Insurance feeding with a hive top feeder to help over winter honey bees.
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- We show you how we add sugar to our nucs to give them that extra feed to get them thru the winter. It's kind of a modified mountain camp method with an easier cleanup in the spring.
Where did you go??? Really loved your videos. I hope your absence is temporary!
This s a little unrelated but what product are you using to make the lid. It appears to be avantec. I made several using it last year and they have started to warp. Not sure why. Have you had any problems?
Out of 500 lids we have had a couple warp. We then place bricks across the lid to flatten them out. Ours have stayed straighter than regular plywood
How many frames of brood and how many frames of honey do you want to go through the winter in a five frame nuc, if I may ask?
We have 4 frames of honey and 1 frame of brood in the middle. Its usually 1/3 brood and the rest is honey, pollen, and open places for the queen to lay
@@honyokhoneybees8116 thanks, I usually do 5 over five and this year Don Kuchenmeister talked me into just a single 5 frame nuc.
So I was wondering about your setup.
I did the same but with a rim and sugar, I'm going to be putting on top this week.
I appreciate your time so much.
When you do you make your nucs in order for them to make it through the winter ?
Most of these we made mid September. Some were as late as the first week in October. The later ones we put a couple frames of honey into the nuc that we saved from earlier in the year. We store the frames of honey in a chest freezer.
Honyok Honey Bees thank you 😊
to much heat loss
We overwintered 150 nucs with this method ast year.
Dont understand why hobbyist are so dead set on drawing their bees out of the comb .. Seems like your selling bees you want them in the comb making new bees not crawling around in some goo mess of just incase sugar. Prime example of over feeding their bees .. Me personally if the bees cant make it thru winter of stores in the comb its best they just die dont need that in the breeding program
There are a variety of good reasons to feed insurance sugar. Making late spits, catching a late swarm, the hive replaces a queen late in the year and falls behind. This fall we was in a moderate drought and didn't get the fall honey flow. Also sometimes people take too much honey off and didn't realize it until they check them just before winter. We do it because we are constantly making more numbers and with this many boxes they can't find enough naturally. Why just let them die? Happy Beekeeping