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AUSTRALIA
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Bee feed recipe 2 (No pollen)
Use when bees are on a heavy honey flow with good volumes of low grade ground flora pollen (ie. Yellow box, with scotch thistle or flat weed. Grey Ironbark and flatweed or fire weed and sunflower crops).
3.3 kgs Soy flour
1 kg Torula yeast or brewers yeast
½ kg Pollard
100 g Vegetable oil (eg. Cotton seed)
50 g Vitamin mix
3.5 kgs Irradiated honey or malt
Prepare as bee feed 1.
Feed 4-5 weeks before and during the honey flow. Feed as a biscuit or patty in the hive.
Bee feed recipe 3 (no pollen)
Use for heavy honey flows which have large volumes of low grade eucalypt pollen. (eg. White box, Pilliga box, white mahogany/grey ironbark honey flows).
4.2 kg Expeller press Soy flour
500 g Pollard
200 g Vegetable oil (cotton seed)
50 g Vitamin mix
3.5 kgs Irradiated honey or malt
Prepare as recipe 1 and feed inside the hive as a biscuit or patty. Feed 4-5 weeks before, during and (if the pollen has stopped) after the flow.
During heavy honey flows or when continuos breeding is required, the protein supplementary feed should be available to the bees all the time. Feed regularly a minimum of 300 grams of protein supplement every two weeks.
