Spot weight and mite checks, top ups, October 8 2019

00:00 - so I'm back from the BC honey producers 00:02 - Association now this weekend I was out 00:04 - there and I spoke a few times to the 00:07 - crowd had a great time that a lot of 00:10 - people made some interesting connections 00:12 - as I do more of this I seem to run into 00:16 - a lot of the same people and I'm 00:19 - starting to see the network of 00:21 - beekeepers out there and new beekeepers 00:25 - and just some excitement and you know 00:28 - ambition and ideas so it's really neat 00:32 - connecting with these guys anyways I 00:35 - know I'm back that farm is combining 00:39 - soybeans I'm gonna be called out to the 00:41 - combines tomorrow we're gonna be 00:43 - chopping silage so I'll be packing 00:45 - silage tomorrow and I have Kerry going 00:47 - out to do some feeding so we're gonna 00:49 - have two nice days here and then the 00:51 - prediction of snow so snow is a whip 00:54 - Snow's got us busy so we are trying to 00:57 - get as much done as we can before we get 00:59 - possibly a foot of snow dropped on us 01:02 - I'm just going through and doing some 01:04 - washes haven't done any washes yet but I 01:07 - just want to see as as nest finishes 01:10 - emerging I just want to see where this 01:12 - might level is just to make sure I don't 01:14 - get caught off guard because I'm running 01:17 - out of time if I have to do something 01:19 - about it we'll be running oxalic acid 01:22 - next week if we're not stuck in snow 01:25 - what they'll be getting a vapor 01:27 - treatment just before we bring him 01:29 - inside anyways that's gonna scale some 01:31 - hives but you know BC is not that far 01:36 - away is but it's two hours and I'm still 01:38 - working on a bit of jet lag so I left 01:41 - the scale back in the honey house so off 01:43 - to go back and get that after I get 01:45 - closer to home anyways we've got to get 01:48 - these hives fed up because that threat 01:52 - of snow just keeps coming at us winter 01:54 - is near 02:50 - why 02:55 - why 02:59 - why 03:05 - why 03:08 - box it's 95 pounds 03:14 - like one 03:22 - why 03:34 - what 03:38 - why 03:40 - what 03:46 - you guys are $95 04:00 - [Music] 04:11 - why 04:14 - why 04:15 - [Music] 04:16 - why 06:00 - I'm gonna give these guys a better shake 06:02 - tonight but there's only one might in 06:06 - here so I'm thinking there's roughly 100 06:08 - or 200 bees so that's good these nests I 06:12 - pretty much set up for winter and I 06:16 - should be seeing an increase in mite 06:18 - counts if there's any type of problem so 06:22 - these hives are scaling 95 to 105 pounds 06:26 - so they're fed right up so a little bit 06:29 - heavier than I anticipated they were so 06:31 - that is really good I'm still putting 06:33 - out a gallon a pail just to satisfy the 06:37 - big ones those ones sitting about 95 06:41 - pounds or like a box of bees and I mean 06:45 - I imagine there's more brood in there 06:47 - when I started feeding heavy a few weeks 06:49 - ago and the brood has emerged and now 06:52 - there's open space and they could take 06:56 - on just a little bit I don't want these 06:57 - great big hives to fall short 07:00 - I might feed a little bit heavier than a 07:03 - lot of people do but what I do is I just 07:06 - feed them right to hell up and you know 07:09 - I'm looking at five five and a half 07:11 - months of winter here so there's gonna 07:13 - give them lots of opportunity to open up 07:15 - that middle the nest to be able to 07:17 - create some room for winter brood later 07:18 - on and if there's still a little bit too 07:22 - heavy in the spring that's not a problem 07:24 - whatsoever all I do is pull a frame of 07:25 - honey out drop an empty frame in provide 07:28 - a little bit more space and use that 07:29 - feed frame and another hive that might 07:32 - be running a bit short you typically 07:34 - nukes so anyway that's kind of settled 07:37 - me down a little bit 07:40 - I haven't been back here for well we 07:43 - haven't been able to get back into this 07:45 - yard for two and a half weeks now might 07:47 - even be three weeks and I was thinking 07:49 - you know I gotta assess these guys to 07:51 - make sure they have enough stores just 07:53 - so I know what weight they are going in 07:55 - and according to my math everything is 07:57 - just the way I have planned it so rest 08:01 - assured I should be able to send 08:04 - carryout to do some top ups and I should 08:07 - be able to pack silage all day tomorrow