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Moderators - if this is out of place in this slot please move it. But it is related to bee breeding.
I am curious, if I am interested in introducing some hygience traits into my bees, but do not want to switch to completely HY Queens will this method work. I like my feral mutt hybrid ladies so far.
If I introduce one or two HY queens into my hives early this fall just before or during the goldenrod flow they should start raising brood and drones. Then I was thinking of start culling drones cells hard from my other hives during this period. This would help reduce any mite issues that might be there currently in my hives. It would also add some HY drones to the mating feral swarms in the area as well as increase the chance that any queens I would have at that time might get mated with a HY drone.
Or is this idea really not going to produce anything that seriously helps my situation.
Thanks
I am curious, if I am interested in introducing some hygience traits into my bees, but do not want to switch to completely HY Queens will this method work. I like my feral mutt hybrid ladies so far.
If I introduce one or two HY queens into my hives early this fall just before or during the goldenrod flow they should start raising brood and drones. Then I was thinking of start culling drones cells hard from my other hives during this period. This would help reduce any mite issues that might be there currently in my hives. It would also add some HY drones to the mating feral swarms in the area as well as increase the chance that any queens I would have at that time might get mated with a HY drone.
Or is this idea really not going to produce anything that seriously helps my situation.
Thanks