Author Topic: Selling Price For Nucs and Full Hives (Read 22253 times)

Jen · « **on:** April 01, 2016, 03:36:06 pm »

I think I'll be selling my nucs for $150 each. But what if I have a full on established healthy hive? What would that sell for?

Or, like the swarm I just caught in the medium box, that is a very large colony in there?

and of course I would wait to sell it when the queen is laying and has some capped brood? Right?

Perry · « **Reply #1 on:** April 01, 2016, 04:42:15 pm »

Up here:

Nucs selling for $180 (4 frame)

Swarms? I have known a bee supply place that sold swarms for the same price as nucs, and they had a waiting list for them. In theory, more bees, and they are in comb building overdrive mode.

Hives = Now? would be really expensive, probably close to $500+, In the fall, maybe $250.

Jen · « **Reply #2 on:** April 01, 2016, 04:45:00 pm »

Ray4852 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 01, 2016, 06:06:30 pm »

you get the mites too. LOL

Perry · « **Reply #4 on:** April 01, 2016, 06:17:58 pm »

Quote from: Ray4852 on April 01, 2016, 06:06:30 pm

you get the mites too. LOL

The only way I know of to get mite free bees is to buy packages from Australia, and they are usually among the first to collapse when they get here.

Jen · « **Reply #5 on:** April 01, 2016, 06:34:49 pm »

So far I have less than 10 mites on each of my 3 sticky boards, and they look more like mite husks, like the bees are doing a pretty good job of mite kill.

Does anyone else do one OA treatment before the sale of nucs?

CBT · « **Reply #6 on:** April 01, 2016, 08:42:32 pm »

Jen, you can do an easy sugar roll test and get a good idea about the mites. Nucs sell around here between $130 - $170 or so.

G3farms · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2016, 09:00:43 pm »

Here nucs are 160 to 175
Saw some hives on craigs list the other day for 300 they were a deep and medium, wish I would have bought them, could have made two splits out of each one and still been ahead of the game. They were gone the next day.

Jen · « **Reply #8 on:** April 01, 2016, 10:31:11 pm »

Hmmm Well Good! Then I think my nucs for $150 sounds fair

Ray4852 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 02, 2016, 08:27:16 am »

My area nucs sell for 130 to 180. 3 frames of brood only 130. 5 frames 3 brood, I frame each of pollen and honey. 150 to 180. some treat their nucs for mites before they go out. I think all nuce should be treated for mites before you take somebody’s money.

Marion · « **Reply #10 on:** April 02, 2016, 08:30:29 am »

Two years ago in June, I paid $200 for a full hive which included a 8 frame deep full of bees, a bottom board, inner cover and top cover. I found it on Craig's List. It was a good buy.

iddee · « **Reply #11 on:** April 02, 2016, 08:33:26 am »

Marion, is that a typo? A 4 frame deep would be a nuc. A full hive would be 8 or10 frames.

Marion · « **Reply #12 on:** April 02, 2016, 08:49:18 am »

Yes, just noticed and fixed it. 8frame hive.

Ray4852 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 02, 2016, 09:22:37 am »

200 dollars at today’s cost is a good deal. Today’s cost with new boxes and bees will cost over 400 dollars for one hive. You have to be careful when you buy used bee equipment. Are the boxes in good condition. How old are the frames. Does the hive have any disease. New people coming into the field don’t know this.

Marion · « **Reply #14 on:** April 02, 2016, 10:41:49 am »

We were lucky. It was an old Russian couple and they knew their bees. Had to get rid of them because the town they lived in was making them. They have been healthy and productive.

Jen · « **Reply #15 on:** April 02, 2016, 02:40:11 pm »

The way I envision my nucs that will be ready for sale, will be 3 frames of brood, 2 frames of pollen and honey, proof that they are mite free at the point of sale by showing them the sticky board that I will have on the bottom board of the colony.

I think it is a good idea as well to give the nucs one shot of OA about a week before I advertise. It can't hurt. And that would be 1 scoop of oa for a nuc, as opposed to 2 scoops for a full hive.

I also like the idea of just 3 frames of brood only for $130.

Still listening for other comments on this

iddee · « **Reply #16 on:** April 02, 2016, 02:52:28 pm »

Don't forget the value of the woodenware, whether nucs or full size hives.

Jen · « **Reply #17 on:** April 02, 2016, 02:57:57 pm »

Iddee, I figured that would be included in the selling price. Except the nucs, where I will ask for a $10 deposit for the box, of which they will get back when they return the box.

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #18 on:** April 02, 2016, 08:42:03 pm »

Sounds reasonable to me.. I sell nucs for about that price as well. As far as OA treatment, I do not think one scoop will overwhelm your nuc, but two scoops is for a double deep, one scoop would be a single deep. so HALF a scoop would treat a 5 frame deep nuc.

Jen · « **Reply #19 on:** April 03, 2016, 12:01:25 am »

Hi Scott! Yah, that sounds more like it, gonna write this equation down