Hi everyone its been a while now since I have posted anything in this thread, this is due to a few things work (not at the bees) and life in general. The clean room is just about finished now only a few snagging jobs to do but they will need to be done very soon. Last year I decided to try my hand at queen rearing and had great success, so I decided to buy in a few breeder queens and after a long hard look on the web I bought some queens from Keld Brandstrup.
This year these have done me very well and I am in the processes of re-queening all my hives with his F1 queens.
I also this year had the pleasure of being invited to spend some time with Keld at his place to learn from him (he was taught by brother Adam) he is a tough task master but I learned a lot, I also spent some time with Mogens Mundt his technician (I called him the queen man) lol he also has been trained by Keld. I have been lucky enough to be invited back again so I must have done something correct.
Some of the pictures of my visit.
Excellent what an amazing experience that must have been. The vids on his site of unveiled beekeepers bears testament tot he gentle nature of those bees. I use his Island mated queens and the F1's are brilliant. Perhaps due to the feisty nature of my local bees the F2's are to be avoided.....As I know to my sting count when I get it wrong.
My visit to Keld Brandstrup's
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