Beekeeping is a complex science that includes both theoretical and especially important practical knowledge.
Only patient and truly devoted people to this business could, with a practical method and many years of experimentation, comprehend its essence.
It is to such research beekeepers Vladimir Petrovich Tsebro. This outstanding practitioner beekeeper and theorist has developed the most effective beekeeping program, called the Tsebro method.
- Fundamental rules
- Hive structure
- Features output uterus
- Bees wintering
- Tsebro beekeeping (beekeeper calendar)
Fundamental rules
His entire method, based on the progressive structure of the hive, bee-free keeping of bees with the performance of work on the schedule and schedule, a special way of bee breeding and expansion of the apiary without additional purchases of queens and families, V. Tsebro described in multi-volume instructions.
Its method is characterized by an increase of almost three times the number of bee colonies by the time it takes to collect honey, regular renewal of queens in all bee colonies without the need to acquire new young, which occurs every year, and to combine, for the purpose of wintering, three families into one with sufficient by force.
According to the method of beekeeping Tsebro, quite large, capacious hives consisting of three buildings should be used in the apiary: subsequently they began to be called Hives Tsebro. This design of hives contributes to the expansion of bee families in the spring: the second building is mounted on top of the hive, there is no need to install shops, so the family can be divided, if there is a young queen, into two separate ones, which allows increasing the number of families at an accelerated pace.
A mother of two weeks is quite realistic to create two layers, which will simplify the task of having a new uterus.
From the new layers, create a normal strong separate family - for her and set the top floor.
Layers are applied separately during late bribe. Layers are attached to the family, which allows you to change the old uterus to a younger one.
Prospective families with excellent characteristics should be provided with necessary food (honey, perga), evenly distributing it between the frames. All this is done after the extraction of honey and the formation of families.
For normal conditions of existence, it is possible to combine nests from several buildings during the winter: in the second place frames with sockets, in the lower one - store frames.
Next season you need to use strong families. If you adhere to the proper maintenance and care of hives, they will eliminate the appearance of bee diseases.
Constant airing and blowing of hives with fresh air contributes to their drying out, and no pest that is dangerous to bees tastes like a dry climate. It is desirable that the cells were always disclosed.
Under the frames there is no need for additional expansion, since there may be a place for blowing cold air. The optimal size of the space under the frame - three centimeters.
The reproduction of bees is recommended in the second branch, since the number of bees is 1.5 times more potent than the number of bees, the existence of a young uterus also contributes to this choice.
The old uterus loses its relevance, and because of its uselessness it is removed, the rest of the bees return to the family.
In the two-case hives, there must always be a grille so that the uterus cannot get into the upper compartment, and all the bees after that do not come to a swarm.
Queen bees change annually. Queens are best received from families with a reserve of strength and health.
The uterus, capable of reproduction, has a large abdomen, which tend to drag, and a rather heavy tread. The uterus, which can not give offspring, has a light abdomen with some elevation.
To obtain eggs, it is necessary to choose from the insulator only quality cells without defects and drones. Frames for the purpose of vaccination are determined in families without queens, where upbringing takes place with brood that has a different age.
For honey, honeycombs are placed for a day in a warm place with a temperature of 27 ° C.
Dead bees must be given after wintering for research to make sure that the cause of death is not in the disease.
In the care of bees, it is recommended to strictly adhere to the work, according to the calendar.
Tsebro placed twenty-five families in each place, he equalized them with the distribution of the brood - he did this during any inspection.
Rasplod received from families in nine-ten streets, a family of four streets combined. For each hive, he put forward a requirement - respect for the ratio of the volume and strength that the family has. In the care of bees, Tsebro used a group approach. He masterfully used in practice the characteristics of bees at all six stages of the family life cycle throughout the year.
Hive structure
According to the Tsebro method, bees need to be in beehives from walls with a double structure without a warming layer between its parts from forty-four frames measuring 435 by 300 millimeters.
On the case-base of fourteen frames, you can mount a couple of additional out of ten frames and a pair of five.The structure under the roof, made of thin boards, continues the walls of the hive, the height of which is designed for two buildings.
To make it more convenient, the left side of this structure is hinged and can be folded down. The roof also opens on its hinges, rising vertically.
In the nests of paternal families, honeycombs were placed in the center, in order to obtain early drones. The nests were covered with foil or canvas, insulated, the upper feeders with water were left free for the bees.
Features output uterus
The Cebro method is especially appreciated for recommending the artificial breeding of queens from eggs that are only two days old. The main principle of this method is the division of the family through the intermediation of grids designed for this purpose as soon as the family begins to exceed nine brood frames.
The withdrawal of queens according to the method of Tsebro will occur in the lower floor. At the end of April, when there are approximately eight to nine frames with brood in the family, the next building of ten frames can be put on top.
These are transferred from the lower tier with the bees in a pair of frames with food, four - with brood and four - sushi for sowing, which are mixed.
At the bottom of the frame in the amount of ten pieces were placed as follows: a frame with feed, one with waxing, two with brood, one with waxing, two with brood, one with waxing, one building, frame with food.
At this stage, the grid for separation is not needed. The uterus from the bottom, having no work there, moved to the upper floor.
About ten days later, the bees from the frames on top were shaken off along with the uterus to the lower floor, where the bees settled the basement by almost one third. After that, a grid was placed to separate the floors.
Further, almost at the same time, in families, queens are detected and attached to insulators, which are located on the comb and are placed between the frames with brood. After a couple of days, layings with tribal uterus are created.
Four frames with bees from the upper floor are placed in packet drawers along with queen bees from an insulator. Everything closes. From the lower floors upward feed frames without bees in the same amount, they are replaced with honeycombs with eggs from the insulator.
In the lower tier between the frames with the brood it is necessary to make three wells for the grafting frames. Parent families are transformed into educators.
Further frames with two-day eggs need to pull out and put in a box, for example, in the car, where the honeycomb are separated by a hot knife into strips of one cell in a row.
Eggs need to be thinned, leaving one after two, place the strips on the slats of the framework for vaccination, which should be placed in the created wells, and in the place where the frame with two-day eggs used to be placed. The lower tier with families, teachers must be warmed. After that, the tribal uterus is located in another place and placed in a hive, consisting of ten frames, which will be located to the right of the raising families.
Breeding nests are supplemented with honeycombs up to eight. After twenty days have passed since the first tiers of the hives have been set up, the formation of layers should be started. At this moment, fully matured queen cells have already formed.
It is necessary to provide a couple of frames of feed to the one body from the main bee family, the same brood and one sushi with water, and then make the bees shake off the frames and fall into the lower tier, where the queen was already.
Further, each of the cuts four times in the next ten days must be reinforced with a frame of printed brood. By the beginning of the main collection of honey, the new layers are in effect and may well bring real honey, as well as members of the main family.
Although according to the description the Tsebro method may seem rather complicated, but in reality everything is very accessible and simple enough, the main thing is to follow the exact instructions. With the observance of this method, each bee family is able to bring up to two hundred kilograms of honey.
Bees wintering
An important positive factor in favor of the Tsebro method is the excellent wintering rates for bee colonies.
Beekeeping masters perfectly understand the responsibility of creating optimal conditions for the wintering of their ward bees. The whole uniqueness of the Tsebro method in this matter lies in the design features of the hive itself.
The hive is built from several buildings and consists of double walls without insulation. This all makes them look like an apartment building in which an apartment needs to be heated less than a separate private house that has the same area. Stores for the winter can be placed in the hive, only if it is very necessary.With hives before the onset of winter you do not need to rush, they remain in place.
Preparing the bees for winter, you need to remove the feeders and medical strips, remove all insulating materials from the upper hulls for the purpose of cooling, so that the bees descend lower, join together and create clubs for wintering.
Even in winter, ventilation processes take place in the hives due to the lower entrance plates and openings that are a few centimeters wide open, which are located among the ventilation bars, which were specially designed for winter.
You should also not forget to leave, especially for strong families, food in the form of honey and perga. The technologies and principles of the Tsebro method allow bee colonies to survive the real frosts with success.
Tsebro beekeeping (beekeeper calendar)
Bees are loving creatures, their vital activity takes place according to certain natural cycles. They do not like the fuss and uncertainty.
These insects are very sensitive to any changes in weather, temperature and light conditions, humidity and much more. The calendar, derived by Tsebro, takes into account all these nuances, and also is based on the main practical principles of the work of its author.
According to the Tsebro calendar, in January there is observation and listening to how the bees feel during the winter, the submor is also removed, the creation of new cells is carried out, the beehive is warmed, if necessary, the insulation is checked.
In February, it is necessary to analyze non-surviving bees in the laboratory in order not to miss such diseases as Nozematoz, Varroatosis, and Ascosferosis. Preliminary examination of families that have almost survived the winter, and their qualitative condition. If necessary, take appropriate action.
In March, preparatory work for the flight, feeding, if necessary treatment, Candi. You need to tag families for their health. In April, it is necessary to completely remove the dead bees. You also need to inspect all the hives and families, prepare frames with brood and individually for each hive feeder-drinkers, install them.
It was during this period, if the need arose, you need to unite families and find such without a uterus. In April, also beekeepers should be engaged in the treatment of ascospheresis.
In May, the uterus is removed, the layers are formed, young uterus are planted.In June, frames are exchanged with brood, layering is attached to the family without a uterus. From July to December, procedures are carried out, which are known and implemented by any beekeeper.
But, according to the Tsebro method, it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that by the fall, there are only a couple of brood frames in bee colonies, so they need to be united sometime in the middle of August: as a result of such a union natural selection took place, and only the young queen remained youngster After unification, these families should be completely disassembled, the hives should be cleaned and re-assembled (in the upper part - six brood frames, four fodder, in the lower - only five frames).
Then you need to put the feeders on the hives and carry out the insulation using pillows. It is also necessary to place strips of acaricidal substances between the brood frames to destroy varroatosis. After six days, you can begin the process of feeding the bees with sugar syrup, with the addition of wormwood, potassium permanganate, nozemat, and other means. The Tsebro method in beekeeping is highly respected and popular, it defines the fundamental rules for running an apiary.