[rioverde]

I have some old honey in a selaed plactic container. It is honey I harvested several years ago. Is it ok to feed this old honey to my bees adn if so what is the best method for feeding it to them?

Thanks for your help.
rioverde Roy Vaughan

 

[Yuleluder]

I don't think there will be a problem feeding the old honey back to the bees especially if it was sealed up. I use frame feeders for my bees, but if you don't have an interior feeder you could just leave the bucket open near the hives and they will take it. That is if the weather enables the girls to fly.

 

[giant pumpkin peep]

Honey dosnt go bad! Put it some hot water and it will bee good as new. There was honey found in king tuts tomb that was still edible.

 

[tnmx]

Put it is the boiling water and it clears up just like the day you put it in the jars. If I were you I would eat it myself.

 

[Beaver Dam]

How ever you feed it. Make sure that they can get out of it. If you just put it out in a bucket, they will bee knocked into it by other bees and not bee able to get out. If they get honey on their wings that cant get it off. Lots of bees will die. Happened to me. Now when I feed back, I pour into a container and put rocks in it so they can get to it but not knocked into it by other bees.

 

[Roland]

Eat the honey. The best way to spread disease is to feed honey back. Just because they where healthy when they made the honey, does not mean that they did not have sub-clinical levels of a pathogen.

Roland

 

[Beaver Dam]

Eat the honey. The best way to spread disease is to feed honey back. Just because they where healthy when they made the honey, does not mean that they did not have sub-clinical levels of a pathogen.

Roland

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