Expensive BWeaver Queens

I had no idea BWeaver was charging that much. Ridiculous

no way for a queen to be that price and if it sounds too good to be true it normaly is

Breeder queens, Rear your own queens using our proven Breeders with valuable heritable attributes like mite tolerance, high honey production and exceptional fecundity. Graft from our Queen Mothers - these Breeders are identified by scoring the very best performers in a commercial honey production and pollination operation. Queens are evaluated for healthy hives, low mite populations, high brood production, large populations of bees and the quantity of honey produced.

Basically for the person who wants to raise and sell queens from the BWeaver genetic line, a more "proven" queen. Not that I'd spend the money on one, but there are those who do.

That's just plain ridiculous. Glenn Apiaries has great breeder queens for $100.00.

I forgot to mention that these are highly specialized queens for sale, you can still order queens at a normal price. I guess you can say they're kinda like thoroughbreds.

These are breeder queens with exceptional genetics. You would buy them to raise your own queens. If you're not into queen rearing to justify the cost for the genetics, then you would buy regular queens for honey production.

I give thanks that they have made these queens available to the beekeeper who wants to produce high quality queens. BWeaver is a great company and I've had nothing but positive experiences.

But am I going to buy one? Not likely. My dad used to say that those who can't cook shouldn't buy expensive meat.

Grant
Jackson, MO

fish_stix said:

That's just plain ridiculous. Glenn Apiaries has great breeder queens for $100.00.

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Exactly! Even Latshaw has reasonable prices. 4 queens for $2000 ($500 each). I won't be paying $3000 or even $2000 for a queen. They do make the others look cheap, though.

I will be getting two of the $1000.00 queens. I think I am just going to let them go and they should find my queen less hive. :doh:

What exactly makes a breeder queen better than your normal purchased queen? What/How do they hold back the "genes" from being passed along to the $15 queens?

Are these $$$$$$$ queens guaranteed (meaning against death for a certain amount of time)... It would be really bad to have one superseded after a week.

Mike

That makes me want to set up bait hives on all the farms surrounding the BWeavers.

outofabluesky said:

That makes me want to set up bait hives on all the farms surrounding the BWeavers.

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Don't ya wish you lived where I do

They are instrumentally inseminated, not open mated. That way you can sell daughters of known genetics.
I agree their prices are ridiculous. The $100 glen breeders are great.

MikeJ said:

What exactly makes a breeder queen better than your normal purchased queen? What/How do they hold back the "genes" from being passed along to the $15 queens?

Are these $$$$$$$ queens guaranteed (meaning against death for a certain amount of time)... It would be really bad to have one superseded after a week.

Mike

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