What is the material you use Jon and where do you source it?
What is the material you use Jon and where do you source it?
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Last edited by Jon; 01-05-2013 at 09:57 PM.
I have just sold a TBH nuc - 5 frames brood, 2 bees, 2 stores to an acquaintance for £100 - price agreed last year. If I had more to sell, I would be charging £140 -last year I charged £120.The price excludes the nuc itself but includes delivery and installation. 50 mile radius.
More an act of love than commercial but TBH nucs for sale are rare in spring.
Surely such a nuc deserves to be priced at least a third over a similar sized bog-standard nuc on frames. Specialist kit demands specialist prices. There are still plenty of people with the funds who are willing to pay for a quality product. If it doesn't sell, who cares? Turn it into two June nucs and sell them.Originally Posted by madasafish
Nucleus hives are selling in the Dublin/Wicklow/Wexford area for 250 euros.
A local elder beekeeper tried selling me a nuc for £240 the other day.
This is my favourite Nuc building advice courtesy of the Beekeeping forum and Youtube
Guaranteed to cheer you up and get you making one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...tfKbCsrZM&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C67D08jRYqg
Reminds me that beekeeping is fun
Thanks to Pete
A shortage will always bring out a few opportunists.
Can you imagine the same chap if he lost his bees next winter being expected to pay that for a nuc to start up again.
In my experience some of the people who ask top dollar are not even prepared to pay for bees themselves when they need them.
I mentioned in a previous post that local (elderly) beekeepers who have lost their bees just leave empty (non sterile) equipment at my father's house and expect him to put in a 'spare' swarm.
The better beekeepers are supposed to give away bees year in year out to keep the PP beekeepers going.
That's why I think local associations should work together to set a fixed price which is fair to all - which rewards the seller for his effort but without ripping the arse out of any shortage.
There's a fine balance to be drawn as well with regards to being competitive with the made-to-order commercial market if you're trying to rear local bees. Setting prices which encourage people to look elsewhere has got to be a big negative for a local breeding group.
It's a hard call. I'm totally against bees being passed around cheaply/for free (unless it's to valued friends or people you know to be genuine) simply because I think that a lot of start-ups over the last few years have been kneejerk reactions (by people who otherwise would never want to go near a bee hive) to sensationalist reporting. Some will stay the course -hooked; most, I think, will fade away fairly quickly.
Jon your Dad must be a patient man to put up with that. They'd get short shrift from me.
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