Matty Brown
New Bee
- Joined
- Nov 12, 2023
- Messages
- 35
- Reaction score
- 23
- Location
- Ireland
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 10 hives using the rose hive method with national brood boxes.
Hi,
Just wondering what you would recommend as the best queen rearing method for someone who has never reared queens before.
I have been keeping bees few a few years now but have never reared my own queens.
Next year I am planning on splitting many of my beehives and will require quite a lot of queens.
I have about 10 colonies of Buckfast bees in Sligo Ireland using the rose hive method with national brood boxes.
I have been looking at using the punched cell method because it seems to work very well for someone who does not know what they are doing.
Let me know what method you think I should use for next year.
Open to suggestions.
Thanks
Just wondering what you would recommend as the best queen rearing method for someone who has never reared queens before.
I have been keeping bees few a few years now but have never reared my own queens.
Next year I am planning on splitting many of my beehives and will require quite a lot of queens.
I have about 10 colonies of Buckfast bees in Sligo Ireland using the rose hive method with national brood boxes.
I have been looking at using the punched cell method because it seems to work very well for someone who does not know what they are doing.
Let me know what method you think I should use for next year.
Open to suggestions.
Thanks