Comments on: Donating Eggs https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/08/donating-eggs/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:00:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alan https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/08/donating-eggs/#comment-22964 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:00:50 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=14301#comment-22964 In reply to Emily.

Yep, we still have drones in our hives. We’ll check them again tomorrow or Tuesday to see if they have created queen cells from those eggs, and if they have then we’ll have to see if we can get hold of a mated queen to introduce to the hive. They could of course raise a new queen from the eggs we donated to them if they aren’t queen-right, but that will just take too much time now, and time is running out this summer already.

Al.

]]> By: Emily https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/08/donating-eggs/#comment-22963 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:44:24 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=14301#comment-22963 Think you did the right thing. Do you still have drones in your hives? Mine have thrown theirs out, so I wonder if a new queen would find many to mate with.

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