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Wouldsome one please discribe the JZBZ plastic queen cages
and there advantages
thanks
Vince B Constable
>As a commercial queen producer I have used JZBZ plastic queen
>cages to ship my queen for the past couple years. They are very
>handy both for the queen producer and the beekeeper.
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>Used for introduction in nucs they give very good acceptance. In
>my opinion the JZBZ cage corrects one of the major problem of the
>standard tree hole wooden cage. With the tree whole cage the
>time required for the bees of the host colony to eat up the candy
>is not predictable. Sometimes the queen is released too soon,
>sometime only 7 days after introduction. Neither is good.
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>Some of my customers report that acceptance is full size colonies
>is not good at all with JZBZ cages. I experienced myself bad
>results at certain occasions. One Manitoba producer told me that
>he will never use JZBZ cages again. Robert Page from California
>told me that according to his tests, the queens get a lot of foot
>damage when they are used for banking. I never bank queens but
>some of my customers do and I had reports of queens killed while
>banked!
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>I am wondering if I should switch to another type of cage.
>(Maybe I would give a try to the new Koehnen cage.) I would like
>to hear other people's experience on this before I make my
>decision.
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