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CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORS OF QUALITY CHILEAN QUEENS

Now Taking Orders for Spring 2012!

Ask about Chilean Packaged Bees for Spring 2012!

(This page will be updated regularly. Please view for updated information. Thank you.)

At this time we would like to thank all who purchased Chilean queens in 2011. Our supplier Beekeepers Cooperative Queens of Chile has again had a successful year promoting queens in Canada and would like to also extend a warm thank you to all their customers. Please click on picture below for more information.

We appreciate your business and would like to hear your comments. Send us an email or give us a call! A limited supply of Chilean queens will be available for Spring 2012.

Five tentitive dates of queen availability for Spring 2012 are April 19, April 28, May 3, May 10, and May 17. Queens may be available for dates earlier than April 19. Please inquire.

Tentative Prices:

1 - 24 Call for updated price

25 - 99 Call for updated price

100 - 399 Call for updated price

400 + Call for updated price

To secure your order and number of queens for the 2012 season, place your order early with us or through BeeMaid Honey Coop (Manitoba or Alberta outlets).

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Another source for quality queens: Chile

After our visit with several commercial enterprises and with the government in Chile (December 2006), we have compiled the resources for importing Chilean queen bees into Canada. As of July 2007, we have been successfully importing Chilean queens into Canada (2007, the first year permitted by CFIA for the importation of queen bees from Chile into Canada). Working closely with several Chilean queen rearing operations has allowed us to be the first to manage Canadian honey colonies with queens from Chile in our commercial operations. Chilean Queens: Performance Updates on Canadian Colonies

We had considered the introduction of Chilean queens in our hives successful late in the 2007 honey season. We experienced 2007/2008 over-wintering of the Chilean colonies and found the results to be quite successful.

Comments from several beekeeping operations indicated that colonies with newly introduced Chilean queens (in Spring 2008) were found to have excellent acceptance and well developed brood patterns. Good honey production for the 2008 season was reported.

Over-wintering for the 2008/2009 period was found again to be successful. Honey production for the 2009 season was reported to be good.

Also, over-wintereing for the 2009/2010 period was successful with strong colony development in the Spring. Honey production was good, considering that most of Canada experienced heavy rainfalls throughout the summer.

Overwintering for the 2010/2011 period was good. Excellent acceptance with newly introduced queens followed by a strong population build up approaching the honey flow.

So...Why Queens from Chile?

Simply, it provides beekeepers with another source for quality queens. The beekeeping industry in Chile has been thriving for many years and queen breeding is certainly not a new idea for them. Years of geographical confinement by the Pacific ocean and the Andes Mountain range has allowed Chile to be virtually untouched by the outside world. In turn, the extensive work done with genetic stock has allowed them to produce a bee which faces much of the same conditions as our bees face here in North America.

In house selection and testing for disease, artificial insemination technology, and up-to-date laboratory equipment helps them stay current in the art of breeding.

In addition, latest advancements in barcode technology enables Chilean queen breeding experts to graft and track offspring among thousands of mating nucs.

It has been said that Chile is a paradise for queen breeding, offering the breeder a season of dry sunny weather ideally suited for controlled queen production.

And this is very important for beekeepers...to receive queens on time for the intense season that lies ahead!

For ordering or inquiries:

2012 will be our sixth year for importing Chilean queens for distribution. Mated, laying, marked, Chilean queens (Carniolan) are now ready for ordering for the 2012 season. Queens are maintained in nucs before shipment and are not banked. All queens have been government inspected and certified for Canadian import through CFIA. All sales are subject to the availability of production and transportation.

Queens are available in limited supply, April through May. Queens are available in boxes of 100 queens. Queens are individually caged with attendents in JZBZ cages.

Specific shipping dates for April and May have now been confirmed. Please contact us to determine what date is right for you! Please ask us if you are interested in queens at earlier dates than specified.

To help ensure your order, quantities, price breaks for Spring 2012, please contact us below:

OAKNOOK HONEY PRODUCTS LTD.
Box 67, Ashville, Manitoba,
R0L 0A0, CANADA

Phone: (204) 548-4060; Fax: (204) 548-4219;
or Email: info@oaknookhoney.com

AND

KEMNAY APIARIES Box 9, Site 30, RR 3,
Brandon, Manitoba,
R7A 5Y3, CANADA

Phone: (204) 725-1479
or Email: mervmalyon@rfnow.com

Or contact your local Honey Coop: