Best book on Queen Rearing

[Finman]

you graft from a queen you choose, into swarm cells in other hives?

Swarming hives rear my queens. I select the hives from where I take larvae and graft them into swarming cells. The results are perfect. Really fat queens and allmost all grafts succeed.

Actually Bad Beekeeping writer Ron Miksha writes in his book that his professional brother made queens that way and won gold medals of queen breeding. From there I got the method.

 

[drstitson]

How do you win medals for queen rearing? what are the judging criteria?

 

[Finman]

How do you win medals for queen rearing? what are the judging criteria?

It is in USA. They have there all kinds of competitions

http://floridabeekeepers.org/pdf/Floridahoneyqueen.pdf

http://breathittonline.com/blog/2009/08/29/joy-thornburg-named-honey-queen/

 

[drstitson]

"Joy Thornburg was named the 2009 Breathitt Honey Queen in a pageant held earlier today. 2nd runnerup was Kimberli Blevins while Bobbi McIntosh was named 1st runnerup."

can't have been many entries given that a bloke appears to have been a runner up!!!! wonder if he had a beard.

on a serious note - i can now understand how it is possible to judge the rears of honey queens.

 

[The Cumbrian]

"Joy Thornburg was named the 2009 Breathitt Honey Queen in a pageant held earlier today. 2nd runnerup was Kimberli Blevins while Bobbi McIntosh was named 1st runnerup."

can't have been many entries given that a bloke appears to have been a runner up!!!! wonder if he had a beard.

on a serious note - i can now understand how it is possible to judge the rears of honey queens.

I was at college with a girl called Bobbi (shortened from Roberta) so perhaps not male after all.

 

[tonybloke]

after looking at the photo I reckon 'Bobbi' is definitely female

 

[Finman]

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How long she can keep her same instant smile...

 

[RoofTops]

"2nd runnerup "

That would be 3rd then?

 

[REDWOOD]

Hi PH, Can you let me have the thread on queen rearing as I might have a go this year as I have a good queen

 

[Anduril]

Hi Redwood I believe you are looking for this
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=14812&highlight=queen+rearing
Simple queen rearing

 

[itma]

Lets bump this too ...

 

[Poly Hive]

I was reminded of the Cook book today, looking on Amazon for their recommendations. Not impressed but that is another matter.

Where Cook failed for me was the circular setting out of the nucs, all the bees migrated to one abandoning the others which rather stuffed the outcome.

PH

 

[region2]

My Bee association will be running a course on queen rearing this year...

en france or B&L?

R2

 

[drstitson]

rather than a book perhaps we should just bump the PH easy as 1.2.3 post.

 

[itma]

rather than a book perhaps we should just bump the PH easy as 1.2.3 post.

I did link to it in Ely's (currently vanished* ) thread - but it was linked from this one ...

Hi Redwood I believe you are looking for this
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=14812&highlight=queen+rearing
Simple queen rearing

* Actually what has happened is that this thread has moved from Books to Queens ...
Ely's is still in Books ...

 

[Poly Hive]

LOL lost in the library.

I was actually taken aback at how few new queen books Amazon were offering, really the only one it suggested to me was Field notes by Oliver Field.

PH

 

[Hivemaker.]

I did link to it in Ely's (currently vanished* ) thread - but it was linked from this one ...


* Actually what has happened is that this thread has moved from Books to Queens ...
Ely's is still in Books ...

Actually what has happened is this thread has been here all the time, Elys was moved from the general beekeeping section to books.

 

[drstitson]

Amazon's suggestions can be quite amazing.

such as "you recently bought an exercise bike. we thought you might be interested in these exercise bikes"

OH has very eclectic reading and viewing interests. and gets some hilarious selections.

"you recently ordered Ovid Metamorphoses, Hesiod Works and Days and Oh, Doctor Beeching! complete series DVD box set." we thought you might like "the anthology of lesbian literature"

BTW Works and Days is really good - sets out what is basically the system of agriculture (lunar plus common sense) that is still practised in med countries today.

 

[BeeJayBee]

BTW Works and Days is really good - sets out what is basically the system of agriculture (lunar plus common sense) that is still practised in med countries today.

Which book is that?

Do you think that using the lunar calendar works?

 

[drstitson]

Hesiod. Works and Days.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hesiod/works.htm

has great tips - not just about agriculture.

(ll. 780-781) Avoid the thirteenth of the waxing month for beginning to sow: yet it is the best day for setting plants.

(ll. 370-372) Let the wage promised to a friend be fixed; even with your brother smile -- and get a witness; for trust and mistrust, alike ruin men.

(ll. 373-375) Do not let a flaunting woman coax and cozen and deceive you: she is after your barn. The man who trusts womankind trust deceivers.

RE lunar calendar - our neighbour swears by it. all italian nurseries/seed suppliers give out free calendars for your wallet.

http://www.ferramentamenzani.it/calendario-lunare/calendario-lunare-orto2012.pdf

BUT equally they have fixed dates for some things eg san simone and xmas eve for garlic.
and walnuts for making Nocino should be harvested on the night of san giovanni (24/6) - along with other medicinal herbs.