Beekeeping | My Special Mixture For Fall Feeding!
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2023
- Beekeeping is hardest on bees during the winter. Today I'll share my third tip on preparing your bees for winter.
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When I first started beekeeping; I weighed and measured all the ingredients going into my fall feeding syrup.
Now I just dump it in and eyeball it. Lol.
Makes sense to me as the more bees, the better they are able to keep the hive warm. I am using your bee mixer on my bees.
I love it
Holy Moley...David, you are a stud. I love all these videos. I'm super new, but full of enthusiasm.
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@@beek I watched the replay. Very informative. I’ll make sure to clear my schedule for a live show. Thanks again.
I just re-watched your "Feeding Bees in a Dearth" video earlier today to get your recipe.
As always, great content. Thank you so much for sharing. See you at NAHBE in January.
I'm thoroughly enjoying these videos on how to prepare bees for winter! I was a little behind schedule last night, but I watched your interview with Dr. David Beck shortly after the live stream had ended. I enjoyed it very much, because he always displays the same enthusiasm and passion about bees as you express in your videos. I'm looking forward to the next episode in this series!!!
Keeping bees with a smile .good book never feed the bees
Love your mixture love how simple you make it! My bees love it! I use your burns feeder system!
... you are right on time, just got my kit of mixes the other day, quick delivery, and a sticker on my truck !, God bless you guys !
Thanks for all your great enthusiastic bee advice D & S!
Thank you for your educational tips. My hives are so loaded and full of bees and brood. Since I’ve been following you this has been the best I’ve seen my hives. Love your channel!!!!
David ,thankyou for sharing another huge tip to help everyone get their bees thru winter! I am following your ideas very closely, pure brilliance my friend!
Love your vids! I'm following your fall prep tips wondering how long to feed liquid into October. I'm in MI and late summer just ended. We have tempos in the 50s all week. I am using your top feeder in an empty super.
Thanks again David I'm loving this 10 tips you got going on!!! Keep them coming!!!!
I have friend who I've known for a long time. I've made some mistakes as long ago as a few day ago that a reasonable person would say are completely idiotic. I step back and totally agree with that assessment. I'm feeding my bees with the 1 to 1 and he has been doing 2 to 1. I possibly checked his hives at night to see how his bees are doing. I clearly have far more bees than he has in his hives. I'm thinking i have too many bees.
Using the 1 to 1 with all the other stuff David uses, might be the only good thing I have done this year.
Ohh, my mite count is zero percent. Doing that monthly test and treating has gotten me to zero.
My wife was all emotional about me killing 300 bees every month, but it was worth it.
Thank you so much for this series (and all your videos)! They have been and are so helpful. We are blessed to have access to the info you provide. Keep up the good work!
David, I did this for my bees last winter. Not only did I have almost no dead bees in the spring, but all 3 hives came out of winter strong and ready to go. I also used a winter feeding system similar to yours (you were sold out) and it worked beautifully. Thank you for such great advice.
Great to hear your testimony
Thank you for your help I née the winter recipe
I've always done this since I started bees, and while I lost hives this summer from swarming and bad queen situation, I have always gotten my hives through the winter very healthy taking your advice and the Burns Feeding System and candy boards. Also, just fun to take a very safe peek through the screen into the hive as I change out the jars.
Do you feed this formula with a super still on? If so won't they store it if the frames aren't capped? If you take the super off to feed, what do you do with it? Do you put it back on at a certain point? This may be worth making a whole video on... even the master beekeepers I talk to simply reply by saying "yep... that's a classic dilemma!"
LOL. What a great video David! Thank you. " Calm down, this isn't rocket science"
Loved this, CALM DOWN, lol
So wish I would have see this before I drove myself crazy for exact measurements lol
Know I didn't miss that
Have you done an experiment where you compared hives fed with your mix vs hives fed only with 1:1 sugar syrup? What I am asking is: Does your mix really make a difference?
It's proven in many older beekeepers books . It's not just his , he was taught
Hey Dave, I caught a large swarm this spring, everything was beautiful, made comb, made honey, they were very healthy and very strong just till last week and I went to check on them today, and they are all gone but the Queen is still in the hive with about 20 or so bees. What happened?
So I bought 2 nucs early this year tried feeding with the additives both got robbed out. So I caught a swarm feed same wat with additives with same results! So I'm planing on buying 3 nucs next spring. How do we keep them from being robbed out???
I so enjoy your videos! Keep them coming please!
Also a link to your burlap source 😊please and thank you
The link is in the video description.
I want to feed mine but I have heard that as long as you have the super on, you shouldn't feed.
David, I would like to buy your jar lids. How do I go about doing that ? Thanks !
I'm curious on the amount of syrup you add to a hive per week? So 1:1 with two brewed boxes and 1 super would 4cups be good for a week of this or to much or to little?
What do you recommend for a hive that has lots of bees, but not enough honey to get through winter? I’m in MI.
Would it be advisable to use this formula in a community feeder?
Dave, please make your products available. I’ve been looking on your web page since June. They all say sold out.
I use community pollen feeders. Is it neccessary to put Ultrabee in the mixture?
David i have been feeding my bees the "secret recipe" for at least 3 weeks now. Yesterday I had one of my hives swarm. I found the swarm in a tree close by about 40Ft up in a tree. I could not reach them. The bees love the recipe but my question is, is the queen laying too many eggs this time of year because of the recipe and they swarmed, leaving little bees for winter. BTW love your channel.
It is a delicate dance that you must be doing hive inspections to know the next move. Probably should not be feeding if the Queen is running out of room to lay.
Which do u think is better, Communal feeding to individual box feeding?
I live in Quebec Canada. I am very interested in your idea of feeling 1:1 in the fall to make more winter bees. As things will shut down for the winter up here in the next few weeks, if I feed 1:1 now and not all of the 1:1 is used to make winter bees, will there be an issue if the bees are not able to dry down the 1:1 before winter really sets in? Or to put it another way, if the 1:1 just sits in the comb uncapped all winter could this be problematic for the bees?
Dave, how long do you feed the bees in the fall?
Where do you get the Amino b
What about even thiner than 1:1? Like 1.3 water. Wouldnt that be even better?
I have a question! How many colonies of bees do you usually have?
I use your feeding system and when I use the pollen substitute, it doesn't seem to disolve in the water. I find it has collected on the lids when I go out to refill the jars. Is there a secret to getting the pollen substitute to disolve?
It will settle out a little nothing you can do. Just wipe that little bit that settled out off when you refill its fine.
We have been feeding our bees 1 to 1 sugar water because of the dearth. Can we harvest honey from those supers?
Do you have a website where you sell bee supplies?
Do you use this mixture throughout the year or only in the fall?...apologies if that was made clear.
How would you feed a Layens Hive?
We use a boardman feeder (or two) inside the hive
Thanks so much for putting together these great videos. I've watched many of your videos and followed your advice by buying your honey-be-healthy and ammino booster, but I have one question that I did not see addressed in your videos. Are you saying that we need to feed the colonies continuously during Sep/Oct/Nov? If the bees consume 1/2 gallon of 1:1 sugar water every 48 hours, I will be feeding each hive 7-8 gallons of sugar water each month. That's around 25-30 lb. of sugar for each hive every month. With my 5 hives, I will be consuming about 400 lb. of sugar for fall feeding of Sep/Oct/Nov. Did I get that right? Do you feed your bees that much sugar or how do know when to moderate feeding?
What do you think about honey b healthy plus
I have a question David, I tested for mites, count seemed to be toward a high count of mites. I applied a formicpro treatment. I have a screened bottom board and closed with inspection board and cardboard to seal the screen for treatment. After 2 days pulled cardboard clean off for a count inspection and replaced to keep screen sealed. I counted appox 500 adult mites appox 30,000 bees. The math resulting 1.7% mite count. Is this a normal threshold or a high threshold
I’m not sure I understand but it seems you opened the screen bb too soon. Keep it closed for the duration of the treatment and many mites will be killed and drop to the bottom board. I wait about 7-14 days after treatment to test again. Otherwise if I do it right after treatment im just counting dead mites.
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What about organic molasses is it ok for the bees
No best stick with cane sugar
I live in NC and am getting my first bees April 2024. I bought your Honey B Kind board and you say that bees will quit using it under 50 degrees. But our average temperature in January is 51 degrees. Can I put your honey b kind board over the candy board so the bees will have a choice of food? But take the bottle off under 35 degrees to keep the jar from freezing. Would there be a problem with this configuration?
I Tim, thanks for your order. It’s called a Winter Bee Kind. You might be confused. The Winter Bee Kind is for cold deep winter temps below 50 (f). The Burns Feeder (liquid) is for temps above 50 (f). I would not recommend using them both at the same time. Thanks
@@beek sorry, I meant to say I the Burns Feeder, not the candy board, but I get it. Thanks
They don’t like it. It’s been sitting in the jar for over a week. Lid is not clogged
Must be having a nectar flow maybe
I ordered the items for the feeding mixture. Problem is the pollen doesn’t dissolve and just plugs up the drip holes. Others have commented having the same issue. Also the pollen ferments which causes pressure in the feeding jars which then pushes out the liquid. I stopped adding the pollen and the fermentation problem went away.