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Add Honey Super and Feeder to Hive 1

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What to look for 1 Week after Installing a Package of Honey Bees....pastured poultry talk

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What happens here

Given the positive assessment of the first beehive's health and activity, the beekeeper proceeds to add a honey super. This super is a box filled with frames that already contain honey, providing immediate resources and encouraging further expansion of the colony. Following this, a top feeder is placed on the hive, equipped with a cage to allow bees to access the sugar syrup or other feed from the back, preventing robbing by external bees. The entrance reducer is also placed on the lowest setting to control the hive's entry point, which can help with defense and maintaining internal temperature.

Goal: After a successful inspection of the first beehive, the beekeeper adds a honey super, which already contains honey, and then places a top feeder, ensuring the bees have ample resources and space.

Tools and materials

  • Entrance Reducer
  • Hive Top Feeder
  • Honey Super
  • Honey N/A

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in the hive. Actually going to add another super. The reason I'm adding another super is that this super is full of honey. It'll give the bees a good start. Put my entrance reducer on in the lowest setting right here. And then I'm going to put my hive top feeder on. I put my hive top feeder on with the cage right here that the bees climb up to in the back so that if I do have robbing, they can't just go in and go up the front. They can they have to go through the hive to get right here guys and gals. It's good to have two hives. Okay? So, you can compare what the health of one hive is to the other hive. We're going to open the other box up now. Okay. Once again, we've got our smoker. Let's smoke the entrance. Crack the top. Smoke inside. Smoke these bees down. Look at all the bees on the lid here. They are 100% not happy. Hard to smoke your bees on a windy day and you really shouldn't work with them on a windy day if you can help it. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, so we got to get on it. You'll see the bees that are smoked down here. Bees trying to eat on this on this burr comb. And basically the smoke is driving them to eat. They'll fill their bellies full so that they can leave the hive in case that there is a forest fire. What we're going to do is we're going to taste that honey.

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