Hi Bill &Michael and all,
Bill wrote,
conditions in the hive are different that the conditions outside.
True Bill, but what I should have said maybe the garage? What I'm looking
for is a average , if I took the couple thousand hives I'm setting on now, I
would probably have several hundred different conditions, so I go for the
happy medium.
Syrup, these are standards, sucrose 66% solids, hfcs 77% solids it also
will depend on the supplier.
Michael wrote,
>It must be that your bees don't have a good fall pollen flow.
No Mike, they have a fair flow but I want fifteen frames of bees in late
January and I also want a low D/O rate. Right now I'm averaging about 6% for
winter loss.
>Feeding colonies all they will take is wasteful and expensive
I didn't say add supers and start feeding, the bees will only consume what
they have room for, I'm assuming they are not five story high.
>I now see little dysentery, and my colonies are "fat" with no fumidil
>crutch,
Funny, I had to send sample to the lab to get results for mine, some friend
of mine have it moderately, they have bees in Calif, Montana, S Dakota and
Texas. I'm not just talking about My Calif. You cannot see(with the naked
eye) Dysentery problems until its too late, I don't want to risk thousands
of hives @$150.00 pollination fee.
When you are running several thousand hives and they have been in several
different states for the summer you cannot micro-manage them. If I had 100
hives down the street and never moved them then maybe I could.
Keith Jarrett
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