In other words if you continue to buy your queen mothers from the North
each year, you are okay.  If you begin to use daughter queens for
raising queens you will allow suvival of queens which would never make
it in the north.  Of course if you are doing AI forever it makes no
difference (assuming you use proper drones).

Thom Bradley wrote:
>
> John Partin wrote:
> >
> > Are you saying that if I bought a good tested AI queen from a very good
> > queen breeder from the NORTH and raised queens in the South from this
> > queen that some how her offspring would not be as good as queens  raised
> > from her sisters bred to the same drones  raised in the NORTH.
>
> > BUD
>         No Bud, you are close but not quite right.


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"Test everything.  Hold on to the good."  (1 Thessalonians 5:21)

Tom Elliott
Chugiak,  Alaska
U.S.A.
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