Norfolk Honey - Honey Bees for sale
Honey bees and bee hives for sale
Bees for sale
The easiest way to buy for beginners
If you are starting out and taking up beekeeping for the first time you will
not only need bees but a beehive to keep them in as well.
I assemble Standard
National bee hives and supply them with bees at the start of the beekeeping
season (April) and throughout the months of May and June. My basic offer is
a brood box complete with a made up set of brood frames. Four of the brood
frames will taken from one of my
hives and have a laying queen, worker bees, brood, and stores.
Together with the new brood box is an open mesh floor and simple plywood
cover screwed down (click on image to see larger). I fix all three together
in order to make them easy to put into the boot of a car. The
open mesh floor and the unused space inside the hives give the bees plenty
of air so that they can breath easily whilst traveling.
Brood box with screwed down lid and attached Varroa floor ready to travel
With the addition of a few old pillows and blankets in the
boot of your car to prevent the box from moving around bees will travel quite
easily by car in a brood box. Several boxes of bees traveled from Norwich to
various parts of the UK very successfully this way last year.
Some people find that whilst buying the brood box and the bees they may as well buy the supers, suits and associated beekeeping kit as well. Please email me for further details and prices.
A nucleus of bees (on British Standard National brood frames)
I offer nucs for sale in April, May and June.
Buying a nuc of bees in the spring has the advantage in that you know
your bees have been strong enough to survive a winter and you are therefore
very likely to get a good crop of honey from your bees before the season is
done. If you buy a strong nuc of bees in April and feed it up you may be able
to 'split' (please
explain 'split') your
hive into two in May and take honey from both hives by the end of the season
and have two colonies to take through the winter.
Please email
me for current prices of nucs.
In May and June you may bring your new brood box to me
I will exchange my frames with bees, brood, and stores for your
new
frames.
I
will
take my
bees out of my brood box and put them into your brood box. The first frame
to be moved will be the frame with the queen on.
Buying a strong nuc at the beginning
of the season (April) gives the bees time to settle down and establish themselves
in your new location and once settled they will make honey for you by the end
of July. As the queens sold in April are the previous year's queens you may
need to read up on swarm control if you are not planning to split your hive
in May/June.
If you wish to buy new made up brood frames I charge £2.50 per frame
(twelve frames in a brood box).
If you wish to buy the brood box as well that will cost £30 made up
A complete brood box including frames costs £60
(please email me for current prices
of the bees).
If you need a hive floor it's £30 (made up),
a crown
board is
£10 ,
queen excluder £10
and a roof £35 (made up) --- see my labled hive parts
photograph
Buying a 'Nuc'
A nucleus of bees consists of several frames of bees removed from the brood
box. These frames can then be put into a new brood box to set up a new hive.
It is essential that a laying queen bee is on one of the frames when the frames
are moved. The other
frames should consist of healthy brood
and
stores.
I sell nucs from around the middle/end of April (last year's queen) and the
end of May beginning of June (new queens)
A nuc costs (please email me for
current prices) for the bees and £80 for a Nucleus Box to put
them in (if one is required). If I have nuc boxes made from recycled materials
they will cost £50. You can of course supply your own nuc box or brood
box to put my frames into. I will exchange my frames for yours.
I sell nucs April, May, June.
The equipment you need - see photographs
To get started in beekeeping you need:- a hive base
with entrance block, a brood box with made up brood frames, a queen excluder
on top of
the brood
box, several supers and frames, a crown board on top of the supers, and finally
a roof on top.
If you have this equipment already, but without bees, you can bring your brood box to me and I can swap my frames with brood and bees on for your new undrawnout frames. A nucleus = four frames, one with the queen on, one with brood and two with stores on -- please email mel for current prices.
If you wish, you can buy a new brood box, entrance block, base, and a crown board from me, in which case I will put the nuc into your new brood box for you and block the entrance in the evening after the bees have stopped flying. Later that same evening (or first thing the next morning) you can take the brood box away with the bees in all strapped down and secured (please email me for current prices).
If you wish me to set everything up with brand new equipment just for you
I will need a little notice.
The complete hive will cost £180+(please email
me for current prices).
Extra
supers complete with made up frames cost £55 each.
If you have no equipment
at all and are starting from scratch you will need three or four supers and
a roof on top. (roofs £35 made up).
BUY THE WORKS - A NEW HIVE MADE UP COMPLETE WITH A LAYING QUEEN AND BEES PLUS 3 SUPERS MADE UP READY FOR HONEY PRODUCTION -- See photographs
Bees (with queen) on 4 frames in a brood box with 12 brood frames on a base with queen excluder and crown board, plus three supers with nine made up frames in each super and a made up lid - £450+ (please email me for current prices) and I will deliver them to you if you are within 50 miles or so of Norwich. (£50)
If you are giving up bee keeping and have second hand bee keeping kit that
you want to sell please email me (or contact me) I often have customers
waiting to buy.
Equipment wanted
Peter is looking for a second hand heather honey press.
If you know of one that is for sale he would be grateful for the details. Please email me
Please Please email me for my mobile number