Hope this gives you some insight on how we can make 800+ splits in one day! We have a TON of splits to get through this year so efficiency is key. Let me know what you think in the comments! Check out our website here: www.moorehoney.com
Love your channel, I'm just starting a small side operation in East Kentucky. Wanting to see how many hives I can run with no employees. Just trying to get to 100 for a start. Great to see what it's like in the big leagues. One Question, why are commercial beekeepers winter losses so damn high?!?! Not just you, but like you said 40% across the board. Is it just because you don't throw good time after weak colonies to try and fix them? Or is disease load higher because of number of colonies in a small area? Thanks for the videos, I'll be hanging around.
Many beekeepers don’t stay on top of mite load in the fall. My winter losses were actually quite low 6-8%. I include cell take in my losses so that adds 10-12% loss every year.
We made some that way as well! Just definitely slower. I wish we could keep every viable queen but our fall losses would only increase. I tested out a batch last year. A lot of them died or didn’t make grade for almonds…
So after you combine them all like that and the queens battle it out do you go in and find the last queen and kill her and then just requeen everything?
Thanks for the great info. I'm a commercial beekeeper in CA and I'm going to try your method for splits. How long do you leave the bees stacked 7 high? Do you wait till the evening to move your splits to the new location?
Nice! Yes say we split them and stacked them on a Monday, we would stack them down Tuesday evening/night, move to a new yard, and drop a cell the next day!
jake, I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for making and posting them. Have yall ever done this stack method and then introduced mated queens instead of cells? I was wondering about trying it in some outyards where I dont have the drone saturation of the home area....
After you drop the cells in the split. Some of the queens will not make it back. How do you handle those colonies, the time between if the queen did not get mated vs it becomes a drone layer
Hey Jake how about an update on your dad's truck. How's it going try to catch you later Jake come and talk to your dad but I've been busy just like everybody else
excuse me, I'm writing to you with Google Translate, I don't know how understandable it is? I would be very happy to talk about beekeeping with you, I admire your videos, but you work with bees in a completely different way
