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Offline skeeterhawk1960

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Feeding my Bees
« on: March 18, 2014, 05:27:26 pm »
I know this has been brought up before but, How long do I need to feed my bees. I did a cutout last Wednesday.
If you read the post on first cutout, you`ll know they vacated the premises on Saturday, twice, and I got them back and fashioned a queen excluder.
Today, they are piled up on the sugar syrup, eating their hearts out. How long should I keep this up. I`m in South Georgia and things are starting to bloom.
This may be a dumb question, but these are my first bees and I would like to do right by them. Thanks in advance. Harper
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Re: Feeding my Bees
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2014, 05:33:30 pm »
Feed until they stop taking it! You'll know when they stop.
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Re: Feeding my Bees
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2014, 05:57:47 pm »
I put the same amount of food on all my hives last week with division board feeders. It was interesting 1 week later when I checked. 1 hive had all but emptied the feeder. The other two had barely touched the feeder at all.
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Re: Feeding my Bees
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2014, 06:22:23 pm »
Thanks ya`ll, for the advice. Harper
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