Having spent two long weekends with Brother Adam discussing and seeing what and how he has built up his master stock over a lifetime I am somewhat skeptical that a commercial breeder in a large land mas like Canada can produce a constant product the same as his in Devon UK. The general experience in the UK is that second crosses are somewhat different in temprement from the original hybrids and knowing the selection processes this is understandable. Are these Canadian Buckfast Queens really first crosses or second crosses? If they are first crosses, is the rigid culling and testing that Bro Adam applies here being carried out? I fear that few commercial breeders would cull as severely as Bro Adam because they would end up with too few Queens to sell! >>> Keith JM Hooker <<< >>> Technology Management Ltd <<< >>> WHITSTABLE Kent CT5 4ED UK <<<