Wouldsome one please discribe the JZBZ plastic queen cages and there advantages thanks Vince B Constable >As a commercial queen producer I have used JZBZ plastic queen >cages to ship my queen for the past couple years. They are very >handy both for the queen producer and the beekeeper. > >Used for introduction in nucs they give very good acceptance. In >my opinion the JZBZ cage corrects one of the major problem of the >standard tree hole wooden cage. With the tree whole cage the >time required for the bees of the host colony to eat up the candy >is not predictable. Sometimes the queen is released too soon, >sometime only 7 days after introduction. Neither is good. > >Some of my customers report that acceptance is full size colonies >is not good at all with JZBZ cages. I experienced myself bad >results at certain occasions. One Manitoba producer told me that >he will never use JZBZ cages again. Robert Page from California >told me that according to his tests, the queens get a lot of foot >damage when they are used for banking. I never bank queens but >some of my customers do and I had reports of queens killed while >banked! > >I am wondering if I should switch to another type of cage. >(Maybe I would give a try to the new Koehnen cage.) I would like >to hear other people's experience on this before I make my >decision. > > > _______________________________ ~ >|_____JEAN-PIERRE CHAPLEAU______| ~ bee breeder > |1282, rang 8, Saint-Adrien,| ~ > | Quebec, Canada, J0A 1C0 | vice president of the Canadian Honey Council > | phone: (819) 828-3396 | ~ ~ > | fax: (819) 828-2248 | ~ ~ > | [log in to unmask] | ~ ~ > |______________________________~ ~ > |__| |__| > >