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NZBeekeeping has launched a consultation for the AFB PMP 10 year review
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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 10454" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>Like I have said before I think the board is doing a good job as are the people who work for it but some things could be looked at to see if it made things both cheaper and more efficient.</p><p>Take full brood inspections for example. There is no doubt that a full brood inspection will find more AFB than say checking two frames in each brood box but I strongly suspect that done properly this much quicker and far less intrusive inspection would pick up over 95% of all infections and 100% of any medium to bad infections.</p><p>I do not believe it is the authorities job to find every AFB for the beekeeper. It is their job to find out which beekeepers have a problem, help them deal with it and to stop them infecting other beekeepers. I have done full brood inspections many times and when there are only a few hives or when there are infected hives in an apiary it is fair enough but when you are doing an inspection on say 40 hives and you have found nothing after the first 10 then it is a colossal waste of time and resources not to mention it's pretty intrusive on the hive and to do a full brood inspection on a large apiary at this time of year with the robbing that is occurring at the moment would be plain stupid and I would be very unhappy if somebody did it to my hives.</p><p>It has to be remembered that even if you do a full brood inspection that same hive can have a clinical infection two weeks later.</p><p>I know from bitter experience that when you get a bad outbreak of AFB because your hives have robbed out somebody else's problem that one check no matter how thorough will not identify all the AFB unless you are very lucky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 10454, member: 207"] Like I have said before I think the board is doing a good job as are the people who work for it but some things could be looked at to see if it made things both cheaper and more efficient. Take full brood inspections for example. There is no doubt that a full brood inspection will find more AFB than say checking two frames in each brood box but I strongly suspect that done properly this much quicker and far less intrusive inspection would pick up over 95% of all infections and 100% of any medium to bad infections. I do not believe it is the authorities job to find every AFB for the beekeeper. It is their job to find out which beekeepers have a problem, help them deal with it and to stop them infecting other beekeepers. I have done full brood inspections many times and when there are only a few hives or when there are infected hives in an apiary it is fair enough but when you are doing an inspection on say 40 hives and you have found nothing after the first 10 then it is a colossal waste of time and resources not to mention it's pretty intrusive on the hive and to do a full brood inspection on a large apiary at this time of year with the robbing that is occurring at the moment would be plain stupid and I would be very unhappy if somebody did it to my hives. It has to be remembered that even if you do a full brood inspection that same hive can have a clinical infection two weeks later. I know from bitter experience that when you get a bad outbreak of AFB because your hives have robbed out somebody else's problem that one check no matter how thorough will not identify all the AFB unless you are very lucky. [/QUOTE]
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