Tomorrow will be the day for my first nuc hive inspection to see how many QCs they will make. If they make 7 I will be happy just enough to
fit inside the homemade small fridge incubator. Then returning this hive back to a queen right state continuing to collect nectar/honey. A 7 day interruption
isn't that bad. Too bad that the mark queen is dead now!
Last night and tonight, I fed them honey water. Into a glass canning quart jar I fill up some warm water almost to the top leaving enough
room for 8 oz. of honey that I harvested last season. The honey is clean without any bee disease during the tf process. I use a spoon to gradually
dissolve the honey into the water stirring it as I go. I also added a pound of the homemade high protein patty subs in the top box last night. This way the nurse bees producing the RJ to feed the QCs can be very well fed. Even though our flow is on now there isn't enough foragers to keep all the bees well fed because the hive have too many young bees not able to fly yet. By giving them extra feeds the young nurse bees will be fatten up somewhat while supplying more RJ to the developing QCs. Because the honey water is pure they can cap the cured honey without contaminating it with sugar syrup. Then later on when the flow is over I can even extract the honey. I don't give them any sugar bricks when the flow is on.
I also put 2 more hives next to this CB/CF hive. In a day or two I will move these 2 hives to another location harvesting more foragers for the CB hive. I only have 7 days to complete this process before the cells are being cap. Oh, the honey water must be taken by the bees within a day otherwise it will spoil in this warm weather. A single quart is barely enough to feed them all. But I cannot be around all day long to continue feeding. So one quart is all they get per night for now. So if you have extra honey that you want to feed back to the bees this is the method to use.
Mixing honey in water:
Before--
http://imgbox.com/t6Y5wi7xAfter--
http://imgbox.com/8BuIgxdp