NATURAL Beekeeping 101: Horizontal Hive Supplies from DR. LEO SHARASHKIN 

Love Dr. Leo

Good luck with your bees. I've kept bees in Langstroth hive for close to 25 years now. It's a fun hobby for me. I'm getting older and starting to look at Layen's hives to ease off the back.

Thanks for sharing your adventure in this bee world, greetings from southern Spain

You have the most informative videos! Thank you and God bless❤

And back in January and February of this year, my grandson and I built a 24 frame Layens hive that together we placed on a shed roof in my back yard 12 feet from the ground to the hive entrances. I am currently waiting for swarm season to arrive (5/11/2022) but our spring is slow to arrive. My Layens hive cost me very little except for glue and staples and a few screws. The metal lid cover was about 12 bucks. The plywood was given to me from a friend who was a carpenter who was forced to retire due to an injury. He was more than glad to get it out of his garage. I will give him some honey in the comb if I ever get any. Insulation was also free except for a barter situation. My swarm traps were leftovers from the hive build. I am always on the lookout for usable scraps of materials of all sorts. I have more tools now than I did 30 years ago, because tools are a large part of being able to survive and be self sufficient in these times of hyper -inflation. I was lucky to come across a whole bunch of 2X6 pine trim ends at a job site near where I live that I dug out from under a snow dump and turned into more frame parts than I need for this hive. I used wire, but I may try 50 pound test fishing line that other folks use. It may work better, I don't know. Best wishes with keeping bees in your state. Bob

Howdy from Central New Hampshire. I caught a swarm last August and installed them in home built insulated Layens hive. They wintered great and I think I will be splitting them in a week or some. I think you have more feral bees than we do here. Good luck, happy beekeeping.

Great explination of everything! Thanks for sharing!

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

Great Hobby and pass time. I have been a Hobby Bee Keeper for about 60 years enjoyed it a lot.

I live in MO too, starting with Dr Leo's methods this year, building all the swarm traps and hives.

Lovely description of the hives & supplies! Thanks for sharing! I’ve watched Dr. Leo on offgridwithdougandstacy so I’m intrigued! My daughter may get beehives for her greenhouses.

what a great investment, your going to be a great beekeeper, i was also there that weekend, and i just loved his attitude and knowledge, we are in North Mo, already have the 10 frame almost filled from a swarm catch last month, the bees love the hive and are doing so wonderful, i had to order the bigger one, painting it now, getting ready to move the girls over in a couple weeks, Just wish i would have gotten them while i was there, lol...Good Luck to you and many blessings to you and your family, love they will all grow up learning beekeeping, i so admire you.

Awesome. I’m looking to buy the insulated hive from him as well.

This is perfect. I am getting my first hive setup in a couple months. Thank you for the video! I will have to check out Dr. Leo Sharashkin further. Cheers!

Great video

👍 and subscribed to your beekeeping journey, I’m excited for you! 😊 I have langstroth style hives, but I may add a horizontal hive to my apiary someday.

I saw your recent fb post , nice painting and I’m excited to see your journey into beekeeping.

So glad I spotted your video on RU-vid. Very informative. I am familiar with Dr. Leo. I built a horizontal hive this year from his hive plans. I purchased a nuc locally here in NW Arkansas and installed mid May. Tried feeding as suggested but they wouldn’t touch it. I did install some comb from pervious attempts which I believe helped them build up quickly. They are doing quite well even though we (the bees and me) are dealing with small hive beetles. They aren’t as bad as I thought as I killed 4 as I opened hive yesterday. I usually find some in tray below so they are doing well. Looking forward to seeing how well you do with your homestead journey.

Well this is exciting!!!!

I'm waaay up in Alberta Canada and I was so happy my brother built me a horizontal hive to try out! I used to have alpacas, so I checked with Dr Leo to see if he thought I could use that fiber. I'm so excited to get some bees into the hive this year! I'd love to hear why getting the bees to make more honey isn't healthy for the bees.

Great video! I wanted to ask how many swarm traps do you put out?

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I came by here because I just saw a video of an interview with Paul Stamets about Amadou extract (from certain mushrooms, I think, since Paul Stamets is the mushroom guru extraordinaire) and and bees. He said it doubles the lifespan of the bees and reduces the deformed wing virus by 1000 fold. Have you heard of it? I'd love to know more! BTW... I came here because I was searching for Dr. Leo Sharashkin.

Thank you! I've never kept bees before so I'm still learning before I start. You said you can split the 20 frame in half... does that mean you can have 2 different bee colonies in the same box? Also, if I'm just looking for a little honey and to help the bee population, how many frames would I start with? I know there's a "happy medium" in terms of the space they prefer and how much they can heat in the winter...but I haven't seen anywhere how many frames is ideal to start with. Thank you so much!

You're so lucky!!!! How did you get every item on the Dr's website? I'd 🐝 in heaven as well!!!

Hi, love the video! I have a question. I am planning to get my first hive next year and was going to build a 20 frame insulated Layens. Can you elaborate on what Dr. Leo said about letting it fill with honey leading to colony collapse?? Is that Overwintering full or just letting them collect that much period? THANKS !!! 😄😄😄

I wonder how everything worked out.

how are your bees doing now?

I have (2) 14 frame layens that I'm setting up at the end of April. I bought a couple years ago at his workshop. This year will be setting up with Russian bees. What is your experience with initial install. I went with the 14 frame because I dont expect the flow to be great in this particular location. I'll build a super on top if needed. Thank you.

Re: the sugar water feeder... the ribbing is not sufficient for some bees. I have found too many drowned bees. Take some short twigs and drop them into the water so if they fall off the bees can climb Back out!

Hey there! Really cool you were able to get all his products. i just ordered my first swarm trap myself. but i was trying to email him and it blocked my email. so im trying to figure out if he maybe he has a new email address.

Golly i did not buy nearly that much! Good luck catching your local bees. Edit: lanolin is the oil that keeps the wool from absorbing moisture.

The queen excluder is for lengstroft hives

The queen excluder is useful for keeping the queen from laying eggs in the honey section of your hive.

I did catch a comment where you said if you were doing anything wrong to say something in the comments. While as far as the bees go I think you are doing fine, from the aspect of a you-tube channel it may be a worth-while investment to obtain a blue tooth microphone.

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Why so many boxes?

How much cheaper are his conference selling prices compared to online?

Why does he sell feeders if he says Never feed your bees? Nice looking equipment though!

A third comment, if I may-- a QE is a waste of money and a useless piece of equipment no matter how you came across one. The exception being in use for a double queen colony set up. You will use Langstroth type boxes. Two deeps each for good queens, separated by a QE. That is, two deeps, a QE and two more deeps, then have at least 5 medium supers at the ready, either drawn comb, wet comb or partly drawn comb. During a spectacular nectar flow and a populous double colony, be prepared to take off filled combs every few days, replacing them with extracted and wet empty combs. Anyone that has ever built a double queen colony will be in for a fun time. Also, I must point out to never, NEVER put the QE flush with the front of the lower boxes. Leave a gap of about 3/4" for an opening. This is to allow free access for the drones to travel where they want. If you do not provide a gap, the drones will clog up the worker space of the QE and make for some demoralized bees that will be less than happy during a great nectar flow. Now, the queens will almost never venture into this gap to meet each other. I have only tried double queen colonies 3 times in my almost 18 year career as a beek. It has to be an exceptionally rainy season with just the right amount of moisture. Otherwise, a two queen colony will not perform as expected. I am trying a Layens hive system this year where I would not have a use for a QE. Bob.

Why are you leaving the international Standard, here in Europe, we are working with Dadant, Jumbo hives, with Frames of 482 x 285 mm. For a horizontal hive I have These Jumbo with 24 Frames