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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 13198" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>I would use cells rather than virgins. Cells are more likely to work. I don't know where the trend towards using virgins has come from. They were tried and found wanting many many years ago. They can work but went out of favour because they were more likely to fail. Cells can of course fail as well and while you do very occasionally get 100% success rate you can also very occasionally get 100% failure rate. Around here 70 to 80% is probably about normal. I will happily split strong lives in half from about 15 February using cells but I always do more than I need because some will fail and the way varoa has been around here the last few years you always seem to need more than you thought to replace losses in the spring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 13198, member: 207"] I would use cells rather than virgins. Cells are more likely to work. I don't know where the trend towards using virgins has come from. They were tried and found wanting many many years ago. They can work but went out of favour because they were more likely to fail. Cells can of course fail as well and while you do very occasionally get 100% success rate you can also very occasionally get 100% failure rate. Around here 70 to 80% is probably about normal. I will happily split strong lives in half from about 15 February using cells but I always do more than I need because some will fail and the way varoa has been around here the last few years you always seem to need more than you thought to replace losses in the spring. [/QUOTE]
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