>
> >talked to a beekeeper up here who sometimes has wacky beliefs
>

That seems to come with the territory...

>whose heard of a milk test for foulbrood?
>

See
http://scientificbeekeeping.com/sick-bees-part-18a-colony-collapse-revisited/#holst-milk-test


>
> >next, stress in hive makes bees more prone to European foulbrood and/or
> Am Fbrd.
> true or false


Absolutely true!  Try letting some hives starve right after almonds, and
you will see every possible disease.  And if you run bees with strong
hygienic behavior, you may see a little EFB or AFB in times of nutritional
stress, and then see it disappear.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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