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

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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.

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