Bob you have such a calm demeanor that I'm positive the bees appreciate. 4 years in to my beekeeping journey, and patients is the lesson the bees keep trying to teach me. You Sir are a master!

Love these type of videos, a day working the bees, along with your more specific subject oriented videos make a great compliment to each other.

Bob thank you so much. You are a great teacher. There is no way to tell you how much you help the newer beekeepers. Keep up the good work

No slammin and dammin!!! Absolutly Bob!!! hahaha God Bless!!!

Hi Bob. You and your team are professional and enthusiastic. Your equipment is in great shape. Your system is Honed to near perfection for what it is. You open your hives and recognize a great colony. We open your video and recognize a great operation. Thank you for sharing...........

Gleaning info from your fast pace is challenging for a novice, so I usually watch several times and scale down to fit my limited experience and yard. Thanks

Your hired hands are like machines. Love seeing them work. Keep paying them well and take them to lunch every so often.

Yes. The calm demeanor AND the information seems to be for 2nd and 3 year beekeepers also. So many others focus on only the 1st year and not what to do coming out of the winter with your colonies.

Ty, so much for your videos Bob, I live in SW Washington 1st yr beekeeper to bee :) Ty so much for the time you spend on your videos for us. :) Blessed Days...

Those big ones you have with lots of brood are what all 25 of my hives are looking like here in south central Pennsylvania. Giving every hive a full box of drawn comb for more space. Season is starting with a BANG so expect some folks to be caught off guard and lots of early swarms this year! Time to get the swarm call gear loaded into the car.

Those bees are looking great Bob! Thanks for sharing!

Always great information! We absolutely love the quality of your double screen boards. We ordered 20 this season and hope to phase all of our older ones out with yours. They are very versatile and I don’t really understand why everyone isn’t using them. We are the only operation that seem to like them in our area. The quality is the best I’ve seen on a double screen board. We have used them from many manufacturers and even had a custom shop build them for us. Yours surpassed them all in quality. Thank for the quality information and products. In times like these people need good instruction and quality equipment. Your operation provides both. A sincere thanks from a growing sideliner.

Too much brood, what a great problem to have. Thanks Bob very enjoyable.

Bob this was great thanks so much for doing it, I hope u continue to do videos as u are working the bee yards. I made one of those boxes for scarring brood around it works great. I started putting on the honey suppers today the flow has started here i had wet frames found queen cells and did some splits as well. any way thanks so much for the videos they are great. please keep doing them. God Bless and have a great week

Hello Mr Bob From Kajun Homestead and Beekeeping , love your videos , they have taught me a lot , thanks for helping us all out.

Always enjoy your videos. I've been practicing your method of colony equalization (and splitting) this spring to reduce swarming. I'm in Birmingham, AL and find that this type of management needs to be started around March 1st, as we usually start seeing swarming at the beginning of the month. I sometimes worry that I remove too much brood from strong colonies, but hearing you say that you leave 3-4 frames of brood makes me feel better. As of March 20th, all of my strong double deeps already have 2 supers installed to also give the feeling of space. Nectar flow will be starting soon! Thanks for all that you do Bob.

I would just love to visit down your way and spend a day working yards with you guys. I have began using some of the tricks you show up in my yard and so far the bees came through winter well in Pennsylvania. Thanks for sharing your knowledge

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Always enjoy the videos of you and the team working the bees. Thank you for sharing ☺️

Thank you so much Bob and I look forward to the next one.

Some good looking colonies coming out of winter!

Great job and information, as always. Thank you for sharing!

Nice buildup! Thanks for the tips and video.

Great looking hives. Thanks for the video. Great to meet you in person. Very nice store👍

It's impressive to see a large scale operation! Good luck in 2022!

Gonna make me some doubel screen boards. Looks good for small hives during the winter

Thank you a lot for this video (and all the others too). Really great to see your work and get all the insights. Wish you sucess!

Wow Bob that's some kickass nice hives! Great work!

I have converted a sack trolly to an easy to use super lifter ,it can lift 3 wsp boxes and is very useful doing brood work i will do a feature on in a instegram( wa Bush honey ) .The arms grip the hive and winding a handle lifts. if using an escape board this would be effortless and possibly as fast as what you do which requires a high level of strength and stamina .i admire what you are able to do.

Great video and some good lookin bees. Split out the old queen in one of our hives 2 weeks ago and they sent a virgin swarm into our oak tree this past Saturday. Live and learn!

Awesome instructional video!

Here in pa, I was seeing mature drones on March 12, took some splits to experiment with on March 14 small splits still doing great.

Can't wait for the snow to finish melting... I want to do some beekeeping again! Canadian winters are too long >.

At this time of the year what did you do with the colony that had the drone laying Queen? Really enjoyed see what you are doing this time of year.

Thank you wery much for your great video lessions!! I love your work! If understood you Have a box for brood that you take out with the bees and put that in smaller colonies? The bees will not fight eachother when putting them in other box? You Look in a hive to Have Max 5..6 frames of brood? Thank you so much! Enjoy and all the best to you from Europe!

I wish you could winter bees in Michigan you guys down south got it made.

Hello Bob. You mentioned that you didn't loose many colonies over winter. This is my first year of not losing any at all. I have been really busy getting honey supers together to put on them.

Hey bob I was wondering if two medium frames of bees could build up had a small colony make it threw the winter and I want to make sure they live any info or tips would be much appreciated

Bob I am a 2nd year beekeeper. I saw you last year at Amy Grant’s farm and at Tennessee beekeeper’s meeting at MTSU. You had John in this video working a rowdy hive as I call them or angry bees. I have one hive now and the bees seem very angry when I work them. What can I do to get a gentler hive. Thank you for all your videos and lessons, you are the best . Thank you Jeff Powlesland Nashville TN

Thanks for your vids. Can you review your equipment ie smoker, vail and hat.

Bob, I have a question. I'm just outside Philadelphia. I overwinter my colonies in doubles. This fall I left a medium on most of my colonies because of low food. I had to feed sugar bricks over the winter to keep them going. I ended up losing one hive that must have gone queen less over winter and it just died out. So, I got in my hives for the first time yesterday because it's been too cool to do anything. Our Maple tree population is large and the bees are bringing in nectar and tons of pollen. I"m also seeing maple nectar in the cells. I put supers on to collect the nectar and keep the brood boxes from jamming up. I was expecting relatively small populations. In reality I found large populations and a lot of brood. there are drone between the boxes. this happens almost every spring to me. I can't split yet because we can't get queens. I don't have adult drone yet either. As for queen cups, I've only seen empty cups on the bottoms of the frames. I know they make them for emergencies. How do I keep them from expanding too fast? I'm not feeding because they're bring things in. Any suggestions? I do have to open some of the brood nests because they're filling up with pollen. I've also found the bees are building some comb.

I would interested to know if you keep a record of how much sugar syrup you pump into hives , and if that is deducted of the total amount of honey you produce . ? That would give you an accurate amount of honey the bees produced .

8 frames wow! No way I could do that in Ct. 10 frames and an insulated cover…. And a mild winter maybe. Why not take the feeders out in the fall and add those feed frames Bob?

Did you combine that drone layer with another weaker colony?

I had bees last two years come get water from my ac drain and I’ve spent some time watching them to see if I could track them to the hive and I noticed they were coming and going in three different directions I never did find a hive but they had a steady flow of bees all spring till end of late summer I always had 10-15 or more bees getting water the first time I seen them I thought a swarm was close by but it turned out they was just a lot of bees coming for water

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I love this view. I noticed how few skips (spottyness)your strong colonies have in the capped brood. That first weak one had quite a bit more spottyness. Do you think that colony might have a higher mite/virus load? I watch several beekepers, and along with my colonies i am noticing more spottyness this spring overall than in recent years. Your strong colonies in this video have the least spottyness of any i have seen this year. Thank you for this video, also enjoy you guys poking fun at each other!!

Really great information on using the double board. Beautiful looking colonies. How much space is under you migratory tops? Is there a 3/8" trim piece on the outside edge of the lid?

How many yards aday can you guys normally get thru on day like that ? Great job on the video bees looking good

Are you adding the bees and the brood to other week colonies? Is there no concern they will kill the queen in the second colony?

Thanks for sharing Bob. Where do you get your white overalls?

Bob, you may train your lads manual handling technics - how to lift or drop boxes without damaging their backs (using legs power correctly)...

Great video bob. Question I have is. Does it matter on if it's a windy day or not ? Seems like I can't smoke my bees that well in 15- 25 mph winds

Bob, do you place any pollen patties in your bottom colony and/or top overwintered nuc's? And thank you for your time Sir.

Hey Bob and your Beeks. Question : What do you guys use in those metal Round 'Lids,*' you add into those Feed Holes, in your Hives Roofs ??? 👀 I'm in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 so can you suggest a source, or alternative to use with ex Jam (Jelly) Jars, or medium Canning Jars, re top Feeders. Thanks in advance. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2022. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Hope to source some sort of Lid, this side of the Pond, if possible ! Hope you can advise. Going to make some DIY Queen Hives (Boxes with Top Jar Feeders) and try to make my own Queens. I'm in my 2nd Year of Beekeeping. So giving myself a challenge ! Cheers to all. 😎

What are the benefits of side entrance?

Another great video guys. And how is Tommy doing since he went on his own just curious?

What is the concentration of sugar and are there any additions to the sugar solution? Thank you

Mr. Bennie, Do you end up using all of the extra brood frames in a new apiary? What else could you do with the excess brood frames at the end of the beekeeping day? I enjoy your beekeeping videos thanks

Bob normally what do you yourself expect to see as your over winter losses, percentage wise?

Bob, Thank you for another great video. Do you do any type of mite treatment in the spring, prior to splitting ? When do you do your first mite test in the spring?

Am I correct that you have a double screen board separating 2 colonies and are removing that double screen board and turning them into one single colony now??? If so, what are you doing with the other queen??

I checked my hive yesterday in NH And no brood in too brood box Should I be getting new queen or wait a week and see?

How many queens have you got coming in? Bred from your stock?

Bob...About that pump..... I am a little lazy to research myself, I would really appreciate it if you can help me with the electrical diagram for your hookup, I got all the parts, including that fancy pump, it took a while to arrive from Italy but I got it now, just waiting for the nozzles to get to me and will start putting it together. Thanks in advance Dan

Is that the young girl from your shop ?

Do you own those yards or do you rent peoples yards just wondering looks like you use several different places

We’re do you buy your queens at

Look like your drone frame is plastic you like that better?

Bob, You mentioned your late summer queens. Are those from your queen supplier too? Or do you open mate on site? Last year was horrid for my bees with the severe drought. So yah I fed and babied the girls along as best I could. New queens were just not top notch in the heat and poor nectar/ pollen. So I planned on late summer requeening. Only the birds were as desperate as all other wildlife here too. Open mating swarms were even more so targets 🎯 for the hungry. A bit higher than 30% return on mated queens on late summer queens. Time wasted for me. I was looking around the internet for bird scaring weapons. While bird bangers and screamers would be a hoot for me... not so much for the dogs and livestock. Those pretty kinetic metal wind spinners kinda caught my eye! Ever use those around the mating yard? Or know anyone who has?

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