Thymallus
Drone Bee
Chalkbrood is not major proplem. I have not written nothing like that. It was in my yard 10-20 y ago.
It was why I said CAN be a problem. Was it a major problem 10-20 years ago?
Chalkbrood is not major proplem. I have not written nothing like that. It was in my yard 10-20 y ago.
I think you need to register as a breeder to see the data on the Beebreed site. The Buckfast pedigree mating lineages are openly available which makes them more accessible.
Regardless of this, I think this attention to detail and record keeping puts most of our amateur open/random mated queen rearing in perspective.
It is not. I know. Beeks say more than they do.
I wonder how many test sensitiveness to chalkbrood for example
Many breeders speak about high hygienic genes but chalkbrood tolerance does not work that way
all I get is a form asking me for my association number, breeder, stud book number and year of birth. Do you mean I need to register first?
It was why I said CAN be a problem. Was it a major problem 10-20 years ago?
It is very tightly controlled. I report to a breeding group manager. He scrutinises everything I do and makes sure I don't make any mistakes.
I visited someones bees last year & was really surprised at the size of their queens, they were so easy to spot in a frame of bees, they were twice the size of mine literally. I never got to ask him how they were so big.
Is there a way of rearing larger queens? is there an advantage to having large queens like this apart from the obvious?
What does it mean?
No.
Each queen has a reference number as follows:
The country/association code
The breeder number within that association
The stockbook number of the queen you are interested in
The year she was born.
If you use 6-1-588-2012 or 6-1-1862-2012 you will see the details of the mother of some of the queens I bought last year
I must be doing something wrong somewhere, but not sure what.
Thanks for the reply. I still get the same result which is odd. I'm using the link you pasted to the data base......I saw the screen shots, thanks for taking the time to post them.
Must be summat wrong with t'internet today. Now all I'm getting are boxes and no text on pc....same on my tablet.
Thanks for the input, a veritable mine of information....when I can access it.
I have a very small queen and produced by a small colony last year but I kept her as a spare and overwintered in a nuc but looking at the hive right now she is one of my top queens. I have just given them a super and will be interesting if she can walk through the queen excluder.
Don't be suprised if she can. I had one wriggle through a marking cage last year
There are strains, which do not become sick, when you put the queen into a contaminated hive. That was the way I breeded out chalkbrood from my hives.
I had mating nucs which had chalkbrood contamination on floor. When new queens brood become sick, I killed the queen. Lots of new queens and selection.
And in spring you need spare queens. When you see chalkbrood in hive, change the queen at once.
But first you need tolerant genes from outside.
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