Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 8407 Location: South Cornwall
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 9:21 pm Post subject:
I wasn't being critical.
In your situation with two young colonies & no backup you have little choice.
When you have strong colonies & want to start a third you can take frames of stores from the strongest colonies with little effect on the overall crop.
Might even be doing them a favour giving the queen more room to lay & delay swarming.
One thing you need to watch for if summer feeding is robbing.
I would reduce the entrance to 1 or 2 beespace until their numbers build up.
& I tend to agree with the inspector on the supers, you don't want sugar syrup mixed with good honey in the super so better to restrict them to just brood frames till you finish feeding IMO.
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