Candy

[Robbie & Jans Bees]

I wondered if I feed Candy and there is honey left in the hive will this effect my girls? can you over feed?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Yes. I overfed last winter. April was a wonderful month here with a good flow. The queen ran out of space to lay and the colony swarmed with no evidence even of a queen cell. I found some three days after they had gone, (though I did catch them)
It's a balancing act. I am keeping an eye on my 14 x 12s but they went into winter very heavy. I hope not to feed fondant at all. This year I have drawn brood frames and I will remove stores in the spring if I need to.

 

[Bee-Key-Pur]

I wouldn't think so, as long as you manipulate your hives in spring, but your thread title reminded me of what I think must have been a corner sweet shop called Candy Corner, and is now a house, however, they kept the old shop front sign up.
What a great house name!

 

[Poly Hive]

This is where working the broodnest comes into play.

PH

 

[Ruary]

Fondant or candy is not taken into the brood nest but consumed in the smae manner as honey. Feeding it does not clog the brood frood frames.
But you can over feed with syrup and clog the brood nest depriving the queen of space to lay.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Fondant or candy is not taken into the brood nest but consumed in the smae manner as honey. Feeding it does not clog the brood frood frames.
But you can over feed with syrup and clog the brood nest depriving the queen of space to lay.

Could the bees eat it instead of their own stores which ARE in the brood nest? Or do they eat all their stores and then start on the fondant?

 

[oliver90owner]

Pleeese, newbies, don't read Ruary's post out of context.

He is meaning at this time of the year. The bees will take it down and store it in the autumn when fed as feed ready for winter, just as they would sugar syrup. So the answer to the OP must be 'Yes, it can'.

Feeding, like all other operations/manipulations need due consideration at the time before assuming anything. Erichalfbee's post makes a good example of this.

RAB

 

[Ruary]

QUOTE=oliver90owner;205243]Pleeese, newbies, don't read Ruary's post out of context.

He is meaning at this time of the year. The bees will take it down and store it in the autumn when fed as feed ready for winter, just as they would sugar syrup. So the answer to the OP must be 'Yes, it can'.

Feeding, like all other operations/manipulations need due consideration at the time before assuming anything. Erichalfbee's post makes a good example of this.

RAB[/QUOTE]


Ruary

 

[Poly Hive]

There is a danger of fondant being stored, but not I think candy as being that much harder and usually the feeding of it commences post Christmas.

PH