I've just made a batch following the recipe and I bought all the ingredients from Holland and Barrett Health Foods. And it works out at £6.30 per kilo which is less than half the price of a supplier. Thanks for the recipe unfortunately I ended up buying my wife a new car on the way to the shop.
Your videos are popping up on RU-vid via Sky TV in the UK at the moment. Which was handy this morning as one of my hives has decided due to it being warm here 4 degrees Celsius occasionally up to 8 degrees Celsius and they have become very active, and beekeeping suppliers are quoting around two weeks for delivery. So thanks for this video, I've sent my oldest daughter a text asking her to let me know when she goes to the supermarket as I need stuff from the baby aisle.
Hello I like that you make all from scratch an I use to make my pollen BUT for the money an the great ingredient I have switched to ultra bee pollen sub because of the nutrients in it . I have tried a lot of different types but the ultra bee is the best I think or that is what the bees said they liked the best . LOL . THANKS
Great video Nikki! I normally use ultra bee but I've bought the brand you had at tractor supply in a pinch and they seemed to really go to it. I wld love it if you did one on the sub you make from scratch! I'm glad Kiwi made it thru winter and look forward to more of those cameos that she does!
Thank you! I've got to make more pollen sub so I will definitely do a video on it. Kiwi relaxed all winter and got a little chubby. She hadn't been wanting to go out so I was surprised she came out with me. She follows me everywhere.
My daughter suggested I do a video/experiment with the pollen patties. She thinks I should put a store bought one and a homemade one in the same hive and see if the bees like one more than the other.
The Canadian bee keeper which has 1,500 hive feeds his bee soy beans ground fine and feeds lots of it dry before the maple trees bloom. I saw another video that add dry egg powder to the soy powder to make it even have more proteen. I myself add powered sugar to sweeten it a little. now considering adding a little powered bone meal.
I’ve been using soy flour as a pollen sub. Mixed the same as yours. This year I’m trying dry feeding and add a handful of sugar to the soy flour. I put a couple inches in a 2 gallon bucket and lay it on its side. They seem to like it pretty well.
Soy flour is the main ingredient in my pollen substitute. I also add some milk powder, brewers yeast and vitamin C to mine. I will give them some dry pollen later in the year but this early I really like the patties.
You could add both or just use one. I just use the lemongrass because I don't notice a difference whether I just use it or add both. Honey B Healthy is just essential oils. It contains both lemongrass and spearmint oil.
Some people do not feed pollen patty because its crazy expensive. I see lots of videos to make pollen sub and its real messy if you make a large quantity.. I just ordered in a 40lb box of bulk patty from mannLake, put it in a bucket and have fed 6lb each week as needed due to a lack of resources from drought followed by a lot of rain.. Here is my theory, the pollen sub powder is expensive and the bulk sub is ready made at a comparable cost of the materials. [I used patty from dadant, the bees like it but I had an awful experience getting supplies]
I certainly can. The recipe that I use is: 1 cup of non-dairy milk powder 1 cup of brewers yeast 3 cups of soy flour 1 teaspoon of crushed vitamin C (optional) Just mix them all together and your pollen substitute is ready to use for dry feeding or mixed to make pollen patties.
