feeding patties

[tigman]

does any one have a mixture for making patties

[MustbeeNuts]

I got this one from the kind folks here!!


"Honey Bee Healthy" Recipe
5 cups water
2 1/2 pounds of sugar
15 drops each of spearmint and lemongrass oils
1/8 teaspoon lecithin granules
You have to dissolve the granules in very hot (almost boiling) water and
let it cool prior to incorporating the oils into the mixture. The
lecithin is an emulsifier and helps disperse the oils in the water
mixture. This is the standard recipe according to a website article I
read about using essential oils, and these are the two oils used in the
HBH. I use less of the oils than the recipe calls for since I am feeding
fairly heavily at this time, but for a spring or fall treatment, I will
follow these measurements. "
Recipe
Stovetop Recipe- (makes nine 5" x 6" pieces)
    1-Mix 5# granulated sugar, 1 pint corn syrup, 1 & 1/3 cups of water
in a large pot.
    2- Hold over medium heat to 240 d on a candy thermometer. VERY
IMPORTANT TO HOLD THE 240 F.
    3- Stir only occasionally, it takes a while.
    4- At 240, place the pot in a sink of cold water.
    5- Change the water a few times.
    6- Beat with a mixer, cooling the mixture to 190
    7- Pour onto greased (Pam) cookie sheets to ¼ inch thick
    8- Cool and slice into patties


this recipe has worked well for me - the bees love it both wet and dry
in open feeder.
I don't make it as wet as he suggests, I make it more like cookie dough
than like peanut butter - the peanut butter version seems too runny to
me, at least it was in my ob hive... (please excuse the caps - I'm
avoiding re-typing...)

The multi-season pollen substitute formula is:
FOUR CUPS SUGAR (carbohydrate)
TWO CUPS WATER
THREE CUPS EXPELLER PROCESS SOYBEAN FLOUR (protein)
ONE AND A HALF-CUP BREWERS YEAST (oxidizer & energizer)
TWO TEASPOONS SALT (SEA SALT OR MINERAL IS PREFERRED) (bees areanimals
and animals need salt)
ONE-TEASPOON 'FRUIT FRESH' (or dry vitamin C) (Found in canning and
freezing sectionat your grocery store)
SIX TABLESPOONS DRY MILK POWDER (Calcium & enzymes)
SIX ANTIOXIDENT VITAMINS (Available at any Drug store) (Gel caps) MELT SUGAR IN WATER AND SET ASIDE TO COOL. THEN CUT OPEN THE ANTI-OXIDANT GEL CAPS AND STIR THE CONTENTS INTO THE LIQUID. THOROUGHLY BLEND THE DRY INGREDIENTS AND THEN ADD THE COOLED SUGAR-WATER MIX TO THE BLEND AND STIR UNTIL A SOFT DOUGH IS FORMED. (Like soft peanut butter) DIVIDE THE DOUGH INTO DESIRED SIZE PORTIONS. I USE HAMBURGER SIZE PATTIES IN WINTER FOR BUILD-UP

All ingredients are readily available at most grocery stores - I'm sure
you can also buy them bulk.

[TwT]

here is the pollen patty recipe Kona Queens uses, I broke it down to smaller amounts but cant find it, I will post the post I got sent, its for a large amount, just break it down for small amount


You will notice that this is recipe uses a 50 lb bag of brewers' yeast. We mix this in a commercial morter mixer and fill a 100 gallon water trough with two loads. I would imagine you might want to divide the recipe into a more managable size.
 
By adding more or less sugar syrup you can make softer or harder patties. The most important ingredient is the pollen. Without the pollen the bees will not eat the pattie.
 
Good luck!
 
Pollen Pattie Recipe
Ingredients:
2 - 5 gallon buckets of sugar syrup
fill to 4" from top
40 oz. of pollen
50 lbs brewers' yeast
 
Mix for 3 minutes. Form into 1 1/2 lb. patties and put in wax paper bag.
Mark at Kona Queen
         

a friend of mine just buys about 50 pounds of pollen and adds just enough water to it to make patties. He gets it from Glorybee Foods 

[NWIN Beekeeper]

Your friend must be RICH!!   :)

That's organic pollen at $10 per pound!!

So at 50# that's $500.00 :shock:

That buys a lot of other brands of pollen sups!

[TwT]

nah, that's just the site he buys it from, I am not sure what he buys but I know it does cost more than the substitutes, he said he just like feeding pollen instead of the man made stuff