Norfolk Honey - Honey Bees for sale

Honey comb ready for extraction

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

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