Commercial queen rearing (large scale >500 queens)
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How to do large numbers of queens in a season. Two very different approaches.
Ian Steppler presenting to the British Columbia Honey Producers Association
Michael Palmer at the National Honey Show
A major difference, Ian is just producing for use within his operation, Michael is also producing queens for sale. That tends to make a big difference in how you manage mating nucs etc. In one case, cells go into a nuc and are left there to grow out. In the other case, mating nucs are re-used as the season progresses.
Ian Steppler presenting to the British Columbia Honey Producers Association
Michael Palmer at the National Honey Show
A major difference, Ian is just producing for use within his operation, Michael is also producing queens for sale. That tends to make a big difference in how you manage mating nucs etc. In one case, cells go into a nuc and are left there to grow out. In the other case, mating nucs are re-used as the season progresses.
There are many books available and several of them are on my website:
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Jay Smith raised a lot of queens as did Doolittle.
I raised a lot of them last year...
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Classic beekeeping and queen rearing books
Classic beekeeping and queen rearing books, Hopkins method of queen rearing, Alley method of queen rearing, Miller method of queen rearing, Doolittle method of queen rearing, Scientific Queen Rearing by G.M. Doolittle, Better Queens by Jay Smith, Queen Rearing Simplified by Jay Smith, Better...
Jay Smith raised a lot of queens as did Doolittle.
I raised a lot of them last year...
X-Star Publishing Company, Beekeeping Books, The Practical Beekeeper, Better Queens, Queen Rearing Simplified, Beekeeping Naturally, Bush Bees, Foundationless Frames, Lazy Beekeeping, Top Bar Hive, Organic Beekeeping, Chemical Free Beekeeping, Treatment Free Beekeeping, Tao of Beekeeping, queens, survivor bees, long hives, natural cell size, small cell bees, small cell beekeeping, regression, natural beekeeping, Michael Bush
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80 colonies +/- mostly Langstroth mediums, a few deeps for nuc production
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Laidlaw and Page "Queen rearing and bee breeding" pictures are old but everything you need is there.
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Knisely, I have an extreme good Breeding stock: I’ve got pure Carnica, pure Buckfast and I’ve got proven VSH-queens, realy good material to work with.
My point is: I want to see/learn better methods for rearing large numbers of biggest queens with less work. Maybe there are methods I don’t know.....
Everybody thanks for your comments.
My point is: I want to see/learn better methods for rearing large numbers of biggest queens with less work. Maybe there are methods I don’t know.....
Everybody thanks for your comments.
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