Mating Nucs
A Mating Yard allows dozens of queens to mate and begin to lay. The hives in a mating yard are primarily mating nucs or drone producing hives.
Mating nucs are smaller than normal nucs, often containing non self sustaining numbers of bees.
The beekeeper will replenish the workers in a mating nuc by shaking additional bees into mating nucs when their population is running low.
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