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In a message dated 01/12/2015 18:10:05 GMT Standard Time,
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In his opinion, we should not be taking honey that the bees might need for
themselves. And if they cannot produce enough to support themselves, then
to supplement them with artificial feed is to select for inferior bees.
I concur with that view. It is very rarely that I feed my bees, certainly
not every colony and not every year. If I do feed, I add blue food dye to
the syrup so that I can see where it end up as I don't want to eat/sell
partly recycled sugar disguised as honey. It is rare indeed that I lose a
colony to starvation and then mostly it's isolation starvation with ample
stores only a couple of combs away from the cluster.
Besides the standard National (UK) hives, I also run a few top bar hives
and take my harvest from them in the spring at willow/dandelion flowering
time so I can be sure that what I take is truly surplus to their requirements.
Chris
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