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About this video:Heated Bee Barns |Adding the heaters to the bee Barns and front row hives.
Today we will be adding beehive heaters to the Bee Barns and the Langstroth hives on the front row of the apiary. This will be the first winter season for the bee barns and the first season with their heaters.
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I hope you enjoy beekeeping and this video. If you are interested in becoming a beekeeper or experience backyard beekeeping for yourself have a look at some of the videos on this beekeeping channel as well as videos from beekeeping creators I have listed below. This is my third season as a beekeeper and everything I have learned came from YouTube and mostly from the channels listed below.
Although this beekeeping channel is primarily about beekeeping I am also a quasi pepper who believes in becoming self-sufficient. With that in mind, I have started a garden, planted fruit trees, replaced the hedges in front of my house with blueberry bushes, and have recently built a chicken coop. In short, I will share a lot more than beekeeping on this channel.
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I am a person who believes you are never to old to learn something. Be it beekeeping, farming, raising chickens, painting, filming and editing video, making wine, beer, bread, cheese, and other fermentation consumables, play guitar etc… If I see something I want to try I start it immediately. If there is one thing I could choose to pass along to my children this would be it. Never be afraid to try. My wife famously told me once that if you are not willing to be bad at something, you will never be good at it. That means I am bad at quite a few things.
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If you are new to beekeeping or are interested in becoming a beekeeper this channel might be for you. In my beekeeping adventures I show everything from my beekeeping successes to my beekeeping failures. I hide nothing and am never afraid to admit to a mistake.
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A bit about my channel:
This channel is primarily about beekeeping or more specifically beekeeping 101 because I am just a beginning beekeeper and I figured the best way to learn beekeeping and to be a beekeeper was to buy a flow hive, sometimes spelled flowhive or a flow hive 2 which is sometimes known as a flowhive 2 and begin building by backyard apiary so I would have a place to keep bees. Now, backyard beekeeping is not the only thing I do. I consider myself to be urban farming as I also try to grow a sustainable and edible landscape. Backyard farming for me also includes keeping chicken and building other things in my shop that will help all of the birds, bees, insects, and other natural pollinators. I learn how to feed bees and chickens while showing you my day-to-day activities in my apiary, sometimes known as a bee yard. Some people consider me a prepper and yes there is a little truth to that. I do consider this a form of prepping and becoming self sufficient. Thank you for spending time with me learning about tap hives, flow hives, honeybees, and chickens.
12 Comments
Your are right about them not eating a lot of stores
Can you use a 1/4×1/4 in square wire screen for a diffuser with wooden frame?
Great video! —- I know that I questioned heated hives a year or two ago but there is logic behind the fact that (heated hives) the bee's do not have to vibrate to keep the hive warm and therefore don't need to eat as much honey. Looks like the Apivar strips are doing a great job nocking out the mites !
Looks like you have your girls all set for the winter season and that's a good thing. I have just finished up putting my winter mountain camp sugar on all of my hives and the only thing I've got left to do is my oxalic acid treatments in November. Of course we already did formic pro after the fall harvest. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Nice new design 👍🏻
Always an ongoing battle trying to keep the bees warm, safe and in their hives while keeping parasites and invasive insects OUT! Looks like you've got a good handle on the situation over their my friend. Take care and enjoy the weekend! BEE Happy 😁🐝🐝
Man Your craftsmanship on those hives….everything fits together perfect. You did an awesome job on those. I'd also like to add a big THANK YOU for the 1board build video on those "betterbee" style hive stands. I work as an electrician and off the big construction job I'm on I've brought home a ton of scrap 2×6 wood. I've built 18 of those things! Saved me alot of $$$
I still think it's cute that you're in Georgia and you put heat in your hive but do what you think you need to do.. Wisconsin tough.
Those are very well cared for bees!! Btw, how do you weatherproof your deep boxes? Are they wax dipped or do you use a marine varnish. I like that natural wood vs. painting. Beautiful yard too.
Think about a tree cavity its a giant heatpipe its insulated and alot thicker than our flimsey boxes
I think this is why the bee barns do so well is it mimics closer the R value of what that hollow tree gives them
It goes without saying those bees will never have a problem thru winter with all that set up. It will definitely pay for itself with spring honey flow the bees will come out of winter with an extreme strong colony to produce.. With a large amount of hives your right its not practical, there are other techniques as Bob Binnie has shown with his 1600 hives he had scattered around. But for a small apiary to hobby with its a real hoot to see how they weather and produce with the Holiday Inn bee motels!! I am running 6 hives this year with heaters and insulation here in NC and they are very strong hives. I am sure come spring it will be a massive honey flow with such colonies and the liquid gold will offset all the extra work I put into it like you did .. Not to mention the number of possible split’s to expand apiary numbers next year!!
Good evening, maybe I missed you saying it in the video. But what temperature are you actually aiming for inside the hive? Thank you for all the video content you provide. Always a pleasure watching you! Have a wonderful day!