Troy Hall and Cory Stevens conversation round 2 

You guys are a blast to watch and I enjoy your sharing immensely because you keep humorous as well as informative, thx for sharing.

Great talks with Troy. Please keep these coming.

I liked the conversation, I'd love to hear a talk between you and Dr Samuel Ramsey, I'm sure it would be very interesting

Thanks for being honest, it takes a lot of work telling people the honest truth. I have had enough 90% losses but being straight with people and being out in nature with the girls are some really powerful things for the people involved.

This was a great conversation. Being an Australian we have never had to deal with varroa, but it’s coming. In my eyes VSH and treatment free is the way. This beekeeping journey is only just beginning.

You 2 talked all around it, but in end it all comes down we all love honeybees.

I had 10 swarms in September in Missouri in 2022.

Thanks for sharing this conversation, I think this is the direction forward. My apiary is made up of descendants from Troy’s bees and now some from Cory, so it’s cool to listen to you two bounce ideas off one another. I’m hoping to learn the Hasbro assay and have a sense of which queens from each side to try to cross next season. It’s exciting. Thanks again.

So glad to see the two of you teaming up and sharing! How did you meet? LOL

Wow, great to hear how he came back and requeened all purchased colonies with his own genetics and then produced a bunch of queens to sell. Shows he is efficient with his time and can think on his feet. Does Cory or Troy select for queens that know how decrease brood production when nectar flows slows? So many commercial beekeepers feed so much it makes ya wonder how well the bees know the flows in their area.

My thoughts as well "Flood the zone with VSH drones"

Great conversation and interview Cory!

@Cory, I think you should get and try some of Gus Mitchell's best Russian stock and play around with those genetics as well. He does pretty well with his Russians.

Great conversation, boys look forward to the end of season one I have been trying no treatments on small apiaries, 8 to 12 hives and only get one survive and that’s what i base my breeding stock on for that year

what shifted is the super mites that are being created I lost 6 out of 7 and # 7 was some bad ass bees that you couldn't open without a full suite and a roll of duck tape.

I kind of wish we had those temperatures it's been over a hundred for days

I plan to buy Hall queens next year. I'm using oxalic and thymol to go treatment free (TF), but I might also use amitraz. Randy Oliver said he's 10% TF. I get ideas from him. I have 2 package hives. I did OAV on days 6,7. Now I'm doing OAV, thymol, OAV. The thymol will have a year to wear off. My internet swarm got OAV. I'll do winter solstice OAV. making nucs next summer for Hall queens: I'll make a nuc with a brood break and do OAV on it. I'm going to install a Hall queen in a push in cage on an emerging brood frame. It will be fairly TF (no treatments since winter). It will go in the nuc. The queen will be on a fairly TF frame. The rest of the hive will have had OAV an hour earlier. In the future, I'll find a way to make Apiguard last 1 day. I'll do brood break splits with OAV and brief thymol. This year, I'm probably doing 3 treatment times, but next year, I think it will be 2 (summer + winter for bad queen hives).

sub MOA, lol I got yea dog