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Wintering a ChCh urban nuc… what to expect?
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<blockquote data-quote="Otto" data-source="post: 10507" data-attributes="member: 73"><p>Sounds more like a hive than a nuc to me🙂</p><p>I overwinter nucs every season in and around Dunedin. Mostly have them in 2 in 1 boxes, 3 or 4 frames with a single frame feeder. I try to make sure they are as heavy as they can be this time of the year. I think that they are best not fed through may and june as feeding encourages brood rearing, which makes them chew through stores much more quickly. After June I watch the weather forecast and when we have some warmer days I get out and feed them. If it is cold and they're clustered up tight they won't process the sugar. A good rule of thumb is that if they are coming out to forage it is okay to feed. </p><p>While I do my best to get all my nucs through the winter I do invariably lose the occasional one. This is usually because some decide to start brood rearing early and they starve trying to nurse full frames of brood in the middle of winter on limited stores. It is not feasible to check on them every few weeks over the winter. You can likely do that with your one though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Otto, post: 10507, member: 73"] Sounds more like a hive than a nuc to me🙂 I overwinter nucs every season in and around Dunedin. Mostly have them in 2 in 1 boxes, 3 or 4 frames with a single frame feeder. I try to make sure they are as heavy as they can be this time of the year. I think that they are best not fed through may and june as feeding encourages brood rearing, which makes them chew through stores much more quickly. After June I watch the weather forecast and when we have some warmer days I get out and feed them. If it is cold and they're clustered up tight they won't process the sugar. A good rule of thumb is that if they are coming out to forage it is okay to feed. While I do my best to get all my nucs through the winter I do invariably lose the occasional one. This is usually because some decide to start brood rearing early and they starve trying to nurse full frames of brood in the middle of winter on limited stores. It is not feasible to check on them every few weeks over the winter. You can likely do that with your one though. [/QUOTE]
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