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Problems with hatching eggs

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Posted by: johelian at Thu Aug 28 07:56:12 2008  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by johelian ]  
   

Hiya all,
I have been having some issues hatching my chuckwalla eggs and was wondering if you can help me out;

- firstly, I have problems with the eggs going mouldy. Im presuming this is down to excessive moisture, what is everyones take on this?

- secondly, I have had a problem with full-term eggs; out of the ones that have survived the mould I have had 2 fail to hatch. After several weeks beyond the expected hatch-date had elapsed I opened the eggs to find perfectly-formed baby chucks that had failed to hatch. In both instances the eggshell had collapsed and enveloped the baby very tightly, which convinced me that they werent going to hatch. The eggs were from different clutches. Why do you think this happened?

For reference I incubated the first batch on vermiculite and the second on perlite (both soaked and squeezed until no more moisture would drip from it). Eggs are incubated at 89-90F.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, as this is becoming understandably frustratibg.


   

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