Closing up for winter

[Jonnyl]

Enrico, no qe were ever on as its a first year nuc. Thanks for keeping me right though just in case

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[Millet]

If the colony is +Q and she is laying the winter bees I would say you are done. Do heft the hive from time to time as it is not how much you have fed, but what they do with it. If they are putting it all into brood they can be starving by Christmas.

Got to agree with that this year especially with the Queens i am using as they don't now when to stop laying.. all my full colonies have had around 16 litres of syrup each over the past few weeks as well as what they are collecting them selves and they are yet to gain any substantial weight..obviously it is going into the brood rearing... i will carry on feeding till i have a little struggle to lift them and then i will weigh them all..