your record harvest video because I’ve been working don’t when extracting all day long😂😂. Yea, I like the days when it’s just a few things to do. Almost time to slow down.
Well, I talk to myself also. When someone overhears me and says “ hey your talking to yourself “ . I tell them might sound like but in all actuality I was having a staff meeting!
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That was indeed a Vevor box. I got some too, I had to put a sheet of plastic in the window so I could use it to view the bees. The boxes are junk, aren't square, aren't cut straight and don't go together right! I had to trim all the ears on one of the boxes just to get it together! Just ask Mr Ed how building that box went, or better yet just watch the video he made a year ago when he made it.
Well, that explains it. I had issues with the frames in it as well. Thanks for the input. Glad it’s just a supper that only gets used a couple months out of the year.
U are doing pretty good this year!!! I can't wait til I'm to that point, I've just been building up colonies all season, I'll get a Lil honey tho.
Yes, good harvest so far. Not sure I’ll surpass my largest harvest, but I’ll be close. It took me a few years to get to this point. All worth the work and effort in the early years to build the apiary.
Thanks Mike, another great video as always I appreciate it!
My pleasure! And thanks as always for the support!
Is it a bad thing to talk to yourself? Boy I hope not. Lol. Great video Mike, God Bless!!
For us folks that do it, absolutely not a bad thing😁😁😂😂😂
@@MikeBarryBees AGREED!!👍🏻
I'm not always talking to myself. I am talking also to those I am thinking about.
Great video, world famus mike Berry. I subscribed to ur chanel.
Thanks for the sub! And glad you enjoyed the video!!
You have a lot of work ahead of you Mike.I dont see how you manage and still work.Ive 20 hives and work a swing shift and am struggling a bit to keep up .
I guess the honey harvest makes the all the work worth it.I enjoy my bees!Thanks for posting and look forward for you next one.
I’ve been busy to say the least. I pulled another 35 boxes and have been extracting for three evenings straight😬😬. The job thing does make it difficult. You look at me and say it looks hard, then I look at Bruce Jenne and say the same thing. I don’t know how he does it.
@@MikeBarryBees i dont know how Bruce does it neither .He has help i guess .Well Mike been watching you for i think three or four years and sure do appreciate all the hard work on editing and sharing your beekeeping life with us out here in the internet land.Thank you !
Ya thank you ❤🐝
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Had several queens that failed this year. Bees were really looking good and for some reason the queens just stopped laying. Usually get good queens from swarms but they weren't that great this year. Last year was a big swarm year and Bees still produced great. This year looking like they going to take a break and not do anything. Hopefully you will get a great harvest.
It happens that way sometimes. I wonder sometime if it’s a nutrition deal. Bad nutrition due to environmental conditions make for failed queens. I can’t imagine all were inferior.
Don’t mind you talking to yourself 😂we get to hear some of those hidden thoughts lol
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I like that you talk to yourself as you go, it tells me we have similar thought patterns and helps me understand better. I don't think I could properly understand that many hives and control them correctly though, not at my age anyway. Wish I would have gotten into it in the mid to late 90's like I had planned to, other things in life raising a family just got in the way. Maybe it was all for the best, the Lord knows what direction we should take and guides us. Thanks for the great video like always!
Oh yes Tommy, the Lord guides us. And I’d hardly say the family got in the way. More like the important part in life took precedence. Most important job as a man is to raise his family and guide them. Beekeeping is about enjoying the bees and if you start now and just keep two and they give you enjoyment after you’ve raised a family, then that’s pure GOLD.
i got another 16 boxes to spin out, and probably another 6 that need to be filled more and capped. so all in all been a banner year, 800 lbs in so far, probably another 500 waiting to spin. leaving some supers on thru the summer so we can catch the steady clover for the next month or so.
Good deal!! Glad you’re having a great year. It’s always extra rewarding when we see a good crop.
Enjoyed the video Mike!! I can relate to your thoughts on the remote mic. Mine works great......but between breathing, grunting and the occasional low level "colorful metaphor", I tend to not use it. 😆 I need to go through all my hives.....but they can wait a few days till this high heat/humidity goes down a bit!!!! Take care and try to stay cool!!!!
I still like mine since I really don’t shut up. I like being able to set up the camera and do some work while exposing and the getting the shots of what I’m doing. I can work and talk is what I’m trying to say I suppose😬😬😁😁
I lost a queen in the same way. I was trying to mark her and she flew. She got mixed in with the other bees flying and I lost her. We pulled this weekend and got between 400 and 500 lbs off of 7 hives. All new foundation. Ill have drawn comb for next year.
Awesome harvest. I saw the video pop but have yet to watch it. Yours or Bruce’s. I’m the busiest I’ve ever been….
Hello Mr. Mike I like your
Nuc super adaptable setup. I did one kind of like that this season. I have two ten frame box setups an I ran out of supers so I took a sheet of plywood and cut it to fit the ten frame an then cut a hole in side to fit a eight frame super so I started from there on up with eight frames. Have not looked but I would guess they already make a adapter to do that with but it got me out of a bind . Stay cool in this weather it can sneak up on us fast . Ya I think you have got quite a bit more to harvest . If it was not over twelve hours away we might come an help with your last pull but you would probably have it finished before we could get to SC or Ga . Lol Thanks
Great ingenuity!! I doubt that you’ll see that sold anywhere. I’d make some and market them on market place as 8 and 10 frame adapter boards. It would also make a great gadget for converting one type of box with the other.
@@MikeBarryBees Yeah, Nuc to 8 frame, nuc to 10 frame, and 8 frame to 10 frame. A piece of quarter inch plywood with the proper size hole in the middle of it. Or even a piece of even thinner plastic instead of plywood. Or a board with a single large hole properly place to handle all sizes at once, even side-by side nucs to 8 or 10 frame. Lots of options.
Hey Mike - enjoyed the run down of what’s going on!
Thanks and glad you enjoyed it!!
Still have work to do!!!! Thanks Mike!
Thanks Rodney!
Great job buddy. Looks like you are having a good honey crop this year.
Thanks Mark the WV Swarm King!
That last one with the brood pattern... i bet she's laying everything but the bees pull some out and she comes back and lays the empty cells again. It sounded like it when you said you see nice looking white larva. At this point l hope its varroa or some easy open brood disease. Much better than a capped brood one.
You still didn't pass me on the strange honey supers scale. I never throw away older overused Jester nucks.. they have to break apart. I glue two together, open two 3 inch holes in the bottoms and put them for a top super and cover them with an old stove or washing machine cover. Something from the 70s -80s when the enamel metal was thick. Ofcourse it's rare that I use that. But between traveling for a box and taking that.. hidden in the bushes right there...
Those old metal covers can last forever. And all l had to do was go to the metal recycling station with two 6 packs and they filled my van with every white one they could find. It's good for under the hives and for a white cover protection from the sun. I always pick them if I can. The new metal is rubbish.. thin and rusty. Always with this long comments. Too much free time. I'm about to go to Italy to help cage 2000 queens for brood break with some friends over there. Those fat ass Ligusticas are easy to see but it's still a big job in this heat. It's an early morning and late afternoon work. And easy moving.. we're not young beeks anymore.
Nice harvest for that number of hives. I like that contraption. It's a back savior
Yea, I guess a lot of beekeepers don’t do a bunch of pieces here and pieces there. I just use what I got and try to keep equipment in service as long as I can. Have fun caging those queens. I drove that coastal highway from Koper over to Trieste, then north into the mountains. Swung by the Grotto Gigante, and the down to Venice. Had a great trip that week. I suppose you probably catch a flight from as far south as you are.
@@MikeBarryBees no, we're fisherman and beekeepers. There's an agreement between Italy and Croatia to share the adriatic sea.. they work Monday to Thursday we Thursday to Sunday. So over the years a lot of us became friends spending that Thursday or Monday out on sea together. Anyway they'll pick me and we're going to Italy with their boat. It's a big new two store high made from rust free metal.. inox. With 5 people working on it. In yards it must be 30 long.
It will take about 6hr to arrive to a little town Viesti in Italy from where l will be. And some of my friends will eventually return my boat home after they do some tourism fishing for tuna and resting.... this is not the time to drive the roads.. way too many tourist
@@researcherAmateur I see that. Straight shot across. I’ve been to Bari for a couple days. Enjoyed the food and a really cool go-cart track 🏎️🏎️🏎️
@@MikeBarryBees Bari isn't far from Viesti. Viesti is the closest point to my country. It's a beautiful little town on a rock wall above the sea. I go there almost every summer acting like a tourist .. but I have here right now 4 tourists on 1 local. I can't stand it anymore
Yo Mike! Looking good, buddy!
Is it easy to see thru that Hillco veil?
Bossy Tom, or Melissa, or both of y’all 😁😁😁. I don’t have any issues seeing, but where I have an issue is the hat part isn’t elastic, so even my big head is loose in it and I also would like to see him have more screen around the neck. It’s brutally hot. After I bought it he did say they were making improvements on a new model. I need to ask him about that one day.
I would certainly help you pull honey if I lived closer than South Carolina, just for the experience and knowledge you share.
I’d love the help. If you’re ever in Louisiana and near, it doesn’t have to be when I need help. Anytime going thru the bees is help and fun to fellowship and share ideas.
@@MikeBarryBees How far are you from New Orleans?
Hey Mike
Do you blow your bees down into the lower boxes?
I feel certain I talk to you several times at the bee meeting over a year ago when I used to go all the time.
Good video man I like to learn more about bees. Thanks and keep it up
I blow them down when I fuming the super just above the brood box. If it’s a super a box or two away from the brood box, I just blow them out in front of the hive. Thanks for watching and glad you liked the video. I haven’t missed many of the Franklinton meetings over the years, but if you’re talking about the River region , st Tammany meeting, then it’s been since before the pandemic. But I was at those as well, so I’m sure we met.
@@MikeBarryBees I live In Robert but work out of town a lot. But if you ever need a hand holler and if I’m not working I would love to help and learn new techniques.
What are you using to blow out your boxes? Looks like a hand-held leaf blower.
It’s a Ryobi shop and bench blower. Most tool brands make similar models. Very handy and easy to handle.
Hey Mike, do you have any cotton farms near your hives? I have been adding supers for cotton in N.C.
No, not here in this part of Louisiana. More north they do.
If you talk to yourself there is something wrong, but if you are just thinking out loud it’s okay!😅
Talking to yourself is just verbalizing your thoughts. I think it is good for your mental health. It helps you edit what you are thinking about instead of a mind full of random thoughts. At my age (76) it is also a memory tool.
@@edmartin875 I know. I’m a physician and my comment was meant to be a joke with a twist of truth.
I'm not that brave yet
Not sure of what you’re meaning, but appreciate you watching and commenting!! Maybe the veil only? If so, trust me, I’m not that brave either. I just kind of know the times when the bees seem more gentle. I have the jacket and gloves standing by, I promise you.😁😁
I've found Bees have been doing well for 30 million years, can't read or watch UTube. Soo... Looking forward to seeing you in January.
Yep, they will make it one way or the other. Lord willing, I’ll be looking forward to seeing everyone in January again!!