bob said: >Walk-away splits
> tend to be swarmy & aggressive before long. Many queens made with too old
> larva.

I'm with Bob on this one.  Ferals may be a great place to look for promising 
genetics, but then you need to raise properly selected, fed, and mated 
daughters.  Then check the performance of the daughters before you can 
really call the mother a "breeder."
Randy Oliver

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