Bee Hive Nuc Beehive

Description

Polystyrene six frame nuc with two frames of bees. The queen is less than a year old.
Hi, my name is Joe, phone 077,617,30885.
I have a nuc of bees for sale. If they don't survive the twelve months bring the box back and I will put more bees in it.



Just a note on pricing.
Start with the price of the nuc at £270, then raise that price by £10 a fortnight from the first of February to the first of April (£320), then lower by £10 a week from the middle of May until the new queens are ready, When the new queens are ready we are back to £270 which will stay constant until the first of February. For an additional brood box on top, add £70, the additional brood box option is from August to the first of May.
If you are a new beekeeper and getting your box in June, you can watch me reduce the nuc back down to a single six frame box and with the surplus frames see me arrange them in such a manner that will produce another nuc for me.





Just a note on importing bees.
The management system we use is called; “Keeping bees with a smile”.
A bee hazard can be imported into Ireland by a live bee which may change our management system to “Keeping bees is hard work”.





How to do beekeeping.
The following is just more chatter while I am waiting for the phone to ring from some one looking to get a nuc.
If you have a mentor or attending classes at cafre beekeeping, don't read any further. Two conflicting views makes things complicated when you are trying to learn something.


There are three levels of beekeeping;

Level one, “Hands off”. Expectation 0 - 3kg of honey, 0 - 1 swarm for every three swarm traps.

Level two, “Standard”. Expectations 0 - 10kg of honey, and 0 - 1 nuc.

Level three, “High output“. Expectations 0 - 30kg of honey, or 0 - 6 nucs.

These expectation figures apply to a nuc got before May.


Things you might need;
Nuc (Photo number one) £320.
Swarm trap (Photo number two, single brood box beehive with certain features) £130.
Maisemore polynuc brood box (Photo number three) £70.

Level one, without bees;
You will need three swarm traps.
Put a swarm trap where you hope to have the beehives and put the other two over two miles away.

Level one, with bees;
You will need three swarm traps and a nuc from me.
Set the nuc where you want to have the beehives. Then the next day, move the frames from the nuc into one of the swarm traps.
Set the other two swarm traps over six feet away. And six feet from one another.

Level Two;
Level two is the most common and very effective, other beekeepers will tell you how to do this method.

Level three, Honey Production.
Things you will need; Nuc from me, maisemore polynuc brood box, three swarm traps.
The two things we need to know is; how to produce population and when the honey flows are.
Nectar flows in Ballinderry where I live. There is a nectar flow from when the weather warms up for the bees to fly until the end of May then there is a nectar flow again, roughly for the month of July. The next nectar flow in Ballinderry is the ivy from the middle of September onwards, that flow will be interrupted by bad weather (as can happen to any of the flows). In certain parts of Northern Ireland there is the heather flow from the middle of August to the middle of September.
The next thing we need to know is how to produce population.
The following is a rough guide that is close enough to be useful.
We will say a queen can lay both sides of a frame per day.
If the bees are processing food the queen will lay eggs. If the bees stop processing food (if there is no food coming into the hive) the queen will stop laying eggs and any eggs that were layed over the previous three days will be removed from the frames.
The next two things; The queen will only lay enough that can be covered by the bees in the hive. And will only lay if she has room to lay.
To get the queen to lay from one to four frames we will feed the bees 1:1 sugar water for seven days straight, plus one day for every additional frame.
So if we were doing it to schedule, we would feed for seven days, skip a fortnight and feed for seven days. (The cycle is a twenty one day cycle from when you start to feed to when you start feeding again).
The next thing is to give the queen room to lay.
We will now put the polynuc brood box on top of the nuc. Then when the bees have the twelve frames filled rightly we will move the bees into the swarm box and put a box from another swarm trap on top. Then towards the end of June we will stop feeding. Find the queen and put her in the bottom box and put the queen excluder on top of the bottom box. Set the second box on top of the queen excluder and put a third box on top of the second box.


Level three, Nuc production.
I think, level three nuc production solves most all beekeeping issues except the need for more equipment.
If I publish this method everyone will be a nuc producer and that will affect my nuc sales.
If you get a nuc of me, I will show you how to make nucs, if you want.
The simple rule of thumb for producing sustainable superior bees; the hive that produces the egg for the queen cell also produces the bees for the nuc.



Some boring details;
The boxes used for catching swarms are made up with two frames of old comb and the rest are foundationless frames and the starter strips in the foundationless frames are made of wood or old comb.
The boxes used for level three beekeeping are made up with frames of foundation or drawn comb.
Another important point is frame placement. In the video on youtube “Reading a hive - Kirsten Traynor” A different method from mine is shown but it has a lot of useful information. Start watching from twenty six minutes in and stop watching at thirty-three minutes in. [If you would recommend a different video, let me know].
If you get a nuc from someone else, keep the frames from that nuc in the bottom box.



To get these results without waiting for the bees;
You can get 30kg of bulk honey of Alan for £450 per year.



A different way of keeping bees is presented by Sam Comfort on youtube.
I haven’t used his boxes to be able to tell you how to produce honey or nucs using them. If you have used his boxes and consider yourself a source of information, let me know.



A farther note;
The first line of this advert includes the words “two frames of bees”, that is a generic term that I use for advertising. It is not meant to give information on any aspect of “how to do beekeeping”.

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