Amm queens

[Jon]

I posted my first 15 queens off today.
Fingers crossed for a good season.

[Poly Hive]

I would like a couple Kate if possible?

PH

[alancooper]

I posted my first 15 queens off today.
Fingers crossed for a good season.

Is this exceptionally early? I inspected my hives on Monday - plenty sealed drone brood but just a small number had hatched.

[Jon]

The post is a year old. I haven't even started grafting yet this year. Someone has revived the thread.

[Wmfd]

Thanks for the insights, I was hoping to use the queen right method (for ease of doing in a hive I have at home) so interesting to hear when it tends not to work. I thought a week or so ago it was getting warmer but seems to have gone backwards.

Sorry, I've probably got this in the wrong part of the forum!

David

[prakel]

I've traditionally started grafting on May Day which suits from a beekeeper convienience point of view and also from pushing prospective queen matings into the second half of the month. Early May can be rather unpredictable here. To be honest, I don't think that it would do any harm to wait an extra couple of weeks. I pay no attention to swarming preparations but that's because none of our colonies ever start raising queens before May, and then, very few of them bother anyway so it's a rather unpredictable guage for us.

[madasafish]

I have just set up my Cloake Board system ready for grafting 1st May...