Making Emergency Queen Cells

Making a small nuc "hopelessly queenless" so they'll make queen cells.
00:00 - Preview.
00:35 - Opening 5-frame medium nuc.
02:00 - Teenie tiny protein patty.
02:20 - Pulling frames (J-hook frame prying).
03:10 - Capped brood.
04:04 - Looking for the queen.
04:35 - Fresh eggs (laid today).
05:00 - Pollen frame.
05:15 - Caging the queen.
06:00 - Explaining emergency queen cells.
07:33 - Marking and releasing the queen.
08:50 - Summary (essentially a walk-away split).
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[@rtxhoneybees]

Natural pollen is the best choice for those new queen cells. I believe you'd have been better served to leave that pollen and move capped brood with that queen. What you are trying is a fly back split. I did this once but with a large hive. It was amazing how quickly the original colony drew out the comb but I was really disappointed in the quality of the emergency cells. I went back to moving the queen and letting the original colony raise the cells. Good luck to you. I hope you have better results.

[@mudsongs]

I couldn't get them to make swarm cells, which I prefer, so I went with emergency queen cells.
All the brood, including fresh brood, is in a box by itself now, with all the nurse bees and honey, but minus most of the foragers. I put in a pollen patty afterwards. Being queenless, I expect them to take in the pollen and fill some emergency queen cells with royal jelly.
The old and failing queen, who I really could have just "dispatched," is in the original hive location to receive all the foragers. I'll keep her as a spare queen and maybe get a few more frames of brood from her.
I've never heard of a fly-back split before, but I'd say that's what most of my splits are. I suppose an artificial swarm is similar. All the brood and swarm cells are moved to a different hive and the queen is left behind with empty comb and a bunch of foragers and no brood.