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When bees draw combs, they need 6-8 kg honey to make one kilo combs.
In langstroth boxes my foundations are 1,0 kg.
Foundation maker takes £3/kg foundations when I bring to him my own wax blocks.
A normal hive has 5 box frames = 5 kg foundations. Without foundations it takes 35 kg extra honey to build combs.
When you have cut comb honey, you loose valuable wax combs in selling.
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