Testing of our strain queens
We accord a lot of importance to the breeding of males. We own 200 hives provided with males frames, all located on a circle of 5 km of diameter. On our production, over 50 different strains take part of the queens’ fertilisation. We hope to improve significantly the vitality and the natural defence of the colonies with this large genetic diversity.
The queens are fertilised either in nuclei of type Kieler, in Maxi+ or in 6 frame hives. Those queens are also on apiaries specially dedicated to the fertilisation situated in the centre of the perimeter.
According to the colonies behaviour in a case of natural change of queen in the hive, our estimation is that over 90% of our breeding males are participating to the fertilisation.
You can graft with low risk on our queens.
The lineage “strains” are inseminated queens that are used in the testing plan and/or in the grafting pool for the commercialized queens’ (...)
We graft 3 times/week from the end of March until mid-September, which represents approximately 60 mornings/year.
Each season, we produce more (...)
We rarely use the starter (maybe we are wrong?) .Until 2010, we were using orphan colonies. While today, we changed for a double system which is (...)
We use the incubator from the 8th day to the 11th (sometimes until the 12th).
Inspired by the advices of many people, I created a heating system (...)
Each year, we produce 1000 overwintered swarms.
Those swarms are almost all produced on 6 frame hives. The hives provide us the necessary of bees (...)
We commercialize annually between 500 to 1000 virgin queens.
We let some queens be born outside of brooders, because: the apiculturists’ demand, (...)
We produce yearly 4000 mated queens, exclusively in Kieler nuclei.
The Kielers are filled with package bees collected in our 10 frame hives. We (...)
Each year, we post more than 5000 queens. The fertilized queen bees are amassed on Wednesday, Friday and Monday morning. They are posted on (...)
Each year, we inseminate more and more queen bees: 150 queens until 2011, over 300 queens in 2013, … and our objective is to increase even more (...)
We accord a lot of importance to the breeding of males. We own 200 hives provided with males frames, all located on a circle of 5 km of diameter. (...)
