Thanks for the responses.
I am a little guy. Right now bees are mostly an expense, not a ROI.
So I was wondering if blade milling a few pounds at a time in the wife's food processor (when she is not around) and setting it out would be worth while to supplement to incoming natural pollen in the spring.

In one of his videos Randy says "The beekeepers in Chili, they were getting paid fifteen dollars [for Almond pollination. There’s no reason to put four dollars or ten dollars worth of pollen sub in there, if you’re only getting fifteen dollars back. So, they have to find a local source of something that was cheap."

That's kinda were my head is. I am not looking for the best, I am looking for better then doing nothing.

But if its not better then doing nothing, no reason to waist time and a few $$, and its sounding like that may be the case.





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Chris >This is not the experience of prof. Haydak. See http://www.fiitea.org/foundation/files/1967/M.%20HAYDAC.pdf (Table 4).
BEE NUTRITION AND POLLEN SUBSTITUTES1) - fiitea.org<http://www.fiitea.org/foundation/files/1967/M.%20HAYDAC.pdf>
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Apiacta 1, 1967 This colony lived on sugar diet for 189 days, the last bees analyzed being 236 days old. During the protein starvation diet the bees lost 33.7% of their weight and 22.2% of the nitrogen.





My question about the Table 4 results is Hayak's use of what he referred to as "fresh-dried" pollen. If the goal of the comparisons was to simulate the nutritional value of natural pollen versus all the rest, drying the fresh pollen may have altered the constituents making the comparisons about dried and processed pollen patties and not a comparison to "a good mix of natural pollen" as Richard stated.


Bill Hesbach
Cheshire CT

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