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<blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 13292" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>first thing is that you shouldn't need to feed over winter, let alone plan to.</p><p>your wintering down should leave the bees with more than enough stores to last winter. they don't use much feed over winter (especially in colder areas), spring is the time you have to watch feed levels.</p><p>so if there is not enough stores, you should be feeding that syrup now and fill those frames up. that way they work the sugar when they are still active and still have high bee numbers. the feed is in the hive where they can get to it and the hive doesn't get disturbed in winter (which breaks the water seal).</p><p></p><p>dry/raw sugar is great for spring. i used to find that they preferred stores to raw sugar and raw sugar keeps well. quite often it would simply stay on the hive over the season without issue. they would ignore it during the flow.</p><p>the sugar in newspaper hack is rather old and poor (its often to little to late). if you have a feeder for syrup then most of them can be used for raw sugar. just make sure bees can get in to the sugar.</p><p> so i would just save the raw sugar and use it in spring when the stores get low.</p><p></p><p>imho the whole feed in winter thing really came about with the commercial guys doing huge increases in hive numbers by turning every hive into multiple nucs, then stimulating feeding the nucs with syrup and pollen supplement to get them up to hive size for spring. </p><p>i'll bet that practice has pretty much disappeared these days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tristan, post: 13292, member: 30"] first thing is that you shouldn't need to feed over winter, let alone plan to. your wintering down should leave the bees with more than enough stores to last winter. they don't use much feed over winter (especially in colder areas), spring is the time you have to watch feed levels. so if there is not enough stores, you should be feeding that syrup now and fill those frames up. that way they work the sugar when they are still active and still have high bee numbers. the feed is in the hive where they can get to it and the hive doesn't get disturbed in winter (which breaks the water seal). dry/raw sugar is great for spring. i used to find that they preferred stores to raw sugar and raw sugar keeps well. quite often it would simply stay on the hive over the season without issue. they would ignore it during the flow. the sugar in newspaper hack is rather old and poor (its often to little to late). if you have a feeder for syrup then most of them can be used for raw sugar. just make sure bees can get in to the sugar. so i would just save the raw sugar and use it in spring when the stores get low. imho the whole feed in winter thing really came about with the commercial guys doing huge increases in hive numbers by turning every hive into multiple nucs, then stimulating feeding the nucs with syrup and pollen supplement to get them up to hive size for spring. i'll bet that practice has pretty much disappeared these days. [/QUOTE]
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