Making 800 Splits in ONE DAY | Commercial Beekeeping

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Making 800 Splits in ONE DAY | Commercial Beekeeping

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Hope this gives you some insight on how we can make 800+ splits in one day! We have a TON of splits to get through this year so efficiency is key. Let me know what you think in the comments!
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@emh114 4 ай бұрын

please go in depth on the stack method of splitting

@marklove2022 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Jake! I enjoy your videos. Hope y'all have a great year.

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! You too!

@aaronkieler7568 4 ай бұрын

Watched your video last year and did all mine this way this year it made the process so much easier and all colonies are looking great so thanks!

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

That’s awesome to hear!!

@The_green_hampter 4 ай бұрын

The guy in jeans is crazy

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

Half of us usually wear jackets. It’s not too bad!

@Reevestkd 4 ай бұрын

Really appreciate your content. Thanks!

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

@rich_Honey 2 ай бұрын

Hello! would you be interested in how they kept bees? how do you prevent swarming?

@jefferyhammond1421 4 ай бұрын

Love your channel, I'm just starting a small side operation in East Kentucky. Wanting to see how many hives I can run with no employees. Just trying to get to 100 for a start. Great to see what it's like in the big leagues. One Question, why are commercial beekeepers winter losses so damn high?!?! Not just you, but like you said 40% across the board. Is it just because you don't throw good time after weak colonies to try and fix them? Or is disease load higher because of number of colonies in a small area? Thanks for the videos, I'll be hanging around.

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

Many beekeepers don’t stay on top of mite load in the fall. My winter losses were actually quite low 6-8%. I include cell take in my losses so that adds 10-12% loss every year.

@MerrittHoney 4 ай бұрын

Great video. I still make mine by pulling brood-old school I know, but t just can’t bring myself to kill off the queens. 😊

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

We made some that way as well! Just definitely slower. I wish we could keep every viable queen but our fall losses would only increase. I tested out a batch last year. A lot of them died or didn’t make grade for almonds…

@NevadaBeeMan-nq3po 4 ай бұрын

Can you talk about how you manage mites .. how you treat .. what you treat with and how often

@dkaiyumi Ай бұрын

Do you have many agressivo Africanized Bees on Tx? Im from Brazil Here all colonies are africanized

@barkersbees 4 ай бұрын

So after you combine them all like that and the queens battle it out do you go in and find the last queen and kill her and then just requeen everything?

@solivaguswayfarer 4 ай бұрын

That is an efficient way of making splits and it makes sense. Appreciate you sharing your details 😊 However, you Spanglish needs some help 🤓

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

lol I know enough to get into trouble😂 trying to learn SPANISH not Spanglish

@rich_Honey 2 ай бұрын

Hello! where can I order such a Bee dress? can you help me with it? it is not available here in Hungary.

@joewalker1246 4 ай бұрын

After you drop the cells in the split. Some of the queens will not make it back. How do you handle those colonies, the time between if the queen did not get mated vs it becomes a drone layer

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

We make up pro nucs in each yard to cover around 10%. The idea is those will mate and we can plug them into colonies that didn’t take.

@richardmeyer6021 4 ай бұрын

I like the look of your bee suit. What brand is it and do you like it? Thanks

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

It’s a Dadant partial vent! I love it! I’ve been using these for 4-5 years.

@stevennimmer2219 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great info. I'm a commercial beekeeper in CA and I'm going to try your method for splits. How long do you leave the bees stacked 7 high? Do you wait till the evening to move your splits to the new location?

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

Nice! Yes say we split them and stacked them on a Monday, we would stack them down Tuesday evening/night, move to a new yard, and drop a cell the next day!

@NevadaBeeMan-nq3po 4 ай бұрын

Please go into more depth too on splits … you mentioned dropping a cell.. do you do that instead of introducing a mated queen

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

Next video we’ll be putting some cells in

@ryanscott9149 4 ай бұрын

How many splits do you do a season?

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

We split everything every spring!

@Trinityoaksfarms 4 ай бұрын

jake, I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for making and posting them. Have yall ever done this stack method and then introduced mated queens instead of cells? I was wondering about trying it in some outyards where I dont have the drone saturation of the home area....

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! I personally haven’t, but I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t work.

@ricksutton2902 4 ай бұрын

Hey Jake how about an update on your dad's truck. How's it going try to catch you later Jake come and talk to your dad but I've been busy just like everybody else

@beefarmerjake 4 ай бұрын

We’ve been very busy! The truck is on the back burner unfortunately. We’re going to do some major things to it though!

@rich_Honey 2 ай бұрын

excuse me, I'm writing to you with Google Translate, I don't know how understandable it is? I would be very happy to talk about beekeeping with you, I admire your videos, but you work with bees in a completely different way