On 26-Jul-12, at 11:16 AM, Juanse Barros wrote:
> I use 1 drone producing hive per 50 queens
> which security factor would you like to define for your operation?  
> 2x? 5x?
> 10x?


Hi Juanse Mike and all

I am not a queen producer and have never raised queens of my own in  
almost 40 years of beekeeping(shame on me but my wife thinks I spend  
too much time with my bees).  Using Jaunse's example he would use one  
drone hive per 50 mating nucs.  Would one hive have 500 - 1000 mature  
drones needed to mate with 50 queens at any given time?  Queen  
producers, especially in the north with our short season, raise  
thousands of queens at a time.  Where do the 10-20 drones per mated  
queen come from?

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario (finally getting some substantial  rain this week)
Canada
44N80W 

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