View Full Version : Which queens are doing best for you this year?
JoeMcc
07-21-2008, 10:08 AM
Hi again,
For those with multi-breeds of queens in the apiary... which ones seem to be doing the best. For me it is the Caucasians. The down side is the propolis. They do use a bunch and lots of brace comb too.
JoeMcc
Derek
07-21-2008, 10:44 AM
I have an "All Star" and an Italian hive. "All Star" for me. Almost no propolis either.
kopeck
07-21-2008, 10:45 AM
Hi again,
For those with multi-breeds of queens in the apiary... which ones seem to be doing the best. For me it is the Caucasians. The down side is the propolis. They do use a bunch and lots of brace comb too.
JoeMcc
I've got an Italian going very well and two Carniolans, one doing pretty well and one I would rate at just OK. That being said that second one is starting to show some life all of a sudden, I hope it keeps up.
K
Ravenseye
07-21-2008, 11:28 AM
I've got an old Italian that is going strong and a new Carniolan that is a boomer.
My spring daughter of an Carni x Ita is doing the best. The carnis's are good pollen gatherers so should have good pollen stores over winter. :)
notaclue
07-21-2008, 03:29 PM
At the house three Russian and two ferals. One each need new queens as one is a primarily gathering pollen (still have not decided if requeen or use and split as pollen trapping) and the other is a little puny. Then again I may just requeen one and make a split with a new queen just for genetic diversity.
high rate of speed
07-21-2008, 04:49 PM
Any queen that is accepted,and makes it through the year.:)
cow pollinater
07-21-2008, 05:10 PM
I've had lots of them. Not really the best but consistantly good are the cordovans from Koehnens. I haven't had to many GREAT queens from them, but I haven't had any duds either. On average, I think the cordovans have helped me more than anything else.
Michael Palmer
07-21-2008, 08:47 PM
I have a VSHxCarniolan in my cell building yard, that made 5 mediums of honey and 80 nice queen cells.
Jon L
07-22-2008, 08:28 AM
Some of my three banded italians started from five frame nucs are now drawing out their fourth deeps. Thirty five deep frames drawn since early may is more than I could have hoped for . :)
IndianaHoney
07-22-2008, 11:48 AM
My Carnies did the best this year. Of course, I'm a northern beek. However, after looking at a friend's VSH queens, I'm switching to a mix of Carnie, and pure VSH open mated. The open mates should mostly produce VSH to Carnie because my increase yard has nothing but my Carnie hives that are within 1.5 - 2 miles. Those VSH queens seem to do very well in honey production from what I've seen.