On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:47 PM, randy oliver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I make a point of rearing queen cells in the
> breeder queen colony, in order to help transfer epigenetic factors via the
> jelly (the limitation is that you can't rear more than about 50 daughters
> at
> a time from any particular breeder, but that suits me fine).
>
> Could you elaborate please Randy on your method, or provide a link to the
appropriate spot on your website.  Do you temporarily dequeen the breeder?
Can you then start 50 cells in one go?  Do you transfer to a cell finisher,
and how many cells in each of those (if you use)?

FWIW, I only start a max of 40 in my starters every two days.  Don't really
like to give more than 10 to a finisher, but the finishers are queenright
splits and not overly strong.

Thanks
Stan

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