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Preparing for Winter

1/6/2016

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We got the hives ready for winter back in November. All entrance reducers were put in place. We also took off most all of the supers. A couple of the supers had a small amount of honey in there so we left them in there for the bees to eat this winter. All of our inner covers have a hole in the center. We placed sugar on top of the inner covers for the bees to eat as well.

All of our hives have two brood boxes. Most all of them had 10 frames of honey stores and the hive body weighed around 60 pounds.

We made sure all the hives were level with a slight angle toward the entrance. We will check them periodically during the winter on warm days. We will probably put in a protein patty on the inner cover on a warm day in late January.
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