European Foul Brood in My Bees | Checking Their Health

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I have ventured back to the bee yard in town to check on the colonies that were infected with European Foul Brood. I need to see if they have cleared out or are still sick. I have a couple out here that are actually healthy colonies that might produce honey, but all the others have new queens and we need to see if they got mated and if they are getting healthy. Hope you'll come along and I also hope if you do that you enjoy this trip to the yard in town.
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@mikesbeesllc3352 2 месяца назад

Looks like you are on the road to recovery, Mike. Great information for us. Thanks for sharing. God Bless

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

I hope so Mike, thanks for the support!!

@johnmarshall6572 2 месяца назад

Those fresh queens will take some time to get it right! You check back in a couple weeks, hopefully you will be pleasantly surprised!

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

I hope so. If they look as good as the other new queens, we’re in business.

@edwardclark5211 2 месяца назад

Dream Big brother 🙏

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Thanks Edward!!!

@jessicafairfax_Bens_Bees 2 месяца назад

Great video Mike 😁👍🐝💜🌼🍯 glad to see your hives are improving.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Thanks Jessica. Me too!!

@noureddinemekdad6705 2 месяца назад

HAHAHAHA🥰🥰🥰🥰

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Thanks for watching!

@rodneymiddleton9624 2 месяца назад

Thanks Mike!

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

You bet! And thanks for the support Rodney.

@joeytrahan 2 месяца назад

Southwest Louisiana, tallow is in FULL swing!

@MikeBarryBees Месяц назад

I heard the same in Baton Rouge. We’re still a week or so away. Hope you have a great harvest!!

@edmartin875 Месяц назад

Glad to see you have the handle on the EFB and things are looking up. Thanks for the video. They are always interesting.

@MikeBarryBees Месяц назад

Th aka for checking it out Ed! I’m happy to see EFB out of the yard for sure.

@ThatBeeMan 2 месяца назад

Bob Binnie showed an essential oil based recipe that had a good effect on riding his hives of EFB.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Yes, I saw that. It was camphor and tea-tree. I have some I want to make up to install come late winter as a preventative measure. I didn’t put it on when I realized it had gotten bad early in the spring because I just needed to work the proven method and his, while seemed to produce good results, just was still something he said he was going to play around with based on his talk with that PhD.. His interview on EFB with the PhD at UG was awesome. I was encouraged to hear that he recommended the essential oils in controlled doses as found in HiveAlive. That’ll be the fall feeding regiment for sure.

@McKeesBees 2 месяца назад

Hey Mike that beehive box Mr Ed gave you is a vevor box. I have a few of them and you are right they don't fit right on other hives.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Hmm. Nice to know. It’s a strange configuration for sure. That makes sense now.

@HaasBuzzHomestead9909 Месяц назад

👍

@dtomfohrde 2 месяца назад

I had EFB last year and that first hive had the signs I saw when they were crashing. Good egg pattern but spotty capped brood. Not as much capped brood as you would expect in a colony. The older larva lokked dry and a few others twisted in the cells. Bees were pissy and runny on the combs. It might be time for medications. I've done a shook swarm, but they were slow to recover.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

This is actually a follow-up to earlier videos where we determined they did have EFB. Meds are already finished and the bees are recovering. These were new queens installed to help with the EFB and as I said in the video, the new table of genetics helps with clearing it up. These last two colonies need to show us some larvae and we’ll know what we’re dealing with. The capped brood is from the old queen. I should know next time I’m in them and for now all but 2 out of 9 have cleared up.

@3Beehivesto300 Месяц назад

I’m trying something new this year. Double deep with one honey soup then leaving a 3/8 gap on the end for ventilation and then another super on top of that with no top vent.

@MikeBarryBees Месяц назад

Upper vents work well. I have some supers with upper gaps like that and they do very well. Hope you have a great harvest!

@russellaymond312 2 месяца назад

Mike glad to hearall is looking better.thank you for the video, God Bless

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Thanks Russell and I’m sure happy about it!!

@jamescarter7752 2 месяца назад

Bees are looking good. I'm glad you got the efb cleared up.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Thanks and me too!!

@donbearden1953 2 месяца назад

Dr Mike, I very happy that you got them cured! The honey you have looks wonderful!

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

I’m excited to see them coming back too Don. Dr.?? More like hope and a prayer😂😂

@user-wf8gu7mt7d 2 месяца назад

Hi normal with EFB to see lots of eggs and young larvae. Then spotty capped brood. It’s because the bacteria kills the larvae normally a couple days before it’s capped. The older larvae will be kinda twisted looking as it’s dying. The bees remove the dead ones and leave the healthy ones leaving a spotty pattern. Often times the very young larvae will still look healthy. It’s pretty common for spotty capped brood to not be the queens fault. Any time you are seeing full frames of eggs and spotty capped brood you will likely have some sort of brood issues be it EFB pms sack brood or any other issue like viruses. Queen takes the fall for all issues between her bees and keepers it’s a tough life

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Yes, agree with your entire comment and same as I stated in previous video’s. Hoping to see more pearly white larvae in the last two. The rest are cleared and I’m at very happy with that. Thanks for the comment.

@tarheelbeekeeper3971 2 месяца назад

Mike, It’s good to see your issues are clearing up and you can end up making some honey.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

I agree and thanks for the well wishes!

@matthunt4512 2 месяца назад

Mr.Berry, I appreciate all the hard work and experience you share on your videos, you have sure helped me in my Bee yard. Keep putting your videos out there, I enjoy watching all your content

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Thanks so much for the support!! And for the kind comment!

@gunlinebees.3831 Месяц назад

Lord willing you got all that EFB remedied a those girls will be get'n it soon. Any chance the inspector is going to come back and do a follow-up with you?

@MikeBarryBees Месяц назад

He was going to follow up but our schedules got crossed with the heavy nectar flow and his having to take care of his splits. So far everyone has cleared out. I rechecked them last week. I am going to go regularly with the probiotics after the flow and on thru winter this season.

@SmokyMountainLashBees Месяц назад

I don’t have the supers nor the height and strength to go up higher then 3-4 boxes including brood so I’ve started popping capped honey frames to extract and give back. Yesterday and today made 21 frames and filled a 5 gal bucket plus what I’ve got to strain off the cappings! So excited my Mac has been 5 buckets I know I’ll get more then that this year! That whole bucket looks to be VERY clear. Wonder what mine was. The privet is just blooming here in East TN.

@MikeBarryBees Месяц назад

Yep, I did that way for a few years. A frame here and a frame there. I actually did it last week to an extent. Whatever it takes to be sure we don’t hurt ourselves with the weight. Good deal on the honey!! I saw your Facebook post. It looks a lot like our privet honey. Hope you get a great harvest!!!

@SmokyMountainLashBees Месяц назад

@@MikeBarryBees the crazy thing is privet is just now in bloom here so I wonder what it was before to get all full and capped. I know the neighbors apple tree didn’t bloom much at all and several other flower trees were lacking this spring. I have one of those cherry type trees that has the pom pom type flowers and others around have them but they all were poor in flowers this year. I believe in it was my first or second year that I got honey I had maybe 3-4 quarts of a clearish very sweet honey but I never have had a whole 5 gallon bucket of it. Plus more coming. Still so much to learn I’m quite curious what I’m my area would make it. 🥰

@redfish440 2 месяца назад

Thanks Mike, great job, they’re looking good now! Gob Bless !

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Thanks, and blessing to you too!

@atlas4225 2 месяца назад

Was that a Bob Ross Chea-pet? You been reading Fredrick Dunns comments...? Have fun brother! Good luck with the EFB

@MikeBarryBees Месяц назад

It was a gift!!😂😂. He’s trying to grow a mullet😁😁

@lindagray5857 2 месяца назад

Good luck for rest of the season. Hopefully lots of honey this year.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Thanks Linda and you too!

@Peter_Gunn 2 месяца назад

Things are looking up. Time to make some honey.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Yes indeed and thanks! Next video should be honey super removal.

@landerson1574 2 месяца назад

Two things I enjoy, Mikes Barrys RU-vid channel and Bob Ross.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

😂😂😂

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

😂😂😂

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

😂😂😂. Thanks!!

@christianshannon3943 2 месяца назад

Condense down that colony to no more than two deeps or one deep until the population comes up or give them a healthy frame of capped brood. Give them a frame of capped brood two weeks later . This will bring them out of this issue .

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

I’m leaving them alone at this point. If they’re not doing well yet, then that could be a waste of resources on a bad colony. I think they’re recovered, and once I see the larvae I’ll know. Earlier on if I were at this point of health, I might, but not this late. Kind of a sink or swim deal I suppose. Thanks for watching!

@Burntbranchcreekbees 2 месяца назад

Hey Mike. Looks like everything is humming now, or is that buzzing. Enjoy the video. As bad as your year was last year, ours was good. Seems just the reverse this year. Our bees are great, but the spring has been cold and wet. Not many swarms (a blessing for my hives) and now not seeing as many wild flowers, mesquite not blooming much, and as a result not much honey. But it is agriculture and we are thankful for any blessings that come to us. God bless. Hope to see you again soon.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Yea Russ, we never know what a season will hold. Hope you guys see a flow soon!

@brucesbees 2 месяца назад

Wow Mike looking like things have turned around and are going good. It’s shaping up to be a good year. We have been a little dry over here though.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

I think so Bruce. Seeing some rain over here but a little more would be good. Privet was great, now let’s hope the tallow is good and that I haven’t swarmed too many. Thanks as always Bruce!

@sentimentalbloke7586 2 месяца назад

Here in Australia there is a mandatory burn and bury policy for FB.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

That’s too bad since EFB can be cleaned rather easily. Waste of equipment and resources.

@sentimentalbloke7586 Месяц назад

@@MikeBarryBees Some of the old guys (hear me talk about them at 73 myself) The old guys used to add a few drops of tea tree oil to their sugar water and it had various effects like reducing the effects of nosema and the in hive bugs don't seem to like it either, it also has a positive effect on EFB, You can notice within days the improvement in hives treated thus, some oldies used to place an old hankie or rag with a few drops of both tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil and apparently this used to work as a treatment for EFB as well.

@MikeBarryBees Месяц назад

@@sentimentalbloke7586 yea, I remember you told me a bit about that in the fall. I have the tea tree and I have the camphor and eucalyptus on the way. I want to make some towels for laying on in fall/winter to keep it at bay.

@sentimentalbloke7586 Месяц назад

@@MikeBarryBees any paper towel or cloth will do lets face they are just bees and not royalty,

@patrickbrewer2794 2 месяца назад

Hey Mike how far ahead do you think you guys are into the nectar flow from North Carolina.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Well, we normally run neck and neck with NC and sometimes they are actually ahead of us more near the coast. We differ from the mountains there near Asheville, but the eastern side is normally about the same as we are. I would imagine we’re very close.

@patrickbrewer2794 2 месяца назад

@@MikeBarryBees thank you Mike thank you for sharing your life and knowledge with me. Your awesome Mike and I enjoy all your videos.

@tommychew6544 2 месяца назад

Great video like always Mike, glad to see the EFB clearing up and your teaching style of talking about it. Liked that that Bob Ross Chia Pet also.🙂 Do you plan on moving over to horizontal hives at some point as you get older, so you don't have to deal with the weight of the boxes? (May have already asked, I just don't remember) Once again, it's your hands on style that seems like a diamond in the rough to me. I'm thankful for every video you put out! Looks like your area is in for a bumper crop if storms don't cause issues.

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

Always appreciate your kind comment a and as far as horizontal hives, when I do move on from a large bee yard and into a more quiet retirement, I can see three or four horizontal hives in my yard. Way easier on the back.

@kathyhathaway8823 2 месяца назад

Hello Mike I really think you have got it wipppped . Just maybe the one that may be a drone layer or she just needs to get wound up with her laying . I have a question do you know if it is ok to use DFM with supers on ??. It does not say on the package or I have never heard anyone say yes or no . I was thinking it would be ok but just don’t know. Our privet is in the flow now but we are having rain so I hope that doesn’t screwup my flow . We had a little over two inches over the last two days an more today an Thursday an Sunday coming more rain . But the good thing is I am just about out of supers now an I added twenty more last year so between rain today I guess I will be pulling full supers an extracting them an putting back on . I Am so glad you are on the up hill side . Thanks for the update. Thanks

@MikeBarryBees 2 месяца назад

I hope it’s whipped. As far as the Super DFM, I asked the makers and they said that the studies have shown that the probiotic does not show up in the honey. Personally I am not using it once supers are on. Just to be on the safe side.