Your chuckle was much appreciated! Please check out the 2nd part of the same series - just released today: Vertical Hives and The Lord of the Rings: ua-cam.com/video/kVnxeSBZIu4/v-deo.html
Well said! This is one of the two reasons I picked the Layens. The other reason was... it is also easier on me the beekeeper. I always aim to make all things I do here on the homestead as easy as possible to do. These hives are easier to build and MUCH easier to manage.
Yes, absolutely right! Lifting a lot of conventional Langstroth vertical hive boxes when they are full is a back-breaking labor: each box can be over 75lb. In Layens horizontal hives the maximum weight that the beekeeper needs to lift (a single frame) is around 9lb.
I plan return in the Philippines. They have Apis melifora, Apis Cerana and two other honey bees as well as several stingless bees. I need these to increase production of fruits and coconut
Honeybees are the world's most versatile pollinators. The honeybees will greatly benefit, however, if you don't use any human-engineered pesticides, herbicides or insecticides in your gardens, keeping it organic.
Warre hives are a big improvement over Langstroth, however, the less than 9" depth of a honeycomb does not work well for climates with cold winters. See Math of overwintering: ua-cam.com/video/Msg_1GPoduE/v-deo.html
Each Layens frame's area roughly corresponds to 1.5 deep Lanstroth frame's area. So my 20-frame Layens hive area-wise would be equivalent to 30 deep frame Langstroth i.e. 3 stacked up Lanstroth deep 10-frame boxes. If every frame is built out, great! I can take a few of those build out frames, exchange them for new empty frames and harvest either right away or freeze them for later harvest. But here's the real reason I have never yet seen 20 frames fully built out despite having lots of natural Spring-to-Fall foraging resources: I never feed with any sugar syrup which artificially boosts 'honey' production at least 2x. You can refer to multiple studies why sugar is bad for the bees. My primary reason, however, for not sugar-feeding is that ... I prefer the taste of real honey.
As Layens' frames touch, unlike what you see in a Langstroth vertical hive when you open a top lid, there are very few bees that are disturbed by opening the top lid. So in a Layens hive the 'intrusion' of replacing a frame is a 2-second affair with very little bothering for the bees! I have not invented Natural Beekeeping, there are now hundreds of natural beekeepers all over the world. We follow the established natural beekeeping practices as defined in a veritable Bible of natural beekeeping 'Keeping Bees with a smile' by Lazutin and Sharashkin - a successful natural beekeeper from Ozarks MO. If you don't have time to read the full book - see my short youtube version: '3 pillars of natural beekeeping' : ua-cam.com/video/k9-LTOoGOa0/v-deo.html
The crazy landlord is the best analogy I've ever heard. It made me chuckle.
Your chuckle was much appreciated! Please check out the 2nd part of the same series - just released today: Vertical Hives and The Lord of the Rings: ua-cam.com/video/kVnxeSBZIu4/v-deo.html
Well said!
This is one of the two reasons I picked the Layens.
The other reason was... it is also easier on me the beekeeper. I always aim to make all things I do here on the homestead as easy as possible to do. These hives are easier to build and MUCH easier to manage.
Yes, absolutely right! Lifting a lot of conventional Langstroth vertical hive boxes when they are full is a back-breaking labor: each box can be over 75lb. In Layens horizontal hives the maximum weight that the beekeeper needs to lift (a single frame) is around 9lb.
I plan return in the Philippines. They have Apis melifora, Apis Cerana and two other honey bees as well as several stingless bees. I need these to increase production of fruits and coconut
Honeybees are the world's most versatile pollinators. The honeybees will greatly benefit, however, if you don't use any human-engineered pesticides, herbicides or insecticides in your gardens, keeping it organic.
Love the story and clearly agree!
Do you have thoughts on Warre hives? Vertical but a much different style of keeping than langs.
Warre hives are a big improvement over Langstroth, however, the less than 9" depth of a honeycomb does not work well for climates with cold winters. See Math of overwintering: ua-cam.com/video/Msg_1GPoduE/v-deo.html
Where do i buy Layens frames with cost in mind.
you can buy inexpensive Layens frames at Miller Bee Supply:
millerbeesupply.com/products/unassembled-layens-frames
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What happens when all the frames of the layens hives are built out?
Each Layens frame's area roughly corresponds to 1.5 deep Lanstroth frame's area. So my 20-frame Layens hive area-wise would be equivalent to 30 deep frame Langstroth i.e. 3 stacked up Lanstroth deep 10-frame boxes. If every frame is built out, great! I can take a few of those build out frames, exchange them for new empty frames and harvest either right away or freeze them for later harvest.
But here's the real reason I have never yet seen 20 frames fully built out despite having lots of natural Spring-to-Fall foraging resources: I never feed with any sugar syrup which artificially boosts 'honey' production at least 2x. You can refer to multiple studies why sugar is bad for the bees. My primary reason, however, for not sugar-feeding is that ... I prefer the taste of real honey.
As Layens' frames touch, unlike what you see in a Langstroth vertical hive when you open a top lid, there are very few bees that are disturbed by opening the top lid.
So in a Layens hive the 'intrusion' of replacing a frame is a 2-second affair with very little bothering for the bees!
I have not invented Natural Beekeeping, there are now hundreds of natural beekeepers all over the world.
We follow the established natural beekeeping practices as defined in a veritable Bible of natural beekeeping 'Keeping Bees with a smile' by Lazutin and Sharashkin - a successful natural beekeeper from Ozarks MO.
If you don't have time to read the full book - see my short youtube version: '3 pillars of natural beekeeping' : ua-cam.com/video/k9-LTOoGOa0/v-deo.html
Layens is traditional very popular in Spain a big honey producing country
Half truths.
enlighten us at the back of the class if ur so smart