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I need your thoughts, I have been open barrel feeding my colonies. When I
check the weight of hives, I find many of them feel excellent or normal, and
others are small and light weight (too light).
Since the hives are small and light weight, I guess that there is something
wrong and they will not make it on their own. I would like to take steps to
make the best of the situation. I treated for mites properly and all is in
order. My goal is to come through winter with as many healthy hives as
possible.
Here are some of my options:
1. Just feed them additional syrup with a pail on top and try to overwinter
them above a strong colony.
2. Unite 1 light weight colony with 1 strong colony (newspaper method).
3. Unite two light weight colonies together to try make one strong
one(newspaper method)
4. Give each light weight colony a new queen( I have some mating nucs that I
could unite them with), and then feed them additional syrup.
Chris Hiemstra
Ontario, Canada
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