I learn a lot from these 1 on 1 style work-through of your hows and whys of working your bees, Thanks much Ian. We might be in different regions, sizes but our goals are the same Happy, Healthy, Productive Honey Bees. Have a great weekend Ian. Blessed Days...
Awesome video. I started beekeeping 6 years ago. I caught a wild swarm now I've multiple to 8 hives threw those 6 years. I love it. Beekeeping is awesome keeps you in tune with the world's beautiful nature. Maybe one day I can have a bee farm like you. Keep up the amazing work your awesome. Oh yeah I plan on doing some grafting to so I hope that goes well. Thanks for sharing your amazing videos
gorgeous full frames! 🐝👀 SO excited to see your full flow coming on! Funny all those people who were so upset about the new bee stock... guess they didn't think you'd reproduce your own good stock in the process.. :) Keep up the STELLAR work Ian!
The extraction frenzy looms... It's pretty exciting to see all the work, prepping, fretting, and fussing culminate in 4 to 5 filled supers per hive. Means it was all worth it.
Hi Ian, how to save time: shake all bees from the broodframes, put the frames in the nuc box. Then shake the same amount of bees from above the exluder in the nuc box. Best regards from Germany, Jan
Love the updates. Always educational. Was wondering if you had considered which way the scales would tip if you pulled honey a week early and didn’t feed prior to winter? I know you know what your doing but wondered how it would look on a spreadsheet and if it would be overall cheaper. Having pondered more I realized they wouldn’t have the benefit of your rocket fuel.
Not looking for a count down in the chamber, it is what it is at this time of year. Just pulling a good frame from big ones . But it’s between 6-8 frames
You stated that you were going to replace the package queens because you did not want to have too much new stock in your yards you wanted to use your old stock. Isn't the reason you had to by packages due to your old stock.
He have thousands of hectares of monoculture available. rapeseed has a lot of nectar flow, the honey is of poor quality for consumers, but the quantity is important. nothing spectacular.
@@apiproductapiproduct2492 As honey goes, how many people can distinguish canola honey from clover honey? Personally, I think the man is doing a spectacular job as a honey producer. One has to have robust colonies to bring in the nectar.
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog thanks for the informative videos you're uploading. Please let us know what's the situation on the honey market the last year in Canada. Have you noticed a drop of demand on the bulk honey market or price drop?
Brought in some VSH F1 harbo and F1 VP virgins .. no wonder they are mite resist going 12 days still not laying...I know they got mated on day 5 seen it happening.. got some F1 latshaw coming next .. mine normally laying by day 7 .. guess they get brood breaks during queen replacement supersedure... Nuc bank getting bigger and bigger.. one more round of splits then I'll let them fatten up on the fall flow
