BEEKEEPING: How, Why & When to Feed Pollen Patties
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- There are few things that can affect your hive like poor nutrition! Blake quickly outlines how, why & when to feed pollen patties to provide critical nutrition insurance for your hives this fall!
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That would make the hive beetles sooo happy!
They can-we just make sure to only give a hive enough of a pollen patty that they can eat in about 7 days. Or, we use one of our screen patty trays that keeps the patty lifted off the top bars.
What do you do with your internal feeder during the winter? Do you leave it?
But now your top box is not sitting evenly on your bottom box. There’s a big gap in between for Water and Air to get during the winter. Is there another way of applying these patties?
I enjoy your videos. Thanks. My question is I have 9 double medium brood boxes on each hive. When I harvested my honey I left a 9 frame box of honey on each hive. Wondering if I should leave them on during the winter? Thanks in advance.
Good question! As long as the box is 25% full of bees, I'd leave it.
What do you use for the weeds in your apiary?
In that yard, just pulling by hand.:)
Ha Blake always enjoy the videos, do u sell the globel pollen in dry form I like mixing my own. they now make it in canada and sell it there I have always used ultra bee I get it from mannlake but globel is said to be so much better. Thanks
Soon! We are getting a bunch in a few weeks!
@@thebeesupply I AM WANTING THE 50 LB BAG DRY POLLEN MIX TRY TO GET IT WITH OUT THE SUGAR ADDED MANN LAKE IS 100 FOR A 40LB BAG BUT IT LAST A LONG TIME AND IT MAKES A LOT OF PATTIES. THANKS
When will you stop treating with Apiguard in our area? I know it can shut the queens laying down some.
Usually once the bees start clustering (so daytime temps in the mid 50s) it stops working very well.
@@thebeesupply it also causes the Queen to stop laying. That was my concern before the cold hits and she’s laying the over wintering bees.
why dont you use your screened patty trays?
Good question.:) For Stan's Sugar Bricks, I always use the screen tray. For pollen patties, I usually just use them if I have a reason to be concerned about SHBs.
Okay, the elephant in the room is...if you have 30K hives and you're feeding a full pattie/2 per month. how are you still in business with this economy/global pollen Pattie prices ... or even just pollen prices?
When hives are healthy and managed they will make plenty of honey money
It's just 2x per month for a few months- not year around. And, we get much cheaper prices by the semi load.:) Overall, it's very low on the list of expenses and we see a great return by having better/stronger/more productive hives for the next year.
My colonies have way too much pollen most of 2-3 frames in a single or double box and I don’t know where to put it, come take some lol
That's a great problem!!