Dennis, Stan, et al:

Thanks for sharing your experience, Dennis.  Your Vitamin C addition, I
found, rather interesting although I wouldn’t try: in this context, VC
sounds almost like a hard drug, for me.  At times, I, too, even
entertained myself with the idea of boiling eggs and mixing it with the
supplemental powder-mix in the bona fide fashion of a true Voodoo doctor!
[In fact, I read somewhere someone suggesting, I believe, egg white in the
mix]  How about a dash of red pepper powder to fire them up?

Since I, while looking for sources for brewer’s yeast, stumbled into this
seeming controversy of various pollen supplement recipes, let me hear from
someone who, like Dennis, experimented lately with different recipes in a
semi-controlled environment--without the premix or real pollen.  According
to my limited observation, I will be quite satisfied with feeding brewer’s
yeast alone mixed with sugar, it seems.  [ Lloyd, I will be talking to NWC
breeder in CA thanks to your suggestion] In fact, there are others who
claim that it does not matter whether the soy flour should have less than
5% protein or not [fatty soy meal].  I jess dung no.  This seeming
confusion and contradictory practices make beekeeping even more
interesting and certainly democratic!

Cheers,

Yoon