After another week of record rainfall in NS I'm going to enjoy sunshine with upper teens this week while you bask in the snow that you longed for. I do wish that I had made my pallets with removable bottom boards. Everyone has good bees this fall, fingers crossed we all have good bees next spring.
I always catch you during the cold weather, I don't know why that is. Good luck to you though, felt like just last week I remembered you plowing 10ft of snow, acres and acres of just snow, again good luck to you and your bees this cold season they are looking strong 👍
If you ever wonder why you have such a following, it's because of videos like this. You have winter kicking in the door and you have to run to try and get everything done before it hits. And you still stop and find time to show us how proper bee management can be successful. Thank you for taking time to show us and teach us. Now hop on that tractor and ride!!!😂
Absolutely beautiful boxes full of bees!!! But what are they all going to eat over the next five months? I just found - in mid-October- one of my strongest hives dead from starvation. 2 brood boxes and a heavy super yet estimated 40-50,000 dead with a bee butt sticking up out of almost every empty cell. Mite count less than 1 and no other obvious disease or visible robbing. If your huge colonies survive winter in a single brood box, where did I - between September and October - go wrong? Thx, for your great channel!!!
wish we could do pollen patties down here in the south, but hive beetles would overtake everything... Love those boxes of bees though. looks good going into winter. You have done all you can do to set them up for success. now the hard part, waiting till spring.
I saw a cool idea on feeding pollen patties. Build a wire mesh pad the holds the pattie in the air and then a feeder shim added so that the bees patrol the whole patty. It sounds like it might work but then I don't have SHB.
Winters hear, are you ready Ian? Freezing by this weekend here in SW Washington State, I'll bet you are right cold buy then. Have you always used the lifter?
I was getting ready to ask you what kind of weight you had your colonies at for the winter but I went down an saw someone else ad ask that . That is great . So just wondering you old old combine did you even get it rebuilt and back together. Hope your winter loss is very little. Thanks
I just love lifting the hive box and seeing nothing but solid bees. Makes me rest better knowing a over full box going into winter. Looking really good!! I am in hopes the snow down here doesn’t materialize or melts as it hits .. snow and soybean pods don’t go together 😮 .. But if can’t work in the fields always got wood to cut for winter heat.. But I love snow to go deer hunting and the freezer is running low on deer meat so this year I need to fill it. But question? Is the soil up there light? Coz in the videos it looks like a Sandy loam type
Funny thing about those priorities. I see you farming all the time, but I don't recall seeing your brothers helping with the bees unless they're the ones driving the recovery tractor to pull you out. 🙂
If they are kept cool enough for the cluster to go into torpor, they don't use a huge amount. It's when it is too cold to fly but too warm for a tight cluster in a state of torpor that they'd rip through it like a North Korean at an all-you-can-eat diner.
With 12 colonies per forklift stack, 1212 is 101 lbs per colony. The food is plugged out and the bees pushed down! 25lbs tare on the box, 5-6 lbs bees, top, bottom 10-15lbs equals 55-60lbs feed for winter. Estimate 5-8lbs consumption per month and I have enough well into spring
I respect the honest reality, if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen, or, in your case the cold.. ehhh? maybe idea is, get out of the freezer and vacation in FL? I'm from MB that shit hole, the people of MB are stellar and undertrodden. ehh
Hand hurts and you cut the head. So nice, to be honest if that channel was mine I would ask you to get out of her and not come back again. Please go for camping at a place without internet.
After another week of record rainfall in NS I'm going to enjoy sunshine with upper teens this week while you bask in the snow that you longed for. I do wish that I had made my pallets with removable bottom boards. Everyone has good bees this fall, fingers crossed we all have good bees next spring.
I always catch you during the cold weather, I don't know why that is. Good luck to you though, felt like just last week I remembered you plowing 10ft of snow, acres and acres of just snow, again good luck to you and your bees this cold season they are looking strong 👍
If you ever wonder why you have such a following, it's because of videos like this.
You have winter kicking in the door and you have to run to try and get everything done before it hits. And you still stop and find time to show us how proper bee management can be successful. Thank you for taking time to show us and teach us.
Now hop on that tractor and ride!!!😂
Good luck man! Race against Mother Nature!! I hope you get ‘em all in before she flys
Some good looking boxes of, their certainly full
Snow is a 4 letter word. Good luck this winter and the bees look good.
Absolutely beautiful boxes full of bees!!! But what are they all going to eat over the next five months? I just found - in mid-October- one of my strongest hives dead from starvation. 2 brood boxes and a heavy super yet estimated 40-50,000 dead with a bee butt sticking up out of almost every empty cell. Mite count less than 1 and no other obvious disease or visible robbing. If your huge colonies survive winter in a single brood box, where did I - between September and October - go wrong? Thx, for your great channel!!!
How your bees looked before that record honey crop came in the following season
Coming along well!
you Manitoban, respect
wish we could do pollen patties down here in the south, but hive beetles would overtake everything... Love those boxes of bees though. looks good going into winter. You have done all you can do to set them up for success. now the hard part, waiting till spring.
I saw a cool idea on feeding pollen patties. Build a wire mesh pad the holds the pattie in the air and then a feeder shim added so that the bees patrol the whole patty. It sounds like it might work but then I don't have SHB.
To cold for me 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
Compliments to the Canadian Beekeeper!
Winters hear, are you ready Ian? Freezing by this weekend here in SW Washington State, I'll bet you are right cold buy then.
Have you always used the lifter?
I was getting ready to ask you what kind of weight you had your colonies at for the winter but I went down an saw someone else ad ask that . That is great . So just wondering you old old combine did you even get it rebuilt and back together. Hope your winter loss is very little. Thanks
Nice boxs
Have you ever dropped one of the bee pallets while unloading?
I just love lifting the hive box and seeing nothing but solid bees. Makes me rest better knowing a over full box going into winter. Looking really good!! I am in hopes the snow down here doesn’t materialize or melts as it hits .. snow and soybean pods don’t go together 😮 ..
But if can’t work in the fields always got wood to cut for winter heat.. But I love snow to go deer hunting and the freezer is running low on deer meat so this year I need to fill it. But question? Is the soil up there light? Coz in the videos it looks like a Sandy loam type
The soil is a clay loam, with stone lol
just finished honey harvest, and now snow.
Hello Ian, what kind of frame space do you have under the frames in your hive?
Bee content! Very greatful, thanks!
LOL 😂😂😂
Man it feels like you were just snow blowing yards for a heat sink. Good luck getting done before the snow
Funny thing about those priorities. I see you farming all the time, but I don't recall seeing your brothers helping with the bees unless they're the ones driving the recovery tractor to pull you out. 🙂
Pulling out is a priority:) and much appreciated
Can you get any summer kids to move bees with your other truck at least closer to the shed?
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Do the bees clustered at the entrances stay on for the whole ride or get blown off or tuck inside?
They hang on
That ia a whole lot of bees
Ian, are you enjoying the snow today?
LOL 🥶
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So many bees in those boxes. Hope they don't eat to much for the long winter 😮
My forklift scales the pallets coming in at consistently 1212lbs
If they are kept cool enough for the cluster to go into torpor, they don't use a huge amount.
It's when it is too cold to fly but too warm for a tight cluster in a state of torpor that they'd rip through it like a North Korean at an all-you-can-eat diner.
That is cc. 15-16 kilogramms or 33-35 lbs foods / boxes...! Great!
With 12 colonies per forklift stack, 1212 is 101 lbs per colony. The food is plugged out and the bees pushed down! 25lbs tare on the box, 5-6 lbs bees, top, bottom 10-15lbs equals 55-60lbs feed for winter. Estimate 5-8lbs consumption per month and I have enough well into spring
How did honey bees survive in huge colonies without being fed protin?😮
They had pollen. Something that is scarce here
hanaa
I respect the honest reality, if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen, or, in your case the cold.. ehhh? maybe idea is, get out of the freezer and vacation in FL? I'm from MB that shit hole, the people of MB are stellar and undertrodden. ehh
Your seasons sure do seem to switch on and off fast.
Can't watch your channel anymore because I use a adblocker and UA-cam won't let me access your content. sorry unsubscribing
Hand hurts and you cut the head. So nice, to be honest if that channel was mine I would ask you to get out of her and not come back again.
Please go for camping at a place without internet.
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hanaa