Making winter feeds for my bees
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2021
- In anticipation of needing to feed a few hives that didn't take in quite as much sugar syrup in the Fall as I would like, we make up sugar cakes for winter feeding. This is made into sugar bricks and a candy board. Checkout the Bee Whisperer website at www.beewhisperer.us
thank you Peter especially explaining the difference between winter patties and pollen patties...
You bet
Great information. I find your 24/7 beekeeping site is just great too.
Awesome, thank you!
Hello Peter it is always great to see your informative video’s . I had just made some the other day for my hives an I used your ideas on mine . Also I put the ones I made in the oven for around a 1.5 hours at I think was 125 to 150 degrees to dry them out . They worked great . I hope you have great holidays. Keep your video’s coming when possible. Thanks
So nice of you
Thank you for that recipe,, I've been looking for one,,
My pleasure 😊
thank you
You're welcome
Where did you get your mixing rod for your drill?
Paint deptament of a home improvement store.
Hi Peter I appreciate the video as a first Year beekeeper. My bees went into winter with 2 deeps and one super mostly full of honey storage. Will I need the candy board still. It doesn’t snow much until February but I haven’t seen any bees come out of the hive and don’t want to break their propolis seal.
I know this video is a little older but I have extra pollen I collected and dried from spring to the candy board also? ok I understand so yes I can add it but it would cause more brood stimulate earlier in the season. Do you want to get it to about a dryer snow, snowball? I like the frame sized ones was thinking of making some of these ahead of time and storing them for Winter, I think I'll give that a try.
Sounds right.
Have you ever used the dry sugar method with a rim on top of a inter cover. To we’re the bees come up threw the center hole ?
of. The way I have done it is to take off the inner cover, place the rim on then put a single piece of newspaper directly on the frames onto which I pour the sugar. Its a good quick fix for emergency feeding.
so i have a small sugarbush on my property and make maple syrup, at the end of each season i end up with about a gallon of syrup that is too dark and has an off taste, could i feed that to my bees instead of letting it go to waste?
In my view...Only ever feed sugar syrup made from white granulated sugar....some burnt sugar is toxic to the bees. Also other sugars may have a very high ash content (undigestable materials in it) that means the bees must get out to do a cleansing flight far more frequently thatn they should have to, and in cold weather that means problems. While I am sure they would drink it You are taking risks doing that.
What sugar is suitable for feeding bees? Icumsa 40, 45?
White granulated sugar which is sucrose is the best.
why not honey and pollen???
If you have it yes but thats expensive feed.harvesting it and then all the work to give it back. Sometimes sugar syrup is better than some honeys (particularly dark honey)
I dont use upper entrance
We tend to here in Maine but not everybody. I believe an upper entrance will be more forgiving of some uncured food, deep snow etc... Then are a lot of reports of hives with no upper entrance becoming far too damp.
@@BeekeepingwithTheBeeWhisperer tilt hive forward lets moister out. Also why vent heat out of hive.