Treatment Free But Not Stupid with Sam Comfort 11/01/22 Monthly Meeting

[@lilbob369]

Hey, I know this guy. He came talk at the Louisiana Beekeepers Association banquet years ago. Susan Cobey spoke as well. We were blessed. Great knowledge.

[@azurebapiaries6730]

Sams history & current operations never disapoint. Such an inovative-dedicated beekeep. Ive had his queens in a few yards for years now with my only complaint being they are some really swarmy genetics that can carry a disturbing high mite count without crashing... Happy beekeeping everyone!

[@beategotz5421]

In which order does he carry out the following work? - Rearing the larvae in the plastic cells - Removing the finished queen cells from the queen rearing box to place them in mating nucs - Removing the empty combs from the queen rearing box to place them in the mating nests - Removing brood combs from the mating nest for queen rearing systems? Or does he go back and forth and open the hives several times?

[@lasource811]

In regards to the density results in the walk away splits, what was the amount of bees per split. If you could give me a number for the week medium and strong densities, that would be great. Also I would imagine, since these are walk away splits and thereby raised via emergency queen rearing, the age of the brood is critical depending on what age the queen is, when put into the splits - versus the age of the brood. I think what helped the walkaway splits with more worker eggs preform better, is that the correct nurse bees are present on day 24 as she starts laying. If it was capped brood then a laying queen would be placed with that to make up the split. Again in this case you would have the correct ages of nurses bees to feed the young larve as the new queen begins to lay. The queen should just take off and a small split can grow very fast that way. Also Sam have you ever tried getting the bees to draw out the foundation in the 12 inch boxes straight without using two 6 inch deep boxes. Am aware that you reuse your old boxes. But would imagine it makes it easier for the bees to draw down from the exsisting comb. Could the owner of this channel forward my question to Sam. Many thanks. also fo the posting.

[@sbgmimedia]

We will give it a shot!

[@lasource811]

@@sbgmimedia Thanks hey:)

[@aaronparis4714]

If you don’t treat your a mite keeper not a beekeeper it would take years and years for the honey bee to build and adapt resistance

[@sbgmimedia]

This comment is antiquated rhetoric. Research proves otherwise. Not only modern, but historically, research has demonstrated resistance in honey bees - particularly to varroa, at least 30+ years.

[@aaronparis4714]

@ well it has not found us in Canada yet I can’t afford not to treat I don’t like buying bees and if you have the resistances stock you should share you would become a millionaire ask Randy Oliver on what happens when you don’t treat and I think he has the most data on this mite

[@philipsmart1453]

Superb.

[@sbgmimedia]

Thanks for stopping by!

[@macbeebuzzin]

This is the first time I’ve seen in a talk the idea that emergency queen cells can be of equal quality. Normally, beekeepers poo poo the idea of walk-always as inferior.

[@sbgmimedia]

Crazy right!? The SARE project Sam and others did produced excellent food for thought on the viability of emergency queens. The OTS method essentially does the same thing - the only lack is the study did not measure the follow up in use of the queens, but I've not heard any bad about Sam's queens to date anyway...

[@aaronparis4714]

That’s true u south beeks can do anything lol

[@sbgmimedia]

Certainly some stark contrasts with Northern beekeeping.

[@beesplus388]

180 nuc’s from 5 hives? 🙄🙄🙄

[@turnitupmike]

50 queens from a graft frame and could do that each hive, plus doing Michael Palmer style resource hive rapidly growing emerging and nurse bees seems possible over a few months maybe to repeat that at least once? Plus full hive to maybe 4 frame NUCS. I seems like optimal best max hive multiplication.

[@JosiahGarber]

1:04:00

[@tonyjetton8352]

It is difficult to listen to this guy. He is even difficult to watch. I am forcing myself to listen in hopes of learning something. I have been getting stung for 20 years and still developed arthritis. I know he is wrong on his statement about stings preventing and reversing arthritis. 17 minutes in and Sam is still telling stories about Sam.