Escape Beekeeping Mistakes: Ryan Williamson's Tricks for Success

[@user-mi4fj9rq7v]

Thank you Ryan. Great information, appreciated your insight and Tips!

[@sbgmimedia]

thanks for watching!

[@hootervillehoneybees8664]

Nice working with your kids like that... How mine were raised now they take care of me always looking out for me.. my grandma said they use to tie her up to rocking chair when they milked the 8 cows on their 40 Acer farm.. way things use to bee and families were much closer took care of each other.. I think that's part of the American dream strong family unit.. that's awesome story good luck with the bees.. some good tips as well.. I'm working on bee hive that's 90% recycled materials and 95% air ..

[@GLuft3]

Wow! So many great tips in here. I need to go back and make notes. Thanks!

[@autumnpaul7575]

Oh yes this is a great video!! Thank you for the hack tips and the pics of a balanced life with the other loves of your life! I love it when kids and animals are in videos. Really have struggled with how to clean stuff and record keeping while dealing with angry bees😬

[@michaelbriggs8940]

I do half foundation, but cut horizontally. It works better for swarms, because they like to cluster and hang.

[@JM-tx2fz]

Great Presentation , well done

[@randallmuir5570]

Thank you Ryan for a great presentation. I ended up with a lot of useful takeaways. I can tell we share a frugal nature. I love creative solutions that repurpose readily available materials and keep things out of the landfill, for God sake! Your delivery is polished and very easy to listen to and understand. I’ll be looking for more content from you. Kudos.

[@SourwoodFarm]

Thanks. I really appreciate hearing that you found the content useful. My daughter and I had fun getting a lot of the pictures and videos together last summer

[@Dale-bh3vm]

Wow amazing amount of information in this video. I love it. Thank you.

[@angieh.527]

Wow, fantastic presentation! Thanks Ryan!

[@81realtime]

Best video

[@2001rotax800]

Another Michi-gander Awesome!

[@sbgmimedia]

You know it!

[@BrianCooper901]

Impressive amount of unique information that I haven't heard mention of before. Great presentation. Thanks for sharing!

[@SourwoodFarm]

I'm so glad you found it interesting. I enjoy trying out of the box hair brained ideas and occasionally one actually works.

[@sbgmimedia]

Ah, the secrets of the universe revealed! Just kidding, but we are glad you found the information unique and enjoyed the presentation. Thanks for sharing the love!

[@TedHerrick]

This guy has presented some great tips and tricks! I really enjoyed listening to this man. Thanks for posting!

[@SourwoodFarm]

Thanks I'm glad you found it useful

[@sbgmimedia]

Thanks for stopping by - we love bringing information like this to KZbin land!

[@jpsullivan5740]

Great video! Thanks!

[@lynnannandbenji]

Ok, so I have to explain why my shopping list now consists of a toilet brush, blue painters tape petroleum jelly and wood for divider boards?? I'm not going to explain I'm going to keep them guessing....lol. Thank You for sharing your tips. I'll be re watching this video several times, I'm sure.

[@KajunHomestead]

great info

[@randallmuir5570]

PS. I meant to ask you a couple questions. I rely heavily on OA in my small natural beekeeping enterprise to keep mite levels low throughout the spring and summer months. But I only vaporize in the winter when there is little or no capped brood. I monitor levels by mite washes monthly, and if a colony gets above treatment level during the spring and summer when there is capped brood, I will pop in an FA treatment, and then retest that colony after two weeks to verify it worked. Thereby avoiding the necessity of a brood break. Is vaporization your only method of OA application, and if so, how come? Secondly, thoughts on formic acid? Thanks

[@SourwoodFarm]

My home bee yard has over 100 colonies of all sizes. In Virginia we have pretty hot summers with a bad dearth so I found that formic and apiguard were too stressful and led to robbing problems. OAV works pretty well for me as I raise a lot of queens with cells so many of my colonies get multiple brood breaks making the mites susceptible to the oxalic acid. It's not pleasant in the summer but the cost is right. I'm excited though to have selected some really good breeder queens that kept mites at bay through last year's summer. I'm anticipating their daughters will perform better with mites

[@randallmuir5570]

Thanks for the reply. I meant to tell you when I watched your video, it brought back memories of an earlier phase in my life. I’m in the New River Valley of Southwest Virginia since 1992. But prior to that, I had a small farm just outside Stanardsville, which, as you know is not far from where you are near Earlysville. I wish you all the best in 2024, including more progress with that selective breeding program aimed toward mite tolerant, docile and productive honeybees. I hope we cross paths someday. Randy Muir

[@angelawoodring962]

Where can I find more videos with Ryan Williamson

[@SourwoodFarm]

I'm pretty quiet on KZbin although that might change. I will be presenting at the upcoming winter conference that's linked in the video notes above. Im more active posting images and short videos on Facebook and Instagram of things that catch my fancy in the bees

[@angelawoodring962]

@@SourwoodFarm I'm from Morganfield Kentucky, I really enjoyed presentation , I learned so much, thank you

[@Virginiaarcher2007]

Where in VA are you?

[@SourwoodFarm]

Near Charlottesville

[@Virginiaarcher2007]

Powhatan here. Just a Newby. Hopefully growing to multiple hives next year.

[@phillipriggs3375]

I'm thinking where you use half piece of plastic foundation. Maybe also a 1" piece of real wax for starter strips on either slide at top of frame so NOT start drone comb.................?

[@SourwoodFarm]

I tried that and they still made drone comb as that's what they do dearly want in the spring. I also found it hard to adfix in groove frames. For a bit I would staple in a strip of wood as a comb guilty but I finally succumbed to the ease of using nothing

[@phillipriggs3375]

@@SourwoodFarmI have place 80 miles N. of Austin. I have 22 acres of Juniper cedar and need ag exemp.I have used hives and drawn comb in them. I have a package of bee'scoming in June so I am gathering info, so not even a beginner yet. Thank You

[@fux6163]

Unfortunately, almost 10 minutes of video and audio are missing shortly after the start.

[@wesleybutler9514]

Go forward a bit and it comes back.

[@sbgmimedia]

Sorry about that! We were notified and the fix is in. It is processing the repair right now, should be ready soon - but in the meantime, you can fast forward.

[@sbgmimedia]

It is now officially fixed.