Recording Keeping for Queens Rearing

[Chef Isaac]

What are you more organized beekeepers doing for record keeping in regards of following queen cells from a certain breeding colony?

And what kind of schedules do you keep as far as knowing what needs to be done when?

What seems to work for you all?

[Michael Palmer]

You should be keeping colony records on a yard sheet. You can make your own, with the traits you think important such as...

colony number
breeder queen number
when queen or cell was introduced
brood pattern
brood amount
honey produced
sugar fed
temper
diseases present
etc.

By keeping good records on each colony, and queen, you can make an intellegent decision on breeder queen selection

One example of a yard sheet from the Dyce Lab at Cornell...

www.masterbeekeeper.org/pdf/colony_card.pdf

Also at that site is a bit about using their card...abbreviations, etc.

[BerkeyDavid]

Here is the link to the card key: http://www.masterbeekeeper.org/pdf/key_recordcard.pdf