Your queen cells will be fine. I use cali mini cages for emergence cages. The queens have no problem hatching with no workers involved.
It's really enlightening to watch the queens hatch as she chews her way out. The queens are pale with hardly any colour to the abdomen and fuzzy with all that body hair.
When I started to raise queens, I did the Mel Dissselkoen OTS method , and when the cell was capped I waited a few days and pressed a 8mesh wire cage into the wax over the cells with no workers inside so I could recover them instead of searching the mass of bees in the hive.
Having my apiary grown fairly big I follow Michael Palmer's Queen Rearing method, and still watch Mike's vid, plus use Lawrence Connors "Queen Rearing Essentials" book as guidance for raising my queens that I use for next seasons nuc's.
It's really enlightening to watch the queens hatch as she chews her way out. The queens are pale with hardly any colour to the abdomen and fuzzy with all that body hair.
When I started to raise queens, I did the Mel Dissselkoen OTS method , and when the cell was capped I waited a few days and pressed a 8mesh wire cage into the wax over the cells with no workers inside so I could recover them instead of searching the mass of bees in the hive.
Having my apiary grown fairly big I follow Michael Palmer's Queen Rearing method, and still watch Mike's vid, plus use Lawrence Connors "Queen Rearing Essentials" book as guidance for raising my queens that I use for next seasons nuc's.
