Exciting to see that many hives making honey that fast. Amazing how a year of work comes down to a few weeks of payoff or bust. Also, rotating in those new boxes is making your whole outfit look fresh. Good job all round. 👍

Projects are kind of fun sometimes. Part of what I like best about ya Ian is your a Farmer and a Beekeeper you read the growing season to understand how your bees are reacting to it. Blessed Days Ian...

Canola’s looking good this year. I can smell nectar in the yards especially now that we have some warm days

Amazing content! Glad you’re back!

BEE truck looks good. Hope the Girls do you good this year. Have a great and safe week ahead Sir

Amazing plants the canola and buckwheat that got flattened by hail is coming back and the canola is starting to bloom

You said that you need sunshine, the crops on the other hand could do with the occasional rain as they are still in the growing stage, so in reality you rob Peter to pay Paul.

I don't see any wire protection on the battery cables. Might want to put rubber hoses around them for chafing purposes. Nice looking piece of equipment! Thanks Ian!

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

16 күн бұрын

Excellent idea

@Pasika-v_Ukrayini

15 күн бұрын

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlogдаєте згоду ? Показувати ваші відео ?

@researcherAmateur

15 күн бұрын

Yep, Rodney is right.. it's better to do before than later. When I kept buses for the island everything was rubber hose protected. Electric, hydraulic and air, where they touch metal... you can prolong the life of it by a long time with it . I can see that Rodney must be a mechanic of some sort. Forget my intrusion.. I can't resist for a truck like that

@rodneymiddleton9624

15 күн бұрын

@@researcherAmateur I’m a mechanic. I work on trucks and buses. I own 3 old greyhound buses myself. I usually see the aftermath of not protecting wiring and hoses from chafing. Thanks.

@researcherAmateur

15 күн бұрын

@@rodneymiddleton9624 l love those old buses.. always imagined how would l remodel one... l worked on buses, garbage trucks, everything big.. diggers, tractors for the island l'm living on. Then I slowly let the yung generation took over and worked only fishing boats. Now it's mostly tourism and big outside motors. I lost the interest for those. I was used to make a part many times. I still have a workshop with that big machinery. But today they work more with phones than anything. Parts for speed boats and just changing them. It's not for me anymore. I'll stick with bees and let the yung ones work. It's my first year that I'm not fishing swordfish and tuna over the summer. So l have more time to find me a new hobby 😅. I'm glad to find a mechanic. To be a beekeeper and a mechanic you have to be a rare kind...

Congratulations on the flow .. same thing in Michigan just need the sun to shine

Question about queen excluder, is it on top of first box or second box if we are talking about normal colony? thanks

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

15 күн бұрын

I run singles, so on top of the first

Wow nice truck

Looking good again Ian. Good job.

Same thing in Idaho. Flow is just starting up. The bees have been eating it as fast as it has been coming in. I have not stopped feeding all spring.

It always amazes me how fast it changes up there. Even faster than the weeds and grasses after a rain down here. The foundation looks like the imprint made by the wheels on the wax.. those where we had to cut the sheets long vise, if you ever seen it... that could be adjusted for any size for mass production. Bees always loved that imprint. What's the daylight ? 25h at the moment?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

15 күн бұрын

16.5hr day break to sunset

Never heard of Can Cell foundation. Is that a Canadien product?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

15 күн бұрын

Yes out of Toronto

Bom dia lan aqui no Brasil as floradas silvestre já estão começando a despontar.

I sure hope you are as excited about your wife as you are about your truck.....

Hello, is this a canola field? Great to see the bloom is two months lather as here in Bavaria(germany) we got here melezitose honey right now. Great work, greetings

Hopefully the adjacent plants fill in the blank spots with extra flowers

just a week ago they were in singles and now there's 3 deeps full of honey what the heck.

Are you painting extra wax on the Canacell foundation or are the bees drawing it out well as is?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

15 күн бұрын

No need to

@graemediesel2936

14 күн бұрын

Thanks. I just ordered a box.

Ian, curious on fungicide spray. Do you do anything to manage the colonies during this time? I ask as I run my hives on the dairy I work for. Fungicide goes on corn and beans. With the concerns on fungicides in the hive I've been struggling if this is a concern and how to measure/manage. I know they won't likely bee in the corn. But they will be in the beans with fungicide.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

15 күн бұрын

I do no preventative measures on fungicides on canola

Hi Ian, congrats on the success of your hives, and thank you for sharing. I don’t think my bees want to go through the queen excluder. It’s just plastic. What do you suggest? What is the name of the foundation you use? Maybe my bees don’ t seem to like the wax coated plastic foundation.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

15 күн бұрын

Give the bees a frame of brood over the excluder

@karenmotkowski8154

15 күн бұрын

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Unfortunately I use med supers and not the deeps. Could it be the excluder size should I try another type ?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

15 күн бұрын

@@karenmotkowski8154 run a few weeks without the excluder then move the queen down and put in excluder

@karenmotkowski8154

14 күн бұрын

Okay, thank you for the suggestion.

Ian that can cell is it better then the rite cell? Have you tried the Max wax rite cell with 4 or five additional pounds of wax per box of 100 sheet.

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

15 күн бұрын

I don’t know other that the bees take to this foundation easy and draw straight

I love that truck

Is your one box per week rule for drawn comb? What is your rule of thumb for a box of foundation?

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

15 күн бұрын

The rule for foundation is to either spread it out, or expect delays, honey bound nests and swarming

Hopefully you won't need to access the hydolics for many years

Доброго дня, чи можнв показувати ваші відео на моєму ютуб каналі ? Обіцяю що вуду вказувати в описі посилання на ваш ютуб канал і вказувати що відео ваші

@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog

15 күн бұрын

Yes

@Pasika-v_Ukrayini

15 күн бұрын

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog чи є у вас відео на гугл диску де можна його скачати в гарній якості

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