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2020 Spring REWIND - Early Spring Nest Management, a cold Canadian Spring- part 1

a Canadian Beekeeper's Blog The spring of 2020 challenged both the resilience of my honey bee stock and the resilience of my patience! PART 1 (APRIL) of this 2020 spring compilation, demonstrates commercial management practices which promotes growth throughout our variable Canadian Spring conditions. You will notice throughout our April work, I direct complete attention towards the management of the colonies which is focuses on the exact conditions around and within that colony without actually opening up it's nest. I have indexed this video for your convenience. Don't hesitate to comment below if you have any questions! 0:00 - Opening Credits 2:11 - The management of Indoor winter shed conditions as I set the hives out 15:51 - First spring flight 24:24 - First round work, INITIAL COLONY ASSESSMENTS, EMERGENCY FEEDING, CULLING 28:15 - Looking for breeder queens, breeder queen assessment criteria 32:20 - Early season actions to remedy queenless hives, nuc mergers 35:20 - Hoplessly Queenless, nuc mergers 36:54 - Open feeding dry supplement 40:15 - Tallying losses 42:42 - Cold weather shutdown, reflection on first round work, plan for work ahead 44:57 - Cold weather work - equipment maintenance and preparation 47:12 - Honey farm RULE OF THUMB 47:30 - Open feeding dry supplement, open feeding syrup 49:30 - Colony assessment, observing the colony's development by reading the brood nest activity after that cold weather event 57:43 - Cold weather shutdown, filling in dead spots 1:00:30 - In-depth philosophy of understanding progressive colony growth 1:07:50 - Shifting gears - switching from open syrup feeding to pail feeding 1:11:31 - Syrup pails, love hate relationship - In-depth explanation on our pail feeding strategy 1:20:04 - Warmth, SHIFTING GEARS 1:24:25 - First POLLEN 1:30:50 - "that's what she said" 1:32:40 - Boosting small nucs, how to determine vigor when assessing a small nest 1:37:50 - Drift issues due to our work 1:41:30 - Moving spring yards out to their summer locations 1:50:15 - Colony assessment, grading, culling and promoting 1:57:13 - Getting stuck, **a clip for Ruben Josey** 2:00:00 - Assessment ques of a box of bees, how to read the frames bottoms 2:02:36 - Philosophy of keeping the hives tight, giving them space and all those cluster dynamics involved.