Norfolk Honey - Bee keeping equipment - traveling boxes
Traveling boxes
Transporting nucs from one apiary to another takes a traveling box (or they
can be put in a brood box or a nuc box). We offer several types of traveling
box and a brood box option for taking your nuc away in. The newest type of
box that we have been using in recent years is the polystyrene box illustrated right.
White Corex traveling boxes Box only £25 (for nucs)
With five frame £25 (Made up
frames £3 each)
Plywood traveling boxes Box only £40 (for nucs)
With six frames
£58. (Made up frames £3 each).
Polystyrene traveling boxes Box only £50 (for nucs)
Complete with six frames £68. (Made
up frames £3 each)
National Brood box Box only £45
Twelve made up Hoffman frames £36
Traveling
floor £30
Crown board £10
A nuc in National brood box will need seven new frames in addition to the five frames that form the nuc (the frames that the bees and stores are on), plus a traveling floor and crown board.
If you don't yet have a hive, transporting your bees in a brood box works
well. We offer a budget cedar brood box including bees and brood on five frames
plus seven new made up Hoffman frames to fill the box. The brood box is fixed
to a stainless steel open mesh
traveling floor with a crown board
on top. (English cedar budget brood box complete with bees on fives frames
- three of brood two of stores + seven new frames = £290 pickup end of
April 2012. With new queens pick up end of May £270)
Even
if you already have a hive, taking your bees away in a brood box can still
be a good idea. It makes moving the bees very easy and if you don't have a
lot of beekeeping experience it saves you the process of moving frames
with bees on out of one box and putting them into another. That means
there is no chance of loosing your queen whilst doing the transfer of frames.
And you can always put an existing brood box on top of a new brood box to make up a double brood
box hive. That will eventually give you a large colony of bees that would then be ideal for queen rearing - please
click here to see my queen rearing page.
You can supply your own box if you wish. If you do wish to supply
your own box it has to be new and not had bees in before. And we will need
it sent to us here three days in advance of when you wish to pick up your box with bees in.