Managing Colonies
Breeding queens
Jenter Kit
 
Queen is caught and put in jenter kit.
The kit frame is placed in hive until eggs are laid in cells.
The queen is released.
The eggs are put into cups.
 
This is done in a warm place like a pickup truck.
Cups in a frame.
The frame with eggs is put in breeding colony to care for eggs.
Queen cell are developed, and added to queen less colonies.
Natural Cell Rearing
Selection of Cells
The colonies do make queen cells them selves of course.
These girls have really made a lot of really nice cells.
More than usual
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The ideal is to leave the nicest, larges one for the colony to raise.
It seems a shame to take them off.
When the first queen is hatched she goes about killing the other cells.
Some times she is not the superior queen just the first hatched.
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