2020 Spring REWIND - Early Spring Nest Management, a cold Canadian Spring- part 1

[@joakimsaxin6135]

I just finished making fire and coffee and thought to myself, I should probably start looking at what Ian did last spring.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

A man of my heart !

[@johncolson5705]

I like the way you Id productive hives.

[@deanmagnuson2993]

I could watch the bees in flight all day long that I love

[@nikolamatic8922]

Hello Lan, you work around bees with great love, it's a pleasure to watch you. Greetings from fellow amateur beekeepers from Serbia.

[@calvinkalmon6746]

Very interesting to see the videos all strung together. I saw them all last spring as you made them but it really helped to see them again with the date and temperatures. Thank you!

[@ME_MeAndMyBees]

Best 2Hrs of Beekeeping Video I have watched straight through. Learnt lots about Spring Brood management. Big thanks. 🤗 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@paulp7678]

Whether it's in current actual position or a historical perspective, it's good to see the respect for the Ol' man (boss) when he rolls up. PS, love your bee videos.

[@sunsetheritage]

Been looking forward to this video!!!! I love the long videos because it allows me to have something to listen to without constantly choosing new videos every few minutes while I’m working on something. Like building hive equipment. Thank you again!!!! 👏👏👏👏

[@bryanbergner4134]

I really appreciate all the time and effort you put into this and your whole operation. Thank You, Ian.

[@brandonsbees1]

Really enjoying these longer spring videos as we are coming out of winter! Something great to watch as I start my coffee. Ready to rev up the season.

[@markos1661]

I like this long videos. They are relaxing, and I will enjoy. Thanks.

[@alexbiggs8131]

This is a very nice posting. Helps to correlate the actions through the year and temperatures.

[@dronebee5212]

I like your videos, I'm in New Zealand, comparing your plans,to my conditions helps alot thanks lan

[@johnoliver9885]

I have taken two honeybee U courses so far. Listening to Ian reminds me that no matter what the subject what you learn in class seldom has anything to do with what is actually going on in the field. Retired educator.

[@rayjohnson8329]

Who’s the boss? Dad? Incredibly valuable information here! Couldn’t thank you enough for the awesome education and inspiration. Keep up the great work! Ty,ty,ty

[@Downthend]

Thanks Ian, yourself and Charles Dowding no dig gardening are my go too channels for relaxing lol. Planning my bee expansion and spring take over of the world lol. In uk our boxes are smaller but I’m going to try your single box management this season with 14x12 jumbo boxes (biggest I can get here) and hoping adding early spring boxes works out ok.... thanks for the info, appreciated

[@viques254]

Man!! You're a serious bee keeper.

[@hootervillehoneybees8664]

That was a long one .. Nice vid thanks for putting it all together like that

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Definitely long, it gets worst, May is next It was a challenging spring

[@matthewmccormick2417]

Thank you IAN for the Video. Weather this Winter has also been nuts. The 1 Horizontal i have out of shed is telling me alot. Looks like next winter all my hives will winter in Horizontals outside. You manage thousands more then i do so ya. I got a feeling that by mid FEB all my hives will be out in the yard and by 1st of march they will be get put into their new Horizontal perm boxs. Take care Sir

[@ben-fe3zy]

Very nicely put together. I really appreciate the time you took to edit this.

[@rstlr01]

Kari is an all star!

[@BrooklandsHoneyBees]

Another amazing video man thank you for sharing

[@dwightcarter6334]

A thermal camera shot of all the hives in the shed would probably look cool!!

[@larva7066]

Keri with the "That's what she said" 😅

[@NKYHoneyBees]

*It seems much harder keeping bees up north. Yet, we complain down here where temps don't drop below 35 degrees hahaha Great work bud!*

[@rstlr01]

15 f I crack the top and they go for my eyeballs. I can’t imagine moving that many😂

[@ME_MeAndMyBees]

Hi from Scotland ! It's snowed yesterday (Easter Monday.) 😱 Can you do an explanation on "Canadian Shed Bee Storage" re Winter... How, Why it's done ? We leave our Hives outside all year (!) So this Video of indoor Stacked Hives is awesome but confusing management !?! Can you explain they process. Thanks 👍 Happy Beekeeping 2021. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@peaceinvalleygreenhouse6915]

Awesome, keep it up. I was going to say on your last rebuild video maybe consider a bit of re-engineering and use needle bearings instead of ball bearing. I had problems until I rebuilt and upgraded to needle bearings.

[@martinchanel4084]

nice vidio,always success 👍

[@pepperKingdom]

1:54:05 this feeders haw stay in position if big wind ??

[@michaelmcneil4168]

What about wheel extensions and using lower tyre pressure? Find a pressure that works for our wettest spring. You should only need it one or two years in four or five, as generally there is a bad year one in four according to the lunar calander.

[@jonathanlehr9206]

When you said queenless all those times the first thing that popped into my head was Formic Acid I doubt you even use it but I've had abnormal queen loss long after a treatment.

[@DuncanHeather]

Thanks for going to the trouble of editing these Ian

[@bjreimer294]

I am so happy to have find your videos it's a new revelation to me, so interesting and your family work so hard. I love it, so I am a new subscriber! And I will share. Thank you for your videos again! Can I buy your honey in Ontario?

[@HariBeeFarm]

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[@christofboehm1638]

Excellent documentation, thank you very much. I really appreciate to see your hives, as my hives are quite weak right now. They are covering just 3 to 5 frames. when did your hives started egglaying, already in the store? Is it possible that the very strong hives were made by emmigration from other colonies in the store in terms of different queen pheromone performance?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Yes

[@natserog]

Ian....do you have a recipe for soft pollen patties? thanks!

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[@JDS62]

Hi Ian, I built the white Beehive Loader. A question about your setting hives, I just palletized hives and wondered if you set them entrance facing entrance or all facing one way. It looked like you turn them at 6:20. Thanks for any input, moving bees with a loader is all new.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I set at random but I also set straight, it kinda depends on if the placement allows for water to drain

[@JDS62]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Thanks

[@nickford5549]

Bottom boards with load cells to catch abnormalities weight loss??

[@framcesmoore]

I wish my bees would be doing even half as good as your bees are I treat feed do every thing like u do and they die it has got to be the breed of bee what bread of bee do u have I am using sas a krat bees they did great went into winter strong and they came out dead thanks for the videos they are great have a blessed week

[@johnt2065]

Look at Bob Benny's plastic lid it does not leak as much as the stainless

[@deanmagnuson2993]

What would you do without Kerry

[@ufuk172]

Hi Ian, i am an great fan of your and your teammates work. Wish you a wonderdul 2021 season. Have you ever calculated how many Kgs of syrup and supplement you gave to a medium size colony per year. Best Regards.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Oh it varies because the big ones eat more

[@Elena-yj8yk]

Is it possible, you have queens lost, because same area where you had apivar longer then supposed to be? Thanks

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I have not experienced that

[@miroslawlaska8885]

Super

[@tiborcsizmadi4796]

37:27...very cool

[@jarrodvsinclair]

Been watching your videos this past week. Just wondering but are there wild bees there? With how hard you have to work to keep them alive I just wonder how many wild bees there are

[@graemediesel2936]

Thanks for putting this together. 😎 When emergency feeding the weak - do you give frames of honey to any of the larger colonies or just nucs? Do you prefer a particular type of honey for that?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Yes we drop honey frames Syrup too but we need honey beside those starving hives ASAP

[@TheCaliforniaBeekeeper]

What breed queens do you run in your operation Ian?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Base stock from Kona , oliverez carniolan

[@wayneshoneybees5439]

We had 50 degrees aka 10 and all 13 hives looking good. 2021 plan is 25 hives and to sell 12 nucs. Time to stop paying off investment.

[@gamrapidchannel1aj725]

Where you out of may be interested in those nucs

[@wayneshoneybees5439]

@@gamrapidchannel1aj725 Only pickup on nucs. Not a fan of package bees for my customers.

[@ShannonD.999]

Just finished this video, so awesome, part two is private? 😞😞

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

In the works Just about done editing

[@ShannonD.999]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Oh, I see! Sorry, haha! Looking forward to that, thank you 😁. I'm going to take a peek around the rest of your channel 🙂

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

This next compilation vid has more brood nest work , ... as weather permitted

[@szarkatomi2]

Why dont you give bigger ammounts of supplement at once so you could do it less frequently?

[@sabirabbasi4584]

Wow

[@jmekukid1]

Great video Ian! I may have missed you saying it, but that early in spring are you feeding a 1:1 or 2:1 syrup mixture?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

2:1

[@Makermook]

Ian, it's obvious you've spent ages fine tuning your honey operation to make it run as efficiently and profitably as possible. It's also obvious you don't have to spend so much time making videos for the rest of us, so thank you! I've been watching your longer videos on these cold winter days when I can't get into my hives, and I'm learning a lot. A question occurred to me: You have your hundreds of hives that you manage as a big commercial enterprise, but do you have a little backyard apiary at home that you just futz around in, calm and slow, like you did in the beginning? My tiny "apiary" will never be a money making job for me; it's more of a meditative pursuit than anything else. I wonder if you have an opportunity to do anything similar. Anyway, thank you again for giving the rest of us the benefit of the hard work you've put into beekeeping and management. Cheers!

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

No I have my KZbin vids to provide me with that reflection of fuss on my overall perspective of my continual colony management Cheers!

[@HaUsSssss]

How many gallons of 1:1 do you end up feeding each spring you figure?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Maybe a gallon or couple gallons.

[@nutsandboltsbeekeeping6413]

Ian, how do you keep the feed buckets onwhen they get close to empty and really windy?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

The bees glue them down within a day or so.

[@loolaabillions]

Are there any flowers. Gardens or fields/forest nearby for them to forage besides the protein and sugar syrup your giving them? Cause what is your business for? Do you lease them to farms or sell the neuc’s or honey 🍯 products? I’m just wondering how you make sure he money from this many hives? Don’t they need nature still??

[@HereWeGoSteelers]

How cold is to cold to do a Oxalic Acid treatment? Can a beekeeper do a treatment with outdoor temperatures at 38-40 degrees Fahrenheit? Thank You

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

As long as you think the vapour penetrates the cluster

[@HereWeGoSteelers]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Is there anything a beekeeper can do to make sure the vapours do penetrate the cluster? Hopefully the bees wont be to tightly clustered Thursday when our temperatures are supposed to reach 50 degrees fahrenheit. I apologize for asking multiple questions but this is the first year we have switched over to OA after using Apivar Strips in the past. Thank you once again for all the help

[@aprilpunley8291]

can't the bees your sweaping up be used to feed fish/ compost ECT. I use to use flys from the attic. for my tanks . I was afraid of poison but my fish were healthy.

[@vedantjoshi5884]

Good

[@srae1503]

How do you handle swarming in the spring?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

That’s next

[@mehmetpiskin9337]

🇹🇷👍

[@kkgabrielpubg984]

👏👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@julian7037]

Hey can you please share the tags you use, and what you track?

[@benjamindejonge3624]

Is there a state / provincial beehive honey inspector upthere ?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Yes we have a provincial apiary inspection conducted annually

[@rayjohnson8329]

Your ez loader overhaul comes up as “ private video cannot be viewed”?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

It’s being redone I’m doing a voice over rather than music

[@johnt2065]

Being check-out Bob s rubber plastic rubber plug you might like it over that it's not quite as Mess

[@rayjohnson8329]

I keep trying to count how many are on a truckload, but can’t see the total? Is it 60 hives per load?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

144 hives per truck stacked 3 pallets high

[@АрифХудавердиев-з8д]

🇦🇿👍🏽

[@jschodron6741]

Can you put to many in a yard?

[@shevlin2650]

Ian, I noticed the large amount of Bees you were sweeping up. When everything is said and done, how many Bees are left in a hive? I am amazed that with the loss that has happened the rehives rebound well. Will the hives with 4 frames of Bees produce honey that year? Craig Fr. VA

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Assuming that attrition didn’t contribute to replacements before they died

[@shrekpower]

57:45 That face! LOL! Been there done that, NOT FUN :P

[@larrytornetta9764]

Bees like get me the f out of here.

[@clic4444]

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[@davidflanagan3396]

It is not spring in Canada yet is it

[@tiborcsizmadi4796]

LMAO..spring???Can't even see spring off in the distance around here

[@davidflanagan3396]

@@tiborcsizmadi4796 second look youtube tells last year lol

[@tiborcsizmadi4796]

@@davidflanagan3396 Ha Ha ha ..but you know what the sad part is ....last year ,this year or next..In the Middle of January....spring feel's like a far away dream ....lol

[@dzikunwm]

Why don't you use smoke before laying box back in the place? You would kill less Bees

[@johnhenson8862]

I wonder why beekeepers leave the outside in crappy condition. The bees wander over the perishing wood then walk inside. In a tree they do the same, but with the overhead of having to put plenty of propolis on the inside. Damp weather and exposed wood . Its not the degradation of the hive that matters but what the bees need to do to ensure internal health. Bees immune system is not very sophisticated and a down regulated immune system means they are not expending energy fighting mild inflammations. Spending time and money clearing snow rather than a lick of paint. A little more focus should be on bees perhaps a thought worth considering. Any research on this topic?

[@AsslalRachid-ym7fp]

it is not spring yet👍

[@hootervillehoneybees8664]

Whats up with hay farmers and bee keepers .. Everyone i talk to wants me to set down bees ..

[@anassebartal833]

Hey im frome morroco can u give mee a contract to help you at work

[@TimberTramp]

Why the mask?

[@julian7037]

Hey can you please share the tags you use, and what you track?