One of the most profound videos you’ve ever filmed. Straight to the point and completely correct! I’ve seen another Video somewhere saying exactly the same. If all is good and looking fantastic, keep on your toes and look hard for the errors, leave nothing to change, never sit on your laurels!! , can’t fault your logic. Solid, solid, solid!! (And I see a strong hint of pride coming through there Ian, which you have the right too claim!!)
@roydontully3196
11 ай бұрын
Crikey those sunflower seeds Bob Binnie' sent you did well lol🤣
@bobbinnie9872
11 ай бұрын
Everything in its place. 👍
@franciscacrenilda539
11 ай бұрын
Carlos ney da cidade de picos no estado do piauí no Brasil eu só apiculto mais vocés estáo de parabéns na apicultura.
@danbrewer
11 ай бұрын
This video should be essential viewing for every beekeeper. Bravo 👏
@drlawler
11 ай бұрын
A place for everything, and everything in its place! Words to live by.
@walterhiegel3020
11 ай бұрын
Excellent just Excellent. Terrific sunflower field too.
@CastleHives
11 ай бұрын
Enjoy the videos like this Ian. Folks want to be a Beekeeper and forget there is a certain husbandry that goes along with it. Leave them sit and never manage them, diseases run wild and decimate areas. I am a tad like you, I want my colonies in a lined up row and everything neat and tidy.
@unofficialobserver
10 ай бұрын
Sunflowers look lovely I'd like to run through there. What a cool place
@matthewsweeney2577
11 ай бұрын
Fantastic!👍
@richardstern6099
11 ай бұрын
Hey Ian, you use the word problem in your description of finding EFB. But really what I heard from you was a solution. And that is what makes you a not just a good beekeeper but also a very good manager. Also I think all beekeeper have to have some OCD. Haha. Comes with the job description! Anyway good working on finding, diagnosing and coming up with a solution.
@MikeBarryBees
11 ай бұрын
Yep, well put. Got all the ducks in a row, cleaned and polished, shed stacked neatly and excess equipment stored. Got that two week vacation under my belt, canoeing in Canada no less. Then get back and find hives themselves in disarray. Some complete failures, high mite loads, colonies being weakened day by day…..and now I’m scrambling. I can relate in a smaller scale. Great video.
@abhaykumarsinha
11 ай бұрын
As I see from your videos that nectar flow is in July and part of August, approximately two months. You are working very hard to get most of it. In country like India, nectar fow stats from 15 November. First there is mustard flowers. Drumstick flowers follow it (up to February). Then after there are a number of different flowers during the spring season, streching it up to April May. Thus the nectar flow range up to about six months. A better management by beekeepers in this resion may able to get a handsome honey production.
@CELOCKSAFE
11 ай бұрын
A very good humbling lesson!
@lydiafife8716
11 ай бұрын
So interesting We’ve been watching you for years Every year is so different A learning experience for us all Thank you for sharing 🙏
@Drewjober
11 ай бұрын
Yes checking the important stuff!
@carloscrenz9433
11 ай бұрын
Hola qué lindo es ver eso trabajos 🐝👏😎😎🌻💪
@naturalwitchery
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the closeup of the EFB.
@russellkoopman3004
11 ай бұрын
Thanks Ian for a good honest video. It is a great reminder to not let your guard down. I've heard others say that the genetics of the queen can make a difference on EFB. Getting your own genetics back in that hive will make a difference.
@melvinyoder1954
11 ай бұрын
You need to show the new crane in action that you put in in the extraction room
@rusticlifefarm6264
11 ай бұрын
👍Right on on how to get things done and being honest with yourself ! I would flame the inside of that box, bottom board and lid too- just to bee on the safe side. Doesn't take long, shoot you can just swap out that box and flame the original one later, maybe run a test on the inside of that box before flaming just to see what is on there. Would hate to see it spread after all the things you have gone through this year.
@danschneider9219
11 ай бұрын
Excellent Information !! I went through foulbrood a few years ago, it was the first good year I had figured out how to winter hives getting them all to spring alive. Then burning 5 out of the 8 that I had at the time, new boxes and all.
@user-em8jk8le9k
10 ай бұрын
Inspirational videos of factual truth of how it's should be done
@johngarrison69
11 ай бұрын
Thanks Ian. Its remarkable how you take the time to always use your channel for teaching and for the betterment of bees and beekeepers. Nobody likes to humble themselves, but you do it for our benefit and i thank you. I shared this clip to our group as one of the better beekeeper learning videos i have ever seen.. Never assume that everything is perfect, and never assume a weak hive will just 'get by'... And an Apiary is one organism and each hive in the apiary can rain destruction if we allow it to spoil.
@robertadams2857
11 ай бұрын
Fabulous sunflower fields. This time of year is always interesting to watch your videos.
@mikehill9888
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for the video.
@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork
11 ай бұрын
That last sunflower pose is a bit familiar! 😁 I was going to ask where it came from... Maybe from the buy-in bees this year? Good catch Ian! That's one of the things I really appreciate about everything you do, responsible management in everything! SO much respect for that! One of the things I always tell my self regardless how much success I'm having is, "Don't get too high on yourself." Always amazes me how fast the honey season goes by!
@theohiohousewife
11 ай бұрын
I’m going to need a sketch of that honey house layout
@kat2641
11 ай бұрын
Your season is so short I would pull my hair out stressing… I still have the soybeans flowering in a few fields an a late plot of sun flowers but the Dutch clover is??🤔 about 90% over with.. I decided to pull my supers early an give them some extra time to store for winter here in Michigan. Last week I went through all the hives checking for mites an all were extremely low but will treat them anyway an try to get them cleaned up going into winter… AN you are so so right!!! The minute we think we got our head wrapped around this…. Mother Nature throw a curve… I think the summer drought had something to do with my invasion of wax moth..🤷🏻♂️ but your looking good up their❤ Edited fur a spell boo boo
@user-ls6mv7ue5z
11 ай бұрын
Your surroundings are so different than most beekeepers. Always fascinating
@tonyfox5422
11 ай бұрын
Would it be possible to talk through your nucs. You do more with your nucs than normal. Getting that extra output in my view has great value. I go into autumn with 16 nucs but 6 framers, to support maybe 40 colonies on the other side of winter. Small but still takes work so getting the most is important.
@sporkintheeye
11 ай бұрын
As a struggling small 7th year beek: I love the honesty and the fragments of doubt in your decisions. It makes the little guys like me feel like we have company that goes to the top of the food chain.
@keithb3115
11 ай бұрын
Well, well said.
@gwenyngruffydd
11 ай бұрын
Great honest video. Sorry that you’ve got EFB though.
@jerrydegroot1573
11 ай бұрын
Ian, thanks again for sharing the good and bad and ugly. Over the years learned so much from you that it made me a much better beekeeper in many ways. One thing i need to work on is the neat stacks and tidy rows of stuff, maybe some day! 🤣
@bluewingfarms2208
11 ай бұрын
Nicely organized.✅️ In farming you always have to be vigilant about disease and Hope the weather is cooperative (which it rarely is)😅 Vast majority of your colonies look great! Happy beginning of fall.🍂
@paulgroth5414
11 ай бұрын
Love your operation, always been a big fan of you!, I have taken a big jump from near a hundred colonies to around 400, I sell my honey in a jar, I can hardly keep up so having a plan and process are key , great ininformation and good luck on the bee making, I am up to the same thing.....
@angelalott9370
11 ай бұрын
This is our first time planting sunflowers and they are coming in bloom at different times
@lippardr
11 ай бұрын
Great video and question. Where did it (European Foul Brood) come from? Possibly New Queens and or Packages
@hootervillehoneybees8664
11 ай бұрын
I use to see EFB alot in the spring did couple rounds of treatment haven't seen it sense .. I didn't treat this year.. no signs of it at all.. I've pretty much cycled out my old comb thru nuc sales not sure if that helps or not.. i know they do better on the new comb thats obvious . I've only seen AFB once down at my neighbors yard we burned everything.. I tested it with kit definitely AFB . To bad couldn't plant them fields in sections space out each section week apart .. seems like your flow would last longer.. must be reason why you don't im sure..
@billchriswell2925
11 ай бұрын
What variety sunflower? I plant a small plot of Lemon Queens each year to give the girls a late summer pollen boost
@sentimentalbloke7586
11 ай бұрын
The soil in the sunflowers appears to have some dampness, or they would not be so vigorous, I am not sure how your seasons work, but our sunflower heads and leaves appear more wilted at that stage, unless we have had good rainfall. Baring this in mind I would be a little scepticle about moisture content in the honey. All in all it appears that you have had a good season on the land, is there a new tractor on the horizon? Congratulations anyways. Keep smiling bud.
@sidelinerbeekeeper
11 ай бұрын
Canada has dew most mornings because of cooler nighttime temps. Moisture falls out of the air as the air cools overnight, a temperature differences of 10 to 15⁰c most days to nights. The air becomes saturated as it cools. The plants feed on this morning dew.
@aidanquick3151
11 ай бұрын
Noticed any drop in nosema counts with all the sunnies? Looks like a good season.
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
11 ай бұрын
Hard to measure. I’ve had a nosema problem all season. As the studies show, hope it helps
@Steele_Wings
11 ай бұрын
Can you post or repost where you buy your sunflowers seeds from.
@plusmanikantanr
11 ай бұрын
Are you considering feeding Coconut milk/palm sugars as part of the supplement feed before or during the dearth / robbing season ? Would it help reduce/replace canola honey crystallizing in the hives ? Would the coconut laced feed help boost anti-bacterial and act as a anti-beetle repellent or something ? 😀 😀 😀
@craigkirich9646
11 ай бұрын
Just a touch? ;) Why the need to save those small colonies? Burning the equipment but keeping the infected? Looking forward to seeing you again at BE.
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
11 ай бұрын
Shake the bees into the next colony? The most proactive measure is to medicate the bees on new comb. It’s actually a recommendation
@apisincognito8173
11 ай бұрын
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog loose rules in Canada if thats the case. That colony should be turned to ash. Abusing antibotics to save that disaster cannot be considered good beekeeping. Respect to you for posting the video.
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
11 ай бұрын
I did burn the hive, except the box. I salvaged the bees
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
11 ай бұрын
I shake out good healthy units. Those can be merged. But EFB, I need to try to contain and treat that problem with medicine. Straight into the guts
@melvinyoder1954
11 ай бұрын
Well bob binnie has nothing on you when it comes to sunflower patch lol
@philhofland5501
11 ай бұрын
What % of those colonies are headed up by super hygeinic queens? .In thinking not enough. AFB, EFB, and chalkbrood should all be lockes away as a very distant memory by now.
@toddknecht2106
11 ай бұрын
Great video! Question on the European foul brood, would you treat if you hadn’t any cases of it as a preventative measure?
@sidelinerbeekeeper
11 ай бұрын
If EFB is found in one colony, it will be found in others. His gloves, hive tool, queen excluders, and honey boxes have spread the bacteria. I would treat every colony very soon. It's only going to get worse. The worst infection would be isolated in a separate yard, requeened and boosted with brood or just burn the frames, depending on how bad you want to save a failing colony.
@DraganDjordjevic81
11 ай бұрын
That are sunflowers. 😅
@marlowejanot1672
11 ай бұрын
Always appreciate the information. Can you explain why your diagnosis is EFB and not sac brood. The one dead larva shown did not look twisted.
@Tonnsfabrication
11 ай бұрын
It's the smell not the look, once you deal with foul brood the smell never leaves your memory.
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
11 ай бұрын
Might not of been a good pic.
@marlowejanot1672
11 ай бұрын
Fair enough. You had a video from last year with the tech team inspecting a sick hive finding sac brood. I have been struggling with sac brood on a few colonies for 3 years now. Just looking for advice.
@georgebeard6886
11 ай бұрын
Do you put out any traps to catch any swarms. We all get some swarms
@andrewharvey8833
11 ай бұрын
what sort of treatments do you use for bacterial treatments
@paulheinrich7645
11 ай бұрын
The only pollinators on my backyard sunflowers are bumblebees. And my 7 hives are only 10 meters away. Any guess why?
@jonathanmchugh6953
11 ай бұрын
Something else is blooming that they like better
@boboften9952
11 ай бұрын
Blooming heck ......... So All the " Sun " Flowers are in Canada eh Know wonder the United States has been having such poor weather ..... LoL
@boboften9952
11 ай бұрын
Thank you Ian Another Excellent Video Sir . Yes , it is a very " harsh , odd year " With inconsistent late / early changeable weather Four tropical Cyclones in six , eight weeks ( Southern Hemisphere ) ...... vehicles wheel spinning on rain soaked drenched front lawn that is an extra turn around place to face the Outwards direction ( two days to recover , remove a vehicle thirty feet from the house ...... ) Paper , Scissors , Rock Mother Nature Wins .
@sentimentalbloke7586
11 ай бұрын
How do you know that foul brood isn't coming with the packages and queens, and how do you control it.
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
11 ай бұрын
As is the risk with buying bees on comb
@russellaymond312
11 ай бұрын
Ian how deas those wax boxes hold up.thinking about going to wax thank you for great videos.
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
11 ай бұрын
It's good
@christopherhindle1174
11 ай бұрын
Do you store your extracted super frames wet, or first let the bees clean them out?
@btbrilz
11 ай бұрын
You added a lot of stock from various places, the efb must have come from there right?
@dcsblessedbees
11 ай бұрын
Ian, was this hive from your stock or one that was brought in? You did pull in a LOT of out of area stock this year, it could have been brought in from any number of location. Time to start getting them ready for Winter bed time.👍
@danielhiller9165
11 ай бұрын
are you using the Global patties with rocket fuel now? how many pounds of what percent protein have you fed to your bees this spring and plan to feed this fall?
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
11 ай бұрын
Oh ya, starting with 2 lbs
@DougMassengale
11 ай бұрын
check the hive next to it. Not because of robbing but drifters are just as bad. I don't have the operation you do but you can save that comb. give it a frame of capped brood they will take care of the milk brood till all cells are empty . i forgot . kill the original Queen first. once all the cells are empty requeen it. If it needs more bees just put it in the place of another hive.
@dustinemslander3009
11 ай бұрын
What do you use for bacterial medication? Super-DFM?
@user-xf7vh5zh2i
11 ай бұрын
شكرا لك الملكات الام عند هل هي تلقيح محمية ام تقليح صناعي على الجهاز وماهو سعر الملكة الام ؟ وماهو ايضا سعر الملكة F1.؟
@vanishedforgotten433
11 ай бұрын
So did u pull any honey from that hive and what it bad then? Did it affect the colony next to it then?
@rogerlansdell50
6 ай бұрын
Are you or will you be using pollen patties with rocket fuel in the fall or are those limited to spring build up?
@Warren76317
11 ай бұрын
You need to create another source of income from the bees to deal with lack of bees in the spring like you had this year. Make and sell bees but make extra for yourself. Hire another guy. Make enough to cover his or her income plus the cost of equipment. Expansion is inevitable in a successful operation. Just because they are Stinging bees doesn't mean they don't deserve to expand. lol All jokes aside there is good money in Nucs. Plus you get to cycle out old comb. start small and work your way up. And if the Old Man don't like it ask him how he is gonna like not having that honey check when All the bees die.
@sidelinerbeekeeper
11 ай бұрын
If he can't make a living off his current 1500 hives he better quit now. At a $1000 or more from healthy colonies how many does one need? Instead of 1500 sick colonies and adding more, he's better off getting the first 1500 healthy. Or maybe cut back to 1000 if he's lacking nutrition on a barron landscape. Less might be more with healthy bees to sell not just focus on a easy honey crop. The old style of beekeeping is failing, the landscape is changing, new chemicals come out every year, the weather is changing.
@Warren76317
11 ай бұрын
@@sidelinerbeekeeper I'm saying this because bring in bees and frames you take a huge chance of killing off the whole business. Not to mention running around like a chicken with your head cut off trying to save it. When you could be making more money and not be bring in EFB or other issues by buying nucs. It's not just about the money. It's about substainabllty within your own Apiaries.
@lt35phila
11 ай бұрын
European foulbrood from European bee packages
@apisincognito8173
11 ай бұрын
Packages / queens low risk
@srae1503
11 ай бұрын
Did you get all the nosema under control?
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
11 ай бұрын
No.,
@srae1503
11 ай бұрын
We have a club member fighting nosema, thought it would clear up this summer but it hasn't. That is why i asked.
@user-uc1fr8rj3s
11 ай бұрын
Hello, how are you I am a specialist in beekeeping and apiary management, looking for a job
@taddrienstra7247
11 ай бұрын
A touch of OCD...
@sidelinerbeekeeper
11 ай бұрын
EFB isn't the end of the world. Poor nutrition, pesticides, I'm surprise you don't have more of it. So there's more to beekeeping than managing boxes. Thats probably why losses are so high in western Canada. Too many hives and not enough beekeepers to micromanage failing colonies. They would rather buy packages and accept 30 to 50% losses as normal.
@deanmalkewich2366
11 ай бұрын
Tell me you’re a hobby beekeeper without telling me you’re a hobby beekeeper
@sidelinerbeekeeper
11 ай бұрын
@deanmalkewich2366 Yes, I'm a hobbyist with 500 hives without a hired hand in my fifth year that doesn't buy someone else's bees. Is it OK that you accept 30 to 50 percent losses as normal. I'm in Nova Scotia, where we have the lowest losses in Canada. Beekeepers here with 2000 colonies lose 15 to 20% and don't buy packages. Our landscape isn't dead soil in Augusta and September, which makes all the difference.
@deanmalkewich2366
11 ай бұрын
@@sidelinerbeekeeper sounds like you have it all figure out. Way to go!
@apiproductapiproduct2492
10 ай бұрын
I visit your channel often, it's interesting. I look at the nature around you, your way of beekeeping. the problems you have, and the diseases that occur are a textbook example of industrial beekeeping. You have two monocultures. sunflower and rapeseed. A large concentration of bees, a weak source of pollen, queens of questionable genetics and a lot of supplements with which you try to compensate for all the negativity. Unfortunately, this winter you will have the same problems as last. The protein supplement you put is insufficient, you need to provide the bees with certain areas of wild flowers. Clean up the genetics so that inbreeding stops. Include in the pattys pollen mix, that is, pollen of various origins, sterilized of course (gamma radiation), put the proportion of pollen at least 30% in the pattys. Only then the problems you have will stop. I solved a similar problems in several apiaries in Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Australia. All industrial beekeepers try to alchemically achieve something, but it just doesn't work.
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