HI ALL, 2,3 OR MORE QUEENS MANAGEMENT All the beekeepers want to have in their hives as much bees as possible. There are two way of getting this wish: using high performances queens or using 2 queens in the hive. There are a lot of beekeeping books teaching us about 2 queens in the hive and their way of management. But the management of 2 queens take time and you need extra materials like queen excluder. The R omanian beekeeper Adrian Huica find out the easy way to have 2 or more queens in the hive.It is very easy way to get this.You need only a lot of queens ,nothing else. No excluders. As I have read in beekeeping books and magazines , that in a lot of countries the beekeepers use to clip their queens . In our country, Romania, the beekeepers don’t pay much importance to this. If you do have two hives with 2 clipped queens all you have to do is to unite this two hive using “news paper “ method .After 2 or 3 days you take out the news paper and everything will be OK..Sometimes trying to united the two colonies the things can go wrong and the bees can kill one of the two queens.This happen very rarely. You can winter this two queens with great succes. After 6 or 10 days you’ll find out in your hive up to 6 fine queen cells.. If you want you can distroy them or you can use them to requeen because you can get very good queen. If you want you can unite in this way 2,3 or as much as you want. Working this way all the hive’s products will will be 2 or 3 times bigger that in the hive with only one queen. I have use this method back in 1997.I did not winter in this way because I need one queen to requeen.. Now in one hive I winter 2 queens and in the spring I let you know about the wintering. If you want more information do not hezitate to contact me: GEORGE TAMAS 45, Ms. ANTONESCU St. Sc A,Et.4 Ap9 2900ARAD, ROMANIA E:MAIL : [log in to unmask] TO ALL OF THE BEEKEEPERS :HAPPY NEW YEAR! _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -- Visit www.honeybeeworld.com/BEE-L for rules, FAQ and other info --- ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::