Straight and to the point content, unlike 99% of other beekeeping channels out there. It is also fascinating to see the commercial approach to hive management, which I think the rest of us small-scale guys can learn a lot from. Thank you!

@marctorrades1760

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I have lost so many hive . If I had this approch a longtime ago , I wouldn't have quit beekeeping. He is amazing teacher. His dealing with varroa also very good. I love watching his video .

Thanks for the step-by-step description of why you're doing what you're doing. This helps us newbees a lot!

Bees are the masters at survival, adapting and production given any challenge. Absolute living machines.

Talk about meeting an strong flow with strong bees just in time.

I'm a first year beekeeper in the same province as you and I follow you as a guide for the time-line of beekeeping. You have helped me immensely. Thanks....

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

Жыл бұрын

Your flows might be different than mine, Watch those conditions carefully

Good info again Ian. Thanks for your time and skills on handling the changing dynamics of bees.

Thanks for sharing Ian! Always appreciate all your insight, thoughts and tips. Always clear and concise and sensible!

Looking great! Good video!

Nice work ! 💯💪

Oh yeah the video I've waited a year for is here

Wow, winter prep already.

Bees that do not quit thanks for sharing

Chemest, mad scientist, you wear many hats my friend! I bought a couple pkgs of rocket fuel a few weeks ago, haven't had the right conditions to try it yet. Everything here is excellent going into fall.

I bought a half pallet of 50# bags of brewers yeast from Mann Lake a few years ago and kept in my walk in freezer. Dang glad I did, you can't get it anywhere now. I only use a few bags a year, so still have a good supply for the future. I like my patty recipe and would hate to have to improvise, but you know they say necessity is the mother of invention, so perhaps you'll dig your new recipe even more than your old one. Good luck!

I asked the maker online and was told Unfortunately the bio activator is not available to us in australia yet so my bees miss out on your magic powder.

"All the rules are off this year..." No truer words have been spoken this year. It's been crazy.

Your a machine steppler nice harvest

Holy pollen patties!

nice👍👍👍👍👍

You can use spirulina to feed the bees a better cheap natural pollen protein that's actually really good for them and their gut health. As far as the 20.5% moisture content goes for your honey, you have a perfectly good building to dry those frames

Mad scientist

Hi. Can you tell us what ingredients do you put at minute 1:34 ? The quantities are very important too. Thank you very much.

Honey, honey, honey, money, money, money 😊

The consistency and color of a ready product is something. I`m joking)))

2 back. You’re still 10 weeks till storage.

que tal amigo, me gustara saber o si puedes hacer un video veo que tienes una especie de trampa que le colocas en las alzas melieras, veo que tiene una malla, para que las usas cual es su finalidad, saludos mexico.

Do you not get a strong goldenrod pollen flow?

Hello, what's the recipe of your patties ?

That’s an interesting pollen patty mixer. Is it your own design? I haven’t seen one on the market anywhere like that.

activate the translation .exelente work thank you

Off topic, but did you mean you spray your irrigation ditches in the Fall? I just had a drainage ditch dug out ($$) and I hadn't heard of spraying in the Fall, but certainly would if it helps. I'm actually in city limits so I don't tend to hear these things.

How much coconut oil and flaxseed oil were you using for the 50lb bag of pollen suppliment?

What is on your label tags? You use thumb tacks to mark them?

Do you retrieve your swarms?

So much Observation and info in one’s does the linseed oil choice of the amino acids levels? And what happened to the paper sandwich bags from last year?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

Жыл бұрын

Can’t find them anymore, either sold out or out of stock

good job. Can you help a friend? I need the amounts of the typical protein dough, I searched a lot and tired me and we need it

Dang, although it's late it's too bad you didn't have some queen cells or virgin queens to pop in those queenless colonies. There could be just enough time to get the job done if fall is kind. If successful, those late queens could be your best spring colonies, partially due to that cleansing brood break. (I realize on your scale you don't have time to fiddle fart around with the few needy colonies. I just can't help but think of the possibilities )

Good day ... I am a beekeeper in Sweden ... I have 350 colonies ... I watch your clips and enjoy ... until now I tried to make my own cake for bees ... stimulating ... I didn't succeed because I don't have the right one recipe ... would you like to give me the recipe and finally make a real scone

Is it baking paper you are using for the patties? Can the bees chew through it since you left it on both sides of the pattie..?

@Dampflanze

Жыл бұрын

backing paper is silicon covered.

Hey Ian, I've read that the lack of pollen is what sparks the building of winter bees. I'm seeing you add two lbs of pollen patties saying to start the winter nest so apparently what I'm reading is wrong? I plan to keep my 45 colonies in 1:1 until the golden rod flow which I'm expecting to be gangbusters here in another 2 weeks with so much rain we have had last 2 weeks. Do you think I should throw a lb of pollen on them too. There won't be much pollen out there for them in the wild until the golden rod as well. I want to build as a large winter cluster this year as I can

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

Жыл бұрын

That definitely is debatable It’s when those bees quit brooding and quit feeding young, quit flying and hold and retain

Great process Ian. You mentioned 3 yards at 120 colonies. You feel that 40 colonies in one area is not too many?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

Жыл бұрын

Spread out here on 2 miles

Interesting you are feeding colony's that have brood and not the ones without brood. Corn syrup is not considered a good supplement on the other hand sucrose at the rate of 1 to 1.5 of water will promote brood production with pollen patties.

I'm having issues with queen excluders, two of my seven the bees use very well and the others not many bees go through. I have swapped them and then the bees go through. I can tell that some of them are smaller. So where do you purchase yours and what should the gap be?

@jeannecourter6349

Жыл бұрын

Bob Binnie had a video that said that a while ago he had a batch of queen excluders where the gaps were too small - he went back to the supplier and they have since corrected the problem. I seem to recall the supplier was Mann Lake.

@michaelpariera4328

Жыл бұрын

@@jeannecourter6349 did he buy new ones from Mann Lake?

@jeannecourter6349

Жыл бұрын

I think so. He is an authorized distributor for Mann Lake.

@michaelpariera4328

Жыл бұрын

@@jeannecourter6349 thank you for your help.

@jeannecourter6349

Жыл бұрын

Follow-up and correction: KZread video called “Musings on Queen Excluders” at kzread.info/dash/bejne/l4uaya5uituqeJc.html At 3:35 he talks about wire spacing and his experience. The company was actually Dadant. (Apologies to Mann Lake)

Iv been chatting with Andrews guy about being the Alaskan dealer for the supplement did you do a KZread with him on pollen sub ? I'd like to see it

Are you still working clovers into your pastures like you were a couple of seasons ago?

You need a bigger sausage mixer…

boa tarde

Question ? How is your drone population holding up. Since you were having late season swarming. Do you feel you have an adequate number of drones for successful mating this late in the season for you. I'm giving you a break today about getting stuck. LOL just and old nosy beekeeper down here in Florida😅😅

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

Жыл бұрын

Definitely was seeing many drones in the hives still today

@bj8342

Жыл бұрын

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I agree with you Ian. Peace River country - northern Alberta and we still have a good population of drones. Canola is done, no sunflowers so getting the dribs and drabs from the clovers and wildflowers.

Hope you don’t use HFCS, that one doesn’t overwinter your bees

Ultra Bee or Soie?

Do you get honeydew from aphids this time of year?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

Жыл бұрын

Yes

I think if you have Queens get your splits you could not get in the spring to try and recover your spring losses using those unemployed bees.

1st comm.

OMG so many OSHA violations with that mixer lol

@robertbennett6697

Жыл бұрын

Nah, he just removed the guards etc, to provide the best viewing.

Give them anabolic steroids. Your bees will be twice as big 😄