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I know this is an option question, but I’m now sitting on two extra commercial carn queens from a great local source.
I’ll set them up in NUCS for now, but in a month or two I need to figure out if I want to do a queen replacement with them (I’ll would pinch the existing queen and then combine the NUC with the hive).
The existing queens are in two hives that made their own new queen this year, so they are local mated mystery breed survivor stock (the hives were from swarm collected so not even sure what they were to start with).
What do you guys think use the commercial Carnolian queens or stick with the survivor stock queens?
I’ll set them up in NUCS for now, but in a month or two I need to figure out if I want to do a queen replacement with them (I’ll would pinch the existing queen and then combine the NUC with the hive).
The existing queens are in two hives that made their own new queen this year, so they are local mated mystery breed survivor stock (the hives were from swarm collected so not even sure what they were to start with).
What do you guys think use the commercial Carnolian queens or stick with the survivor stock queens?