Syrup to feed conversion?

[RangerBrad]

Hey folks, I feed in the fall. My recipe is 8 lb of sugar to 1/2 gal of water to make 1 gal of heavy syrup. My question is how many pounds of winter feed should this make after the bees have converted it to feed? I have fed 6-8 gal of syrup in the fall to my bees in the past and feel I may have been really over feeding them as when I check in the early spring when I put the supers on I find the hive bodies already paced with feed and feel I may have somewhat honey bound the hive's going into spring. Your thoughts please? Thank's, Brad

[Finski]

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It depends how much the frames have honey before beeding. How fast they take depends on how much frames have brood no and later.

[RangerBrad]

I'm sorrry, I must not of made myself clear(do it all the time) I'm just asking when dehydrated how many lbs of feed would be converted from 1 gal of thick syrup? Thank's, Brad

[Finski]

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Again, i do not know what you are thinking.

Most important is to press the colony  into small room.

Then you feed the frames full. Otherwise bees do not cap the food.

You put a bouget full of sugar. Then pour into sugar boiling water to same level as sugar was. Then stir it. Don't give hot syrup to bees.

Usual way is to make  1:2 syrup.  3 litre hot water: 6 kg sugar

First look into your hive what is there. Take pollen frames off from sides because they take mold during winter.

The order of frame  white comb  - pollen comb - brood combs - pollen - white or foundation.

You need not to know about dehydration. Bees take care the rest.

[boca]

I did not make any reliable experiment on this, but there is a kind of consensus amongst beekeepers of my country.
Bees use part of the sugar to generate heat and produce wax. Roughly you can expect as much sealed store as the dry sugar content of the syrup.
For example you give 10 kg of 60% syrup = 6 kg of sealed store.

One of a scientific study is this:
COMB-BUILDING FOR COLONY INCREASE
In that study, the The average sugar consumption (loss) was 0.27 - 0.32 kg per comb built. (by drawing foundation as well)

[Finski]

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I have read a research. It told that when syrup has been processed to capped food,
processing needs 24% from sugar.