Spring Feeding for buildup!

[Jen]

Pistol- ""Meanwhile you "neighbour" bee keeper a couple of miles away has been busy and  doesn't take his supers off till the end middle of September.  You've just contaminated their honey with two weeks worth of sugar water""

Explaination please 

[Perry]

It is not good practice to open feed your bees when someone within a 2 mile (minimum) radius has honey supers on.
I have had to shut down two of my yards because a huge commercial keep was open barrel feeding his hives in August! I have honey supers on in August and I don't want my bees bringing back sugar syrup and adulterating my crop. I want my bees bringing in nectar.

[Jen]

Okay! I'm going back to page one and start reading from the beginning! Sooo much info here. :D

[Jen]

pistol-  ""any pollen supplement without at least 20% real pollen from your own hives is of questionable value.""

This is a concern of mine. I do buy pollen from my local beek, but I'm afraid of cross contamination with AFB

[minz]

I go to a local brewery and get spent brewer's yeast. Mix 80% brewers yeast, 10% sugar, and 10% soy flour. That's my pollen sub. If I had raw pollen, I would mix it in, too.

Do they  give away the brewers yeast or a small charge? Portland is turning into a real Mecca of little micro-breweries, Maybe call around and see if I can get a 5 gallon bucket of it. I think I am too small to buy any quantities or take a truckload of it.
I got a couple of buckets of sugar from a guy here that was almost free. He gets totes of floor sweeping and conveyor sugar (looks almost like divert). I could really get something going here.

[iddee]

I think the small amount we were charged more or less paid for the container it was in. Very little for what we got.

[Perry]

pistol-  ""any pollen supplement without at least 20% real pollen from your own hives is of questionable value.""

This is a concern of mine. I do buy pollen from my local beek, but I'm afraid of cross contamination with AFB

I use Global Pollen patties with 15% real pollen (I get a kick out of the "real" part). The pollen is irradiated to remove any chance of AFB introduction.

[Jen]

Perry- do you think that the irradiation might compromise the nutrients in the pollen?

[efmesch]

Jen, please excuse me for butting in, after all your question was addressed to Perry.

Sterilization by irrradiation is not like atomic radiation .   It's better compared to turning the microwave on and then off.  Turn it on and it heats.  Once turned off, the microwaves cease to be present and are of no potential danger whatsoever.  So too with sterilization by irradiation.  After the process has ended the irradiation is gone.

Re-reading what I wrote,  I might not have answered your question.  I'll go back to the microrwave oven.  You can over cook and ruin your food.  You can over radiate and posssibly compromise the patties.  The firms that use radiation make it their business not to reach that stage.

[Jen]

Thanks ef! Always appreciate your input! Yes question answered.

[tecumseh]

thanks for the explanation efmesch. 

[Perry]

Ef certainly answered it better than I would have, and I think I just learned something new today. 

[Slowmodem]

Jen, please excuse me for butting in, after all your question was addressed to Perry.

Sterilization by irrradiation is not like atomic radiation .   It's better compared to turning the microwave on and then off.

It's my understanding that most mail is irradiated nowadays because of the anthrax and stuff.

[efmesch]

It's my understanding that most mail is irradiated nowadays because of the anthrax and stuff.

How do they handle that with email?

[LazyBkpr]

It's my understanding that most mail is irradiated nowadays because of the anthrax and stuff.

How do they handle that with email?

   I believe the same way they handle irradiating Fax's