Pure German Buckfast Queen Update

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[markmurphy]

Hi Laurence, wow 16 frames of brood she is a goodin, I know with the buckfast queens I have that they are workaholics always out foraging before my mongrel colonies and always the last to settle down for the night and the honey they are making with this good weather we are getting I know I am in for a good spring harvest. Keep us updated on these colonies I know we are in for a treat with your vlogs. Thx Laurence mate.

[michaelhall]

Thank you Melo Bees for the I will have to think a purchase over carefully re £220 for a Buckfast Queen bee. It is very much worth consideration.

[jaysgspsreeftank]

Bangin looking queen that f0! 16 frames of brood this early is nuts, the temperament of those bees is fantastic, I'm re queening mine in about 4 weeks time with f1's hopefully it calms the pings to the faces down.

[JM-ndkt]

Buckfast bees and queens can be any combination of colour they are a mixture of many strains of bee from around the globe. That diversity is locked into the Buckfast hence the bees are any combination of colour or sometimes nearly all dark like Carpathian or Carnica. If you were talking about Carniolan bees it would undoubtedly apply to the workers but not the queens so much, they are various in markings depending on the region they come from.

[christophercross]

The buckfast beed was bread to be a stingless honey bee. And after the monk died they dramatically reduced the bee side of the things. As I used to get my bee wax from there.

[lagrangebees]

While I'm still way too early in my beekeeping career (just starting my third year) this is the kind of info I love to have ahead of time. I will be raising my first queens this summer, gonna raise from local stock before I try getting something as expensive (and precious) as a certified breeder queen.

[ionutm]

Hi Lawrence F0- we know the mother and the father ; F1- we only know the mother or the father( but usually the mother in beekeping) ; F2 - we don't know the mother or the father. and that's all, there isn't any F3 or F... Thank you - awesome video.

[yadoyado]

😜 OK, if you are going Technical terminology, I don't know about it being Buckfast, as Buckfast Abbey is in England.
Scientifically speaking There's no subspecies known as Buckfast either 😜

The original Buckfast are hybrid, and that's what brother Adam was doing, he was getting foreign queens and mating them with local stock, and getting hybrid vigor

[TH-clbe]

4:47 so if she is a pure how can she produce f1 ? . has she already been crossed in germany ?
its only her off spring that makes it to a queen that can produce f1 providing it crosses with eg your jolanta males.
you could do controlled breeding with her off spring to keep the pure buckfast line.

[wonwinit]

If you need any quality control checks on this queens prodigy happy to

[mustrumridcully]

Hi Laurence, I have a lot of interest in a Buckfast queen. I can fully appreciate all their benefits - but what are the downsides? I have heard that their progeny can be a bit erratic and have poorer tempers. What are your experiences please?

[doiradovul]

I need a buckfast queen
I am from Uzbekistan

[michaelhall]

Dear Laurence The breeder you mention Lutz Eggert seems to be illusive as regards 'contact'. Please can you say his phone number.
Another commercial Queen bee selling company Mello ( I hope that's correct) say they have two strains of Buckfast. It makes an engineer wonder which one of those strains is the purest Buckfast Queen.
It is claimed some of the Buckfast colonies are varroa resistant but I see some of the colonies are in trouble and collapsing on the isle of Anglesey?
The company you mentioned Honey Field Bee Farm, who seem quite big say that even resistant strains of bees 'need treating against varroa'. I thought that buying resistant bees and the Buckfast 'strain' is one of the species mentioned /claimed as resistant was the whole idea of buying that strain of bees so that the beekeeper does not need to impose/help the bees with chemicals of which although oxalic acid is the mildest treatment it never the less is a chemical.
It seems as if there is a lot of mumbo jumbo attached to anything that's complex and especially so where money is At £260 a piece for a 'pure' Buckfast Queen It begs the question is that bee guaranteed?
Best Wishes & thanks for the entertaining vidoes

[miralalinka]

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