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- Too many - but not nearly enough
Ok, just playing devil's advocate here: what if you keep some honey from each hive and set it aside to be used for this? So if you have 4 hives you'd keep 4 jars of honey, one for each hive to feed back to the hive in case it's needed.
Wouldn't advocate this for commercial keepers as it would be a nightmare to manage, but for a hobbyist?
Once you're over the winter, if you have honey left over in these jars, you just use it for yourself and refill the jars with fresh honey for the next winter at harvest time.
I suppose it's be a hassle to extract, to keep honey for these jars separate from each hive, as I said, just playing devil's advocate...
The question is 'but why?' all that faff and how are you going to feed it back? you really need your 'emergency' supply to be right on the bees so they just need to move onto it and take it down. also, you don't really know how much you need.And believe it or not - honey in that state is not the best thing to feed back to them at this stage, not to mention the fact, if it warms up a bit you could trigger robbing. Fondant is a no brainer really