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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => REQUEENING & RAISING NEW QUEENS => Topic started by: ronwhite3030 on November 09, 2010, 01:22:16 am

Title: Queen rearing system
Post by: ronwhite3030 on November 09, 2010, 01:22:16 am
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 (http://www.betterbee.com/products.asp?dept=631)


thanks in advance for your replies.
Title: Re: Queen rearing system
Post by: rdy-b on November 09, 2010, 01:42:47 am
 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
Title: Re: Queen rearing system
Post by: ronwhite3030 on November 09, 2010, 01:46:47 am
what is kohl? and what do u mean pop them in?
Title: Re: Queen rearing system
Post by: rdy-b on November 09, 2010, 02:04:25 am
what is kohl? and what do u mean pop them in?

spell cheker malfuntion--   http://www.koehnen.com/ (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
Title: Re: Queen rearing system
Post by: ronwhite3030 on November 09, 2010, 02:25:16 am
thanks for clearing that up.
Title: Re: Queen rearing system
Post by: Michael Bush on November 09, 2010, 10:09:08 am
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.
Title: Re: Queen rearing system
Post by: ronwhite3030 on November 09, 2010, 11:36:15 am
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