In a message dated 07/01/2010 18:03:31 GMT Standard Time,
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"Please clarify this. If they "need to get the vet out, they go to market"?
Certainly makes me want to stay away from organic meat."
>>I'm pretty sure this was meant in terms of husbandry. If they don't make
the cut they get culled and go to market. Without medication and taken out
of the breeding end of an operaton.
As far as I know I think some queen breeding operations use drones that
are medicated/treated allowing some of the undesirables to mate.
This would seem to be an area in bee husbandry to look at.<<
Its not just drones, some also use queens that are similarly addicted to
medication. I think we could cover the whole position by saying: specialist
breeders need to attend to general health traits, particularly varroa
tolerance, and plain keepers (who are also breeders whether they realise it or
not) need to maintain health by selective multiplication.
This approach makes treatments unnecessary, and prevents the development
of the 'addiction' that we see all over now.
Mike Bispham
UK
http://www.suttonjoinery.co.uk/CCD/
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