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Hi morning, so I raised 6 queen's from the same mother this season, I've kept two of them and the other four were sold as 6 frame nucs.
These daughter queen's were raised from f1 Amm stock from 2019, all of the queen's looked the same when they emerged and the nucs that I made up all mated and built up well.
I sold all four with four frames of solid brood ( some had bias in amongst the capped brood) and two good frames of mixed honey and pollen.
The Queen I want to talk about in perticular is a nuc a fellow association member had.
So he had the nuc on the 23rd of june both me and him transferred the nuc into a single brood box.. They had stores around the out side of every frame plus the two mixed.
When we put the frames in the single brood I put a drawn frame on the outside of the cluster to give hm some more room.. And Alan was going to check them in 3 days time to assess there situation.
Fast forward and they have swarmed and now he has laying workers.. Gutted really
What's interesting is the other nucs have done really well even produced some honey..
Is this my fault or Alan's for not keeping an eye on them I can't help but feel a bit responsible.
Thanks
Mark
These daughter queen's were raised from f1 Amm stock from 2019, all of the queen's looked the same when they emerged and the nucs that I made up all mated and built up well.
I sold all four with four frames of solid brood ( some had bias in amongst the capped brood) and two good frames of mixed honey and pollen.
The Queen I want to talk about in perticular is a nuc a fellow association member had.
So he had the nuc on the 23rd of june both me and him transferred the nuc into a single brood box.. They had stores around the out side of every frame plus the two mixed.
When we put the frames in the single brood I put a drawn frame on the outside of the cluster to give hm some more room.. And Alan was going to check them in 3 days time to assess there situation.
Fast forward and they have swarmed and now he has laying workers.. Gutted really
What's interesting is the other nucs have done really well even produced some honey..
Is this my fault or Alan's for not keeping an eye on them I can't help but feel a bit responsible.
Thanks
Mark