Hope all your bees are doing ok, thanks for the video .
@ThatBeeMan
5 ай бұрын
Thanks, Brad! They are Schrödinger's bees at this point. Stay tuned!
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog
5 ай бұрын
Wow are they ever busy !
@rtxhoneybees
5 ай бұрын
Doug, Thanks for sharing the outdoor wintering method in the great up north. Others have less snow this year. How much do you normally have? It'd be great to hear about your winter prep setup.
@dgl1948
5 ай бұрын
I am not sure what normal is. We can go from a couple of feet per year up to several feet. From poor sledding to great sledding.
@russellkoopman3004
5 ай бұрын
Doug, I was trapping raccoons and skunks in live traps by a farmsite with cats and I kept catching the cats and no critters. I did a google search and ran across an idea of using mini marshmallows and I never caught another cat and got lots of raccoons and a few skunks. Very few animals like them. There are a few birds that do but not many. I've heard that fruit flavored marshmallows work better. IDK
@dgl1948
5 ай бұрын
I put 4 live traps in the yard today.
@dgl1948
5 ай бұрын
2 skunks, one raccoon and no cats today.
@dcsblessedbees
5 ай бұрын
😁Pretty day.
@normanpaterson
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing, you winter outdoors in Oilberta?!
@dgl1948
5 ай бұрын
Sorry. Wrong province. I am in Saskatchewan
@normanpaterson
5 ай бұрын
@@dgl1948 Oh, Oilberta's little brother, you guys have oil too right? No shortage of snow up there, we hardly got any in Illinois, that could change tomorrow with this wild weather.
@dgl1948
5 ай бұрын
@@normanpaterson lots of oil here to.
@normanpaterson
5 ай бұрын
@@dgl1948 Yes, I looked it up, bottom line Russia has much more to fuel it's aggression, quite sad, man's greed, the view of nature in your video is amazing, we all should live in harmony in nature. And be good caretakers of this planet, not destroyers, one man can make a difference, does not look like you are harming anything, rather being a good caretaker, good on ya
@ThatBeeMan
5 ай бұрын
Doug. Are your poly hive bottoms screened open or what?
@dgl1948
5 ай бұрын
They are on “modified Brad” pallets. The rims and Center are widened for the one inch walls on the hives. I use an enlarged plywood top to fit the wider hives. It has a 3/8 shim around the edge and a small top entrance that lets us use acid without melting the hive. On top of that a 1 1/2 stiro lid. We can lift the stiro lid and pop the feed cap off to check the bees without having to break the seal of the plywood lid. We do not use any foamies inside the hive.
@ThatBeeMan
5 ай бұрын
@@dgl1948 You might end up being blamed for my having to run poly hives again!
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