Norfolk Honey - Honey Bees for sale
A nuc of bees
I offer nucs for sale in April, May and June and July
I offer five frame nucs with my queen rearing
course in April and four frame
nucs in May, June and July
What is a nuc?
You can buy bees as complete brood box - see
second hand hives -
or part of a brood box that we call a nuc. A nuc is essentially the heart of
the colony. It's comprised of several frames of brood and the all
important queen.
In early spring a nuc
could also contain some frames of stores.
The price of a nuc varies depending on who you buy it from.
I think it' is fair to say that if you join a bee keeping association and buy
your nuc from another member of the association it's likely to be priced
at the lower end of the price scale. However, you may be put on a list and
you may need to wait for some time before your name gets to the top of the
list.
Nucs are generally transported in a nuc box (or traveling box) that will
take five or six standard brood frames. When you get your nuc box back
to your apiary
you
take
the frames with bees on
out of your nuc box and put them into your brood box.
I also supply nucs already in
a brood box -- please see -- http://www.norfolkhoney.co.uk/equipment/complete_kit.php
Nucs with a previous year's queen
Buying a nuc of bees in the early
spring gives you an advantage in that you know that the bees have been strong
enough
to
survive
a winter
and
you
are
therefore very likely to get a good crop of honey from your new 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.
Once April arrives please email
me for current prices of nucs. Or email me now to be added to my list.
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. But 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.
Better still you can sign up for my online queen breeding course that starts from April 15th onwards.
Traditionally nucs are sold with new queens in June and July