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Altigoo is a website dedicated to queens rearing, by JF Mallein and Philippe Huau, beekeepers and bee-breeders, producers of queens and swarms
Apiaries
Maxi-Plus bee hives
"Maxi plus”, or “maxi +”, is our naming. It refers to the honey chamber’s size (...)
Beekeeping techniques
Insulating material and hives’ top
The insulation of the top of the hive is a determining element in our work, (...)Mated queens’ introduction
The queens insertion is a delicate step. The queen’s acceptance depends of (...)Struggling against diseases
As a consequence of our good behaviour (very fast rotation of the frames (...)
Breeding and selection
The behaviour of our strain colonies
The lineage “strains” are inseminated queens that are used in the testing (...)The breeders colonies
We rarely use the starter (maybe we are wrong?) .Until 2010, we were using (...)Swarms’ production
Each year, we produce 1000 overwintered swarms.
Those swarms are almost all (...)The virgin queens’ production
We commercialize annually between 500 to 1000 virgin queens.
We let some (...)Mated queens’ production
We produce yearly 4000 mated queens, exclusively in Kieler nuclei.
The (...)