The Bees are Back! Mostly! Winter Solstice Passes Game on for Commercial Beekeeping. Ready Set Go!
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- Опубліковано 26 гру 2023
- Gary Barber's Commercial Beekeeping VLOG: December 2023 we have been busy. The task of clearing out 150 yards and bringing the girls home has begun. We will them home, keep up the mite fight. We start to grade our stock and see what options will be available to as we start into a new year.
This is my favorite time of year and also most stressful. We get to see where last year's hard work put us as the days get longer and spring starts to make its return. How are the bees? Was a hard summer, lots of mites this fall. Not looking good for our livestock.
Now we see who is the cream of the crop. Focus on them and cull the dinks as we enter 2024. - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
Love the videos keep up the great work
Going to go find a happy place LOL
Thank you, means a lot. That comment took me to a happy place. You’ve been an inspiration to us here since before we picked up a hive tool.
Bam, he bounced that pallet hard on the steel deck. 8 pounds sub, drum feed for a month, send them all to ammonds.
That boom is touchy. Thats what I get worrying about the camera.
A Rose is blooming here
wow, I hope it means an early build up.
there is a small fortune to be made in bees ;;; start with a large one.
mites= brood break at dearth them let the marinate.
re starts and small nuc's to replace your losses annually , all new Queens- vsh that you raise your self good luck
Thank you, still having fun most days. So I guess entertainment would be included.
Good video Gary. Im hoping to get to 50 or 60 colonies this year. Also going to experiment with a 2way pallet. I have to have my screened bottom boards and insulated covers though. I dont know how you keep from cooking bees in August.
Thanks Philip I asked my friend Blake one time about how he best manages his hives in our summer and the answer was. "Get your bees out of Texas" We keep the entrances on our pallets wide open and keep them in full sun so the beetles are driven out. Before we went to pallets we used to have a 5" hoie saw would cut 2 hole in the bottom then staple over some hardware cloth. Worked good and I bet you could still get a fork underneath them.
@@honeybeesunlimited I worked and worked on a way to combine the screen with the pallet and finally decided to stick with something similar my normal bottom boards. I am just going to make a pallet that allows me to pick up two hives with forks. This adds an extra piece that commercial guys would never tolerate. I'm also going to keep an inner cover below the insulated migratory lid because of the way I feed. I guess you can say I'm dabbling with the ease and convenience of the migratory hive, but not yet willing to take the plunge! I don't have aspirations to take bees to CA but I would like the option of making them easy to transport for local flows and providing bees for ag exemption.
Easy transport for sure. We aren't getting any younger. Do your migratory lids have feeder rims? Thats how we do any with the inner.
@@rtxhoneybees
Can you explain the pollinating process in CA? I would enjoy learning the process to see if it's something that I would like to do.
It’s the first big event in US beekeeping each year. The trees bloom mid February to mid March. Bees get a great jump start in spring buildup. Almond pollen is very good for the young. When done they come home ready to split.
00:31:51 what!😂
Last summer not so much, the 2 before was like a super bloom. Need to learn to build bear fencing i suppose.
Gary…what part of CA are you coming to for pollination?
Not sure yet, my friend out there hasn’t sent me a pin yet. Last year we were in the Pixley area.
i thought you werent supposed to feed corn syrup to bees? granulated sugar only.
I can’t remember the name of the disorder, but it can cause ulcers. It’s gets them through lean times just fine and sold from beekeeping supply shops. As small scale I would stay with granulated.
How often do you fume with oxalic acid even with brood
We are new to OA. We did 2 - 3 rounds on these at this time. We like apivar in our hot summers and thymol in the spring. We will be using OA much more going forward. I bet in the fall more and for knock back treatments.
Let’s the solar wax melter…
We will make sure to get it in this summer. Found a used Lyson. It’s nice, takes a 5 gal bucket at one time.
Gary, what causes a dead out?
My theory for the one in the video was something like this. They hung in there all summer, which was especially brutal this year. Brooded up well in the fall. Mites got out of hand and they weren’t able to build in the fall for winter. They got moved into a large yard and were overwhelmed with too much space and resources to defend. They got robbed in the end, but had already collapsed. There would not have made a mild freeze at their strength. If alive they would have been culled a week later when we were grading.
Plastic frames? Yay or nay?
Nay, I’m cheap with equipment. Can’t pop out the foundation and slap in a new ones. Bees don’t seem to care.