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I recently sold a batch of queens to a guy, who was happy with them but he had the following question: "Why are these queens different colors?"
About half were black, 25% were yellow and 25% were what I call "Black Butts" (which are my favorite).
I told him it showed they were well bred mutts, exactly what I had promised. They were all grafted from the same queen on the same day, but each queen mates with at least 7 drones or more, so these girls had different fathers. And I pointed out that if you looked in the hive of the queen that I grafted from you would see drones of different colors which was one of the things I look for in choosing a queen to use for drafting.
So just wondering what the rest of you breeders out there get and what you think of this.
About half were black, 25% were yellow and 25% were what I call "Black Butts" (which are my favorite).
I told him it showed they were well bred mutts, exactly what I had promised. They were all grafted from the same queen on the same day, but each queen mates with at least 7 drones or more, so these girls had different fathers. And I pointed out that if you looked in the hive of the queen that I grafted from you would see drones of different colors which was one of the things I look for in choosing a queen to use for drafting.
So just wondering what the rest of you breeders out there get and what you think of this.