Bees for beginners part 2

part 2 of our 4 part bee keeping series

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• preparedness
• fish
• survival
• Bees
• homesteading
• honey
• bee
• keeping
• camping
• cooking
• fruit

[ThomasPaine3]

Can you make a video where you manually extract the honey ?

[delta69alpha]

@ThomasPaine3 check survivalreportblogs channel the rest of the series is on his channel. It is linked on our main page.D69

[vinodea]

I'm really enjoying this series. My husband bought me a hive with two deeps. I pick up the bees from a local store on Saturday, after a 4 hour class on carign for the colony. Your videos are helping me to become prepared for class.

[SurvivalReport]

Congrats on getting started! Currently 10 videos in this series with more to come.

[Primex007]

@ delta69alpha : i think you mean like apples or oranges

[waterwart]

I don't agree with the crushing the comb idea you had. Decades ago when we used to keep bees my dad did that to a bunch of hives. Only about half of them even built the comb back out. We used a home made hot wire with a transformer foot peddle to melt the top of the honey comb cap off...but we had a hand crank extractor too to sling the honey out. Side note..don't turn the extractor handle real fast when you have a bunch of honey in it. The force will break the comb and sling it out.

[md50md]

Could you do a video on the difference between 5-8-10 fram hives. I am trying to fiqure out which one is better

[loganv0410]

My only problems with plastic foundation is my bees, and I'm a commercial beekeeper in TN. My bees hate the stuff!

[icekat83]

Does it have to be plastic? Why not a metal base? Or would the bees not like that? Why do you want to feed them sugar? Couldn't the bees find their own food?

[Stringyheads]

Great flicks im learning heaps a can't wait to get started on the bees I like the idea of not needing the extractor

[Stringyheads]

Great flicks im learning heaps a can't wait to get started on the bees

[workwithnature]

It is handy alright with the plastic foundation. Trouble is the plastic does not allow for the heat exchange. I mean the brood needs warmth from both sides. This will put strain on our already very fragile bees. It's ironic that the reason we are going to be in this survival situation is because all of us are using things that are destructive to Nature. Is it not possible to gradually move away from these things. What do you think.

[WorldOfBeekeeping]

Totally agree about the personal preference thing. There's about a million and one ways to get to the same spot, just how do ya wanna get there?