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Breeding the Honeybee
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Episode 21
Season 1
21) Ian Steppler (CA)
Ian Steppler is a Canadian beekeeper who breeds his own line of bees. Ian has unique cell raising and mating nuc styles that are well suited to short season commercial beekeeping. In this episode Ian goes into his cell raising process and mating nucs as well as explaining why he raises his own queens. Ian has a YouTube channel called A Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog. In this episode we discuss a lot of the things that you can see in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouifrZvFn1U
00:00 Intro
2:18 Bringing in breeding stock
5:30 When Ian started raising his own stock
8:30 Cell builders
21:00 Mating nucs
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Chapters
- Intro
- Bringing in breeding stock
- When Ian started raising his own stock
- Cell builders
- Mating nucs