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Hi James Pehaps from some of the answers I get from some members is the reason they do not earn money at bee keeping, a national hive cost are £40 to produce with local timber, in small quantity's, with bulk purchases you can shave that cost down. That is with red cedar, I have been in farming...

All I ask, is a simple question, yet still if you cannot give me an answer, why bother, you wast both our time

thats a broken link

Yes I read the post, I actually got through to the farm and was given his phone number

There are 2 types in the world, bosses and workers, and pretty much in the bee world.

Capital is not a problem for me, I have just built my workshop 30' x 20' and purchased an Omec 650 m dovetail machine to cut my finger joints and a vertical panel saw to cut all my timber, looking now for a spindle moulder to do my rebating and cut the handles. Next will be a series of machines...

I want to breed and raise bees commercially, to make a income from it is hard to do just selling honey, the income is from producing hives and selling packages or nucs. Splitting hives is going to be a slow process, I need to find a system that can accelerate the way bees are breed. the...

I was think more about the most productive system to breed bees, like maybe pulling out some of the frames and making up new hives with them, to get the queens laying a their peak.

Are there any purpose built kits to do it?

And after that?

I was wondering the best way to breed bees, I am starting up, and been thinking the best and most productive way to breed bees to sell as packages or nucs, Any advice or ideas would be much appreciated

Cedar I just bought 24 lenghts 12' long X 9" X 3/4" PAR My cost was £266 total inc the dreaded VAT

Dave, it is simple, what is the difficult part???

To be honest, most of the answers you got were typically British You have made your mind up to be a bee farmer, go and do it. I have the same plan I have for myself, I only have 2 hives, I stated with 1 and they swarmed, so I caught the swarm, popped them into the nuc that I originally got with...