AndreaW
House Bee
- Joined
- Mar 21, 2011
- Messages
- 144
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- Location
- Essex
- Hive Type
- Commercial
- Number of Hives
- 2
Just wanted to check something..... bear with me as a newby ?
Picking up my bees very early tomorrow morning - they are on a 4 frame nuc in a commercial brood box - not sure if they are bigger than the 4 frames as the beekeeper concerned put them into my hive a few weeks ago so they might have expanded their colony quite a bit by now. It has the full number of frames in the brood box and yes he is a very experienced beekeeper, well recommended so if I have said somthing stupid here I might have misunderstood what he does
Anyway my ? is after all that waffle:
as we are in the June gap in Essex he said last week that I would probably need to feed them. I have a gallon contact feeder and was going to make the syrup up tonight so it dissolves and is ready to go straight on hive tomorrow morning. Is it 1:1 sugar to water that I use or a different mix and is this by volume or weight?
Thank you. So excited, off to get them at 6am tomorrow.
Picking up my bees very early tomorrow morning - they are on a 4 frame nuc in a commercial brood box - not sure if they are bigger than the 4 frames as the beekeeper concerned put them into my hive a few weeks ago so they might have expanded their colony quite a bit by now. It has the full number of frames in the brood box and yes he is a very experienced beekeeper, well recommended so if I have said somthing stupid here I might have misunderstood what he does
Anyway my ? is after all that waffle:
as we are in the June gap in Essex he said last week that I would probably need to feed them. I have a gallon contact feeder and was going to make the syrup up tonight so it dissolves and is ready to go straight on hive tomorrow morning. Is it 1:1 sugar to water that I use or a different mix and is this by volume or weight?
Thank you. So excited, off to get them at 6am tomorrow.