Pollen Patties?

[mpjourdan]

Does feeding pollen patties in late winter stimulate brood rearing?  I don't want them building up to much and using too much food.  I'm not sure but I think that sugar syrup stimulates them more but pollen does stimulate them, so can feeding pollen patties be a bad choice?

[Michael Bush]

>Does feeding pollen patties in late winter stimulate brood rearing?

Yes.

> I don't want them building up to much and using too much food.  I'm not sure but I think that sugar syrup stimulates them more but pollen does stimulate them, so can feeding pollen patties be a bad choice?

I think the pollen stimulates them more IF there are sufficient stores.  Feeding pollen patties is probably not a bad choice.  IF they get a hard (sub zero F) freeze after they start rearing brood that could be hard on them, but otherwise building up is what they will be doing anyway, you're just helping them do it.

[Billy The Beekeeper]

How do u make the patties and what is the ratio? Atm im orderin the patties from Kelley's Bee's in Clarkson, Kentucky they r my main suppliers for Beekeeping.

[Mici]

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