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@earthspirit4388 Месяц назад

Wanted to thank Mr Burns. First time beekeeper here got a package a week ago did my first inspection yesterday. The queen is out and laying eggs. I have a 10 frame deep with only two empty frames left, they did all this in seven days unbelievable.. anyway without David Burns and his information I don’t think I would’ve done as well. Again, thank you very much. What you do is important.

@Clarkbcada 29 дней назад

I'm a new beekeeper and my mentor is allowing me to purchase his GOOD used hives.

@Tom-sk4ii 4 месяца назад

THANK YOU!!! We only want to keep 2 hives, We are newbees and have had 1 hive since May 2023. Getting a package this year for our 2nd hive. Then we want NO more hives. Really appreciate this video. PS: Got up to 54 today (southern Indiana) and lots of bees out taking cleansing flights. They made it through that horrible cold snap...YIPPEE!!!!

@zoobee4824 4 месяца назад

Save yourself the cost of a new package and watch Davids " how to split", easy free and a good experience for beeks.

@garyRt23Bees 4 месяца назад

The best way is to send me all your extra queens and bees! LOLOLOLOL

@lizrd4me2 4 месяца назад

Thank you for giving this timely advice David.

@BrianS-vj6hj 4 месяца назад

Another excellent perspective. Herd management is just as important as growth for all of the reasons you said. Great job. B

@chetcogold3185 4 месяца назад

Thank you for this video. I am 74 year old 5' 2" female. I live in the woods and run 20 to 30 hives. This past year a bear came in and took out 12 hives. I believe this was my sign to size down. Glad you posted this.

@beek 4 месяца назад

Good for you! You sound very fit and motivated at 74!

@wadeturner2665 4 месяца назад

My solution is to not buy extra bottom boards. Seriously, don't buy extra bottom boards and keep them around. I used to always keep an extra bottom board on hand to replace older rotten ones or for a swap out if I needed to repaint or repair one. Invariably, it ended up out in the apiary with yet another colony on it when I caught a swarm or needed to do a split. And then I would go buy another backup, which would eventually end up out in the apiary....you get the idea. If I catch a swarm and my equipment is full, it gets combined with the weakest colony. If I do a split, at least half of it is going in a nuc. If my nuc equipment, (which I also limit), is full and I need a nuc hive for some reason, it's time to sell some nucs to make room.

@Dude_its_Lyz 4 месяца назад

I asked this in a forum just a couple of days ago. The advice I got was "make splits" and "don't feed them." Which was not helpful. Thanks so much for this video, David.

@rodkirt9273 4 месяца назад

Maybe one could just let the hive swarm and some other beekeepers could capture the swarm ?? 🤷‍♂️

@beek 4 месяца назад

Yes, BUT if you live in the city your swarm might really scare some people and it might land on the front of Wal-mart. I removed a swarm once from Wal-Mart.

@williamrhoades1913 4 месяца назад

Great video! To one of your points, what are some signs that you've reached the number of hives that your area is able to properly support?

@Ixodes492 4 месяца назад

Another factor for small keepers is honey production. I have no plans on selling bee products. One super of honey per year is more than I will ever use. But one demaree split and I have three times that. So I have really been trying to plan…1) hive type for less physical stress, 2) keeping hive numbers very small (2-3), and 3) keeping honey production very small. Thanks for all your help, but I agree focus on this perspective if hard to come by. Thanks again!

@Peekul1 4 месяца назад

I'm getting ready for spring! Last year I was working for my bees and expanded from 6 to 17 hives. It was a mess. This year, I'm hoping to hold at around 15-20 hives and sell nucs. I don't have a market for nucs but am hoping I can find one.

@beek 4 месяца назад

Good stuff!

@Ixodes492 4 месяца назад

This is absolutely my situation. I want to stay small.

@stevewelches1955 4 месяца назад

Crazy question. I want to keep my apery at 5 ish hives. That is what I can handel with my age and health. I have heard that new queens tend to not swarm till the following year so if I pinch my queen early (when drones are available) and the colonies make a new emergency queen , will that keep them from swarming that year? What would that do to honey production? I would think it would have less effect than losing half the bees to a swarm or is this a crazy idea I should not prusew.

@dwren4554 4 месяца назад

Very timely for me, David. I retired at 70 and planned and took courses, a couple of yours, long before getting my first colony. The first year was great with 2 hives and then first me then wife developed medical issues . By county regulations I can only have 6 hives and now 4 years later I’ve got 5 and so the realization I had to plan to maintain hit hard. How to do that isn’t taught or even discussed in most classes. I’m moving to horizontals to help with weight and my mentor has outlets to take surplus bees if necessary. It’s a part of beekeeping I never saw coming or expected.

@beek 4 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting. Takes a bit of work sometimes to keep bees from growing and growing.

@vickihamilton7353 4 месяца назад

This is great info!! I don't want more than the 2 hives I have so this is so timely for me. Thanks!!!

@beek 4 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful!

@SIBEEMAN 4 месяца назад

Hi David, Who would think that we would not want additional hives? Lack of room, regulations, time, all factor in. Another great video!

@briankeaveney9107 4 месяца назад

Thanks David. This is the exact subject I’ve been recently thinking about. Started beekeeping last June with two hives. By early Fall we were up to six (2 swarms and splits). At 66 years of age, the SW Florida heat is my Achilles heal. I’m contemplating giving any future splits/swarms to my local bee club.

@zehlex 4 месяца назад

Where do you buy your hives from

@beek 4 месяца назад

I've got to make a video to answer this! I'm passionate about this questions. Keep watching.

@gregoryatcher3883 4 месяца назад

As I'm watching your video i just happen to think about put a queen Extrater between deep and bottom bord to keep the queen in and them from swarming could that be done

@beek 4 месяца назад

Yes, I've made videos about this and I have taught this for years. You cannot keep it in for more than a week or so, because you trap drones and they will clog it up.

@johnlawler3353 4 месяца назад

Growing is easy. Sustaining is where it takes skill and a bit of luck at times.

@bobk4249 4 месяца назад

watched the new movie Beekeeper last night, makes me want to be a beekeeper

@beek 4 месяца назад

Is it really about beekeeping? I haven't watched it.

@randyteritown9415 4 месяца назад

I had three hives doing well in early fall. In early October one of my hives swarmed! I was able to add frames of capped brood and nurse bees and the colony requeened and is doing great. My largest colony later, swarmed. Really?! I didn't catch it with the weather getting colder and this colony did not re-queen. The colony was previously huge and they had consumed all of their honey reserves. I had been giving them sugar water and pollen patties up to the point it got too cold. Early December I set on a Winter-Bee-Kind. By this time, their numbers were on the decrease and then it got cold for a few days. All the frames are filled out with comb. I will do a split in the spring and get this hive going again.

@Lars1157 4 месяца назад

I’m going for 10 hives, at 7 now. I rescued an abandoned hive in the fall, it is a disaster inside & I had to screw ply to the outside to keep it from falling apart. How do I transfer them to an entirely new hive?

@beek 3 месяца назад

In good weather above 60 (f) you can just transfer the frames to a better hive.

@LesSimsJr 4 месяца назад

I have two colonies and that’s all I want. I understand the concept of making a split into a Nuc and selling it, giving it to someone etc. it makes the colony think it swarmed. I try to manage swarming the best I can. However, if you didn’t want to really manage swarming or mess with splitting into a Nuc, wouldn’t you be ok to just let the existing colony go ahead and swarm? Your existing colony would then build back up without expansion and maintain your current number of desired colonies? Or am I missing something?

@BackBeeBrokenBeekeeping 4 месяца назад

You could, and that is the least labor intensive method. However you are passing up a lot of money just by placing the extra frames into a few nucs and get the same effect. Also, sometimes, depending on when the hive swarms, your hive could be crippled at the wrong time and then not have time to build up in time for winter.

@LesSimsJr 4 месяца назад

That’s true. The above would be assuming an early swarm coming out of winter with heavy population and fairly maxed out with no room. I see your point on the time of year

@PeterGrace2013 4 месяца назад

It also depends on location -- if you're on a farm and no neighbors nearby it might be OK, but if you're in a suburban or urban area, those honeybees might just resettle into another person's exterior penetrations and then they've gotta have a hive cut-out and if they know you're a beekeeper, even if you're the most courteous and swarm-catching beekeeper in the region, they're going to blame you. It is a good neighbor who minds his/her swarms to prevent that possibility.

@kennethhoward4904 4 месяца назад

I have 28 acres, I am Taking out most of the red clover. I'm going to replace it with patches of white dutch Clover And alfalfa

@beek 4 месяца назад

That would be great for your bees. But same some for native pollinators.

@ianhand4845 4 месяца назад

hi from South Australia. My state allows 4 hives max as backyard hives. Currently I have 3 hives (2 @8frame Lang and 1 long Lang) from which I harvested 12.5 Kg honey recently. Each year I have a swarm settle on a wall of my house. I have captured these and hived them. One lot was rather aggressive so I euthanized that hive. Thanks for the info.

@rickbunn8572 4 месяца назад

The city I live in has an ordinance limiting me to 10 colonies, for how our property is zoned. I can have 2 additional temporary hives for swarm control. I push my luck with mating nucs through the summer hoping nobody notices.

@beek 4 месяца назад

Until they read this 🤣🤣

@bradgoliphant 4 месяца назад

Very helpful. David is that true-that if you remove all swarm cells they won’t swarm? Also, could adding more supers help stop a swarm? Grateful.

@e.l.1303 4 месяца назад

Both of those methods help. They aren't a 100% guarantee that bees won't swarm, but both help a lot.

@BackBeeBrokenBeekeeping 4 месяца назад

Depends on when you catch the swarm cell. If it is already capped, odds are they are going to swarm unless you split them by moving the old queen to a new location. Sometimes more room will give you time, but a lot of times they have made up their mind and you have to either let them swarm or simulate a swarm.

@jenjen2044 4 месяца назад

Thank you for this video. Exactly what I have been wondering. I do have a question. I understand the concept of removing the new queen cells to prevent a swarm. I also realize that I will need to add more boxes when they need more room. Does it get to a point where the bees do not keep multiplying and will not need more and more boxes?

@garyRt23Bees 4 месяца назад

Don't want more bees? That's pure sacrilege ! LOL Just kidding! it is easy to get overwhelmed. Keep what you are comfortable doing so it doesn't become work !!!

@Wellnessuntamed 4 месяца назад

This was so helpful! I feel like my max is 3 hives. But I got in over my head last year and couldn’t keep up and ended up losing bees due to my inability to care for them properly. I’m actually relieved to have this information!

@beek 4 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful!! Bees should bring us joy and relaxation, not stress and misery.

@psychochef05 3 месяца назад

I’ve experienced everything on your list in this vid, except retirement. Working 25/8 makes it really hard to keep bees, and then to find out that the property owner is selling the back 2.5 acres where my hives were.. talk about disheartening.

@aaronparis4714 4 месяца назад

I can't afford the equipment anymore to grow evething its not cheap to keep bees that's my issue

@kylefrench7985 4 месяца назад

David 10 out 10 !!!on your last video and this one!!! This was really good information. Thank you again.Any one out there who is new to beekeeping subscribe you can't go wrong with Davids help !!!

@beek 4 месяца назад

Hey thanks so much, I appreciate that!!

@markb3954 4 месяца назад

I'm a backyard beekeeper with 2 colonies. In the city, small lot, neighbors all around, so no space to expand. This was timely. Thank you

@beek 4 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful.

@Ixodes492 4 месяца назад

@@beekI would pay for an online class dedicated to very small apiary management. Reduce honey, bee numbers, back stress etc. thanks!

@richardvogel1195 4 месяца назад

I started last spring. I wanted 2. Ended up with 10

@beek 4 месяца назад

Classic!! Soon you'll be trucking 1,000 hives to the almonds 😀

@wstepnout7215 4 месяца назад

Another great video. This video is about my expectations. I'm 66, overwintering my first hive and not wanting to expand further than2-3 hives and max 2 nucs for my backup plan. Cheers

@beek 4 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing.

@sneezyferret6482 4 месяца назад

Thanks, great information. We would like to expand to a second hive this year, but probably keep it at 2 and I've been thinking about this. Also, don't forget the additional costs of feeding all these hives over the winter.

@beek 4 месяца назад

Feeding and if you treat, the additional cost of treatments.

@e.l.1303 4 месяца назад

Glad you addressed this issue. Several folks asked this in your livestreams. In So. Calif. most suburban areas have a limit on # of hives per sq. ft. and limited time & $.

@beek 4 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful.

@laurameno9595 4 месяца назад

This is awesome and something I have been considering We are 4 years in and have had up to 15 and down to 9. We decided that 10 is the most we feel like we can properly take the time with and commit to. THANK YOU for this. Maybe down the road but for now 10!

@donyork8641 4 месяца назад

For those of us who live in a city or town, we only have so much space in our yard for hives.

@beek 4 месяца назад

That is something to think about

@theshadowoftruth7561 4 месяца назад

I am starting this year. I don't think I will want more than 4 hives.

@virgilcrites8906 4 месяца назад

Sugar has gotten so expensive. When I started 6 years ago it was 7.95 a 25lb bag at Walmart now it’s 17.98 and I use over a ton a year

@beek 4 месяца назад

Indeed. We've made winter-bee-kinds for 15 years now and WOW has our profit margin suffered due to the skyrocketing cost of sugar.

@originalwoolydragon8387 4 месяца назад

I'm with David. I started with one hive in 2017 and have had up to 10 (too many!). I'd love to keep it to 3 or 4. Too many hives is overwhelming when I'm doing it by myself with bad knees and MS. I'd also like to try horizontal hives, but ay caramba, the price!

@beek 4 месяца назад

Good point. You have to find that perfect number that works for you so it's enjoyable.