mazzamazda
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Does anyone know of any suppliers of Buckfast breeder queens?
Does anyone know of any suppliers of Buckfast breeder queens?
Thank you very much for all the info, it turns out I have a buckfast breeder queen rearer only 45 miles away from me, visiting early Feb.
He may make such a claim but many such claims prove false; also any progeny eventually get mated with local mongrels and the Buckfast (claimed?) trait gets diluted or lost anyway, unless of course one is in a very remote where mongrel drones are not going to be. Pretty unlikely I would have thought.
He may make such a claim but many such claims prove false; also any progeny eventually get mated with local mongrels and the Buckfast (claimed?) trait gets diluted or lost anyway, unless of course one is in a very remote where mongrel drones are not going to be. Pretty unlikely I would have thought.
Thats why I'm visiting. He AI his queens and is in a remote place, is also on the registered buckfast breeders list and runs a local one, a guy I'm keen to meet.
He may make such a claim but many such claims prove false; also any progeny eventually get mated with local mongrels and the Buckfast (claimed?) trait gets diluted or lost anyway, unless of course one is in a very remote where mongrel drones are not going to be. Pretty unlikely I would have thought.
Must admit I did wonder why... when you are fortunate enough to live in a place where the endemic native honey bees seem to adapted so well and I am informed produce copious amounts of honey in the environment that they have adapted to since the ice moved away!
My local bees arent adapted so well to varroa, foul brood and they all are absolute savages, the only quiet bees are diseased bees. I want a change and the 40 or so buckfast crosses I have have already proved so much better I thought why not try and get rid of the local bees altogether. The orders I already have for bees and queens are 100% buckfast up to now.
You folks, live in THE country where the Thoroughbred horse breed was created, and still can't get the idea what buckfast breeding is all about!!!
You folks, live in THE country where the Thoroughbred horse breed was created, and still can't get the idea what buckfast breeding is all about!!!
You folks, live in THE country where the Thoroughbred horse breed was created, and still can't get the idea what buckfast breeding is all about!!!
Even on Exmoor the local horse breeders have to go in and cull/ remove any horses that are not of the Exmoor pony line....
Scutellator;519389 ................................ BUT if you want to get a champion horse that wins at almost every horse race said:parents[/B] that actually WERE champions almost every time at almost every horse race. (A small detail, wich in Wikipedia was missed to mention).......................................
In bees, IF you allow drones from swarmy, agressive or unproductive hives to mate with your virgin queens, just because they belong to the "right race", you will see that this eventually leads to deterioration of the econimic qualities, which are far more important.
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Simply put, Buckfast breeding basically is matching best individuals with best individuals.
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