Guys
I have a question about feeding back honey. I have 3 buckets of honey from a cut out this weekend. What would be the best and easiest way to feed the honey back to them. I removed a hive that had been there for five years. It had five feet of honey that was moved with done comb. Very large hive.
I would be eating what was not soiled while removing, then set the rest out 100 feet or more from the hives and let them clean it up. Just be sure there are no puddles they can drown in.
I'm with iddee. Invariably I end up with dust, dirt, and chainsaw flakes on the majority of stuff though. This is how I feed the honey back. I've already got 2" shims on all of my hives on top of the inner cover for a small upper entrance and summer venting. I put cut out honey in there horizontally and break it up a little with a hive tool. They'll clean it up and start reforming the wax as best they can. I try to leave it on there a few days so they don't put too much effort into reforming it. They'll clean it up very nicely but sometimes the underside is still wet if they can't get to it. I try to avoid putting it flush with the inner cover so they can get to the underside too.
I set out the busted up comb or dirty comb several hundred feet from my Apiary to keep a robbing frenzy to a minimum. I have put them near my hives in the past but it was a mistake I only made once!!!