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Overwintered Michigan Nucs — Oakland County
Overwintered Michigan Nucs -- Oakland County
| Bee Information | |
| Bees for sale? | |
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| What characteristics do you use to select your breeding stock? | |
| Gentle and easy to work, honey production, hygienic. | |
| Where is the source of your bees and what strain(s) are they? | |
| Original hives were Carniolan that I acquired from a Michigan beek eight years ago and I call them my OGs, but I would say that my bees are truly Michigan Mutts. I do, on occasion, purchase a queen or two from local queen producers that I follow and respect to experiment and see how they do in my yard. | |
| Where do the bees overwinter? | |
| Michigan in single deep setups | |
| Do the bees spend the whole season in your home location? If not, where do they go and when, and for how long? | |
| Yes, they do not leave Michigan | |
| Do you monitor for varroa mites? How and how often? | |
| Yes, Constantly with random drone brood checks but do mite washes every 4-6 weeks throughout the summer/fall. | |
| Have your hives been inspected by an inspector? | |
| No | |
| Anything else? (e.g. describe your operation) | |
| I sell nucs to try to keep my hobby a hobby. In the last few years, I have really enjoyed small-scale queen rearing from hives that impress me. I experiment a lot and have a lot of gratitude for all my fellow beeks that share knowledge. Sustainable to me is not having to purchase bees anymore and I haven't done that for six years. I do have a mite management plan and will not sell a nuc to someone that is going to put them in a box and hope for the best. My mite management includes brood break, drone frames, Formic Pro and OAV.
This year, I sold ten frames of overwintered bees to people that were interested in my bees and needed a powerhouse to pull wax in the spring; keepers then split into 2 boxes to manage swarm and grow apiary. Buyers need to bring 10frame deep box setup to collect bees. I will be selling nucs but you must be willing to wait to collect until I can confirm queen is well mated and laying. I will have a small number of overwintered queen nucs available. I will mite test in the spring and small batch graft from hives that I like (hygienic, well tempered and good producers). I do replace my queens every year with OTS after the summer solstice and prefer to give my queens away rather than dispatch. They are on a first come basis, so please send me a text if you want to get put on the list. Deposits will be taken for nucs. Please TEXT me at 248-225-6744 as it is the quickest way to connect with me. |
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