GRAFTING

This is a two day course where you will learn the basics of queen rearing. The course is limited to five individuals per session to insure everyone has hands on time and 1 on 1 help. 

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Day 1

• How to keep a queen schedule

• How to identify a good breeder queen

• Making and setting up your starter/finisher hive

• Grafting 101

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Day 2

• Checking your grafts

• Setting up mating nucs

• Drones

• Reviewing different styles of mating nucs

• Installing queen cells into a mating nucs

• Marking queens

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Course Date: June and July, exact date TBD