Many bears at the bee hives and how I saved them

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Жыл бұрын

My electric fence needed some upgrades. In 2021 there were ten times as many bears trying to access my hives than ever before.

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@Jazzie654 19 күн бұрын

Very nice soothing voice, would love to hear him narrate an entire wild life show. Thank you so kindly sir 👂😌

@georgieippolito9924 2 ай бұрын

there should be a channel or live stream of bears getting into bee hives out in the open for the bears. also have a camera inside so when the bear opens it up, first thing you see is a bear nose with a bee on it. I could watch the bears get into bee hives for hours

@JohnSmith_nz 11 күн бұрын

In NZ farmers often have an earthed wire in the fence as well. I.e. about the height they stick their neck through, that way they have the earth right around their throat. Also, the earthing of the unit is critical. Many years ago when farming, my base unit had 6 long earth pins driven into a swampy creek supplying the earth. The easiest way to test if your earth is not adequate is to bang a pin about 2 metres away from your existing earth pin, lay a standard against the fence to "short" the unit out, and measure the voltage between the test earth and the fence earth. If you have voltage then your existing pin is not adequate. The bear is actually completing the circuit between the earth peg of the unit and the hot wire ... so the earth peg has to be a good one. My apologies if you have tried all this stuff and I'm preaching to the converted ... but you do have my sympathies. A good setup electric fence can lay a decent-sized bull bellowing on his arse, but then we never ever had hungry bears to deal with.

@wildlifebybean 11 күн бұрын

Thanks for your interest. Your comments are on point but my problems have been solved and my honey is safe.

@patrickhowell5382 7 ай бұрын

Fence posts and wires need to be stronger and more powerful current.

@karryhardman8735 7 ай бұрын

Interesting video, Thanks for sharing. In some of the footage it looks like the ground is dry. This dry ground will have higher resistance and decrease the efficiency of your electric fence. I know of two ways to fix this. One, wet the ground around the fence. Two, add ground wire to your fence in-between your hot wires. I have had great success adding ground wire in dry conditions.

@wildlifebybean 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for replying. I have neutral wires spaced between the hot wires and when I test the fence using the soil near the fence as the ground I still got voltages in the range of 7500 to 8500. No, as I said in the video the problem was the wire was a little too lax and spacing a little too great. Because of recent wild fires, etc there was tremendous pressure on these guys to eat and prepare for winter. More wire courses under higher tension plus more food in the wild has solved the problem.

@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm 5 ай бұрын

@@wildlifebybean But the bears are still starving. Your brilliant solution does not help the bears. Should it have? They were there before you were but they never bought the property.

@stanmann356 24 күн бұрын

@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm And if he hadn't bought the property there would be no beehives there and the bears would still be in the same situation food-wise.

@davidepool5884 Ай бұрын

When protecting bees or anything else from bears you need to use barb wire and the strongest electric fence charger you can find. Bears can slip through plain wire because their fur is so thick. Barb wire can be stretched much tighter making it harder for them to slip under or between the wires. The longer the barbs on the wire the better.

@wildlifebybean Ай бұрын

No. You should never use barbed wire on an electric fence. Yes, wire should be under sufficient tension to create enough pressure on the bears thick coat to deliver an adequate shock. This requires strong wooden corner posts. For the apiary in this video, a one joule energizer delivers 9500 volts which is more than sufficient once the wire tension was increased..

@Art-is-craft Ай бұрын

@@wildlifebybean You are underestimating the physical nature of bears. Once a bear learns how weak the fence is they will just ram their way through. At present your system just bluffs them. Having a solid fence system that cannot just be rammed through surrounded by the electric fence will make it much more difficult to penetrate for a bear. I assume your system runs direct to electricity without a battery backup.

@jool7793 4 күн бұрын

@Art-is-craft is your honey so valuable that you would rather have a dead bear?

@wildlifebybean 4 күн бұрын

@@Art-is-craft No, barbed wire should NEVER be used with an electric fence, rather it should be set up properly. No, I do not want to kill or even injure the bears. They were simply hungry and trying to prepare for winter. Yes, I use house current to the energizer to deliver 9500 volts DC at about 200 mA to the fence. The old fence was inadequate as described in another video. The new fence does the job. The bears now leave it alone.

@Art-is-craft 4 күн бұрын

@@wildlifebybean I am not suggesting a barbed wire electric fence. But a solid fence that cannot be run through will stop a bear. A bear that is aggressive enough can snap a simple electric line. A barbed wire fence with a solid profile with an electric line on the outside side will also work. None will kill a bear.

@faybad 4 ай бұрын

Where can I buy all the equipment in your video. I am a new beekeeper and want to protect them against bears. Does this equipment come in a set to buy. Thank you for the video.

@wildlifebybean 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Livestock/Agriculture supply places. Even a place like Home Depot may have stuff. If you need protection of same size area I used, you only need a 1 joule energizer (gives 8-9,000 volts at about 150 mA). You need at least 6500 volts for bears. 12-14 gauge fencing wire and solid wooden corner posts. Avoid solar powered, they are not as strong. If plugged directly to house current, the Energizer needs to be protected from the weather. You want good wire tension (I used turnbuckles) and seven wires to discourage small bears. Check how I used the insulators on the corners and how neutrals and positives are placed. Hive bodies should be at least three feet from fence.

@faybad 4 ай бұрын

@@wildlifebybean thanks for info

@skeets6060 2 ай бұрын

I had the same problem slipping between the wires, I solved it by attaching chicken fence to the wires, they cant push through cause no matter where they put their nose it gets bit!

@missmaedeut3210 2 ай бұрын

That first bear said "aint nothing getting in my way"😂❤

@jahearme4259 10 ай бұрын

Plywood with nails in it around perimeter would definitely help your set-up

@enricotoesca3941 Жыл бұрын

Good Morning 🐻 🥰🥰🥰🥰

@wildlifebybean Жыл бұрын

Back at you.

@enricotoesca3941 Жыл бұрын

@@wildlifebybean You ' re welcome 🥰🥰🥰🥰

@dennisnsharleneparker9797 20 күн бұрын

My electric fence has every other strand ground, 6" apart. A full 10,000 colts to the unlucky trespasser. I don't depend on ground conductivity. (Dennis)

@JohnSmith_nz 11 күн бұрын

:-) just wrote a novel above, and scroll down to read this. :-)

@thedolphin5428 4 ай бұрын

Tape and plain wire electric fences are NOTORIOUSLY USELESS on thick furry/wooly animals, not to mention chickens. Some might get a shock on their wet nose if/when sniffing the wire, but most just walk straight through them. The best improvements are to use closely spaced *barbed wire* (to penratrate the fur), AND to have a very high current with a short frequency sender with a very good (wet) earth stake. Add some vertical strakes to prevent push-through.

@MEMUNDOLOL 7 ай бұрын

i saw a video of black bear who dug a trench under the fence to get in and out, dude had tarpaulin on the ground around the fence but it didnt stop the bear

@Art-is-craft Ай бұрын

A couple of spikes below the fence can make it more difficult. Foxes will do the same with fences to get at chickens.

@affordabledesertliving3487 19 күн бұрын

wont hurt them but it is "very educational" LOL

@diannetemple9974 9 ай бұрын

I feel so terrible for all of the wildlife that we have, slowly getting smaller by the numbers. There is no food for them, I understand that they get desperate and I understand you love your bees and you have them for a reason and I appreciate that too. I just wish that society would stop destroying lots and lots of forest and woods. We keep invading their space, and none of us want to learn to live with them, but they're expected to learn to live with us and by our rules. Every day they lose their homes, their food, there's just not enough food out there for these animals. I know you don't want to lose your bees, and your honey, and I'm grateful for what you do. I don't throw anything out, I throw it to the woods.😢❤❤❤

@Art-is-craft Ай бұрын

US and Canada has huge areas for bears to roam but they by nature always push boundaries.