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Raise vs Buy - Queens for Hobby Keepers
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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 3338" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>If the issue for you is your neighbours have nasty aggressive bees that mate with yours, the only real way to defeat that is buy in good stock.</p><p></p><p>Usually, if you start with a good purebred (or close to it) queen that is docile, and from her you raise some more queens, the first cross with tha aggro drones will produce a worse bee, but not terrible. And that queen will still be making nice drones to add the the mating area because the drones are a copy of her. But the second generation if they again mate with aggro drones can start getting pretty bad.</p><p></p><p>So a plan could be to get at least one good queen and once needed, raise some more from her. See how they turn out, but once things start getting to where it is unpleasant working the hive/s, buy in another new queen of good genetics then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 3338, member: 13"] If the issue for you is your neighbours have nasty aggressive bees that mate with yours, the only real way to defeat that is buy in good stock. Usually, if you start with a good purebred (or close to it) queen that is docile, and from her you raise some more queens, the first cross with tha aggro drones will produce a worse bee, but not terrible. And that queen will still be making nice drones to add the the mating area because the drones are a copy of her. But the second generation if they again mate with aggro drones can start getting pretty bad. So a plan could be to get at least one good queen and once needed, raise some more from her. See how they turn out, but once things start getting to where it is unpleasant working the hive/s, buy in another new queen of good genetics then. [/QUOTE]
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