Hello everyone.
I go through winters with a shim on top of all my hives to accommodate 2 1/2” blocks of sugar. I consider this essential for survival success and of course shims help when feeding baggies early season. I don’t pick up the sugar block while I start feeding syrup in case it gets cold and they won’t be able to consume the syrup, not sure my theory is correct or not!. All my strong hives use this opportunity and build drone comb in the shim, I clean them every now and then as I feed syrup. In some cases it is multiple cleaning and quite bit of comb!
Of corse this year where I am here in CT it warmed up early, then cold them warm again, not sure what is the answer?
Those of you who use shims how do you handle this when do you pick them up and sugar blocks?
I go through winters with a shim on top of all my hives to accommodate 2 1/2” blocks of sugar. I consider this essential for survival success and of course shims help when feeding baggies early season. I don’t pick up the sugar block while I start feeding syrup in case it gets cold and they won’t be able to consume the syrup, not sure my theory is correct or not!. All my strong hives use this opportunity and build drone comb in the shim, I clean them every now and then as I feed syrup. In some cases it is multiple cleaning and quite bit of comb!
Of corse this year where I am here in CT it warmed up early, then cold them warm again, not sure what is the answer?
Those of you who use shims how do you handle this when do you pick them up and sugar blocks?