Silver Lake Honey Homestead
Silver Lake Honey Homestead
Silver Lake Honey Homestead is all about simplified beekeeping. We are full time beekeepers and love sharing our experience and exchanging beekeeping ideas with the world.
We have over 30 years of experience in beekeeping in the United States and in Europe.
We are sideliner beekeepers and stationary non-migratory. Overwintering 150-200 honey production and nucleus colonies in Iowa.
Members of American Apitherapy Society. Completed CMAC levels 1 and 2 APITHERAPY course. APITHERAPY, or “bee therapy” is the medicinal use of products made by honeybees bee venom, honey, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, and beeswax.
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These hives are likely to swarm without additional brood chamber management. What do you do next?
Add Honey Suppers
Great information and content! If you get rid of the music it would be easier to hear what you are saying :)
I definitely will. Thank you for letting us know
Have you given up on the double deep frames?
No I haven't. I will check them and make a video soon. Thank you for asking
Looks like you may have a good honey crop. That comb honey is always hard for my bees to finish. They'll draw it out and put some honey in the top and then ignore it. Wish the bees would read the books. LOL
I only make few frames from the stronghives. It takes bees long time and resources to make comb honey. I am wondering if you have ventilation problem if your bees cannot finish and capp the frames and remove the moisture from the honey.
Did you see the guys with Dadant Blatt hives in Europe using the 6+1 drone frame method with partitions (pregrade). I'm trying it with Langstroth last couple years. When I put the excluders they are left with only 7 frames and an empty feeder and 1 frame on the outside. So everything they collect goes above excluders and the 7 frames are full of brood. The other brood emerges from the other box and they work like that with only 7 brood to the end of the flow. So far l'm happy with it. They collect more for me. But I'm in a different area and have a dearth from now on... The big guys in France and Germany with DB hives tell me that they don't look in the brood box all summer and are happy with the 6+1 method traveling around with a lot of hives. Kažu da matica dominira na tom prostoru
Yes you are absolutely right. Not sure why are many backyard European beekeepers especially in the Balkans switching from DB to LR hives. If you are single brood box beekeeper it would make sense to use Dadant hive. I guess it's because everyone else is using LR hives and just simplicity of interchanging the frames. Especially if you are selling nucs everyone else around you is using LR but if you are a hobbyist it would definitely make sense to use DB frames for your brood box.
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@@silverlakehoneyHahaha.. dobra
#bees #beekeeping #honeybee Explaining the single brood box management. June beehive inspection and tips. Make a lot more honey with single brood box. Happy beekeeping 🐝 🐝 Want to ask us a beekeeping question? Ask in the comments below or send us an email, and we will answer in our future Q&A videos. Our email address is [email protected] Silver Lake Honey Homestead DIRECT SUBSCRIBE link: kzread.info/dron/9FoXN4dxT4wECPxj26Rwqg.html
Hi, I thought I saw Queen cups in the first lower box, in the last frames, and the next top box also in the last frames. Are they at risk of swarming, or something else?
You are right empty que often seen in a colony. Sometimes bees build many queen cups for "just in case" that they need to raise a new queen, nothing to worry about. This was a spring split with new young queen. Usually older queens are more prone to swarming than younger queens.
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I like this management if I was putting my hives indoors to winter but were you leave the top box on for winter there is no need to drop your queen why use a excluder if your not takeing the second box why not let the queen free range to both box’s ?
In August, I remove all the extra honey for us. I would remove the queen excluder and leave the second box full of honey for strong 5+ frames of brood hives to overwinter. Bees would rearrange that honey around the brood and by the end of September bees would create a space and create a winter cluster between the two boxes and have thick honey domes above their cluster. Hives that are weaker than 5 frames I leave in singles and add honey around the brood. If I don't use queen excluder then it is a lot more work to rearrange the frames for wintering. Thank you
@@silverlakehoney I understand I’m in Canada my doubles I just give the queen free range to both box’s she gets one round of brood in top box then when it hatches they back fill it with honey so it forces my queens down to bottom box but I do think wintering on sugar water is better then honey if your bees are like mine and confined to the box for 5 months of the year Canada gets cold 😂
Not sure about the sugar water 🤔 I believe honey is the best food for wintering. Many beekeepers feed heavily in fall. I feed only light colonies and nucks that need attention and leaveplentyofhoney in upper box. I am sure you're winters are a lot colder. I can only imagine. Some winters are really cold here in north Iowa but not close as Canadian winters. Wish you all the best 👍
@@silverlakehoney I find when fed honey they have many issue with gut problems that they would not have with sugar water they can hold there Bowles longer I fine maybe not true
Was this filmed in May? Lots of dandelion pollen there.
Hi Russell. This video was filmed last week
Thank you so very much for showing "all this" with Bees!!! Much appreciated for sharing the knowledge #soVERYimportant
Thank you very much 😊 Comments like this is what keeps us motivated to share our experiences with everyone. Really appreciate it 🐝 God Bless
This time of the year we are shaking all bees down to single brood box and adding queen excluders to our colonies. Didn't find the queen so we shake all the bees down bellow the queen excluder. Happy beekeeping 🐝 🐝 🐝 Want to ask us a beekeeping question? Ask in the comments below or send us an email, and we will answer in our future Q&A videos. Our email address is [email protected] Silver Lake Honey Homestead DIRECT SUBSCRIBE link: kzread.info/dron/9FoXN4dxT4wECPxj26Rwqg.html
Looks like a great trip!
Yes we had a wonderful time. Awesome trip
What do you add to pure grinded sugar powder to make it stick together in the dough mixer? Is it honey or thick sugar syrup? I want to make something similar to fondant but my results are terrible
I add honey. You can check my wideo on fondant patties kzread.info/dash/bejne/lp-XpMdveMLIk7g.htmlsi=GF081wkryREC67w7
@@silverlakehoney I based my recipe on your video, instead I used plain lemon juice (it was a disaster). The result was like a sugar slushy with water. The honeybees started throwing it out the entrance.
I would use honey
@@bujarmamudi1208 Sugar doesn't spoil nor does honey. Moisture is too low for bacteria. The use of just honey and sugar will not spoil and it worked very well for me this year.
Nectar flow is on. How to know when to add honey suppers? Follow these signs that nature and bees are showing us. Happy beekeeping 🐝 🐝 Want to ask us a beekeeping question? Ask in the comments below or send us an email, and we will answer in our future Q&A videos. Our email address is [email protected] Silver Lake Honey Homestead DIRECT SUBSCRIBE link: kzread.info/dron/9FoXN4dxT4wECPxj26Rwqg.html
That was a strong hive for a 2021 queen. When will you be adding honey supers?
I am adding honey suppers next week. It has been raining here in Iowa almost every day. Queen is 2021 because this my old video. Sometimes I use my older videos instead of making the new one on the same topic to avoid repeating myself. Thank you Russell 🐝
Do you guys have any bears out there?
No we don't have bears here. I have seen sometime hunters capture black bears on their trai cameras, but that's very rare
Mashallnah 🤣🤣
Beautiful
Thank you Angela
My mouth was watering the whole time. Look so good.
Omg it was unbelievable
Nothing better, thanks for all the info!
You are welcome 😊
Made these yesterday and the whole family loved them 🫶 sooo delicious.😋Thank you
Thank you 😊
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I'm going to try this tonight. Our temperature here in East Tn isn't going over 70°F for the next 2 days. Hopefully, they won't go back to the place where I had them. I will post how it goes. It's a 5 frame swarm box, so I will use 5 strips of paper.
Please let me know how it goes, and did it work for you
I certainly will. Do you think that magazine pages would work as well as newspaper?
1:17 "Regular newspaper, not glossy..." Magazines are glossy paper, so no.
I agree 👍
I'm sorry I forgot where are you located? Thank you very much for sharing.
You are welcome. We are located in Waterloo Iowa
Where did you get your queens from? They should make you a super of honey with such a strong split.
I sure hope so. Queens are Old World Carniolan Queens from Strachan
When will you have queens for sale?
In a couple of weeks
Will they bring any honey this year?
I hope so. But you never know. I will keep you posted.
I just lost your queen, when you will have yours available?
I will post it on our Facebook page Silver Lake Honey. Probably late next week for pickup and in two weeks for shipping
How are you going to get the brood from those frames if you remove the double deep frames?
I am actually splitting the original hive and moving the double deep frames and creating a new hive.
They are looking good. Will you be doing some splits soon? Have you started to graft yet? My cool and wet weather has slowed down my bees. They are expanding but not as fast as I expected. Have a good week.
Yes I did split some of my hives. I did a video today inspecting splits will put it here probably on Sunday
Poor Squid🤬
Was that a queen cell on bottom of frame two?
Hi Maggie 👋 Not a queen cell just burr comb. I didn't see any cell cups or swarm cells in this hive
Thank you for the connotation comparison
You are welcome
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Great video. I came out of winter with a couple of strong hives also. Here in MN we don't have drones yet so I took some frames of brood out to boost a couple of weak hives. Soon I will be able to do the same making splits for sales. Have a good week. Nice to see some leaves on your trees. Ours are getting there soon.
Thank you Russell. Our weather is finally starting to cooperate 😄 We have some extremely strong hives. I have filmed just few but there are several giant hives. Wish you a great season and Good luck 👍
Nice video
Thank you 🐝
#bees #beekeeping #honeybee Expanding my Apiary. From One Hive I Made Three. GOD BLESS YOU, YOUR FAMILY, AND YOUR BEES! THANK YOU FOR WATCHING 🐝 Want to ask us a beekeeping question? Ask in the comments below or send us an email, and we will answer in our future Q&A videos. Our email address is [email protected] Silver Lake Honey Homestead DIRECT SUBSCRIBE link: kzread.info/dron/9FoXN4dxT4wECPxj26Rwqg.html
This is how they do it in Serbia!
Yes. Djoko Zecevic made a video about it. Thank you 🐝
Where can I by the double deep frames or sides?
You can buy double deep frames from William Erpel Awlwood.com Thank you
@@silverlakehoney Thank you for the reply same evening I watched probably all your other videos were you mentioned where to get the frames. By myself I do would want to see if he can make custom frames I was thinking to rotate the frames 90° In a 10 frame box . So the frames would be double deep but only a third is wide in about 15 of them should fit. This would make the frames more comfortable to work with . But the main reason why I decided to turn them sideways. It's because right now my entrances on my beehives are on the side not on the front and the reason is because I have a lot of wasps and robbing bees , so what I did is I made custom bottom boards that are open on three sides I also have holes with rotating entrances on The wide sides of the box , when the robbing season comes I block of the three bottom entrances with a screen. And I open up the rotating entrance , so when the beast come in they will directly face a frame instead of being able to go underneath all of the frames as they would normally from the front. Because there is a screen on the bottom all the rubbing bees can't get in because they insist to get in where the screen is The wasps do the same they hang around the bottom were the smell is coming from . Meanwhile in the piece enter through the hole a 5 inches above the bottom board And because they have to be directly pressing against a frame The guard bees are able to kick out all the stranger bees out of the hive because all of the guards just hang out on that one frame .
Why dont u just close the entry for 3 to 4 days..move it, then release it?
There are many ways of doing it. This just shows one of the ways. Thank you 🐝
you need a better camera, but you did a great job, THANKS
I'll buy a better camera eventually 😀 those things are expensive. Thank you 🐝
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Good to see you and the girls for another year!😊
Thank you very much. Wish you all the best 👍
The hives look good. I'm just not sure if the deeps are worth the extra hassle but it looked like it surely didn't hurt them. Thanks for posting and I hope to see more. Will you drop a queen into the hive with all the deep frames? Will you shake more bees in there to cover the brood since foragers will fly back??
Hi Russell I agree it is extra hassle not sure if it is worth it. That is why I tried on some of the hives. I like to try different methods and compare to the more traditional ways of beekeeping. Yes I shake additional bees and introduce new queen in a cage. Thank you for your comment.
@@silverlakehoney I agree, trying new ideas is a great way to learn. You have several good points on the advantages of the deeps. What I noticed the bees seldomly draw out the bottom 3-5 inches of the bottoms so they aren't really that much deeper than than a normal deep.
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#bees #beekeeping #honeybee Checking double deep frame hives. GOD BLESS YOU, YOUR FAMILY, AND YOUR BEES! THANK YOU FOR WATCHING 🐝 Want to ask us a beekeeping question? Ask in the comments below or send us an email, and we will answer in our future Q&A videos. Our email address is [email protected] Silver Lake Honey Homestead DIRECT SUBSCRIBE link: kzread.info/dron/9FoXN4dxT4wECPxj26Rwqg.html
Excellent video, good info on the grading filter needed, 1mm. Good to know the sugar feeds without the dust. Thank you.
Yes it works well. I actually use 2mm filter for large batches. 1mm filter is good for small Bach. It takes a long time to grind with 1mm filter. 2mm works fine
Thank you for filming!
You are welcome