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  @dcsblessedbeesКүн бұрын

  In my opinion you need to focus on the quality stock, focus on the ones that are acclimating well and growing. Some of the problem you are running into is you have repeatedly brought bees in so you are always playing catch up, work wise. Every few years you have brought in new stock and that's not bad genetic wise, it just makes for much more work incorporating them into your operation. Now is time to focus on the quality colonies, we have a few months left and it's time to make the splits(strong in my opinion) and focus on the colonies that are rolling forward. Remember Harris they are livestock it's time to make the difficult calls, you taught me that.

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  @russellkoopman3004Күн бұрын

  Where to draw the line in the sand and say you are gone if?? What's hard is that there are so many variables to consider. Have fun figuring it out. There is no real right or wrong way it's just your way. LOL

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Күн бұрын

  I think its going to be if one re queen dosent work your done. they just get harder, and weaker fast after that

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  @KajunHomesteadКүн бұрын

  👍👍👍

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Күн бұрын

  thanks

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  @researcherAmateurКүн бұрын

  In other words. I don't get into winter with weak hives and who ever comes out weak out of winter gets sorted immediately for splitting or a new queen. Those who can't keep up with the others in spring

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Күн бұрын

  I did a pretty good job grading last fall, we will see if I can do it again

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  @researcherAmateurКүн бұрын

  @@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 yes. It comes to the thing that the equipment the frames are better used for a good hive. I was tought that at an early age. Now when I see people struggle with a weak hive.. but how can I tell a guy to give up on that... Happy beekeepers are those who can equalize everything. They work less and more productive. Like you said it's the weak that take the time.. and in the end make an unhappy beek. it's better to use those for nucks or combine in fall and get rid of a problem. I too put some on a strong ones over winter but in spring if there's no improvement they are the first to go for something else.

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  @researcherAmateurКүн бұрын

  O yes you should. They are place takers and time spenders.. and they eat but don't produce.. and you're right you should judge them and depending on a time of year decide which one could just use a new queen.. l use the others (if it's not a disease). They get shaken all together and sprayed in a bucket so they can't fly.. and i can fill a lot of mini/baby hives for new queens. They just need to be kept in a cold dark room/place for 2-3 days in those baby boxes and they are ready for a queen breeding station. After that you can use them all spring and summer until dearth and produce a lot of queens

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Күн бұрын

  it is a change I need to make as I grow. I could spend more time with weaker colonies when I had 100, as the numbers grow I need to worry about the big ones more

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  @researcherAmateurКүн бұрын

  Every year I say this time I won't grow. I'll make me 100 queens to have 3 yards of 30 and that's it. Couple nucks. A couple of weeks back l had to find and cage over 200 😅. I just can't resist. With my old man's yard that should be 20 but it's 35+5 nucks and he's 83 years old. His excuse is if l can keep 20 than 30 is the same thing. And I had to make a new yard to quarantine the 21 swarms I collected from some guy who left his hive-trailer box of 50 too long here. So l have over 250 with a starting plan for 100 🤣 not counting the nucks. That's what happens when you stop commercial fishing and think how you're going to enjoy your bees "hobby". Who knows, maybe l will

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  @Nick_8652 күн бұрын

  Where are the bees?

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Күн бұрын

  down in the box moving honey out of the way

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  @rodneymiddleton96242 күн бұрын

  It's in black and white!!!!!

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19242 күн бұрын

  looks like I still have problems

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  @dcsblessedbees2 күн бұрын

  I think it is because he keeps running over stuff with the tractor.

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  @BlanchardsBees3 күн бұрын

  Good time to melt some wax

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19243 күн бұрын

  I need metal trays, it is melting the plastic ones

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  @BlanchardsBees3 күн бұрын

  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 I've been using the aluminum dollar general baking pans. They are cheap and I can buy new ones when they get nasty without breaking the bank.

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  @yukselgunes47635 күн бұрын

  Hello. Bees cover the sponge with propolis. Is it normal? Thanks for sharing.

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19242 күн бұрын

  if they get too covered, replace them

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  @lagrangebees5 күн бұрын

  I really should make myself one of those someday... BTW once you put some screen, you can add paper towels over it. the wax will come out extremely clean every time :)

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19245 күн бұрын

  thats a great idea, thanks

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  @dcsblessedbees7 күн бұрын

  Oh wow, you made that one big. Good way to keep it separate, that'll make it easier for you when you go to make lip balm.

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19247 күн бұрын

  That's kind of the idea, keep the really pretty wax separate for doing pretty things.

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  @LaFontaineBeeFarm8 күн бұрын

  Where you located we live in the Oregon coast would be nice to get some hardy bees

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19247 күн бұрын

  I am in Amity. where on the coast are you?

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  @LaFontaineBeeFarm6 күн бұрын

  @@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 we are in Seaside Oregon alot of over cast and rain! I like your videos a lot simple and educating seems you know what you do very well specially with slow release axal acid deal

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  @LaFontaineBeeFarm2 күн бұрын

  @@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 seaside Oregon

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  @rodneymiddleton962418 күн бұрын

  Looks like you got all the good out of that one!!!!

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre192418 күн бұрын

  fell apart in my hand, just crumbled

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  @rodneymiddleton962418 күн бұрын

  @@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 Make a couple new bars and good as new!!!!

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  @darralcalcagno322618 күн бұрын

  Used up real good

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre192418 күн бұрын

  just glad it wasnt full of brood

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  @researcherAmateur21 күн бұрын

  It would be nice to have some real pollen for patties with jobs like that. Feed in January and February.. get big numbers. But I don't know your diversity or the spraying habits of your surroundings. If l moved my bees in a place like that the owner would come to me and ask to pay him. There's a yellow striped bumblebee living here that can pollinate better than bees.. nobody cares about us

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre192421 күн бұрын

  some crops here dont pay. if they produce lots of honey. I wont get paid for buckwheat, its a friend of mine and he plants it for me to have something for the bees in the fall. I want to collect pollen to mix with the patties for winter build up, just cant seem to get the traps ready

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  @researcherAmateur21 күн бұрын

  @@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 yeah, collecting pollen takes time.. can't leave it over night because of humidity. I'm lucky that I can buy from Turkey and Serbia where they make good and cheap plastic products like bottom boards, feeders... by now l have a plastic bottom pollen collector for every hive so l can be fast and fill the freezer. It's all over here. Summer dearth.. bees saving energy flying only for water.

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  @rodneymiddleton962423 күн бұрын

  That's what I'm talking about!!!!!!

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre192422 күн бұрын

  It never ends

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  @rodneymiddleton962423 күн бұрын

  Best swarm traps ever!!!

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre192423 күн бұрын

  Seem to be working pretty well

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  @BlanchardsBees29 күн бұрын

  Raining 🌧 here now

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre192428 күн бұрын

  we needed it, but I am glad its done

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  @russellkoopman3004Ай бұрын

  Hope you can get some sunshine for your flow. Our weather here in MN is not as nice as the last two years but not a disaster either.

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  we will bee warm by the end of the week, should get the last half of the flow

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  @dcsblessedbeesАй бұрын

  Great score on the materials btw, the lids look great.

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  yes, I have lots of wood to work with now. it will be nice to replace some of the old lids

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  @dcsblessedbeesАй бұрын

  🤨An Inch of rain is not a "Atmospheric River" this is just a End of Spring Rain Storm.🙄 It'll blow past us quick and this rain is perfect for me.🤩I'll have BB bloom right after it👍you can use my over flow bench.😂

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  we have not got the rain they said was coming, just a slow drizzle, should soak in well

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  @rodneymiddleton9624Ай бұрын

  Making that equipment!!!

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  If you didn't live on the other side of the world, I would make some for you

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  @dcsblessedbeesАй бұрын

  @@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 Ok I would like #2 single unit pallets with 5 nuc banks and corresponding nucs and lids please. I'll owe ya forever before I'll cheat ya out of your money.😁

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  @lagrangebeesАй бұрын

  had laying workers for the first time this year... It was such a sad little cluster I just moved em to a queenright hive.

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  I have some that are 12 frames of bees, those are the ones that hurt. I also re queened some that still had a queen coming back. some queens have been real late this year

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  @dcsblessedbeesАй бұрын

  Oh ya I see, the nuc can grow and stop the laying worker over time. Plus over time that worker will die and if you have the nuc up above they shouldn't make a new one.🤔Right I think I have that right?

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  That's the plan, we'll see if it works

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  @researcherAmateurАй бұрын

  You may have something with the propolis trap idea. I used to make double screen boards with one screen of a mosquito mesh. Than when I needed to combine i would remove the bigger mesh and leave the mosquito one for two days and later combine without problems. It's the same thing. But it wasn't with a laying worker.. you never know with those. These days if its spring flow l just spread the 10 framer out and put the nuck in. No paper or anything.. just some spray bottle on them all. But only in spring and the flow

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  I may have done more of that, just combining them, if that was a stronger nuc .

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  I've wasted lots of resources trying to fix laying workers, but this one just started so maybe we'll get away with it

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  @researcherAmateurАй бұрын

  I'm putting strips and caging queens these days. Never earlier. But the plants give the timing..and it's time. Now I can go fishing for 25 days until they replace the brood with bee bread and pollen. Maybe even a deep of honey if I'm lucky. We'll see.. l could find two deeps of pollen and no honey to extract. But I think with her in cage and no excluder they will collect some mint and black berry before is gone completely. Nothing can surprise me anymore. Hope you get some from yours

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  It would be nice to get some honey this year. I have some with too much pollen in them now, I need to get my pollen traps working and on them

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  @researcherAmateurАй бұрын

  @@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 l already collected some pollen.. now l will let them collect the last before summer so they get enough for that first batch of brood when they start again. I collect a lot of propolis from now to September. But if you work like me with brood breaks and bees getting old it's important to not over work them. Propolis is not easy for them to collect.. that's why old bees do it. We have a market for pollen and propolis but there are rules. No monoculture pollen and no propolis scraped off the frames. Only trapped or from a big hole.. clean. Many sell propolis tincture , jars with all three products in. It's a good market.. people here use a lot.. it's regarded as a medicine. I'm blabbering like always. You need to teach them people about the benefits of a spoon per day every day

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  @@researcherAmateur I would like to hit some of those markets, but I am having a hard time just getting what I have to done. just keep working at it, I will be there in time. growing and making queens and equipment is eating all my time

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  @p1dru2artАй бұрын

  Boron is the thing right out of the ground

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  yes, boric acid is refined from that

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  @rodneymiddleton9624Ай бұрын

  Awesome

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  I knew if I didnt get pictures, you wouldnt believe me

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  @dcsblessedbeesАй бұрын

  Thanks Harris.👍

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  Welcome!

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  @chuck12881Ай бұрын

  Drag queen

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  @dcsblessedbeesАй бұрын

  Oh I remember you mentioning this guy cool, cool glad you are being able to help him out.👍 🤨I'm still not sue the the hair cut.😂

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  he said it worked well

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  @dcsblessedbeesАй бұрын

  Oh🤨forget you😲LOOK AT THAT BLOOMING FIELD!🤩NICE, no wonder you are having problems with them making to many bees.🤣

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  they are really growing

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  @lagrangebeesАй бұрын

  That's a neat little contraption you put your package in :)

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  thanks. it was a pain, but turned out cool

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  @rodneymiddleton9624Ай бұрын

  Much better video than mine!

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  you do so much cool stuff, it would be fun to see more of it

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  @rodneymiddleton9624Ай бұрын

  Awesome example Harris!!!!

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  Thanks! 😃

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  @lagrangebeesАй бұрын

  Them bees are spoiled... getting free lodging and gourmet meals 😁

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  Lol. I know they did not appreciate it as much as they should

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  @russellkoopman3004Ай бұрын

  Is the pollen sub just for your nucs?

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  I have some bees in blueberries, and it lacks in good nutrition, and some smaller colonies that can use some help, and the nucs

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  @rodneymiddleton9624Ай бұрын

  Just like making "Pickle Bread"!!! LOL!!!!!

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  one of my favorites

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  @jamescraig8601Ай бұрын

  That's great,but I keep my old wax to melt down and relax with. Your old wax is gone.

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  I scraped all the comb off first to get to the foundation

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  @steveholder7289Ай бұрын

  You've forgotten more than I know, Harris. So you probably already know this. Best trick I've used for a laying worker is to put it above a queen right hive with a single screen of #8 between them. That way they get the brood and QMP pheromone because they can still contact each other. Keep it like that for about a week or so then combine. I've done it with fairly small lower QR hives (Swarm catches). They end up being my strongest hives.

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  I will try that. i am going to try putting them on only foundation with a feeder so the laying worker has nowhere to lay for a few days, then combine. these might work together well also

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  @researcherAmateurАй бұрын

  You know.. if you don't want all those laying worker drones.. and those not capped to stretch the cells you could bring a sprayer with you and water spray everything out.. even the capped ones. The biggest job is to shake off the water after it. I did it many times. There's always a small one in the car.. I'm not sure about the name. Has an air pump on itself so you can pump the pressure in.

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  thats a great idea I will try it

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  @richardrbrynerjr.79122 ай бұрын

  Skunks are no problem if you keep your hive at least 18 inches off the ground!

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924Ай бұрын

  With as many as I have, and moving them around like I do, they pretty much have to be on pallets. But yes there are majors you can take when you have a few at home that will help. I have also heard chicken wire hanging down and on to the ground will prevent them from getting close enough, they don't like walking on it I guess

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  @dcsblessedbees2 ай бұрын

  🤨🤭😏😂 I experimented with a decision, I'll see in a few days if I was reading the situation correctly and did the right thing. It's kind of fun to be problem solving again. Even if I make the wrong choices, at least we are rolling forward now. Blessed Days, Harris...

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19242 ай бұрын

  You're absolutely right. It's fun to find a problem come up with a solution and give it a try

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  @jamskinner2 ай бұрын

  I had bees store honey on top of rotten pollen. Ruined the honey.

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19242 ай бұрын

  Yes. Pollen goes bad, it's protein. And once it gets hard and bad, the bees will not remove it. Just as well to scrape it out and start fresh

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  @dcsblessedbees2 ай бұрын

  Keep that extra food on them for these nasty days, we are getting closer to nice Weather. 😁 Keep at it Harris, Blessed Days buddy...

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19242 ай бұрын

  Thanks

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  @rodneymiddleton96242 ай бұрын

  Your camera is dirty!!!!!!!!

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19242 ай бұрын

  I see that, I am going to have to put some windex back in my truck. I shot on once with my grandsons thumb print on the lens

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  @KajunHomestead2 ай бұрын

  I'm waiting on some to come back now but our weather has not been good for mating, so we'll see how it works out.

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  @gallowaylights2 ай бұрын

  @@KajunHomestead * them queens don't come with tracking like the UPS? 😂

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19242 ай бұрын

  we are haveing some bad weather here too, I have some trying to mate this week. spring queens is a crap shoot here

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19242 ай бұрын

  I was wishing someone would breed a bright orange queen while I was looking through the second time to find one

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  @dcsblessedbees2 ай бұрын

  You did good on this one Harris, you presented the information well. You kept some of the terminology a little more simple for people that is a good thing. Much of these topics can get a bit deep with terms, products and techniques. Blessed Days...

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19242 ай бұрын

  Thanks I knew there was too much information on each subject to get too deep

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  @dcsblessedbees2 ай бұрын

  Healthy well fed bees and good quality queens helps over come so many of issues. I believe that much of our current colony issues are inadvertently of the beekeeping industries making. A lot gets over looked in term of quality when mass production enters in.

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19242 ай бұрын

  I think you're exactly right

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  @badassbees36802 ай бұрын

  I fight efb every year . Everyone says no big deal..ive lost half brood for 2 months...thats a pretty big deal lol

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  @dcsblessedbees2 ай бұрын

  Never seen anyone that has even had EFB or AFB in my area when I ask. But we have a lot less density of colonies in our area, we do not live in the land of unending season like many do.

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  @harrisjoubertwithsleepycre19242 ай бұрын

  Did you see Bob Binnie's video on using essential oils to control European foul breed? He had pretty good results in his simple little test

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  @badassbees36802 ай бұрын

  @@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 Yes..not for us... maybe with his flows...we have perfect storm 30 at night,70 in the day then rain and no flow hardly...only thing I've ever had luck with was clove oil..it has worked after couple gallons in the past and is 100 percent effective at ridding colony of ALL shb not that they bother me but definitely works .add 3 or 4 drops to a gallon of syrup..my problem is location and crappy flows , sometimes it's 3 week slight problem, usually month or two problem til main flow..if I run Italians wouldn't be a problem but my carnies will brood and make up for it soon lol

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  @researcherAmateur2 ай бұрын

  @@badassbees3680 l think the EFB we have here must be different from the one you have there. It was never a big problem.. not even at the start years ago. Or its something else we don't know. Here l see guys on videos showing it on a frame and after some flow time or feeding some watery syrup it cleans it... you can hear it in their voice they don't care about it. But AFB.. nobody will say or confess they have it. Not even mention it in comments here. It's a bureaucracy nightmare

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  @SwarmsteadАй бұрын

  Make a video you slacker. 😆