Anybody working with their bees yet?
I built a few candy feeders. We are trying to get our two caught swarms over the hump. We fed them hard all summer. We was scared they were getting light to fast.
We placed a nearly full candy board feeder on both hives.
Our second caught swarm has always lagged a bit. They are our arseholes too. They hardly have touched the sugar candy.
Our stronger hive devoured the whole batch. We checked about late January and they neither had taken much interest. I wasn't terrible concerned. Today we checked and they had built comb in the unit and she was picked clean.
We added a protein cake to each and split out the un used candy from the other hive.
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What we salvaged from the other candy board. This is a spare.
We also went ahead and stacked a honey super on each and put a queen excluder between it and the two deep supers.
