We have been rearin our own Buckfast queens since 2021. We rear the F1 (first generation) queens that we offer from a breeder queen from Keld Brandstrup from Denmark. This breeder queen which we have called "Deentje" has parents with excellent characteristics. These properties have been selected by Keld Brandstrup on the basis of a points system from 0 to 5, in which 5 is the highest achievable result. See below the selected properties of the queen line and the drone line of our breeding mother.

 

Of course we have the entire pedigree of our breeder queen and this will be included with your purchased queen. We breed the queens on our local stand from a breeder colony. After which they go on mating flights locally in Velp. The result is a strong and genetically high-quality F1 Buckfast queen that you can use to strengthen the colonies on your stand. Are you a novice beekeeper with little experience in introducing a new queen? We will give you advice to make the entry as smooth and above all safe as possible.

You will receive aftercare after your purchase (if desired) so that you are not alone. I speak from my own experience when I say that the aftercare by queen breeders leaves a lot to be desired for at the moment. At the very beginning, this sadly also resulted in the failure of introducing a valuable queen into an already established colony at our apiary. Now that we offer queens ourselves, we make it our mission to help the novice beekeeper with this process!