Commercial Beekeepers Prep for Arctic Blast in Texas - Dink City strikes @ Worst TIme Hives Collapse
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- Опубліковано 18 січ 2024
- Mike Barber's Commercial Beekeeping VLOG: Winter storm Heather is closing in on and the race is on to save the bees. In this episode you will see us doing merges right up until the edge of the cold front in the fight to take as many hives as possible to California to pollinate the almonds. We do the common newspaper merge and what we call a Dirty Merge, piling bees and brood from many colonies into towers to let the bees decide which queen, if any, will reign over them all in this game of thrones. You will also see Uncle Marty grading hives and getting it right, Michelle pinching queens and more of the new guy scraping frames and lifting heavy things. I will do some math and show off my dismal pallet counting skills while discussing the potential I see from yet another hard season full of empty boxes. Every bee counts in this arctic blast damage control race so come join our story and watch us save the dinks for another day and another chance to win the fight to survive for the upcoming season.
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Hey Mike! The boxes with crystals, how long do you let them air out before you make splits with them? Also, if you are coming out to Pixley again this year for almonds, the weather won’t be as wet out here like last year. Great video! 👍🏻
Hello. We like to air them for a day and stack them so they are open to the air. We are with the same broker so same general area. I really hope your forecast holds true and we don't have to experience the delays and loss of last year's floods. Thank you so much for watching!👍
We will have bees in Pixley again. Just for the drop coordinates.
@@honeybeesunlimited just so you know…it’s going to be a muddy mess in the orchards the next few days because of heavy rain Wed night and all day Thur…that’s if the weatherman is right. I’m up north in Fresno/Clovis and they are saying expect it
Why do you have to wear a respirator?
We wear respirators to protect us from the oxalic acid vapors that we treat for varroa mites with in our colonies. Thank you for watching!
Please tell me whether your bee is Apis mellifera or Apis serena bee.❤
Apis Mellifera. Thank you for your question, I did a little follow up research and it was an interesting morning read! Thank you for watching! 🙂
thank you sir
Sir, my country is Bangladesh, I want to keep bees at home, which bee would be better, Apis serena bee or mellifera bee, please tell me sir.🥰❤️❤️
We have no experience with Serena here in the states. I hear they don’t sting. What a deal.
Kerosene burns alot cleaner in them than diesel lot less fumes
Thank you Jonathan, I need to make the effort and go a little further to grab some kerosene. We appreciate your support.
@@MikeBarberHBU thank you guys for putting out content going on 3rd year going from 30 to 100 hives this spring
@@jonathanstevens9919 you are going strong, and you have hits some big steps in a short amount of time, congrats. Scaling up is a constant challenge, fortunately the constant cycle of growth we are in is extremely interesting. Each big jump we take requires more infrastructure and better effort management but it also opens up more opportunities. We experience some a lot of growing pains along the ways but a willingness to work hard and work though it yielded solid results. Cheers to you and your bees, thank you for reaching out, stay at it and I look forward to hearing more from you. Your are very welcome and thank you!
The heaters are much better and efficient than before. I thought they were burning kerosene. Gary
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