Hi all,

It's amazing how much more brood we are getting right now on the gulf coast from our feeding program. 
The hives fed HFCS a gallon a week with a pollen patty approximately every 10 days since mid Dec. have 5 to 9 frames of brood.
I checked a couple a yards that didn't get fed with nice size clusters that have only 2 or 3 frames of brood. That is about 150 to 200 % better in frames of brood. 

We were using Mann Lake patties, and are now using the Dadant Florida patty(no soy because of beetles) , Dadants standard patty, and we'll use the Mega Bee later in our cell builders. They all seem to work. I'll try some trials with Mega bee and the Dadant standard patty later in the cell builders. 

 

 Kirk Jones

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