Over Wintered F1 Buckfast National Nucleus Colony (Abelo 6 frame poly hive)

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THIS IS A PREORDER FOR AN OVERWINTERED NUC FOR COLLECTION IN 2025. The TOTAL cost of our Dorset National nucs is £330, the Abelo 6 frame hives are available collection only.    6 Frame F1...
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THIS IS A PREORDER FOR AN OVERWINTERED NUC FOR COLLECTION IN 2025.

The TOTAL cost of our Dorset National nucs is £330, the Abelo 6 frame hives are available collection only. 

 

6 Frame F1 Buckfast, National Nucleus Colony (Abelo 6 Frame Poly Hive) –  2024 F1 Buckfast Queen

Experience the vitality and productivity of our 6-frame Buckfast Nucleus Colony, the perfect addition to your apiary whether you're an experienced beekeeper or just beginning your journey. Each nuc is meticulously prepared to ensure a healthy, thriving colony, featuring a newly mated queen from this season to guarantee robust future growth.

Why Choose Our Buckfast Nucs?

Our Buckfast nucs are known for their gentle temperament, making them ideal for beekeepers of all experience levels. Bred from carefully selected stock, our colonies exhibit excellent honey production, resistance to common bee diseases, and superior overwintering capabilities.

  • What You’ll Receive:

    • 6 National Deep Frames: Includes a balanced mix of brood, pollen, and honey stores, ensuring your bees have everything they need to thrive in their new home. This includes a minimum of 3 frames of brood in all stages
    • 2024 Mated Queen: A 2025 mated queen, selected for her productivity and calm nature, helping to establish a strong, cohesive colony.
    • Strong, Healthy Bees: Our nucs are created from colonies that are rigorously inspected and treated for disease, ensuring you receive a healthy and vigorous colony.
    • Abelo 6 Frame Hive: Strong plastic floor with open vents, Abelo high density polystyrene brood box, Abelo high insulation Crown Board and Roof
    • New Frames and Wax Foundation: We make our Dorset nucleus colonies within dedicated nucleus apiaries from brand new frames and foundation, ensuring you receive pristine and clean equipment to start your beekeeping adventure.

Our Promise:

We take pride in our bees and are committed to delivering nucs that will exceed your expectations. Our bees are raised in Dorset in the heart of the Jurassic World Heritage site, where they forage on a rich diversity of local flora, contributing to the exceptional strength and resilience of our colonies. Whether you’re looking to expand your apiary or start anew, our Buckfast nucs are the perfect choice for sustainable beekeeping.

Pre-Order Now:

Due to high demand, we recommend pre-ordering your nuc early in the season. Nucs will be available for collection or Delivery from April.

 

What's Included?
  • 6 x DN4 frames of bees (with a minimum of 3 frames containing brood in all stages - BIAS)
  • 1 x Queen as per the description.
  • 1 x Abelo 6 frame Poly hive with rebated system, open mesh floor, poly crown board and roof.
  • All frames and foundation less than 12 months old, marked green to indicate year they were put into service
Collection

Abelo Nucs are only available for collection in Dorset. We are unabl to post Abelo nucs.

We generally have collection days on Saturdays throughout April and May.

We will be in touch to agree a suitable date and time for collection.

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Richard Bailey
Brilliant Bees

Brilliant bees. The Nuc was brimming with bees, and all nice new wax.
We transferred into a national hive.

We had plenty of questions throughout the year and the team helped us every step of the way. We followed their suggestions and ended the season on double brood, 2 supers all drawn out and 28kg of honey and with the help of a virgin queen from Charlie, we have a nucleus colony overwintering in the paynes nuc they arrived in to act as a backup or a 2nd hive next spring. We have learnt so much in the year and feel very confident going into winter with two healthy hives!

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