Commercial Queens

摘要

The Third In This Series centre First-what is a good queen. Second - equipment needed. This Time - all about bees.This is the third article on a mid-level sized queen production operation. The first two articles defined what we believe is a good queen, some proven business concepts and values, what kind of equipment you will need and what a possible schedule would look like. Further, we covered the best way to feed donor hives, mating nucs and finishers, and reported approximate yields that you can expect. The model being used is based upon a 100 hive/ 500 mating nuc operation. This number was picked so that a potential queen producer of a larger or even smaller size can estimate accordingly. It should also be noted that this article corresponds with the third month (March) of what I consider the start of a new queen production season. For this third month, the tasks and subjects are many.