Old capped honey

[Shanevrr]

what should i expect from a 100 supers full of capped honey setting for 14 months, and whats its worth per lb.  or is it worthless

[rdy-b]

 if its crystallized you gota put it back on the bees and they will fix it
you can expect 50 5 gallon buckets from 100 suppers of honey-- RDY-B

[T Beek]

Honey that's capped won't go bad.  MMM, mmm good.

thomas

[L Daxon]

The honey in King Tut's tomb was still edible after what, 3,000 years?

But if you don't think you want to sell it, you can always keep it for bee food!

[rdy-b]

Honey that's capped won't go bad.  MMM, mmm good.

thomas

yea but if it crystalized he cant spin it--been there done that--RDY-B

[Finski]

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I have a problem half of that size.

This Autumn i do not bye sugar at all.

i have 30 hives. I give old honey to bees for winter. This way I get rid off 50 boxes of crystallized honey. I wonder why  I did not noticed that last year.

So, if you have new honey in hives, change the frames.
Or another way is to put capped honey box just over its brood box.

One way is to give them to false swarms.
You make a swarm hive a queen, 3 frames of crystalled honey and foundations.
After a week, combs are full of brood and foundations drawn with old honey.

Then some combs you may but between brood frames. Bees clean couple of combs in few days.   This is slow method but however it works in Spring.


Bad thing is that those 100 boxes are not usable for new yied if you do not get ridd off them. Winter feeding is quick way.

2 langstroths are equal to 3 mediums.

[rdy-b]

**Or another way is to put capped honey box just over its brood box**

  If you want to get honey & your money back --in the start of spring you place
a box of crystalized honey BELLOW the brood nest with queen excluder in-between- with traditional supering above                                                 
score frames of honey with hive tool-in about three days time the bees will have cleaned out the honey and now
your supper is freed up and can be removed-(-this is how we do it all other ways are pure finish nonsense) :-D
;) RDY-B

[Finski]

**Or another way is to put capped honey box just over its brood box**

your supper is freed up and can be removed-(-this is how we do it all other ways are pure finish nonsense) :-D
;) RDY-B

and this is a way how you kill annually 60% of  your hives.

how we dooo it!  hehe heh Californian way....

It is good that you have  something to laugh in beekeeping..he eh eh...


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[rdy-b]

 finski way off the mark-you are not even representing beekeeping in finland
you are just pushing your self off on everyone as the great beekeeper -truth be told
you need to put the vodka glass down and step away from the computer-RDY-B

[BlueBee]

The honey in King Tut's tomb was still edible after what, 3,000 years?

I read about this in an old google book.  Some archeologists from Great Britain (?) where in Egypt exploring the pyramids 150+ years ago and stumbled across a large vase filled with what looked to be honey.  They stuck their fingers in and tasted it and yes it was honey.  

On the next dip in they pulled out honey AND human hair!  There was a mummy stored in the vase IN the honey.  Ymm....ymm  :-P

[Shanevrr]

hows a 1.50 a lb sound? is it worth buying

[rdy-b]

hows a 1.50 a lb sound? is it worth buying

what do you get for $1.50 just the crystalized honey--going rate for honey right know in drums
is around $1.60 this time of year new crop is in--you gota move that stuff and keep the nice and moths out of it
then reharvest-id say 60 cents a pound and you would break even-RDY-B

[Shanevrr]

THats what there asking, sounded high to me too

[rdy-b]

yea but whats the deal they propouse --bring back the supper
you keep the supper-and other than beefeed what do they think --
and is this comb honey or run of the mill --RDY-B