This is my first year doing this...
I found a super full of honey in the barn at the farm where i am taking care of somebody else's hives. One of those hives is doing great (comb honey with a queen excluder). Two hives are so-so ..honey for extraction with queen excluders on, but i think i will take them off this weekend if they haven't improved drawing the foundation in the honey supers. And one hive that is full of lazy bums (definitely yanking their excluder this weekend). My question is, would it be a good idea to use a couple of frames of the old honey in each of the so-so and lazy hives' honey supers, in order to coax them up? It looks okay, but smells slightly fermented. (So I'll have lazy, drunken bees...)
Beefree