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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: GLOCK on February 04, 2014, 05:56:01 pm

Title: So how do you feed your nucs?
Post by: GLOCK on February 04, 2014, 05:56:01 pm

So how do you feed your nucs?
This works great and you can control the robbing and no dead bees like frame feeders.
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Title: Re: So how do you feed your nucs?
Post by: rcannon on February 04, 2014, 08:16:37 pm

I do it the same way, but I use migratory style lids on everything and cut a hole for the mason jar to fit into.
It's worked good for me.

Title: Re: So how do you feed your nucs?
Post by: riverbee on February 04, 2014, 08:18:30 pm

great photos glock! (enjoyed the colors!)
i do what you do, with the extra box on top, although, sometimes i will use an inverted 1 gallon plastic pail. 
for water, i will use a boardman on the front entrance.

Title: Re: So how do you feed your nucs?
Post by: Perry on February 04, 2014, 08:20:00 pm

Looks good to me.   :yes:

Title: Re: So how do you feed your nucs?
Post by: tecumseh on February 05, 2014, 07:01:07 am

nice...

I have found with the jz nuc boxes that a quart baggie feeder fit nicely in the space at the very top of the box.  sometime I will also use a tube feeder (really just a variation of a gravity feeder but with a very small tube built into the top < I often use one of those coffee stirring straws and a hot glue gun to make this modification) with I can insert thru the small slot in the jz's top.

Title: Re: So how do you feed your nucs?
Post by: pistolpete on February 05, 2014, 08:11:59 pm

I do the same, but with two fairly major differences: I use screen over the inner cover hole, so that I don't have any bees to shoo when I change jars.  Also, I use large pickle jars so that they last a couple of days.

Title: Re: So how do you feed your nucs?
Post by: ablanton on February 05, 2014, 09:12:09 pm

Hive top feeders for me . . .


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Title: Re: So how do you feed your nucs?
Post by: skydiver on February 05, 2014, 09:24:00 pm

I found jar feeder works well for general feeding. But to get my nuc's to draw comb and put up winter stores when there was little to no flow I had to use a hive top feeder. 

Title: Re: So how do you feed your nucs?
Post by: rodmaker on February 06, 2014, 12:23:58 pm

    I use a hive top feeder home made no drowning bees.

Title: Re: So how do you feed your nucs?
Post by: apisbees on February 06, 2014, 01:52:46 pm

Quote from: skydiver on February 05, 2014, 09:24:00 pm

I found jar feeder works well for general feeding. But to get my nuc's to draw comb and put up winter stores when there was little to no flow I had to use a hive top feeder.

Good observation skydiver. This is also caused by ambient temperature outside the cluster. With the feed jar over the cluster, the bees have ready access to the syrup while they are clustered. In a hive top of frame feeder the bees need a warmer ambient temperature to break cluster and move to the syrup. So the bees when the temperature is favorable will bring the syrup  near to the cluster to store and to build wax if empty cells are not available for wax storage.