Making Pollen Patties For Bees

It's time to start preparing the bees for spring build-up. A good way to help boost colony build-up is feeding pollen patties or pollen substitutes. In this video, I use Ultra Bee sub to make pollen patties.

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10 Pound Patty Recipe:
Hot Water= 6.5 pounds
Sugar= 16 pounds
Vegetable Oil= 1.5 cups
Dry Pollen Sub= 10 Pounds

By The Pound Recipe: (Multiple these weights by the weight of dry pollen sub you have)
Hot Water= .65 pounds
Sugar= 1.6 pounds
Vegetable Oil= 2.5 teaspoons
Dry Pollen Sub= 1 pound
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[zgzgchen]

girls will appriciated you for been kind and nice to them!

[pkassies]

Thanks for your suggesting of adding vinager. I've noticed my homemade proteïne mixtures are very prone to molds. I will give it a try.

[Summit_Moto_Utah]

You have a really good way you explain things. Real pleasure learning from you brother.

[sheraziqadri]

Sir ...you are great. Theses words are small for you....because you put everything weight in your box for HELP us🤲🤲🤲THANKS

[paulschaefer]

Another thing the apple cider vinegar does is make the Ph closer to that of the necter. sugar is Ph 6.2 to 6.9 necter is Ph 3.4 to 5.1. this is a good thing as the higher Ph alloows things like chalk brood EFB and AFB to proliferate. There is also some scientic data that it may have an effect on mites too.

[mwolkonsky]

Thanks! I'm a new bee keeper and wondered when I should feed the patties.

[richardnoel]

Hey Jason, you made a lot less mess than me!! Well done! Just ordering 2 x 50 lb bags and brewers yeast to add in for autumn winter feed next fall. Despite our amazing ivy flow( with pollen) I am convinced that getting the bees and hives full of proteins is one of our most important tasks going in to the winter!
I am sure it will help in many ways!
🙏🙌🐝🐝🐝

[alexk]

Many thanks for saying why you have added the apple cider vinegar. I saw people adding vinegar without explaining and providing any reasons why they doing this.

[carldaniels]

j c, π 2 ( pie r square), dowel are round - roll the dowel brother. use 2 paint stirring sticks, one on each side of the patty to get an even rolled thickness.

Feeding bees with Pollen Patties is my new favorite thing.

[simplifygardening]

Funny enough this was exactly what I was doing last night, 45 pollen patties sat in a box waiting for me to put on the hives in a day or so when the weather is better. Great stuff JC

[larryleeong]

Just a suggestion, put it in a large mixing bowl and use a hook mixer. Put in all the liquid first then gradually add the pollen sub.

[alexk]

I have a question does the colony goes into winter in 1 or 2 broodboxes? I suppose no supers on top?

[jpthedelawarebeeman]

I just bought a 10lb bucket from MannLake :)

[joerowland]

Hey Jason sorry it cold there use to live south of Columbus. SW Florida the bees are out and yesterday I went and got and old gas grill just the shell mind you but the bees in it are about 70 pounds. Gentle too. I am thankful for the gentle part first beehive and first time I wrangled bees today they are all over sugar water. Here there is tons in bloom I don't think I need to feed pollen they are bringing a lot in.

[tiffaniephillips]

This will definitely save me money cause the patties seemed expensive for what you get. I'm a newbeek and I got the pail of feed last week but the bees didn't seem like they wanted any of that since pollen and nectar are plentiful right now. Good to know that I have several ways I can use it to feed them in the future when it is needed.

[andreyr]

Bucket and mixer works well too not messy at all

[mhdzakimlr]

May i know what type of flower is pollen made from?. I found pollen powder made from hibiscus, jasmine etc. Can we use it?.

[incubatork]

Might be an idea to only add 3/4 of the water just in case you got your mix slightly off, you can always add more but if its sloppy your stuck especially if you have used all your ingredients in the batch. the bees will clean the bucket 😉

[creatorediillusioni]

cool video man, next time u can use a pastry mixer or baker mixer for bread (kind of kitchen aid) make it much easier and clenear.