New Beekeepers Learn To Walk Before You Run

hey everybody this is David at barnyard bees today what I'm talking about is this is for mostly for first year beekeepers and what you need to focus on for the very first year so I'm gonna get right into the video and talk about what you need to study up on between now and spring before you get your packages and one thing is is hive identification about you know what's what's in your hive what is what so let's go through through a few things here and show you what you need to look for that's a new beekeeper okay this colony right here it's a it's a small new colony it's a five framer and it's good actually got about three frames of bees it's not real big and it's got for its size it's got a lot of honey and it's also got some cat brood and I'll show you right here if you can see this these brown field cells right here that is what you call capped brood now up here on top that's capped honey so what you need to do is study up on this go to the website type in hive identification and find out what what day old eggs look like what two day-to-day eggs look like three day what larvae looks like what people looks like your first year this is stuff that you need to be learning I don't want anybody to come into the store and say I want to package your bees and a Grafton tool kit that doesn't make any sense as a first year beekeeper you need to keep it simple you need to learn the basics and that's what I'm trying to to get to you in this video here is now this is a winter colony and I normally don't do this but I want to get this message out because I've been thinking about it for a while in this thing that the new big beekeepers need to to learn ok this colony right here it has a lot of honey so it's it's really good you can get shape for honey there's some capped honey right there okay as you can see right there see the open honey it's just uncapped honey winter bees are supposed to be the meanest bees there is because they're protecting something that they can't replace and that's a queen and their honey supply if they would lose either their dead so that frame right here is very heavy so they got plenty of honey for sure for the size of the colony it's not that big of a colony this is a plastic frame here and it's look at to all the uncapped nectar that's got in it now they'll still feed on this they may never cap it off they may feed on this throughout the winter right there where my thumb is you'll see some capped honey to the right of it there's no Queen on this frame here and there as you can see right there there's two frames that have nothing on them so basically we got and that frame there had about half of about one side halfway through so it's got basically two and a quarter frames filled out and it would surprise me if this hive didn't make it through the winter it's got plenty enough it's got enough honey it's got enough pollen and I got a pollen theater to make sure that it's got enough Poland and it's got eggs in it and I was hoping to get here quick enough to show you the eggs but if not what you need to do the eggs look like as a miniature grain of rice sticking straight up the day that the Queen lays it it looks like a very tiny grain of rice sticking straight up you need to learn what the colony consists of as far as the capped honey capped brood eggs larvae pupae capped brood what the drone looks like what a queen looks like and what a worker bee looks like and as far as the line the Langstroth hive you need to learn what what a deep is what a medium is and what a shallow is stuff like that that's what you need to keep focused in on your first-year beekeeping try to keep it simple don't go overboard with it like I said don't come in the store order in a package of bees and a grafting tool kit it just doesn't make sense you need to learn to walk before you can fly and that's why I try to tell beekeepers don't get in a hurry study up between now and spring you need to learn study all you can about beekeeping and that's what I'm trying to get out today with the message I think it's a very important message and if you want to try to make some Queens the first year what I recommend is when you come across the Queen cell move that whole frame don't try to cut it just move the whole frame into another box preferably a 2 framer that's why I really push these 2 framers and I'll show you one of these in case the new beekeeper has enough never seen one right here's one right here that consists of two frames what you could do if you find a queen cell you can move that one frame over with the bees into that colony and you could put an empty frame right beside it and you've got your split that should be your first split right there has a new beekeeper the first year beekeeper you didn't do anything except move a frame of bees and you started a new colony when you do this early the success rate is very high when you do this between April and May considering the nights are not too cold just to chill brood that's when chill brood is when it gets cold enough to kill the brood where there's not enough bees to cover up the Baggies larvae in the bird so so stuff like this is what I want you to focus on for the first year we're feeding pollen throughout the year throughout the winter anyone tells you you shouldn't be feeding poem throughout the winter you need to question them a lot because I know by proof that by experience by doing by feeding poem throughout the winter you'll increase the power of your hive dramatically come spring so somebody's telling you not to feed pollen you better not believe it because I'm telling you I'm telling you by experience that you will produce a very strong colony come out winter providing that you have enough honey or nectar in the heart now this hive right here is plenty when I come back in February when the red maple blooms this hive here will explode remember two new beekeepers very important try to put the frames back just the way you took them out the reason being is that they fit together better that way because the way they draw it out they may draw it out a little bit thicker on one frame so if you put two thick frames together they won't fit right so try to remember how you take it out and put it back together just the way you took it out okay here will be a good frame right here to show you an example right there's a queen right there on the corner there she goes she's exactly right on the corner walking around the other side you can see how she's elongated compared to the rest of the bees and let me see if I can get this frame up here where we can see the eggs we've got a little bit of sunlight there now deep in those cells and I'm hoping that shows up you'll see like a white snotty looking material and that's royal jelly and let's see if I can spot some day-old eggs in here for an example the camera probably will pick it up better than I can see it out here in the light but right there's a clean on the bottom again but what I want you to learn to identify is when you can see day-old eggs and it looks like a miniature drains or ice sticking straight up you can't miss it when they're in there I had it sometimes you want to look with the sun's but in the back of you is the best way to tell okay like I said this is capped on e on the top you can see what it looks like and see if I can get this frame turned around I'm just trying to teach you how to identify what's in a hive so let me switch hands here when I get a good balance here when see inside this broom okay right there's a little bit of pollen right right there see that that looks like yellow looking stuff right there that's that's pollen pollen is always kind of Indian it in about half way you can see a bee right there carry a little bit of pollen on her legs okay there again there's a capped honey on top this is uncapped here on the bottom the small cells or worker cells and see if we can see some drone cells here I'll show you what drone cells look like of course this time of year you're not going to see that there is many right here's some more pollen right here on the corner see that yellow looking stuff it's indented and about halfway into the cell stuff like this I want you to learn how to identify this is priority when you first get your hive you want to start identifying what's in your own hive there's there's not a lot of cat brood there's the Queen again she's poking her nose around the corner there's like that little brown cells a is capped brood this is a winter colony I'd normally don't do this I do not like to break the propolis seal the only reason I'm doing this is to teach the new beekeeper give them an idea what they need to start learning studying about over the winter now you can pull up these pictures on online anywhere just type in hive identification you'll you can go find the stages of eggs to larva to pupa to cat brood to nurse bees guard bees worker bees you need to learn all of this and look it up online and there's plenty of illustrations on there for you to see that'll give you an idea now I know it's not like doing it in person but it'll give you a general idea about what to look for these bees here with just a little bit grumpy I took a few three or four stings everyone too bad okay all that right there in the middle look at that that's solid pollen that whole section then these bees here are very well taken care of as far as honey and pollen goes for the size of it it's this one here is about three four frames of bees not a lot but but this thing will increase come February towards the middle in the February when when the red maple starts blooming and go back in my archive hand and look at the videos and watch and learn study this is what I want you to do as a new beekeeper for the first year is don't come to the store like I said and buy a package of bees along with a my cot kit or a grafting kit it doesn't make sense keep it simple for the first year keep it very simple here's what it looks like when the bee stings you see it right there just left to it actually they don't happen very often this one's all honey it's really not much of as you work these you'll get more and more comfortable to do things with them you know just like touching them and pull them up in handfuls and that stuff that that's time goes on you think you'll never be able to do that but you will so let's get this put back in take a hive apart try to get it back together same way you took it out so that's that's what I want to talk to you about today mostly is identification of your heart if you're a first year beekeeper or such help us spread the videos out to get this out to everybody because our bees are in danger and the more beekeepers we have the better off we are look how they're feeding on this pollen - that are really taking it in well folks that's about it don't forget if you need bees for 20/20 Barnard be calm because it's beekeeping supplies we've got a 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Id: 2J4ZVqagOHo

Length: 15min 9sec (909 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 27 2019