if you get the queens from Dann himself I would say you are getting good queens, if you are getting queens raised from his queens and open breed then they might be good or not, depends on what they breed to. hard to say in that case but odds are they will be good queens, should get them from dann himself then judge, I have done well with his queens, they build up fast, top honey producers and the last pure queen I got from Dann lasted 3 1/2 years before she died. he has good bee's.