No Russians for Glenn Apiaries

[valleyman]

That's what I understand. Charlie Harper takes the lineages, which are developed by the USDA, raises more queens then sells them to the members of the RBA. I never knew that he ever sold breeder queens to the public. But one must remember that every queen that you buy from a member of the RBA is almost for sure pure Russian and mated with only pure Russian drones ( I think 95 per cent). So the only differience between her and a breeder queen is that she just hasn't been allowed to lay long enough to be used for a breeder queen. Of the ones that I used last year there was 5-6 that were laying fools. So why couldn't you use them as pure breeder queens, and even sell them as such? Without claiming to be a member of the RBA.

[slickbrightspear]

my guess would be patents but I am not sure about that. that is the only reason that I can figure that glenn stopped carrying them.

[Mosherd1]

I went ahead and just asked Suki Glenn why no more Russians. She said that they have been very pleased with the VSH lines and wanted to concentrate on that. Also that they wanted to simplify the number of queens they offer. She also mentioned that you need to be a member of the Russian breeders assoc to sell Russians.

[slickbrightspear]

well that answers that question

[dmpower]

You can look up his name and do a search of his posts or you can visit his website.