Jorn suggested:
A much better way would bee to add some  drone foundation and then feed like
hell to get the family to rear brood.

I wish the above would work but experience has shown in our area we get
drones when the bees want to rear drones. We get early drones at times when
the winter has been mild and the tree pollen early
Early season queen rearing in Missouri:

First comes the problem of mature drones.

 Second is poor weather for getting queens mated.

The Midwest is simply not the best place to raise early queens.

Bob

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