Hello James & All,
I wrote:
>All of mated  queens I raised from the above II >breeder queen will produce
drones  100% pure to the source stock because the drones are haploid and no
genetic crossing has taken place.

James said:
>They get half the mother's genes and half the fathers'. You don't >know
which half. What you can say, is that you won't lose the >genes, you have
only diluted them.

Any drones genetic makeup is from his mother only. You could say the genetic
makeup of a drone is half of its grandma's and half of its grandpa's.

Let me walk you through what I was getting at James:

1. I have got production queens which are daughters of a pure Russian queen
instrumentally inseminated (II) with sperm from a pure Russian drone.

2.The grafted daughters from the above pure II Russian queen & pure Russian
drones were open mated to a line of New World carnolian drones and put into
production hives.

3. I can now  take a new II Russian / Russian queen (from a different line)
and graft queens. I can then use the above II daughter queens  which were
mated to NWC drones as a drone source because the drones (which come from
unfertilized eggs) will be *pure Russian* and not NWC because the drones are
100% pure to the source stock and no genetic crossing has taken place. Any
daughters of the above Russian /NWC mating would of course be hybrids.

The resulting *workers* from the  new grafted pure Russian daughters (red or
blue line 2004) and the Russian/nwc production queens (2003) *drones* would
be PURE RUSSIAN or true to the source stock. The fact those 2003 queens were
open mated to New world carnolians (NWC) has nothing to do with the drone
stock.

Hope you now understand or am I misunderstanding your question?

Sincerely,
Bob Harrison
Odessa, Missouri

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