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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 5 Apr 2008 18:49:40 -0700
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> >Do you folks who have experience replacing all old combs
> with foundation have any rules of thumb on feeding
> to get new combs drawn?


No rule of thumb other than to get them on before a nectarflow.  I generally
feed a couple of gallons of light syrup--as light as 1:2.  You don't need to
store honey--just to stimulate wax  production, and to encourage them to
build new comb to store the light syrup for processing.

Randy Oliver

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