The reason why you get side tracked is because you know so much about bees that you want to make sure that we get as much info as possible. Don't worry about it, I think we all really enjoy any and all the information you can give us. Great video all the same. Take care and God bless. Tim

I just love your channel! I’ve learned so much about bees (and my husband teases me for watching your channel all the time) and you and Mister Ed have inspired me to start keeping bees as soon as we buy a house! Thank you so much for having your channel and keeping all of us educated on bee keeping!

I enjoy the detours. 😊 Great explanation ! ! !

It goes without saying, that "HOBBY BEEKEEPING IS A WAY OF LIFE!!!!!" Great video! Not sure how I missed this one.

Great video. Really like it when you teach and explain everything. Thanks

you are the best bee keeper i have seen on youtube... you do a great job with the bees.all around cool dude!dirt rooster numero uno!

Short video, long video, doesn't matter. Always learning. Thanks mate.

Up here in yankeeville, obamaland the winter bee cluster moves up thru the stack like a typewriter and usually leaves the nest bracketed with honey on the outside edges. Thermal mass of the honey helps regulate the temp inside the nest. Usually in fall they pack the bottom box with pollen for next spring. The multi colored pollen frames are neat.

Nice rambling video DirtRooster. I enjoyed it. Thank you.

Thanks for the chat, Randy! Very informative and important for the hobby beekeeper.

Great info as usual! Thanks

Just in case you're impatient, the danger of leaving a queen excluder in a hive during the winter is explained after 10:20. So, make sure you put "remove queen excluders" on your "to-do" list as the weather turns cold.

That was another great, what a good looking hat, video. I got to see robbing first hand this past summer, I had my two hives succumb to SHB within two weeks of each other. On the bright side, I don't have to worry about my hives dying this winter. Going to try to catch a couple of swarms next spring. Thanks again!

I think it's awesome watching you work. Your knowledge is addictive! :)

Thank you for the videos they help me a lot in many ways. I am still laughing about your dark continent statement from another video again thank you for the videos.

Thank you

Keep being you my friend no worries I have learned a lot from you so ramble away I say cheers and merry Christmas and best in the new year

I never thought I would be(e) interrested in bees. But by now, I have seen most of your video's and liking it. Good job! Thnx.

Great information thank you 🤠

The one dislike had to be from Mr. Ed. I enjoy both of you. Keep up the good work.

What is propulous? What is NUC? I’m never going to raise bees except by planting flowers. Your videos are fascinating. I learn so much about bees. Thank you 🤗 you!!

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

I always wonder why folks insist excluders are necessary? We run unlimited brood nest and dont have trouble harvesting honey without bee repellent...

up north in canada we put insulation over the hives in the winter. that may be something to c9nsider if you want to keep your hives in the same spot all year round. moving them is a real pain.

Hey, that was a really - - queen excluder works in the - - - nice truck you have. Oh, that was a good video.

I bumped the 👍 to 1K! Cool!!😊😊

I’m glad that I’m not the only one who follows the rabbit hole sometimes.

Just catching up on videos and I like your new hat. HBM

Don't worry about staying on topic. When you remember cool stuff you know that's off track it's fine. Today I learned about bee torpor... I watched to see what I already knew about the queen excluder, but still learned something because you weren't overly succinct.

Gonna come down and get my cap!!!still keeping the vids real,I never have run excluders but gonna try something new this year with cpl of late summer splits,gonna do single brood with metal excluder and go straight up with supers.. try something different..yea I’m gonna roll in down there one day and snatch my cap!!!

🐝-prepared!! 😊

Hope your doing good man! Keep up the great videos!!!!

"on sunny days" lol, Yes some of us are a little slow:)

HELLO THERE..LONG TIME NO SEE.HOPE YOU ARE WELL..BEST SEASONS GREETINGS TO YOU &HAPPY NEW YEAR WITH ALL YOUR LOVELY SWEET FAIRIES AROUND YOU..INCLUDING YOUR WIFE..😊.ATH.GR.

Like always , great video

I happen to like your sidetracks. Every one is interesting although I mostly have no idea what you're talking about, it's still interesting and I THANK you! And I liked your little buddy! Now go get you a bacon/shrimp sammich with a lot of gravy. All that thinking done got you faint looking!

A great if off track video as usual randy. Anyway to get the message or point across works for me. Keep up the great work plz say hi if you speak to Jeff.

I did not know this very informative

Another fab video and really informative I now have a new love for bee's :)

Interesting! I can see why you don't use the queen excluder in winter.

Love your videos. Do you use new or used Symon board for your lids? If you use used, do you not worry about form release chemicals? Thanks

. For that structure you have the hives under for shade, instead of having to move the hives out from under it for the winter, (or removing the shading structure itself) you should build some kind of base that the hives sit atop that is on gliding rollers and be able to just roll the entire batch of hives back and forth from shade to direct sun. I realize that we're talking about a significant amount of weight, but i'm sure there is some method that would make rolling that much weight fairly easy. .....just a thought.

Im in Mississippi and getting my 1st nuc this spring. Im excited and more concerned about raising a healthy strong colony this 2019 and not so worried about honey until maybe 2020 2021. I planted aboit 40 fruit trees over the past 3 years and hope for pollination assistance. Is it ok to have my hives without shade down here

The cluster will move even if its cold, up in Canada we have really cold weather for weeks. They can move up fairly easily, easier than sideways, heat rises so even if its -20C they can follow the heat up the hive. I tend to run 2 deeps and a medium for this reason.

This winter had least snow up here its crazy

I like that sittin bucket

Well I can appreciate your theory but here is some notable facts from my past winter. 7 of the hives I manage had queen excluders above a single hive body temperatures were in the 20 - 32°f for some time each super had at least 8 frames of honey. End results. All hives survived. Supers were empty by late feburary. I would expect that honey bees feed the same in winter as they would in summer and If there is brood that is where bees will cluster (better term) congregate, the food resources will be delivered to where it is needed. On the second day of 21°f we opened a hive that had a glass panel installed so we could look in from the top, guess what, those bees were a lot more active than we thought they would be.

Why do some hives put away a lot of honey stores for winter and some hardly put up anything?

Nice vid Dave, why don't you have a holes on your hives for air flow.

nice hat

Ever think of adding insulation to the outside of the box? If they make there own warmth it would help wouldn't it?

What were all those little mites on the honey box frames? Were those varroa? Or just tiny ants?

Not even the drones

We have been trying to figure out at the meeting what size is the whole on most cutouts and if so does a smaller hole have it where the guard bees we'll keep the Beatles out and if so should we replicate that on our hives

If she can’t get to the food she’s dead. I guess they leave if she dies I guess I’m right if not tell me Rooster. Great video GOD BLESS.

Randy, do you keep the screened bottom boards on all winter? I experienced a lot of losses due to humidity and thus beetles this winter and I'm thinking I need the ventilation of the screened bottom boards.

I know nothing about bees, which will be made obvious by this question...Can you throw reflective/mylar blankets over the boxes to keep bees warm since they don't leave when it is cold anyway? ($13.38 at Walmart for 8)

Hive boxes over a concrete slab? I seem to have much less issue with beetles in the boxes I have on a concrete slab. Have you noticed anything similar?

COOL HAT WB ONCE AGAIN

I miss the close up shots of the bees set to music you use to do. I like their faces. Think you’d throw a few of those in again every once in a while?

Please keep doing more videos

Was that an empty pizza box I saw on the ground in the bee yard? Do your bees get it delivered? :)

Can you make a thicker box???.. I live in Washington state and sometimes our winters get cold.. So would that help building a thicker box??

that bee in your jeans were so pretty lookin

Well I have always been a excluder free advocate, but this season it all went wrong, I built the colony up to three full deeps, beleiving that 2 deeps for the brood, and one me to rob, well the third deep was full of brood when i went to collect, so being a smart ass i added another deep, a month later finding the 4th deep full of brood added a fifth. I am so over this so I went back 2 boxes and reluctantly added an excluder. it was like this with all 5 hives that i have. Keep smiling lol

Great video. Sometimes when you ramble on (on the way to making your point) you drop lots of little nuggets. Now the point of this was amazing - I had no idea they would abandon their queen in winter. It makes no sense as if they survive without a queen they would all die, the colony would not survive. They are winter bees - come spring they are done. They would live only long enough to nurse the new brood the queen produces. No queen, no brood. But your point was so valuable - do not leave queen excluders on in winter! only exception: put on top of the top box as in that arrangement the queen would not be excluded.

Love these videos man!!! Keep 'em coming!! 🐝🐝🐝☮️☯️

Like the video.. we are beekeepers also. Random question... what is the brand of your hat? we are having some made with our logo and that’s the exact style hat my husband wants.. just having a hard time trying to explain the style hat we want Thanks!

I enjoy your videos. I wish you would consider people like me who do not know the terminology. Could you please give a definition of the “words” you use like supers, dead out, excluders, brood, starve out, cluster, etc.

Hey Dirt Rooster. I've heard that they bees produce honey faster and more of it during a flow without a excluder. Yet I have also heard that if one does use an excluder, if they place a top entrance on the hive it acts as if there is not excluder and they bees produce more honey and faster during a Flow. Could you share you thoughts on this? Thanks you

What is the ideal temperature in a bee hive?

Do you do autopsies on die-outs?

Hey Dirt Rooster nice video! About how many jars of sugar water do your hives go thou a week?

Now they’ll be big fat bees

Mid week, this week sure has flew by.

I know there is a market for propolis but I have never bothered collecting any.. Just scraping money off I guess and probably always will..lol.. Have you or anyone you know had success harvesting and selling propolis?

So early. 5:30 upload time. That has to be in the most 4:30am upload. Either way, good morning!

Why do bees wrestle? I've noticed one pulling at the wings of another bee at my bee feeder quite a few times.

Do ants bother the bees at all? I saw small ants running along the top of the frames.

Hey rooster

Im new to bee keeping.. Why would u want to harvest propolis?

I have "sittin buckets" stashed all over the property ;^)

Interesting.....

Daft. Seeing what bees do naturally... squeezing through tiny holes they have chosen to go through ... I doubt that queen excluders do much damage that they cannot do themselves out of a hive . Health and safety reports now pending on demanding that bees do ongoing assessments of the tiny spaces they squeeze through....😲😂😉

I wounder if anyone else caught that little chuckle , I would never chuckle at y'all when your bakin in110°an tornadoes.😃

What’s that propulous for I didn’t know that learn something every day.

Hey that looks like my hat!

Great info as per usual Mate 👌 But you’re always 6 months late! Or maybe you’re early?

tl;dr dont use queen excluders in the winter lol

Squirrel

Wow they’re bout gone what happened

You're led by your stomach and we all know this by now

Hey dirtrooster could make a video on your thoughts on a flow hive.

All Joseph's fault...somehow....I know it weren't mine!

SQUIRREL!!! 🙂

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Why don't you cover them individually so they don't get wet Sir