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Re: Drone Colony Placement
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> For those of you that do rear drones for mating with your queens; how far, 
> both minimum and maximum, do you place your drone producing colonies?

When we ran mating nucs, we kept the drone colonies right near the nucs.

We saw matings taking place right above the nuc yard.

We were the only beekeepers around, so we were not worried about extraneous 
drones.

We did not have a problem with incompletely mated queens. 

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