PBKA auction

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Ricky Wilson bought a lot of them apparently (I was busy gabbing) Tom's bees went for a decent price I thought. With the hived bees going for around £200.00 (apart from the strongest two which went for a bit more) So no real stupid prices IMHO.
Apart from the usual round of hives cum smoker fuel I thought that the prize for the cheekiest was the boxful of mangled old foundation which went for near a fiver if I recall, but then I saw the ten frames with foundation (fiver) but the cake was taken by three supers full of 'drawn comb' which went for a tenner each! probably because they threw in some free waxmoth as a sweetner The prize winners are pictured below (may be a bit blurred - still running the new eyes in - I was chatting to two of the SBI's down there and I think a quiet word about not selling drawn comb is going to be passede
The top bar hive struggled to get any interest at all until I pointed out that there was a bloke outside in the car boot sale sellng strips of bedding plants for a pound and it may make a good garden planter - so it was sold for a maiden bid of a tenner!!

 

[mbc]

I ended up taking too long putting up a new fedge round one of my apiaries to make it down, I expect I'll bump in to most of the faces I missed at the teifi side.
Interesting that Ricky was buying, must have sold out his own surplus bees and will be looking to split and requeen the new stock.
Good that the prices held up.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Interesting that Ricky was buying, must have sold out his own surplus bees and will be looking to split and requeen the new stock.

That's what he said not sure if it was he that bough Tom's bees - if so it would make even more sense as I think they worked pretty closely on the breeding of them.

 

[Goodwood]

Ricky bought 3 lots as a favour for someone who wasnt able to attend.
He had, however, sold out of all his own nucs a few weeks ago.
Yesterdays auction was in fact the biggest ever for PBKA, (old comb to one side for the moment!)
With >400 lots...

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Ricky bought 3 lots as a favour for someone who wasnt able to attend.
He had, however, sold out of all his own nucs a few weeks ago.
Yesterdays auction was in fact the biggest ever for PBKA, (old comb to one side for the moment!)
With >400 lots...

it was big - as I said - apart from the odd scabby lot (comes with the territory really - I was particularly taken by the last lot before the table of doom - four supers which had seen better days but still had a bit of use left in them, but they might have made a few pounds more it they'd have gone to the trouble of scraping the chicken sh!t off ) there were a lot of good lots which didn't all go for stupid prices, I suppose the quantity of stuff there meant people didn't have to fight too much over them.