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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