Rosti
Drone Bee
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2009
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- Location
- North Yorks, UK
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 4
Well not strictly a Nuc, this was a secondary swarm, hived late May. As with all my bees it has originated from the local 'fairly black' bees - location Yorkshire (York). Based on my hives, good build up, fairly gentle (unless queenless!) but not that prolific with regard excess honey production (my one wintered hive drew out 2 supers and gave 22lbs on rape this year). I don't breed nucs for sale so haven't been in this situation before. , Queen has now mated. I did 4 of these (captured swarms) this year to build my colonies up and this is now surplus to my requirements and was about to be combined with my weakest colony. Because it is a secondary swarm this is confirmed as a 2010 queen, just into laying now (not marked yet), colony on 5xDN4 Hoffman (Std National Brood) frames in an OMF 5 frame nuc, it is now bursting with bees and needs to go to a full brood box pronto - or get combined. Has already had oxalic varroa treatment.
I would not really want to let the nuc box itself go and anyway if you left this colony in the nuc much longer I suspect it would swarm. I will probably combine this weekend coming (26/27 June) if no one interested.
PM if you want to discuss price etc further. R
I would not really want to let the nuc box itself go and anyway if you left this colony in the nuc much longer I suspect it would swarm. I will probably combine this weekend coming (26/27 June) if no one interested.
PM if you want to discuss price etc further. R
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