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Offline ronwhite3030

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Queen rearing system
« 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


thanks in advance for your replies.

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Re: Queen rearing system
« Reply #1 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
« Last Edit: November 09, 2010, 02:07:24 am by rdy-b »

Offline ronwhite3030

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Re: Queen rearing system
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2010, 01:46:47 am »
what is kohl? and what do u mean pop them in?

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Re: Queen rearing system
« Reply #3 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/
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

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Re: Queen rearing system
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2010, 02:25:16 am »
thanks for clearing that up.

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Re: Queen rearing system
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Queen rearing system
« Reply #6 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