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I have 5 hives with bad drone genes. They have QEs (queen excluders) that block drone I/O. 1 has a TF (treatment free) queen (installed 7/24). I'm mating 2 queens that I grafted from it. My drones must not mate with them. When should I remove the excluders?
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I only got 2 QCs because I didn't feed the cell starter sugar water during and the day before cell starting. I want to get a better cell starter and make lots of queens next spring. Should I buy more queens this year?
events
- 7/24: I got 2 TF queens from Hall Apiaries. 1 of them flew and died. I should have installed them indoors (unlike in the tutorials).
- 7/28: day 0: New queen eggs were laid.
- derived from graft day (8/1) - 8/12: Put on QEs
- 8/14: day 17
I only got 2 QCs because I didn't feed the cell starter sugar water during and the day before cell starting. I want to get a better cell starter and make lots of queens next spring. Should I buy more queens this year?