medication and feeding

[greenismycolor]

Hi all

This is my first full year of bee keeping. I am curious about the products I see for medicating and feeding. It doesn't appear that I have any pest problems with my hives now...I have 2. I wintered one hive last year with just feeding and no medication.

One product is honey bee healthy....and the other is for Nosema/Fumagilin-B?  Do you use anything to protect against foul/sac/chalk/stonebrood, or treat it if it occurs?

My aim is to prepare my hives for winter in the best way possible and have on hand what I will need in the spring, if anything.
If you have other products, or natural ways, or use nothing at all, I would like to hear from you please.


wish all a good day
green

[Michael Bush]

http://www.bushfarms.com/beespests.htm

[qa33010]

    If I think I am going to use it I make my own HBH.  I have watched as the house bees pulled brood out of the hives.  This year was a little more due to colder and wetter than normal, but when that cleared up so did the brood removal.  Now it's just the occasional brood coming out.  Those that I've checked (not many) have immature varroa.  That makes me happy. :-D

     If I ever get AFB then I will seal and burn the colony, as per state law, bees and all in a hole about eighteen inches deep and wider than the hive.  Other than powdered sugar, if needed, that is the only treatment I do.  There are others that may have other options and practise other methods that work fine for them. 

    Mike does have some excellent information on his site!