Quote Originally Posted by prakel View Post
I think that people's standards depend on whether they've raised the queen themselves or paid £30/40 for it. Even a free queen given to help someone out can get a rather critical appraisal far beyond what the recipient's own queens receive. Human nature.
Don't I know it

Incidentally I was given a Queen last year by Jon (he's a generous chap)
She was born on the wrong side of the sheets from the rest of his breeding program
I'm looking forward to how she does this year though

A friend bought 3 queens from Jon the season before and gave me one of them
Thats one of my best queens without any doubt and I believe the other two were good as well (still think I got the best one lol!)

I got a couple of other queens from the same friend last season (Local) really good ones from her best honey producer
Like everything though there's bound to be variation some good some a little less so