When to start feeding sugar syrup? and How much is required?

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john1

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Hi,
Is it the right time to start feeding sugar syrup or should I leave it until October?
I hope I have to remove all the supers and start feeding.
How much sugar syrup should I feed a hive?
Thanks,
 
Buy a set of luggage scales.put two screws in the back sides of the floor. Get a small chain that goes between the screws. Take the roof off. Lift the chain with the luggage scales. Feed until it reads 20lbs minimum. That is presuming you are using a wooden national brood box.
 
Hi,
Is it the right time to start feeding sugar syrup or should I leave it until October?
I hope I have to remove all the supers and start feeding.
How much sugar syrup should I feed a hive?
Thanks,
Are your supers capped and ready to harvest? Get clearer boards on and remove them for extracting. When you remove the supers, heft the brood box to see how they are for stores and if it feels a bit light get a feeder of syrup on.
What varroa treatment are you using?
 
How much have they got in the brood box?
Are the supers still on?
Are you treating for varroa?
Hi,
My brood box has only 9 frames - not sure whether I need one more frame with foundation in the brood? Out of the 9 frames 3 of them have honey and others are like half honey and half eggs/empty.

I have 1 super on and planning to extract the honey before I start feeding sugar syrup.

I am planning to leave 2 strips of Apivar immediately after removing the supers for 8-10 weeks.
Thanks
 
Was this a 2022 nuc? It sounds like you gave them the super too soon, before they finished drawing all the brood frames. They often ignore outside frames and will work on what is directly above the nest.
 
The weather could easily catch you out at the end of October - I’d leave it on for the bees
 
I like to get my feeding done by the middle of October and I am in the south. They need to evaporate a lot of water off
 
make sure you remove the Q-excluder - over winter the bees will follow the stores and the Q could get left behind in the BB and perish.
or more likely, the bees would not leave the queen behind and stay with her - starving within inches of the stores
 
I have not done nadir before, but will try it with the half filled frames.
Thanks
Be careful when you lift the brood box, you need to make sure it leaves the floor and any entrance reducer behind! It is easy to lift the lot and then not realise until the floor drops onto the ground or you go to put the super where the floor should be. I only mention it because I constantly make the same mistake!😄
 
Be careful when you lift the brood box, you need to make sure it leaves the floor and any entrance reducer behind! It is easy to lift the lot and then not realise until the floor drops onto the ground or you go to put the super where the floor should be. I only mention it because I constantly make the same mistake!😄
I move the hive aside, put a new floor in its place then the super then move the brood onto it.
 

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