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Will the Nectar data be able to show which queens have the best survival overwinter?

You got that right!

Sometime Gary and Mikes content overlaps. Two separate vlogs.

Nope, Hive did great and we put it in our operation.

Thats what they were billed to use when we were asked to remove them.

many thanks

Awesome, hopefully will have some spares to sell in May. Thanks Larry - Gary

Thank you! Will do!

We run wide open most all the time, unless we are using an old used pallet that is already reduced. We did reduce some this year when we had unusual extreme cold for us. 3/4" on the pallet rails height? then yes

Many Thanks, It must be agonizing waiting it out.

I really don't know how to go about it remotely. We have a broker that we have been working with for 5 years now. I very happy with everything he provides for us and haven't had reason to look elsewhere.

Thanks, you too! We are trying to figure this all out. Thanks for the support. Gary

We are mainly in north Texas. Try to have a presence on the almonds each spring. When we have spare bee in the spring we do like to send them to some friends in Wisconsin for a honey share. nectar.buzz I’ve been looking at it for a few months now. Wanted to give it a shot. I think it’s going to be a game changer for us as long as the data is input properly.

They were a bit def pissy that day. They I had too many parent hives after splits with grumpy foragers. They all settled down a couple of weeks later.

Nope, just find new ones on the side. We call them trash pallets since we find them in the trash. Really protects the bee pallets though. Gary

I know. I need new material. If you can beelieve it.

Here every night.

They were all having a bad day in the wind. The settled back down after a few weeks.

You can drive through fields of wildflowers and pollinate with those.

We sent about 200, down 250 from last year. Yes correct, it was I bad year and I make no secret of that. Pretty obvious, but you had to comment anyway. So just being snarky or trying to help? I can't tell. I'm glad I got the point across. We work hard for our bees, what real work did we miss? I am curious to know. You know so much from one of our videos. Guess you are en expert on our environment here in North Texas on the prairie. I would love more insight and help. Our biggest problem each year is nice winter days. Hives that are strong in November and December start crashing in January. We have bad winter dearths but nice days the bees fly and fly not finding anything and just wears out the winter bees. I wish they would just cluster for 3 months, that would be easy. Thanks for watching and engaging. This is a hard business especially trying to figure it out from scratch and not living in bee country. Please if you have real tips I would love to hear them. We had 600 that graded out late November. I'll take any real suggestions, but you seem to suggest that we don't put in the work. Give me something constructive, we don't need your petty assumptions. Cheers! Gary

Sounds like you are not a fan of government assistance and feel we should absorb the losses incurred. Its intended to help the protect food chain for all of us. CCD is real. We do are best to keep them going, but so much out of our control.

Marty rocks!

Who knows, probably got into something bad at that yard, just my guess? Thanks for the well wishes. Hope yours is a good one too. Gary

They were just queenless, once they re-queened. Gentle as can be.

This is our livelihood. We care about the health of our bees. Unfortunately we have to cull bees. The bees merged realistically should’ve been culled much sooner. We were trying to give them a chance. Most merged were less than 3 frames of bees. Being from Michigan I feel it’s fair to say you would agree that bees of this strength are ill prepared for sustained single digit cold. I feel we saved those workers be combining them. Yes we sacrificed some queens that had done their job, but were no longer. I stay active with several associations that currently fight for better beekeeping practices in commercial agriculture. We are in agriculture and support agriculture. The growers we work with do not spray when our bees are in the area. When they do they do it responsibly and work with us to develop their best practice. Boycotting an industry we support and rely on makes no sense. The almonds allow our bees to grow and build up early. That way we can have to bees to supply to small scale beekeepers. If you want to make a difference join your favorite associations. Help them with lobbying efforts. Trolling commercial beekeepers that struggle with hard decisions faced when thinking about the health and viability of their entire operation probably won’t help make much of a change. We do appreciate you watching and engaging. This is a hard business and we are faced with many challenges. Together as beekeepers we can make a difference.

What's up with the hate? The man is trying to make a living.

Our broker got them spread. We notched the feeding rims this year just in case of flood. That fall scared the you know what out of me. It could have been real bad. I hope they get more days to fly this year. We need a good build up.

Haha. Yeah that’s an office mates.

I’ll do my best to slow it down. Need to find a good mic too. Thanks for watching.

Its looking like we are going to have to buy some or find some brood to buy around here. I still see a lot of guys looking to find a place for their bees in the Commercial Beekeepers FB group. Its a good one if you aren't a member. I also like Sideliners too big too quit. Diesel is definitely the way to go, we aint getting any younger.

Heck yeah! If it was easy everyone would be doing it.

Makes sense, I heard our is normally good until 10f

I will see what we can do about that request and maybe do what we do how to when using them. Thank you!

Noted!

Oh and those corner thingys in that top feeder allow bees to empty the feeder regardless of the direction the hive is sloped.

When we first started hauling bees I was really uptight about the whole process, overtime the things I worry about seem to be more about ease and efficiency. You bring some good points about the lids and runners fitting together on the first style lid and "locking" into place and you are exactly correct that the non standard pallets created problems. I really like the flat top too for the reason that we deal with a lot of awkward loads and the slick top allows me to slide bump the top pallets a bit more which helps when the night gets long. Thanks for watching!

Phillip, you nailed it non standard. Our equipment is all over the place from buying bees off the almonds over the years. Last year our 2 loads were made up of bees from 7 keepers. Looks janky on the truck. One keeper had his pallet runners too close. He couldn’t stack his. Had to put them on the bottom. Bees drift up on the way.

@@honeybeesunlimited Gary and I exchanged a few comments about yall putting together a combo truck of beehives. I thought that was very generous of you to do that for smaller beekeepers. I am guessing you are just taking your own bees this year, correct? I am not too far from yall. I live near Dallas. I keep a few hives at my home and about 30ish at my farm south of Corsicana. If I can find the time, I'd like to come take a look at your operation. Maybe make a video. Take care.

We are loading the truck Wednesday night starting at 6:00. Still coop'ed this year. Come out if you like. [email protected]

The poor drones just never get any respect! Thank you for tuning in, much appreciated!

Haha. Thanks for watching.

We are just beekeepers. Get calls from time to time to look in on abandoned hives. Thought it would be fun to drag y’all along. Thanks for watching.

Bee cops. Not us. We just care.

We love Michelle here. Glad y’all too.

Thank you Jonathan, I need to make the effort and go a little further to grab some kerosene. We appreciate your support.

@@MikeBarberHBU thank you guys for putting out content going on 3rd year going from 30 to 100 hives this spring

@@jonathanstevens9919 you are going strong, and you have hits some big steps in a short amount of time, congrats. Scaling up is a constant challenge, fortunately the constant cycle of growth we are in is extremely interesting. Each big jump we take requires more infrastructure and better effort management but it also opens up more opportunities. We experience some a lot of growing pains along the ways but a willingness to work hard and work though it yielded solid results. Cheers to you and your bees, thank you for reaching out, stay at it and I look forward to hearing more from you. Your are very welcome and thank you!

The heaters are much better and efficient than before. I thought they were burning kerosene. Gary

We had no ideal what we were going to find. This was posted last winter. Not sure why you think it was a fall video. She is not a beekeeping, she never agreed to take care of them. The keeper that was responsible stops showing up. We he the call to investigate. I didn’t like what we found either, but it no lie.

We wear respirators to protect us from the oxalic acid vapors that we treat for varroa mites with in our colonies. Thank you for watching!

Thank you for your offer. We will decline.

Hello. We like to air them for a day and stack them so they are open to the air. We are with the same broker so same general area. I really hope your forecast holds true and we don't have to experience the delays and loss of last year's floods. Thank you so much for watching!👍

We will have bees in Pixley again. Just for the drop coordinates.

@@honeybeesunlimited just so you know…it’s going to be a muddy mess in the orchards the next few days because of heavy rain Wed night and all day Thur…that’s if the weatherman is right. I’m up north in Fresno/Clovis and they are saying expect it