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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => REQUEENING & RAISING NEW QUEENS => Topic started by: Yarra_Valley on August 23, 2007, 09:55:46 pm

Title: commercial queens on natural cell
Post by: Yarra_Valley on August 23, 2007, 09:55:46 pm

hi there,

I'm wondering if commercially available queens from the queen breeders around are fine on small smell. Having come from a larger cell colony I'm wondering if they lay ok in the smaller cells.

Thanks,
James.

Title: Re: commercial queens on natural cell
Post by: Michael Bush on August 24, 2007, 08:15:07 am

>I'm wondering if commercially available queens from the queen breeders around are fine on small smell.

Yes, they do fine.

>Having come from a larger cell colony I'm wondering if they lay ok in the smaller cells.

The queens clearly prefer laying in small cell.

Title: Re: commercial queens on natural cell
Post by: Yarra_Valley on August 24, 2007, 09:28:03 pm

Thanks MB, that's exactly what I wanted to hear :D.