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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 13199" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>I think I can answer that - easy money.</p><p></p><p>Virgins go for maybe $15 apiece. So let's say you graft 3 bars being 45 cells into a cell raiser, and 40 take. You hatch them into cages and flick them off at $15 each you made a quick 600 bucks. </p><p></p><p>No need for mating nucs or any of the work that entails, or to wear the losses due to failed matings, the buyer takes those losses.</p><p></p><p>Personally I always refused to sell virgins, the prospective purchaser was almost invariably someone with little experience who thought it was just a cheap way to get a queen, not realizing that if it failed in their hive, they were then usually out of their depth knowledge wise attempting to get the hive back up and running properly again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 13199, member: 13"] I think I can answer that - easy money. Virgins go for maybe $15 apiece. So let's say you graft 3 bars being 45 cells into a cell raiser, and 40 take. You hatch them into cages and flick them off at $15 each you made a quick 600 bucks. No need for mating nucs or any of the work that entails, or to wear the losses due to failed matings, the buyer takes those losses. Personally I always refused to sell virgins, the prospective purchaser was almost invariably someone with little experience who thought it was just a cheap way to get a queen, not realizing that if it failed in their hive, they were then usually out of their depth knowledge wise attempting to get the hive back up and running properly again. [/QUOTE]
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