BeeJolly
New Bee
- Joined
- Sep 6, 2009
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- Location
- Ormskirk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 1
I am a new bee beek. One thing I have learned is that what ever question you ask everyone has a different answer I have had two completely differnt answers to my question and was wanting further advice.
I got a 5 frame nuc 5 weeks ago, they were building up nicely and building wax at a good rate while we were feeding them. Last weekend we put on our first super, we fed them for two more days then removed the food and put in a queen excluder. The first two days showed lots of comb building in the super, in the last five there has been little. They have also stopped drawing out in the brood. I know you aren't supposed to over feed for fear of honey block, but there is only one frame of stores, 12 frames 1 and a hlaf not yet drawn. I am also aware that supers and feeding can cause honey to be of poor unsaleable quality, but I would rather I strengthened the hive to its max this year, getting wax prepared, and didn't worry to much about the honey until next year. any honey we do get to extract I will happily eat myself
we live near liverpool and it really hasn't stopped raining in nearly a week so the bees haven't been able to get out to much. I have been informed that at this time of year, especially with the poor weather conditions, bees wont draw wax unless fed and nurtured.
After all my rambling my question is 'To feed or not to feed?"
I got a 5 frame nuc 5 weeks ago, they were building up nicely and building wax at a good rate while we were feeding them. Last weekend we put on our first super, we fed them for two more days then removed the food and put in a queen excluder. The first two days showed lots of comb building in the super, in the last five there has been little. They have also stopped drawing out in the brood. I know you aren't supposed to over feed for fear of honey block, but there is only one frame of stores, 12 frames 1 and a hlaf not yet drawn. I am also aware that supers and feeding can cause honey to be of poor unsaleable quality, but I would rather I strengthened the hive to its max this year, getting wax prepared, and didn't worry to much about the honey until next year. any honey we do get to extract I will happily eat myself
we live near liverpool and it really hasn't stopped raining in nearly a week so the bees haven't been able to get out to much. I have been informed that at this time of year, especially with the poor weather conditions, bees wont draw wax unless fed and nurtured.
After all my rambling my question is 'To feed or not to feed?"