4 th National Competition Queen Bees
Terms and Conditions
Organization :
Advisory Council Beekeeping Mendoza collaboration of the Association of Breeders Mendoza Queen Bees (AMCAR), the Superior Technical Production and Marketing Beekeeping (TEPyCA) and the Municipality of La Paz.
Held
Galileo Vitali Agricultural Technical School.
Route 7 and Calle Suárez, Villa Antigua, Department La Paz.
Objectives Promote
selection and breeding of the honeybee. Disseminate
selection techniques queens. Provide
material (living material base) for the selection and breeding program of bees in the province of Mendoza.
Participants may participate in the contest all beekeepers in the country they want, whether or not queen breeders.
Requirements Be enrolled in the RENAPA.
Complete documentation for the transfer of material vivo (guide route). Having
health certification of the nuclei and participants packages issued by a health inspector enabled.
living material Received: Saturday 23 and Sunday October 24, 2010.
date assessment of living material: Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 December 2010.
Registration and cost
Those interested in participating must register with the organizers until Friday October 15 2010.
Registration for the competition is free.
Live material of the contest will be donated for use in the program selection and breeding of bees in the province of Mendoza, this program may join only the contestants.
Participants will receive a fertilized queen Selection Program for each unit to submit to the contest.
living material handling
The Organizing Committee will prepare a manual of procedures which accurately detail the tasks onto the cores during the reception and development of these as well also the actions of the jury during the competition. For the contents of this manual refer to the website cited at the bottom of these terms and conditions.
Reception of equipment and safety measures
Live material, both as the core packages will be received for 23 and October 24, 2010 without fail, one or more technical and sanitary inspector, appointed by the Organizing Committee .
Contestants must coordinate with the Organizing Committee the date and time of delivery.
will be given a receipt to the participant for the material you submit.
participants from other provinces may send your material cost by transporting or parcel and shall be removed and installed by the designated technical.
To ensure transparency of the competition will proceed as follows:
envelopes will be prepared inside contain two smaller envelopes, each envelope will turn small numbers, both numbers will be equal and shall be sealed and signed by the Organizing Committee.
The participant will choose a random large envelope will open it without showing it to anyone and verify that the numbers contain the two smaller envelopes are equal and are signed and sealed.
The participant will write the same pseudonym for each number, keep one, which must be presented when you know the outcome of the contest, and the other number is deposited in the envelope, close it and give it to the technician to buckle under of the camera.
then proceed to transfer the kernel or package, this task can be performed by the participant if you wish, but if not he will coach, who will complete the missing camera frames.
As the heart is refilling, be reviewed by the health inspector. If you detect disease or high rearing parasitic varroa to the naked eye, styling A record and return the nucleus to the owner to remove it as soon as the property, the number awarded will be removed. This act shall be confidential. If the other participant nuclei are healthy can compete. Finally
fed with 3 liters of sugar syrup to 60%, close the chamber and sealed with security measures.
packages will be installed according to traditional methods, according to detailed in the procedure manual. Be fed with 3 gallons of syrup to 60%, close the chamber and sealed with security measures.
In order to make room the colonies on 20 November 2010 and only once to the final evaluation, the jury or their designee, in the presence of the participants who so wish, shall review the seals affixed on the day of receipt and corroborate their status, to any irregularity be styled a report signed by all present and inform the Organizing Committee.
then proceed to the opening of the colonies and add ½ up to each of them. It will seal each colony with the necessary security measures.
be fed last time, the colony numbered with paint on his forehead, the jury take this number as a reference for your records.
then be weighed all the colonies turning the data into the appropriate form to be retained by the jury.
On December 4, before the jury again break the seals, all participants have the opportunity to corroborate their status.
From the opening of the colonies, which the jury is guaranteed by the use and monitoring of seals, the cameras have not been violated. For any irregularity is an order drawn up and reported to the Organizing Committee.
Contest participants can not come to the Jury while they work.
contest categories
three categories is proposed: nuclei of 4 (four) frames, cores Selection Program and 1.5 kg packages.
For each category, the contestant must submit 3 (three) units and may participate in one or both categories. If two or more beekeepers together to participate in one or both categories will be accepted.
cores Category 4 frames:
only be required to come in nucleros of 4 frames and have no identification or signal. Should have them be worked A record and that nucleus not involved in the contest but if the program selection Category
selection program cores:
can participate only in this category are members of the Selection Program.
packages of 1.5 kg Category:
Packages will be weighed at the time they received, installed and re-weigh the luggage rack. By the weight difference will be taken from bees which should be 1.5 kg. Be tolerated up to 100 grams overweight.
Above this value will be recorded overweight and 10% will be deducted from the points earned by the package 100 grams. overweight.
marked queens is suggested.
Assessment
hygienic behavior will be used the traditional method of puncture of the sealed brood and evaluate the outcome at 24 hours. The result is expressed as a percentage.
Feasibility of breeding or rearing
compact frames are evaluated on farming developed during the performance test. It supports the template on the same area where the punch is the breeding and have empty cells. The result is expressed as a percentage.
Clutch size
For more cores will be measured on the frames of farming developed during the performance test, in the case of the packages on all the frames. Be measured major and minor diameters of both sides of every frame and calculated the total area is expressed in cm2.
Gaining
colonies will be measured by weight gain colonies Contest participants within a short period of time, weighing the colonies when they put the average up and re-weighed on the day of evaluation, the result is expressed as kg
Behavior Health defensive
While these two elements are not measured directly, any clear sign of aggression as both a particular pathology, will be sufficient to disqualify the jury or package directly to the core participant score or deduct their discretion.
Election
colonies with better performance and awards
In choosing the winners will take into account all the characteristics evaluated without some of them have more weight than another in the result. Award a total score for each colony. This score is obtained from the sum of partial scores for each item evaluated.
In the case
lot more uniform, will take a floor score for each feature assessed. If the three settlements submitted by the participant above this story for each property evaluated compete for this award. Plus the total scores of the three colonies of the participant and the item that has the highest score will be chosen.
If a participant receives in the same category more than one prize will be awarded only the jackpot prize minor participant assigned to the following scoring grid.
This observation is valid for first, second and third.
be awarded a trophy and diploma:
queen First best package
queen Second best package
queen Third best package
First best queen in the nucleus of four frames
Second best queen in the nucleus of four frames
Third best Queen nucleus of four frames
First best queen in the nucleus of four frames Selection Program
Second best queen in the nucleus of four frames Selection Program
Third best queen in the nucleus of four frames Selection Program
Lot more uniform package
Lot more uniform nuclei
more uniform Lot Selection Program nuclei
The first best package and queen reigns in the first best nucleus of four frames, will be awarded in addition to a Challenge Cup to be back next year for the new competition. Will be engraved on the cup winner's name and year. Whoever wins the crown for three consecutive years or five alternate will win the cup forever.
certificates to be awarded all participants.
Reports:
Luis Miguel Gómez 0261 4911012 - 0261 155171962
Daniel Avena 02622 492232 -
02622 15465612 02623 15379604 Ernesto Pérez
www.amc-bee.blogspot.com / AMCAR. correo@gmail.com
Note:
Given the variability in the behavior of bees. The Organizing Committee is not responsible for problems in developing kernels and packages are not attributable to technical management applied. As well as for damage or theft carried out on the living material of the contestants, exceeding the normal security measures.
Being available to the public the rules of this contest and all contestants expressed their regulation of their content knowledge and full acceptance by the mere act of participating.
