Farms: New Bees - Hive Left is not Right - Week 6
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Today I had a look at the New Bees to make sure the queens were present and healthy. I found two healthy looking queens, but Hive #Left has taken no syrup in two weeks. Their population is stagnant and they seem disorganized. I think it's time to get them into a nuc box for the winter. What do you think??? Please let me know in the comments! ———————————————————————————————————— The links below are to products I use and recommend. If you buy something using these links, I receive a small commission from Amazon. Thank you! ———————————————————————————————————— BEE GEAR I USE: ———————————————————————————————————— BEE SMOKER - http://amzn.to/2aNHUPh HIVE TOOL - http://amzn.to/2cyFdyF YOU WANT A VENTED BEE JACKET - http://amzn.to/2aNJnoR BEE BOOKS: http://amzn.to/2aNLOYf http://amzn.to/2avabMy http://amzn.to/2alWHN1 http://amzn.to/2alX36x http://amzn.to/2aNMZa7 http://amzn.to/2awii8N (Great for Kids!) http://amzn.to/2ayzKd4 (Great for Kids!) CAMERA GEAR I USE: ———————————————————————————————————— MAIN SHOOTER: http://amzn.to/2ayC2Zs GO PRO: http://amzn.to/2aJpcXT GO PRO ALUM. FRAME: http://amzn.to/2aiU57d FLEXIBLE TRIPOD: http://amzn.to/2aiSFcN BALL HEAD: http://amzn.to/2aiSE8K (for each tripod) SHOTGUN MIC: http://amzn.to/2avdnl6 (amazing battery life) WIND COVERS: http://amzn.to/2ayzPNM Thanks for watching!
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@vinofarm can you please give me a link to your hat/veil combo?
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learning along with you although we're in spring summer. ive learned that you are frequently correct and you research carefully so I trust your decisions. my beek journey has just begun but many thanks for journaling your experience
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Def condense to nuc. They will be able to stay warm better that way and hopefully survive winter. As they sit in this video, they probably won't make it through winter.
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I honestly have no idea, but I LOVE your videos. So very informative and just fun to watch. Best of luck with whatever choice you make!
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If it were me, I would take that medium super off of the left hive and leave them confined to one brood box. I think a Nuc would be too small but what they have now is too big. Maybe she just stopped producing eggs sooner in the season than the other, older queen.
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I noticed you had deleted a video, was it not important, I've been leaning allot about beekeeping from your videos.
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I really love your Videos! I like how you talk certain and how you explain everything, it's very interesting and kinda relaxing watching you evolve with your bees! Please keep up the good work, so you can finally harvest some honey of your bees next year! 😄😄😄 I'm tuned!!!
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Just take hive lefts top empty box off and hope for the best
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so when this started I was cheering on success for both hives.. but at this point I would pinch the left hive queen then combine the hives.
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A couple of considerations: Maybe move one frame of good honey and brood over into the left hive if the right has the ability? Is the right side hive getting close to being honey bound? If so, maybe use the right hive to slightly bolster the left side with one frame of brood/honey. If not, perhaps your idea is the best and moving the left side hive into a nuc or reducing it to just one brood box with all the stores they have managed to accumulate. You also might want to reduce the entrance size on the left side to discourage robbing, especially if the hive is tipping towards the weak side.
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What would you do differently to winter a nuc? I'm just hoping you can get all three through the winter. It'll be interesting to see what you decide.
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I would just remove top box on left hive, but putting it into a nuc is also good.
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Maybe a feed stimulant in the syrup? Hive-alive, or honey-b-healthy. Make the syrup taste good, so they drink it down.
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Just an observation and a thought. It looks like there are fewer bees in hive left than when you first opened the box, and they are acting very disorganized as you observed, not taking food, certainly not looking like they will survive. Could that hive be suffering from CCD?
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Now i think your productivity is down in left hive because you treated I said last week. I noticed when you treated your main hive productivity went down in that one too but after treatment it took off. I would shrink the hive for the winter less for them to worry about with temperature. I am thinking would I like to live in a large house using only body warmth to heat it? no! give them a smaller house keep then warmer and watch the little buggers make good in the spring.
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Right hive have a good activity I think it is a great idea to take one of the frames that have brood in them from the right hive and add it to the left hive this will help them survive the winter.
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Btw I kinda have the same issue going with my two hives. I feel that I lost a queen in the flow hive but I will be getting one soon so it will work out. It's like they just stopped building comb.
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If you can get the rectangular hay bales fairly cheap I would try to build a 3 sided wall. On The East North and West side leaving the South side open because it's not necessarily the cold that is going to get to the bees but the driving wind. I think Supplemental feeding well help during The Winter Using your new boards/Ventilation boards. I've heard using cedar chips that you can get from your local pet store will help Instead of using the burlap. "Bears"
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Top box should be removed and maybe if you really feel like nuc-ing them then it may not be a bad idea. Smaller space for them to keep warm.
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it does look light population wise.