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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 9622" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Yes a Schley. Have not had a chance to use it yet but once honey harvest is over I am flying down to Betta Bees to spend a few days with Frans Laars for some more training, there's a lot more to it than just the actual insemination. I need some help from a pro rather than figure it all out myself as I did last time and never got great results.</p><p></p><p>Frans told me he has trained quite a few people so there must be a few more people around doing it that we are aware of. But it is complex and not as easy as it may seem, for example, getting drones of the right age to coincide with your virgins of the right age and from the right queen and not drifted drones, just that takes some planning and organisation. One trick I saw on youtube, a guy has droneless hives and then puts drone frames in so the queen will lay them up well. If it's Italian drones he then transfers the frame to a black hive, so that when he later collects the drones he is able to know the italian ones are the ones he put there from his drone breeder queen. Stuff like that, there's a lot of organisation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 9622, member: 13"] Yes a Schley. Have not had a chance to use it yet but once honey harvest is over I am flying down to Betta Bees to spend a few days with Frans Laars for some more training, there's a lot more to it than just the actual insemination. I need some help from a pro rather than figure it all out myself as I did last time and never got great results. Frans told me he has trained quite a few people so there must be a few more people around doing it that we are aware of. But it is complex and not as easy as it may seem, for example, getting drones of the right age to coincide with your virgins of the right age and from the right queen and not drifted drones, just that takes some planning and organisation. One trick I saw on youtube, a guy has droneless hives and then puts drone frames in so the queen will lay them up well. If it's Italian drones he then transfers the frame to a black hive, so that when he later collects the drones he is able to know the italian ones are the ones he put there from his drone breeder queen. Stuff like that, there's a lot of organisation. [/QUOTE]
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