Ian,I see nothing but full health from those frames,by the way,without that young lady,I’ve forgotten her name,my apologies,you’d be screwed without her.She is the backbone of your operation.most appreciated of her efforts.
a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog exactly,integration key word here,keep promoting Brilliance not only in your bees and business but those around you and Kerrie.Shes like Gold,valuable and hard to find.
I dont mean to be off topic but does someone know a way to get back into an Instagram account? I somehow lost my account password. I love any tips you can give me
@Nicholas Arthur thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and im trying it out now. Seems to take a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
looks good, I feel a new spring spirit. Any Canola ? It is ower in Sweden, making queens and all skills and facts about queens is collected frome you, JC bee, and 3 -4 of other wonderful youtubers. This is my first good Bee spring with 14 hives and now a load of big queens. This is realy something, so mutch to learn, Best thing is I got the possybility to teatch kidds about bees, I work in schools and do bee lessons now and then, I feel like bee ambassador ;) I am amazed about kidds already know a lot of bees, they got it frome a Canadian -German production named Die Biene Maja, It is evidence based reserach in education sience the best skill is learned if we continue to build on old bricks/blocks sutch as Die Biene Maja. Teatch the kidds, they learn so fast. My son did his first queens the oter day, he is 11 years old. Swedisch beekeeper-oh forgot to say -thank you for all your bee youtubing. So nice to follow.
I am with you on the unknowns of the world and the way things are going, I’m not a prep for the end type but I am trying to prepare for the next pandemic
Hi. What do you use to cut your holes in your foam? Nothing I've tried has been successful. Do your holes go clear through? I have foam similar to what you have in your incubator.
I noticed one thing he does is steal some bees and brood. He thins them out a bit. Shakes into his cell builders and such. Swarm management is a tough ball game
Ian, I seen the video where you explained your hive information tags. What are the barcode tags used for? Are you moving to an electronic system? Seen in video at 4:35.
I may not get the opportunity to watch the video until tonight. I do have a question for you please. Do you have 🔥 ants 🐜 there in your area of Canada 🇨🇦 ?
Check out his play list on mites and diseases. He covers it in depth. The short version is Apivar strips (which you can see when he's showing the drone brood) and oxalic acid vapor, as needed and appropriate through the season, based on observations and on alcohol wash sampling.
Ian, how did you get my smoker......you know the one that NEVER works when you really need it? 😁 I came across a really cool tool for keeping the area in front of the pallet hive entrances clear that works REALLY good. I think they are on sale at the Stihl stores for $99.95. The HSA-25 www.stihlusa.com/products/hedge-trimmers/battery-hedge-trimmers/hsa25/ I liked it so well the wife had to have one too. Works much better than a string trimmer or the KM-131 with the FM-KH power scythe attachment. The zero turn mower or rotary cutter gets the rest.
Is there a special reason why you are making so many queen? Will they be all used for your hives or are in selling some. Where do you keep them in the meantime? In nuc? It seems to me you have made over 200 queen. You are still making more queens. I am having a hard time following you in this regard.
Go back and watch some of his videos on a sustainable apiary. He produces all his own queens now, for expanding his operation, for making nucs for sale, but mainly to replace failing queens and hives, as well as ones that don't survive the winter, so that he doesn't have to buy queens or packages and rely on anyone else. The queens he produces now will either be used to requeen overwintered hives that show a failing queen, or will be put into splits and nucs. The nucs that aren't sold will be used throughout the year to replace dead spots, and then the remaining ones are kept as nucs over the winter, to provide queens first thing in the spring. How do you "store" a queen? You put her in a nuc. So all the nucs that he has currently, you can look at as simply stored queens from last year, instead of having to buy early season queens from another part of the world that warms up earlier.
ke6gwf OK got it. I guess at the of hives he has he needs a lot of queens. So the nucs are standbys and some will over winter. Thanks. It’s more clear now. I thought nucs were made just to sell.
