MATED MN HYG ITALIAN QUEENS

WHY MN HYG QUEENS?

This link will give you the answer.  http://members.aol.com/queenb95/minn.html

SHIPPING WILL BE ON FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS AS AVAILABLE FROM NOW THROUGH OCT 2008  

We are gearing up for our 2008 Queen and Package Bee season. C & H Apiaries is Licensed, Inspected to produce and ship queens and package bees by the GA Dept of AG anywhere in the US. A copy of our License is in the pictures of this listing. We have had several request from beekeepers for Queen bees. Due to the large bee losses across the USA from the new CCD, queen and package bee prices are going up. Many producers are already booked up on orders for queens and package bees for the season. For the 2008 season we are increasing our queen and package bee operation. This sale is for 1-200 of our MN HYG QUEENS. 

1 -200 ( you can buy just one or up to 200) Mn Hyg Italian Queens. This sale entitles the buyer to recieve 1 - 200 Mn Hyg Italian Queens to be shipped from C & H Apiaries. The ship date for this item is based on order placment according to availablity. However, we are striving to ship our queen orders in a timley manner. We try to ship according to customer needs. Most orders are filled within 2 weeks.  At C&H Apiaries your questions are always welcome. Our joy is to help new beekeepers get started. Everyone should have at least one hive of bees. It is very enjoyable, rewarding and Mother Nature needs them.         

 ABOUT US

Co-op & Hester Apiaries (C&H Apiaries) is located in south Georgia near the capture site where Jefferson Davis was captured by Union Troops May 10th 1865. We are about 185 miles south of Atlanta in a little town called Irwinville. So small that our mail address is Ocilla, the county seat for Irwin County. 

This is QUEEN REARING BEE COUNTRY ! We enjoy a sub tropical climate with generally mild winters. This gives us natures help for queen and package bee production. Our honey crops are, Red Maple, Spring Ty Ty, Tupelo, Palmetto, Popular, Galberry, Wild Flower, Cotton, and Golden Rod. The nectar flows here are short but sweet. 

C & H Apiaries was founded by TL Hester and a group of local professional beekeepers all working together and under the blanket of the same State Inspector. It takes true Beekeepers to produce quality for the bee industry. Not employees that do not know how to light a smoker or which end of a hive tool to hold on to. We produce queen cells, virgin queens, mated queens, package bees, and also manufacture beekeeping equipment. Everything we do is done in the same manner as if we were using it ourselves. This includes our Beehaul Trailers, Migratory Pallets, Package Bee Cages, Bottom Boards, Hive Bodies, Hester Frames/Foundation, Inner Covers, Top Covers, Hester's 4X4 mating nucs and Mini Frames, Wax Cell Cup Jigs, Grafting Equipment, and just about anthing to do with the Beekeeping Industry. Wheather you are big beekeeper or just getting started, we are willing and able to fill your needs. We espically enjoy helping new beekeepers get off on the right track. If you need to know something about bees, just ask us. If I do not know the answer to your question, I will find someone who does. You and your needs are important to us. C & H Apiaries office phone: (229) 831-1070  You will be lucky to get me here, but leave a message. My cell is (229) 325-0606 it is with me all the time. Email: hesterterry@windstream.net If you want to see some pictures of our bees visit www.myspace.com/thester1 if you have a myspace account, please invite me as your friend. I have several other beekeeping friends on there.                    

ABOUT OUR QUEENS

Our Breeder Queens are pure Minnesota Hygenic artifically inseminated. These girls lay wall to wall, winter well, are not bad to swarm, easy to work, and are the leaders in honey production. See the chart in my pictures and visit the above link. Over the years I have tried them all, and I have never owned a queen, that could come close to out performing the Minnesota's. We have converted several customers that will testify to that. Another major factor in quality queens is the breeder. Breeders that over work nurse bees by placing to many grafts in a hive cause the young larve not to be fed properly. This is a major reason for queens not being properly developed. In our operation, once we make the graft, we put less than half the number of grafts in our starter hives as do other queen producers. In addition, our starter hives are fed heavily, boiling over with bees, and are eager to produce queens because we took out their original queen a day before the graft. After 24 hours the started cells are moved into a finisher hive. This is a double deep strong hive. The queen is in the lower chamber under a queen excluder. The cell bar frame is placed in the top chamber with loads of bees and fresh brood. Even though the hive has a queen in the bottom, the bees will go ahead and finish the cells because they have already been started. This method divides the work load. The starters start the cells and the finishers finish them up.                

HOW AND WHEN WILL I RECIEVE MY QUEEN'S

At our Apiary we strive to fill orders according to customer request. This sale is for  1 - 200 Mn Hyg Italian Queens to be shippped on a first come first serve basis. According to availability from now until Oct 2008 . We ship all queen orders priority mail through the USPS. They will be insured with delivery conf.                             

OUR POLICY

All sales are final on queens. No refunds. No exceptions.  We do insure and guarantee that you will recieve live queens. If there is a problem and one of your queens are dead, point it out to the postman before you leave the post office. Then contact us within 24 hours and we will replace your queen. We do required that the dead queen still in the orginal, unopened cage be sent back to us regular mail.  In short, we will make sure you get  live queens. That is where our warranty ends, period. We can not guarantee bees that are not under our care.