We’re different from everyone else…
Want to pick up your bees? No problem! We'll load them up for you, and help you strap them down. Want to pick up your bees? No problem! We'll load them up for you, and help you strap them down.
1. Make bee transportation incredibly easy since they don't crush or warp
2. Do a better job of keeping bees in the boxes
3. Are reusable & a value add to customers
4. Offer better ventilation
5. Much easier to carry, handle & stack
Add a Frame:
Our standard brood qtys per nuc or hive are industry averages. But, if you have a honey flow coming soon, want to do splits, or provide abnormally super strong hives or nucs for your customers, you can choose to add a frame of brood for $30 per unit. This will mean we guarantee each unit will have 1 frame of brood & bees above the minimum qtys listed in our terms. You can also buy a frame of brood & bees only at $30 per frame.
Marked Queen:
If you want to closely track your queens, or resell hives/nucs with marked queens, we're happy to find & mark the queens in nucs or hives! Color will be the industry standard color for that year.
We know predicting exactly how many hives or nucs you need is tough months ahead of time. At the same time, we really need to plan ahead when it comes to building hives & ordering supplies. To make it as easy as possible for us both, we ask for $0 down when you place your order. After that, we ask for a 50% payment by February 1st, and the final 50% upon pickup/delivery. In exchange ask you to order as early as possible in the year & do your best to project accurate orders.
Simple as that!
In order to keep our costs as low as possible, we don't sell under 50 units. However, our sister company, www.texasbeesupply.com does!
Our pricing is structured to give you the best possible deal, but we can't combine quantites of seperate products to reach a price break. For example, a purchase of 50 nucs and 50 singles will not give you a quanity price break of 100 for each unit.
Yes! While we raise our bees using VSH bloodlines, we also carefully monitor varroa levels, and treat if they exceed 2 per 100 bees. We also use Strong Microbials on all our hives to help keep any foulbroods at bay.
Our goal is for each nuc to have at least 1 frame of stored honey, singles at least 2, and doubles at least 4. If they have less than that, we'll be feeding! Some years hives will have more, or less, but our goal is to maximize brood, not honey.
Possibly! If you need nucs or hives earlier than early April, let us know. It is somewhat weather dependent, but many years it is possible.
We highly encourage everyone to order as many months ahead of time as possible to guarantee we have enough, and the correct types of units available for you. However, we do build extras of all units and continue to sell April-September. If you order hives after April 1st, we ask for 50% down when you place the order and 50% when you pick up your order.
We purchased 100 double deep hives, and they were awesome. Made several splits from each, and they are thriving. Blake & team were so helpful with delivery, and answering all my follow up questions!
-Jacob L.
I highly recommend Desert Creek! We buy hundreds of 5 frame nucs each year to resell to our customers. Always happy, and our customers love the gentle Cordovans!
-Charlie M.
-Nancy B.
We so appreciate the array of options when buying singles each year! We buy a few hundred each spring & summer and always pay the extra for marked queens! By far the most flexible and experienced folks we've worked with!