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'Stay awhile and listen to old man.' Naa, I am not certain. (I discovered alot of hits on my homepage recently because of this diskussion.) The most known, and most used queen/drone line is 62' Anatolica. This is it. Spread allover and presented by 'New Buckfasters' in several underlying...

Naa, he has them all....

Forget the books. It is all about temperature. Never go higher than 34,5-34,7C Higher than 35C kills them or invalidates. Hatching is too fast (10-11 days) At 33,5-34,5C, they hatch after 11-12 days. If you remove them from cellbuilder as fast as possible they hatch 100% - and all in perfect...

New breeds was imported and after 1950. This is the most important: Anatolica 1962-A416 x B436: .Sinop Gene bank and carrier of the old Buckfast genes - back to 1920. Brother Adams head line. The most dominant pedigree - drone and queen line - ever known to the world. Sublines and hybrids...

True, but I am an 'Old Buckfast' collector/hobbyist and Queen breeder - and interested in/researching all existing lines left . Pedigree is only way to keep track. There were no ulterior motives in my question to Hivemaker. Sorry http://perso.unamur.be/~jvandyck/homage/elver/pedgr/ped_CD_2016.html

Could you please specify? I would love to see your pedigree.

Pedigree system is not Danish, it is English (Brother Adam). So we look up to you :)

How is the flora and fauna on this island? Droneproviders will kick the drones in lack of pollen. mvh Carsten

I love your diskussion about the Buckfast. We had the same back in the 80's. :) The Danish Beekeepers Association makes a quality controle of commercial queen rearers and privates. It is a kind of competition. Every year Queen rearers send x-queens to DBA and they are distributed to chosen...

If we are talking the USA Starlinehybrids, Homer Park or racial I agree. But No one own the right to "hide" behind the brand Buckfast. Specially if you are a Buckfast queen supplier. I am sure most serious Buckfast breeders outside UK will supply you with a pedigree. And :iagree: in last...

What is your mission in this tread ? I am Trying to understand it. But seems you are experinced in selecting and breeding. Since you are here I would very much appreciate you told us about your own breeding principles and experience with queen rearing. I like to learn. And if you could link...

In-land mating station This summer Jean Marie Van Dyck (the owner of Karl Kehle foundation) invited me to join the instrumental insemination session in Wellin, Belgium. 600 Queens from Belgium, Luxembourg and France were inseminated in 5 days by Jürgen Brauße and his wife. JB and wife is...

Read the blog:"Me and the Buckfast bee" Carsten

Wrong Admin. Anatolica Sinop is the dominant line. Carnica and Monticola was never incorporated. Read why in BAs books. Carsten

Naa, just answering a question. A lot of posts doubt, that the original genuine lines exist ! They do Two places in Europe. Franz und Claus Fehrenbach, Germany and My self Carsten Dalbøl, Denmark. Try Scan "Breeding programs of European Buckfast Bee Breeders - Archives". There is alot of new...

Try buckfast.biz in DK greetings Carsten