➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

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CrazyCrttr75 said:
We purchased Russian hybrid. I didn't know about the night time thing. We've just been watching videos and reading and watching more videos lol. A bunch were flying around but staying close to the hive since that's where the queen is. Everything I've read is that they'll find their way to her and will settle in and tend to her to get her out of the cage. It would be awesome if we can get some honey before the yrs up. We want to leave enough in stores for them to winter but that's a long time from now.

Edited this post because I was wrong in what kind we purchased. We just purchased Russian Hybrid. This is what the website says about them:

  • Strengths of Russian honey bees:
  • Excellent at wintering (small cluster needs less food)
  • Resistant to varroa and tracheal mites
  • High honey yield (same or better than Italian bees)
  • Can rear massive amounts of brood in short times to closely follow times of nectar and pollen flow
  • Constantly maintain several supersedure queen cells for immediate queen replacement if the hive loses its current queen
So this is what we went with.
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What I understand about Russians is that they tend to head butt rather than sting.
Most places make these same claims about Carniolans also but in my actual experience, only the Italians are really great honey producers. I would not expect to harvest any honey from their hive this year.

The thing about maintaining several supersedure queen cells sounds to me like a back handed way of saying that they are prone to swarming. In my experience bees that are always swarming tend to not produce a lot of honey and are prone to losing the hive because of the constant swarms.

Hope I am wrong and that they work out for you.
 
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