Queen rearing course
Chifley College Bidwill Campus Farm - Daniels Road entrance
bidwill, australia
Event description
Practical and theoretic instruction on all aspects of queen rearing by Bruce White and Nadine Chapman hosted by Cumberland Beekeepers Club
Participants will prepare a starter hive for queen cell rearing, graft queen larva, check their success, and make up a mating nucleus hive. Queen cells can be taken home.
Day 1
- Introduction
- Biology and life cycles
- Cell Bars
- Types of queen cells
- Preparing cell starter colonies
- Preparing starting and finishing colonies
- Grafting using different tools
- Nutrition
- Diseases
- Calendar of operation
Day 2
- Check grafting from day 1
- Breeding and genetics
- Artificial insemination
- Drone mother hive management
- Preparing nucleus colonies
- Packaged bees
- Mating apiaries
- Queen banking
- Queen candy
- Queen introduction
- Catching, marking, clipping and caging queens
- Transporting queens and queen cells
Catering: morning tea and lunch provided
The event runs fromm 9am to 430pm on both days
Please wear closed shoes and long pants and shirt. We have a selection of beesuits that you may borrow.
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