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OUR SUPPLIERS

Our quest for the perfect bee stock for use in the Pacific Northwest has led us to several dedicated and sincere breeders. We found this one Bee Keeper to be breeding stock of exceptionable qualities and with a diversity of genetics. This breeders stock came from same genetic pool that Susan Cobey uses in her work. Susan Cobey of Davis University and Steve Shepard of Washington State University are involved in importing the drone sperm of the Old World Carniolan direct from Europe and using this sperm to improve upon the genetics of the New World Carniolan. We should be thankful as this breeder is definitely increasing the genetic pool in this country. These are very close to being second daughter queens. They are not as swarm happy as the New World Carniolans and the breeder claims they are calmer and better producers.

Lately we have been working with the Yugo's. The last two seasons we have reared the Yugo and this last season, successfully reproduced a Washington Coastal variety of the Yugo's. Our original stock was acquired from Tator's in Vacaville, California. This has been a rewarding experiment. So far we are extremely happy with the results and continue to monitor this new arrival to our apiary.

Both Species overwinter well and build brood fast in the spring. These Carniolans are excellent comb builders. Ideally suited for our area. This apiary is in the Tule fog area, so I can attest to the damp winters there.

Our other breeder is further North and the Apiary is up near the foothills of the Sierra's There expertise is in the New World Carniolans and a different Italian Hybrid. They have the nicest black queens that you have ever seen. These are the Susan Colby New World Carniolans not to be confused with the Old World Carniolans. The ones we had last year were the fastest brood builders I have ever seen. I had customers pulling honey off first year colonies. Myself included. For the first time we have a Buckfast Queen breeder. So we will have Buckfast packages and queens. Russian Packages and queens Old World Carniolans and New World Carniolans queens and packages. Minnesota Italian hybrid and The Minnesota hybrid Texas Italian strain. And as always we will carry the tradition Italian packages and queens. See our queens page for more specific details.