2013 - Packages, Nucs & Queens! ! *

May 23, 2013

Once Packages, Nucs or Queens

have been received by the customer

our responsibility is over!

We have no control what is done

with bee related items once out of our hands!

We take super care of

all bees and queens!!!

If anything needs replaced

the buyer pays half of all costs

to get another one.

We are not responsible for

Packages, Nucs or Queens

once out of our hands.

We get

them to the P.O.

or to the buyer and then

we have done our job!

You the beekeeper needs to find

training and education about honeybees

on your own! You need to learn

the steps and proceedures related to

queens and bees by yourself.

All bees and queens are

insured and you have

the proof if something seems

to be off.

Extra Packages might

be able to be picked up

come May 30, 2013

call then for what is left!

We go by appointment only!

We plan to have more

extra packages

in May 2013

Pick up only!

If You Want Any

Call Now to be on that

last load for 2013

We did what we set out to

accomplish this spring

to provide many Packages

and Nucs

Prices for GA packages

Spring 2013

Any GA Packages and Nucs will

be one's that are extra!

I will buy what I can when they are

offered

Our prices for spring

2013 has been!

# 3 Packages - Italian Queens $107.75 each

# 3 Package - Russian Queens $115.75 each

# 4 Package - Italian Queens $127.75 each

# 4 Package - Russian Queens $137.75 each

The dates that Packages were here

for buyers are listed below:

March 28, 2013 - Packs Only - Past

April 11, 2013 - Packs only - Past

April 25, 2013 - Packs & nuc - Past

May 9, 2013 - Packs & nucs - Past

May 23, 2013 - Packs & nucs - Grower Cancelled

May 30, 2013 - Packs & nucs - Our New Last Date for 2013

S/H costs for when we were shipping

Packages # 3's - $40.00 each

Packages # 4's - $42.00 each

Nuc # 4 Frame - $50.00 each

Packages

# 4's have about 5,000 more young workers then #3's

so with a # 4 get an extra queen in a cage split it &

get another hive for around $63.88 to $67.88

plus the price of the extra queen bee.

Order a large order & save

All this will change for 2014 season

below!

# 10 # 25 packages get $2.00 off

# 26 # 50 packages get $4.00 off

#51 #100 packages get $6.00 off

#101 #200 packages get $8.00 off

201 + packages get $9.00 off

Itialian Queens

Single I.Q's in cages $29.75 each

Single R.Q's in cages $33.75 each

All Queen orders have to go Express Mail

as of last week in our area of Ohio.

We will continue to ship queens

until otherwise advised!

S/H Queens Express - can cost $20.00 or more

*Several Queens can go in a box

Large orders of queens priced farther down

this might change.

We will ship queens in cages out

from Forest, OH

Due to time now this process below

is not being done.

Many persons are ordering

the entire process done for them.

They want to equipment everthing ready

so all they have to do is come and pick the

completed hive with the bees and queen in side

and all the equipment needed to work

their honeybees.

When I am done with this

packages been business

I will try to catch up on my

nuc preparation.

The weather now is

cold and nuc prep has hit a bump

in the road.

# 2 Frame Nuc - $100.00 ea,

# 3 Frame Nuc - $150.00 ea.

# 4 Frame Nuc - $200.00 ea,

# 5 Frame Nuc - $250.00 ea.

A Nuc

In most cases is all drawn combs

eggs, larva, celled brood,

honey added or other sweetner

plus a mated queen

with many extra workers added.

My nucs have the queens

in with the bees.

Persons getting nucs are often moving them

only 100 to 200 miles.

Many nucs that are trucked or mailed

are at a stand still in production.

Those nucs have a caged queen

and that means no egg laying for

at least 2 weeks which can amount to

a loss of production of 2,500 eggs per day.

A Nuc

Is a small hive that with

care will in most cases make you

honey the first season if started

and cared for properly

before a major nectar

flow in your area

A nuc is about one month

ahead of a package.

Nucs come in 4 sizes

# 2 - Frame an observation hive!

# 3 - Frame needs time to grow!

# 4 - Frame these will grow fast!

# 5 - Frame this size will grow super fast!

We have been taking orders now

for 2013 since

2012

We will be prividing

  nucs here from

other sources too as the

crunch and demand

hits a fever pitch!

We made many hives in 2012

    May 2012     20 hives

June 2012    15 hives

July 2012       18 hives

August 2012    12 hives

Hives started in 2012

will be racing to grow

super fast as spring get

consistantly warmer and

stays warm!

Do like many,

order your nuc(s)

in all new equipment

so when you

come for your order

in the spring

it is all ready to

load and take back

to your place of

business or home

and unload

and let your workers fly!

We have many on order

now that want this

set up for this coming spring.

Others will get their

nuc(s) in a cardboard

nuc box made for this type

of hive.

Do not wait to call us

when the early numbers are

all sold and you have to wait!

End of May 2012 the numbers that

missed the many early times

find themselves way out of the

loop for June and beyond.

I have sold Nucs in early spring

every year now for # 15

consective years!

Most suppliers can

not get you nucs

tell late May each year

unless you live

in the deep South!

We still have many contacts

Nationwide for bees, equipment

and Queens!

Plans for 2013

now are to develop

DVD's as learning tools for

beekeepers to see how this or that

is done with the many steps

related to Honeybees

today!

Our 1st DVD was ready

in December 2012

1st DVD is called:

Beekeeping Simplified

Edition # 1

My experience with honeybees

span 47 years.

I get in 1,000's

and 1,000's of questions

every year and

have for decades!

This set of

DVD's will help me better

help you learn faster!

My DVD ideas are

suggestions for

this coming spring.

My plan was one in December

and one in March and we did this!

Below a work in progress!

Some of the topics below will be

something like:

Hive parts what is the order & why?

What type of queen should I get & why?

Do I want a Top Bar or a Langstrom hive?

How do I assemble a frame and other hive parts?

Plastic one piece frame or bees wax in a wood frame?

Make a split when to do it and how?

How do I place the hives for best production?

Lighting a smoker so it will not go out?

Good smoker fuels and how to please each?

What are some methods of catching a swarm?

Examples of different swarms and where they swarm too?

Most effective way to smoke a hive to calm the bees?

Re-queening the hive can't find the old queen what now?

Found a swarm how do I get them to my bee box?

What now was called to get a swarm I have no equipment?

I am missing some bee equipment how do I do bees?

I inherited/purchased 100's of used bee items what now?

I am getting a packages of bees how do I hive them?

What is my best option a package, a nuc or a wild swarm?

Harvesting my 1st honey haul how do I get it in the bottle?

How do I keep my extractor motionless while I spin out the honey?

Honey is off the hives in the extraction area what now?

What is a good filter set up for getting particles out of the honey?

How do I get honey out of the cells if I have limited equipment?

What steps must be in place for a building when honey is there?

How do I install a queen excluder so it will really work well?

How do you mark a queen bee with a dot of color?

With an assembled frame & wired how do you embed the wire to the bees wax?

I want to us a queen excluder what do I do to make it work?

More topics coming above soon!

The rest of this page

is a work in progress!

New prices and suppliers

Read down please!

This entire Queen as in Mailing them

Has hit some bumps in the road just this

past week due to the demand to have queens

shipped only Express.

We are going to as of this coming

week May 13, 2013 start the

Express mailing process and we

will very soon see if the USA

Postal Department actually

makes right by their sales pitch that

persons shipping Express will work better then ever!

I will soon find out

if shipping Queen

Actually works

like they say it will!!!

I will know

if these prices

will be this

or higher soon!

Minnesota Hygienic Queens 2012

2013

prices below are not here yet

for any queens below

$32.75 ea. ( This is over now)

Carniolan Queens 2012

$32.75 ea. ( This is over now)

Cordovan Golden Queens 2012

$32.75 ea. ( This is over now)

Russian Queens 2012

$32.75 ( This is over now)

Ohio Serviver

Italian Queen Stock 2012

$28.75 each

Check below for sale

on queens for volume ordering!

This offer will need

to be in the spring when massive

numbers of queens come in

from OH. GA. and CA

More coming with infomation

about each queen type

in 2013!

If you are wanting

to run large

numbers of colonies

and want to make splits

you must today

plan way in advance

for numbers of

nucs and queens!

Attention!!!

Parsons' Gold Apiaries

Sale still in 2012

for 2013

Nucs

When producing nucs from OH

much time is required

and proper weather conditions

needs to be in place.

This is the reason why the

GA nucs ever took hold

people wanted their nucs

shipped.

One year

I started selling Ohio nucs

on April 8, 1999 or 2000.

We might in 2013

SALES FOR Nucs:

MY NUCS HAVE ALWAYS INCLUDED WORKER BEES, QUEEN,

BROOD & HONEY 0R OTHER SWEETNER.

**# 3 frame nucs are best for spring

as they are too small for late summer and fall

Any nuc or hive with a marked queen

add an additional $6.00 - 2012 price.

I usually place my nucs

in a special cardboard nuc box

made for honeybees.

If the customer wants their order

in a pre-assembled pine nuc box

add $50.00 to the order.

A # 4 frame nuc buyer might

want an additional frame added

so there are no frames tossing around

in a #5 frame nuc box.

An aditional new frame add $3.15

for your order.

These nucs are assembled and glued

with waterproof glue

and I like to paint them too if time permits.

All orders for special wooden boxes

need to be placed way ahead of time.

Freshly painted nuc boxes will cost an

additional fee if not already painted.

A wooden nuc box is

nearly 12 separate parts before

they are assembled.

Another way that persons order

honeybees is to have the nuc already

inside a deep box, the addional 4 or 5

frame added, a telescoping lid,

inner cover, and

screened the bottom board

attached with hive staples.

I will screen the entrance so

when the buyer

arrives all they have

to do is load it and go

It is best to place honeybees

no matter how contained in

the back of a pick-up truck.

Some place them

into any sort of vehicle too.

No matter how they are

transported much care is

needed with honeybees

where an individual is

also near!

With this set up above the buyer

has the cost of the nuc and all the

additional parts of the hive

so this is less work once the

bees are at your home place

or apiary.

When you move

a nuc the lid

should be attached

in some way so the

bees inside can get some

air to vent the box.

I will screen the entrance

and this will help a lot

unless the nuc has to move

in extreme heat and for

many hours of travel.

It is very important that anyone

transporting honeybees run the

air conditioner and keep the

hive away from direct sun light too.

Do not leave your vehicle with

a hive inside closed up. If you

need to eat it is best to go to a

drive up and keep the air conditioner going.

It is very important to make your

trip here and home in one day

if you can't then bring another

diver so your vehicle is constantly

in motion!

A #4 or #5 frame nuc can often be used upon

receiving it for several days when you

haul them to your area of the country.

Ask me and I will tell you the size of each

nuc as in days that this or that once can be

left inside before installing them into a

larger area.

I have produced

nucs/larger hives

for buyers

here in OH for

14 consective seasons.

New beekeepers want honeybees at all times

of the year as there is no normal time

to start keeping honeybees.

I have placed many hives as late

as middle of November of any

given season with success!

If you get a hive late you will want to talk

with me on how to treat this

colony in late fall and winter time.

There are no guarntees for success

as beekeeping is a super interesting experience

and you learn as you go.

No two queens are the same and

the queen makes the hive.

I still learn something each year

I am starting my 47th year in 2013.

Your colony is your responsiblity

and when you leave with your order

the responsibiltiy of the life

of the queen and the bees

in a nuc rests with you.

The moment you as the new beekeeper

gets your hive home and starts learning anything

can happen to that queen.

How you remove and replace each frame

with honeybees on each is up to you

and so this venture is personal and ever changing.

It is first come first served and the

wait might be longer then

you want due

to when I hear from

you. What hives are

ready for each new

beekeeper

or returning beekeeper.

I get in callers daily some are just

looking wanting to know the best

deal and calling to shop around.

The problem often rests

with the beekeepers that

waits too long to settle

with this or that provider.

At this time of the year

up to some time

in late November/December

providers and breeders

start getting together with prices

for the next year.

Orders just

keep on mounting. Don't wait

too long to pick a provider.

Some of us have nearly

unlimited supplies

of honeybees at different

times of the year

and some don't have that

many units to market.

I stress to all that call me or are

reading this right now that

there is a time to smell

the roses so to speak

and there is a time to settle

on this or that provider.

My advice for you is to find a provider

that knows honeybees

and has provided bees

for buyers for many years.

Ones that just put out

his or her sign that spring

you might want to steer clear of.

You want a company that has done this

for some time

or a company that was

doing honeybees for

years but not

just for buyers.

I was a beekeeper

with my own hives

for 30 years before I said I

was in business for others.

LOCK YOUR ORDER IN NOW!!!

We market a treatment - will help honeybees deal with problems in the hive

Parsons' Gold Solution

A safe non toxic treatment!

Do not let anyone tell you one can't make honey in the first season.

My web site talks about this treatment and particulars for it to be mailed.

Hiving packages of bees.

(See FAQ to decide whether you

want a package of bees or a nuc.)

* We take great care with honeybee related to nucs, full sized hives, bee related equipment and other produces sold here.

Nucs in cardboard boxes made for honeybees in our care are put in a building out of the sun as soon as possible with fans to provide ventilation when made up for buyers. This is done for buyers that are coming soon.

We are not responsible for any bees or bee items after they leave our care!

Note: Our nucs weather permitted have a mated queen inside unless other arrangements are set in place. Nucs that we make up in Forest, OH are usually on combs.

Some orders come in where the buyer wants say a 3 frame, 4 frame or 5 frame nuc. In this case if the buyer gets this size such as a 3 frame or a 4 frame in a 5 frame container it is best to add the extra frame(s) to keep the nuc frames from swaying from side to side killing bees and maybe the queen. The buyer would then want to purchase an extra frame and that should be set up with us during the first contact so I can have it in the nuc box when the buyer comes for the nuc.

Usually I have the nuc already prepared due to Ohio weather changing from morning to p.m. quickly. It is not advisable to set up a nuc in the rain of chilly weather and often when the buyer comes the weather in the spring here has changed to rain or super cool in a few hours. This is the reason why I put the completed nuc in a building when finished usually with a fan running if too warm.

If at all possible I talk with the buyer before a purchase about the order that a beekeeper wants. Some beekeepers when they come ask for a nuc not ordered before their specific date. In a case like this above one has to take what I have as getting what they might want at the last minute is just not possible usually. I have to tell the buyer this is all that I have ready without first hand notice like several days or weeks before.

Due to cool spring weather here in OH we are slowed often due to how each day progresses. In summer and fall each year I try to have many # 4 or # 5 frame nucs generated from our supplies. Nucs from here in OH produced in the middle of the summer will not be ready till later in August or September. New beekeepers do not know to place orders early it takes many seasons for me to get some beekeepers to think early. With knowledge one can over winter a colony started in August, September and even October. A new beekeeper contacted me one year in and wanted then two full sized hives two deeps and the other standard equipment to run a 2 deeps colony, I told the beekeeper exactly what to do and both hives made it through the winter well! That set up in 2013 would cost a persons well over $300.00 now.

I might or might not have nucs or full sized hives ready past June for different reasons so this is why I say to beekeepers you must contact us early so we can better prepare for what each feels is their need. Plan to pay in full at time of order as we don't consider your order firm unless we have that order paid for in advance!

Please call or Email us if you want to order - Honeybee nucs or full size hives from today onward! Today is February 27, 2013 and callers are making contact daily now. You will want to arrange for some slots soon before load dates are full for early spring 2013. What happenes each year when crunch time arrives orders flood in at the last minute. Nearly half of all beekeeepers wanting honeybees fail to act in time and can't get the easy way to start into honeybees with a packages and a queen.