Queen rearing system

Started by ronwhite3030, November 09, 2010, 01:22:16 AM

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ronwhite3030

I was wondering if anyone has used this queen system from better bee. I do not have a steady hand for grafting and was wondering if it works or if it is a waste of money.
http://www.betterbee.com/products.asp?dept=631


thanks in advance for your replies.

rdy-b

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 that kit is good--they give more in there kit than others-anther possibility for you
is to drive to kohen they are in glen-cant be that far for you-buy cells for your mating nucs
$4.25 pop them in and you are off to the races-RDY-B

ronwhite3030

what is kohl? and what do u mean pop them in?

rdy-b

Quote from: ronwhite3030 on November 09, 2010, 01:46:47 AM
what is kohl? and what do u mean pop them in?

spell cheker malfuntion--   http://www.koehnen.com/
ripe queen cells just pop them in like gum drops-- :lol:  :lol: RDY-B
click queens and scroll down to the part about queen cells

ronwhite3030


Michael Bush

There are several similar systems. They work fine if you do standard queen rearing practices otherwise.  You still need a crowded cell builder.  You still need all the usual tweaks to make queen rearing work. You just don't have to graft.
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My book:  ThePracticalBeekeeper.com
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ronwhite3030

thanks michael for commenting, its the grafting that I will have a hard time with i think, but we will see im going to give grafting a try before I get the system