My 2 hives (from packages) are about 4 weeks old now. Both have eggs/capped brood, pollen and honey in them mainly on the center 3-4 frames. I initially placed a PP on the top of the frames when I set it up and am using a top feeder. One hive knocked out all of a PP and the other about 80% of one so on my first inspection I replaced them with new. On the 2nd inspection very little of the PP's had been taken so I removed the remains and did not replace them. I plan on 'going in' this coming weekend. Thoughts on installing more PP? My thoughts for removing it were that they had plenty of natural pollen stored it seemed and I would prefer they use that, they haven't been taking alot of the 1:1 but seem to be working hard. I removed burr comb they built down thru the center of the top feeder as well, hated to but figured it would be better to in the long run, just alot of wasted time and work for them.
Thanks in advance,
Danny (the new beekeeper)
Thanks in advance,
Danny (the new beekeeper)