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The first hygienics available here were Minnesota Hygienics - We bought breeders from Glenn and from Marla (the developer) and started raising our own queens for or 4000 hive operation - We had a...

You could save a lot of money by changing to hygienic queens - Once established you won't see foul no matter what your neighbor does - Bob

Absolutly I would and did more than 10 years ago when we found TM resistant foul with Minn Hygienics - even bought infected bees and stacked - no antibiotic and no AFB since - nor chalk brood - (MH...

Why does anyone worry about AFB or chalkbrood when hygienic queens are available? - You can kill the queen in an AFB hive and stack it on a hygienic hive and those bees will clean it up - No...

my guys are pretty good - we send out 4-500 queens a week - so far 3 calls where a queen never laid an egg - I'm sure there were others un-observed - but now, knowing the cause, we can do better - Bob

your first sentence hit the nail on the head - I'll have a meeting with my guys in the morning, 1 is new this year, I should have asked you in the first place - Bob

I am a long time commercial migratory beekeeper - 53 years keeping bees - but fairly new at commercial queen production - 8 years producing queens for our own operation but really selling any number...