Sifting, Sorting, Skimming, Boosting

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

So glad to see things coming along Ian!

[@ChrisFiggatt]

Love these type of videos! I like seeing how you’re working the hive and hearing your though process behind it.

[@boboften9952]

" .... and I'm not going to let up on the pattys until I have more Bees than I can deal with " Brilliant Summary Keep going , you are making progress We have changeable weather here , leading in to floods , ice , snow , rain ( going into winter , Southern Hemisphere , New Zealand ) Doing what can be done to keep the numbers up Thank you Ian

[@johnoliver9885]

Hey just a sound out, yesterday May 21 I saw a honey bee on a dandelion in Oshawa Ontario Canada it was the first young bee I have seen , I am sure came right out of the classroom..

[@JhosefatOsorioarostegui-ww2hb]

God bless you

[@kat2641]

Lookin good 😊

[@Draintheswamp2024]

After you set them out you got a cold snap, I thought you set them out April 22ish and I mentioned winter wasn't over yet until the 29th but they had to get out. I truly believe there is going to be a breakthrough in animal fat being super healthy for the gut of wintered honeybees needing a boost because plants are non-digestible in humans I can't say if honeybees have this issue other than not crapping for half a year, and if animal fat would work. but being a carnivore, we don't have health issues certainty not gut problems. Has been known to reverse just about every medical health issue you can name for instance obesity and type 2 diabetes, anyone find this of any interest consult your doctor before going on this diet.

[@AmericansBee]

20:00 You mind punched me with that frame- work editing. It looked like you boosted the same colony you took from. Lmao!!!

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

LOL

[@mikeries8549]

Sorry for being that guy but... Eggs hatch and pupa emerge. I say it wrong constantly too. 😂

[@jonohooper4555]

After watching your videos for a few years, I’m still unsure of how you get new comb into the brood nest. Does that happen when you’re doing swarm prevention?

[@DuckRiverHoney]

Nursing the bees along this year, it’s doing the needful. Our early flow is nearly dead.

[@bj8342]

After last nights live stream - every time you ID`d the Queen and set that frame outside the colony I could hear Master Bob quietly suggesting that she should be put back in the colony even if its adjacent to the wall to keep her safe. Looking better every week. We are covered in the smoky haze of the AB wildfires and 12 - 15C so not a lot of flight or foraging = slow growth.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I feel the stress, keep safe

[@billybobbarker3175]

If/when I need her to be safe, put her into a roller cage or into a 3 frame nuc box you pack around the yard you go. Otherwise, she is safer on the frame leaned outside the hive while the rest of the hive is inspected. Queens can run along walls of the box and bottoms boards, getting herself into pinch points. She is much safer out of the hive while the keeper is rummaging around.

[@ChristosKessoudis]

Please Ian if you can tell haw many euros cost in Canada the ten strips of bayvarol. Here in Greece cost 30 euros the 20 strips. Thanks

[@allsmilz7234]

Best Wishes Ian 💪

[@lasource811]

Am a month or two ahead of you here in the south of France and I had the same problem with half of my colonies. Just not enough bees with the winter change over. I put it down to the Asian hornet last year. The colonies overall did not come out of winter that strong anyways, having gone in small. But seeing yours being very similar and you dont seem to have asian hornet, am leaning to thinking varroa got both yours and mine. At least the week ones. Makes me think the strong ones have a genetic disposition towards being resistance to some degree against varroa. Time to breed from them I guess.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Nosema

[@ChristosKessoudis]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog same in northern Greece. nosema ceranae

[@muffyroy7880]

I diligently made your patty recipe with some Bio-Activator. I used 1:1 sugar water instead of HFC. They're stiffening up in the hive. Can i add something to the remainder clump to soften them but not throw off the ratios too much?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

It’s the water in the sugar mix that’s hardening your patty, sure is nicer to use inverted. Be sure to use wax paper

[@ОлегЧернявский-ц7л]

13.52 вы ставите рамку с медом на край, я вам посоветую при подселении слабых колоний, рамку с медом ставить в середине колонии которым вы помогаете, а потом 2-3рамки от Сильных Колоний , рамка с медом будет как перегородка, пчелы не дерутся, мёд в середине колонии толкает колонии активнее развиватся, попробуйте этот вариант помощи слабым колониям.

[@СергійС-щ6й]

Интересный метод.Вы давно его практикуете или это просто теория? Напрашиваеться вопрос-если колония слабая то полномедная рамка в середине будет плохо влиять на температуру гензда пчел. я парктикую ранней весной при первом облете помощь пчелой,а дальше только розплодом.

[@jenya1987ful]

Не проще ли воспользоваться самогоном, очень хорошо обьеденяет

[@СергійС-щ6й]

@@jenya1987ful да самогн хорошо обьеденяет. Но пяным на пасеку лучше не идти😃

[@cristi400]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@illumi-Nate]

This channel should be called "Go big or go home"

[@axeltullgren4063]

What size are theese frames?

[@Jack-es9xq]

Ian, is this yard intended for honey production or resource hives?

[@davidryle1164]

Funny thing, I've noticed a lack of drones in my colonies too. I'm in central WI, so by now, I'd expect to see more. I've put it down to a colder than usual May.

[@BeeBeorn]

I send som Swedish buckfast drones...A 4 year old breeder queen got out of juice..Heaps of boys. So she still provides but neede frames of hatching brood..wll see how far she gets..

[@mikeries8549]

He manages for honey production.

[@ДмитрийГрехов-ю8я]

I'm watching your latest videos carefully. I see empty frames from the edges in your colonies of bees. Are you familiar with the method of A.G. Blinov, a beekeeper who practiced in the Northern regions of Russia in 1837-1937? We practice his method, and we see how much energy you invest in the development of bee colonies, but everything is much simpler than you can imagine. I advise you to familiarize yourself with the Blinov A.G. method and try it in practice next season, I am sure you will be pleasantly surprised by the result.

[@judwithaneye]

What's the latest with the nosema?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I’ll test again after things are in full recovery, evened out and ready for the flow

[@MatsAndersson]

What are those strips?

[@graemediesel2936]

Apivar

[@ETsBees]

Did you touch that amitraz with your hand? Oh no now you’ll die one day

[@mikeries8549]

Everybody dies

[@ETsBees]

@@mikeries8549 what!!! How come nobody told me!!!!!!

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Definitely not good for health

[@ETsBees]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog you know I did some reading about amitraz…. I’m not sure how long term exposure plays on your health. But from what I was reading it is as mainly do to ingesting it. But maybe there is something they are hiding from us and that’s why they stopped selling more of it? Not sure makes ya wonder.