Breeding the Honeybee

Raf is a queen breeder based in New Zealand. He makes his own mating nucs that are based on the sizes used in Europe. 

0:45 Mating Nuc Design 
3:15 Using mating nucs as cell raisers 
3:30 Using mating nucs for breeder queens 
3:47 Using mating nucs as queen banks 
3:57 Fixing failing mating nucs 
4:30 Comparisons to poly mini nucs 
5:00 queen quality in larger nucs 
6:06 Full size mating nucs 
9:19 European influence
10:54 Isolation Cages 
12:09 Isolation queen bank 
14:30 Custom queen excluders 
16:15 Raf’s business 

Check out Raf's business here. 
https://www.manaqueen.co.nz/

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Podcast proudly brought to you by 
Brent Nixon at Nixon Queen Bees (Ballarat VIC, Australia)
https://nixonqueenbees.com.au/

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What is Breeding the Honeybee?

All about bee breeding. Episodes range from: bee genetics, stories about bee breeding, analysis of research and interviews with people in this field.