Hopefully you can get your bees out to the staging yards before mud season hits. I hope the fresh air and cleansing flights help clear up the poop challenges for the bees.
It always seams to be an uphill battle. Varroa issues or Gut issues, and the lowballing of honey prices doesn't allow us to compete with the prices of Diesel to move of hives constantly. National honey report clocks us in at 1.70 a pound against the .45 cent a lb imported honey. Im Real tired of even trying to keep this gig going any longer.
That possible new staging yard looks like an ideal site with lots of natural pollen available in a week or two. Hope that works out for you. Warmer weather is coming soon. YEA!!
Find your motivation! Keep at it! Down in Alabama we are catching swarms. Temps 40’s-50’s at night easing in to the 80’s during the day! We are fired up for the coming season. Thanks for the insight into the commercial world. Maybe do a follow up gut heath video when the tests come back.
I hope you get them out and flying. I'm looking at more snow for the end of the week. So far they are holding their own. Not really warm enough to feed syrup.
glad to see you are getting them out. the flag dropped here a week ago. I have had 2 27 hr days getting bees from CA. now trying to split before they swarm, loaded the trailer till 10;30 to put bees in blueberries at 6;00 am, then back to split more, and make cell starters to start making queens, and figure out where to put the cells I bought that are emerging in the incubator. wishing I had some of those hours i was screwing around in feb. back
Is what your seeing not a result of being kept inside in numbers and the same boxes/brood comb etc. Would you ever consider keeping some outside to see if it made a difference?
That's a nice looking prospect yard Ian, I hope you get it rented as planned. Hopefully the weathers gods are merciful and has forage popping soon; that will certainly help clear up the dysentary. That's a long ass time holding your 💩 . I know you say that flying impacts the winter bees' lifespan but at some point you reach a tradeoff as their guts start to overflow and cause trouble. My theory, but I know nothing. I hope you and Sandy and the kids are keeping well. Newfoundland winter in my area was mild this year; good survival with 13/14 survivors, including a 5 medium frame nuc. Woo hoo!
Your weather looks amazing for a change. Year you lock down bee keepers hall of fame. Pollen by Saturday going to be the medicine fix all that gut problems..
Monday ill see what i can do with the two small ones i have i think ill feed and give pollen sup and put a double screen board on 2 large ones and put the 2 small ones on top then re wrap them 🤞
Have you read in ABJ of what Randy Oliver has said about super DFM Microbials not being effective? I will continue to use them anyway. I feel that they help my bees 🐝.
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I’m not seeing as much of any on my nucs or late season bulk bee splits, all fed the same liquid and supplement feed, all in the same agricultural type surroundings. My thought process is towards storage of summer honey and or pollen. Late season splits were built after the summer flows and the nucs generally lagged the summer flow but their brood pretty much kept anything from summer production out
Something to consider? Even the quality of our feed. We pay good money for sucrose, but I’ve been guilty of feeding leftover spring feed in the fall that’s not quite 100%, then lock them in the dark for 5 months and wonder why they have the shits.
Can you imagine how the Discovery channel would just ruin this video. They’d show dirty fronts every 7mins 4 times. Imply all your bees are dead and then spend more time talking about how that would affect the business than you moving bees. There would dramatic zoomins on the fork lift not starting and it’s a race against time to get them out the shed or they all die.
Hopefully you can get your bees out to the staging yards before mud season hits. I hope the fresh air and cleansing flights help clear up the poop challenges for the bees.
It always seams to be an uphill battle. Varroa issues or Gut issues, and the lowballing of honey prices doesn't allow us to compete with the prices of Diesel to move of hives constantly. National honey report clocks us in at 1.70 a pound against the .45 cent a lb imported honey. Im Real tired of even trying to keep this gig going any longer.
Please let us know what your find is the issue when you send your samples in
It will be in good case Nosema...and worse case septicemia
That possible new staging yard looks like an ideal site with lots of natural pollen available in a week or two. Hope that works out for you. Warmer weather is coming soon. YEA!!
Find your motivation! Keep at it! Down in Alabama we are catching swarms. Temps 40’s-50’s at night easing in to the 80’s during the day! We are fired up for the coming season. Thanks for the insight into the commercial world. Maybe do a follow up gut heath video when the tests come back.
When I lost my 5 box of 🐝 Bees .I was 😢sad 😔 but I got a queen 👑 and 🏃 run and get back one frame of Bees. And now it's 50 boxes
I'm bringing mine out in about half a coffee. Good luck for 2024 season.
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I hope you get them out and flying. I'm looking at more snow for the end of the week. So far they are holding their own. Not really warm enough to feed syrup.
Hang in there friend!
glad to see you are getting them out. the flag dropped here a week ago. I have had 2 27 hr days getting bees from CA. now trying to split before they swarm, loaded the trailer till 10;30 to put bees in blueberries at 6;00 am, then back to split more, and make cell starters to start making queens, and figure out where to put the cells I bought that are emerging in the incubator. wishing I had some of those hours i was screwing around in feb. back
Is what your seeing not a result of being kept inside in numbers and the same boxes/brood comb etc. Would you ever consider keeping some outside to see if it made a difference?
I use to winter outside, 6 one way half a dozen the other
One more week before my outside covers come off.
That's a nice looking prospect yard Ian, I hope you get it rented as planned. Hopefully the weathers gods are merciful and has forage popping soon; that will certainly help clear up the dysentary. That's a long ass time holding your 💩 . I know you say that flying impacts the winter bees' lifespan but at some point you reach a tradeoff as their guts start to overflow and cause trouble. My theory, but I know nothing.
I hope you and Sandy and the kids are keeping well. Newfoundland winter in my area was mild this year; good survival with 13/14 survivors, including a 5 medium frame nuc. Woo hoo!
Apparetly there is a direct link to neonicotinoids exposure and nosema/ viruses susceptabilty.
i heard the weed killers could be causing problems with the gut bacteria in test animals
Agreed. Flying will be very beneficial for the girls.
Your weather looks amazing for a change. Year you lock down bee keepers hall of fame. Pollen by Saturday going to be the medicine fix all that gut problems..
I think that I would start out analyzing what you wintered them on, maybe someone changed a formula without informing the user.
Oh no, let's hope not another year of doom and gloom on the Steppler farm.
Due for a good year
Monday ill see what i can do with the two small ones i have i think ill feed and give pollen sup and put a double screen board on 2 large ones and put the 2 small ones on top then re wrap them 🤞
Maybe HiveAlive could help the bees.
Have you read in ABJ of what Randy Oliver has said about super DFM Microbials not being effective? I will continue to use them anyway. I feel that they help my bees 🐝.
Happy Easter
You worked out what you’re going to do about the water pooling on top of the feeding buckets with first flight poop?
Leaf blower
Nice soft hands on the forklift. Not rammy at all. I’ve seen some horrendous operators that scare me.
Will you plant that field with something?
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What! It’s resurrection Sunday. Not time to work
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@@jtlearn1 I’m am guilty of not taking a day off.
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Rocket fuel?
It seems the timing of the use of this stuff and the gut issues are kind of coinciding
I’ve used it for at least 5 years now.
I’m not seeing as much of any on my nucs or late season bulk bee splits, all fed the same liquid and supplement feed, all in the same agricultural type surroundings.
My thought process is towards storage of summer honey and or pollen.
Late season splits were built after the summer flows and the nucs generally lagged the summer flow but their brood pretty much kept anything from summer production out
Something to consider? Even the quality of our feed. We pay good money for sucrose, but I’ve been guilty of feeding leftover spring feed in the fall that’s not quite 100%, then lock them in the dark for 5 months and wonder why they have the shits.
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@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlogyes I’ve noticed the same, consistently less dysentery on the nuc fronts than hive fronts inside.
get er out before the mud starts. Then watch Bob B. with queen cells later
Good luck for this year
Almost there
Get them bees outside
Can you give them some hive alive and/or super DFM
6s on first!
Can you imagine how the Discovery channel would just ruin this video. They’d show dirty fronts every 7mins 4 times. Imply all your bees are dead and then spend more time talking about how that would affect the business than you moving bees. There would dramatic zoomins on the fork lift not starting and it’s a race against time to get them out the shed or they all die.
Sounds like a good way to make for more clicks 😂
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