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Date: | Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:03:55 -0500 |
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For what it's worth, a "5 frame nuc" means something different to me and
would to a lot of other beekeepers around here (North Carolina). When I
talk about a "5 frame nuc," I'm talking about five frames, normally to be
transferred to a 10-frame box. I would ask to make sure, but if I was
paying for a "5 frame nuc," I would expect five frames all mostly full of
mostly capped brood, and I would expect them to be transferred into
whatever I wanted to put them in. In the springtime, especially, feed can
be managed for; brood and bees are what I care about in the spring. Drawn
comb is valuable, of course, but I'm not going to pay much for somebody
else's (old) drawn comb. I count my nucs by the number of frames of brood:
3 frames of brood and however many frames of whatever else is a 3 frame nuc
in my book.
Eric
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