New honey bee breed

Well the queen in my hive quite laying and there was no resources for the hive to make a new one and I don’t have another hive so a friend of mine had a extra one of these queens so I put her in today so now I have one I’ll keep everyone posted on how she performs but I’ll tell you that a few beeks around here got packages of these a few weeks back and they tell me they have never see a faster building and gentle bee

Good deal bk yes it will mine is in my Kenya top bar hive so it would be great to see in different style hives how this bee performs

Checked mine the other evening.  Saz was laying very well, but not a great brood pattern.  My new Carni queen has a better brood pattern, but less brood to show.  Both were very gentle and easy to work.
Saz is looking good so far.

My two new queens are laying machines wish I had them 60 days ago missing out on a huge first flow they seem to be very gentle and hardworking girls a lot of the beeks around here that have this breed are very happy with them

The Saz line has been great so far. 

I have a Saz located side by side with a Carni.  Both were new 3 pound packages in 10 frame Langs this spring.  Saz has filled three deeps with brood / honey and two supers for me.  Didn't swarm - very gentle.  Carni finally filled three deeps but no honey for me in the supers. 

Thought my Saz hive was dying in early August.  One evening I watched them haul out 100s of dead dying bees and drop them off the landing board.  Then they started removing late stage brood.  In looking carefully, the dead bees had deformed wings and brood was weird looking or had a mite.  Within two days hive was back to normal.  Was impressive to watch their hygienic activity.

Have been doing alcohol washes for mite checks.  Highest mite count in Saz was 1/300 in August.  Carni hive next door had 4/300 in August.  This month Saz was back to 0/300 while Carni was 18/300 - so they got treated.

Interesting thing has been our splits / swarms.  All in five frame nucs, two or three boxes on each.  Splits had lower mite counts than swarms.  Last swarm we captured had a crazy mite load.  143/300. (Pic below)  They are likely dead and they just don't know it.  Treating and crossing our fingers.



This is why we test.  We only treat when mite threshold is reached.