In a message dated 07/01/2010 18:03:31 GMT Standard Time,  
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"Please clarify this. If they "need to get the vet out, they go to  market"?
Certainly makes me want to stay away from organic  meat."

>>I'm pretty sure this was meant in terms of husbandry. If  they don't make 
the cut they get culled and go to market. Without medication and  taken out 
of the breeding end of an operaton.
As far as I know I think some  queen breeding operations use drones that 
are medicated/treated allowing some of  the undesirables to mate.

This would seem to be an area in bee husbandry to look  at.<<
 

Its not just drones, some also use queens that are similarly  addicted to 
medication.  I think we could cover the whole position by  saying: specialist 
breeders need to attend to general health traits,  particularly varroa 
tolerance, and plain keepers (who are also breeders whether  they realise it or 
not) need to maintain health by selective  multiplication.  
 
This approach makes treatments unnecessary, and prevents the  development 
of the 'addiction' that we see all over  now.

 
Mike Bispham
 
UK
 
http://www.suttonjoinery.co.uk/CCD/

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