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[randallrbaker]

Thanks Your videos are really helping me, here in Indiana

[JensThomasNepper]

Hi Kamon. Good to see you again.
Blessings here from Denmark.
Mvh Jens

[framcesmoore]

Ha I have missed you, so glad to see u back on here hope this means u are back for more videos like every week.. great video really was, hope u have a God Blessed week

[tmart]

Kamen: looked like you had a queen cell forming on the frame the queen was on. Right around the 4:35 mark of the video. It was on the upper left portion of the frame.

[janetgraham]

I love hickory nuts…especially in fudge.

[brucesbees]

Hey great stuff Kamon. Looking good. Good to see you putting out videos again.

[chasebrunner]

Should I Put Anything Around The Bee Hive For Winter To Keep Snow Off And Keep Them Warmer

[kylejackson]

Just started to watch your vids, I really like them and have learned a ton already and you make managing them look so easy. Thanks a bunch!

[russk]

Good video K & L. Nice to see you still have bees. LOL Hope to see more soon if you get some time.

[daverowden-RowdyBeeFarms]

Good to see you having some fun in the apiary Kamon. Thanks for the video like alway… See you in January

[whisenhuntshoney.]

Question I did a split on my hive to prevent swarming but the hive still swarmed and I know bigger beekeepers have said that if you do a split and the hive swarms you will not get honey from the bees but I have a whole super full of honey I only had one hive two nuke boxes full of honey bees

[decaturridgebees]

Many thanks sir! I honestly hate this time of year. Mostly because i know shortly i won’t get to play with bees.

[rusticlifefarm]

Thanks for posting a video :) See you in January 2024

[trulylynn]

You are a good man for helping this Granny bee keeping. I found something interesting. It's called shungite and I am mixing powdered shungite with my paint for my boxes. There are people using this to help the honey bees. There is a video that explains the benifits. Shungite has fullerenes in it and is a great way to keep the vibrations up in the hive. I will let you know in a month and check back. Thanks again my dear boy!

[gene-sloca]

Haven't seen to many videos from you lately, hope all is well.

[lloydfreeman]

Kamon, have you ever given your hives New Foundation for the queen to lay on and then take that frame from them and give it to another hive that you feed and as the frame of brood is pulled out and given to another hive that will finish and cap the cells, not having varora mites, as there are no field workers in the finishing hive.
For the extra work involved, you also need to consider the work and expense of treating each hive.

[BlueGateHoney-qhcx]

Any chance you can make the vendors on the North American Bee Expo Clickable?

[ivanlangham]

Hi kamon
I hope your friends in Hawaii are ok

[lloydfreeman]

With many hives, with a queen excluder to keep the queen on a two frame section in the hive, and every other day you remove one frame, to move it over to the other section, and install a new frame for the queen to lay on. This works best on a horizontal hive and as each frame is capped, they're removed to an incubator until ready to emerge.
With the queen sectioned off by the queen excluder, you know where she is at all times and you control her laying of eggs, knowing when she slows down, or spotty laying.
You control the buildup of the hive or the reduction of the hive, as you give New emerging brood to the different hives. One day, or a few hours time for a frame to emerge from the cells before you install it into another hive.
A 10 frame hive, space for two frames for the queen to lay on, separated by the excluder, or section of an excluder and the rest is solid screen wire.
So you àllow for 5 frames, for the brood area, and the other half of the hive is for the honey storage.
Day 8, you pull out frame#1, the queen layed on first two days, put this#1 frame in a finishing hive that doesn't have field workers to bring in mites. When you remove#1 frame on day 8, you bring along the workers on that frame.
On the early second day on the emerging brood, place this frame in with the queen, so she has room to begin laying on that frame, and remove her previous frame to the other side of the queen excluder.
Think about it, figure yourself a system and you will be able to work more hives, reduce mite problem, no swarming, expansion of numbers of hives, and sell extra hives.
Buy New hives every season, paint, use for 3-5 years, then sell that hive body. You will always have the best equipment, and pass the extra price on to the costs of the hive.
My finishing hives, being horizontal hives, accommodate 16 regular hives. So I add 15 other frames to my horizontal hive and one from it's own queen, to finish rearing and cap.
Day 11 the 16 frames are removed to the incubator with those bees on those frames. They are the oldest bees, about to join the field workers.
With all of your experience, I know you can improve what I have done.

[Robbie-Rob_Bees_Apiary]

so you will move the nuc to a single 10 frame for winter? Or overwinter in a 5 frame?