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Message: <blockquote data-quote="markypoo" data-source="post: 13541" data-attributes="member: 36">Cheers for your replies. For further detail, I have been laid up for a while and unable to properly check my hives. I was injured while coaching a rugby team at school at the beginning of may, just before the weekend when I had intended to put in a fresh batch of OA staples for winter, as well as wintering them down properly. I slipped badly while in full stride and snapped my quadriceps tendon. As I went down I tore my achilles in my left leg I had the op on my quadriceps within days and have an achilles reconstruction booked in for thursday. I have managed to hobble to my hives in the last few weeks and give them a good feed. But I am expecting a couple of hive losses. I am going to dump a couple of kg of sugar in each one and hope for the best. I have two strong hives that basically had a full super of honey going into winter so expect them to be fine, but 2 of 3 late season splits might be in trouble. So I may just end up using one of my strong ones as a nuc producer this coming season.  That is the reason why I was hoping to have at least one strong producer hive going for the season so I would get some honey. Sucks to be getting old. Surgeon told me that I am in the target age group for snapping my quad tendon. 53 year old blokes running around like they did when they were 23.</blockquote>

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