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On 25-Feb-06, at 4:54 AM, Bob Harrison wrote:
> Dee,
> Thanks for information on your bees!
Thanks Dee & Bob, for an informative discussion
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> The beekeeper should always ask the person he buys queens from what
> they
> consider as important in a breeder queen.
>
At a joint meeting of New York and Ontario Beekeepers Associations,
several years ago, I asked, at a seminar chaired by Medhat Nasr, why
queen producers didn't state the traits they were trying to breed
into their queens. A large queen producer answered that he couldn't
possibly list the traits of the 100,000 queens he sold each year. A
member of this list, also attending the meeting, stated that queen
production was a "crap shoot". I feel that a queen with stated and
proven characteristics should be worth a higher price than a "crap
shoot" queen!
Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W
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