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Rivets55
at Thu Apr 20 22:05:09 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Rivets55 ]
After reading your post nothing jumps out as being wrong. The eggs you describe sound pretty good - the fine cracks may be nothing, or they may indicate low calcium in the shells. This could make them vulnerable to mold attack.
Remember that this is not a cake being baked. One can do everything perfectly correct (i.e, follow the recipe) and still lose eggs.
Mold is not uncommon as a problem. I have never had a moldy egg hatch, but they can and do hatch normal babies. They can also hatch babies that show developemental abnomalities. Or they can just go bad and die.
Some advocate that mold can be treated with a dilute (5%) bleach solution. This may or may not save the egg - or harm the embryo.
I urge you not to give up on eggs until they are obviously dead and/or well past hatching time. I have had eggs that appeared dead have live embryos inside. I have also had eggs that looked perfectly good have deformed embryos that died.
In a way its a bit of a crap shoot. All we can really do is make the conditions as conducive to developement and hatching as possible. After that nature does the rest.
Good luck,
John D
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0.1 Creamsicle Cornsake "Yolanda"
1.0 Bairds Ratsnake "Steely Dan"
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- Egg problems, what am I doing wrong - xblackheart, Thu Apr 20 20:21:26 2006
 RE: Egg problems, what am I doing wrong - Rivets55, Thu Apr 20 22:05:09 2006- RE: Egg problems, what am I doing wrong - housesnakes, Thu Apr 20 22:09:48 2006
- RE: Egg problems, what am I doing wrong - housesnakes, Thu Apr 20 22:12:32 2006
- RE: Egg problems, what am I doing wrong - carol, Thu Apr 20 23:36:34 2006
- RE: Egg problems, what am I doing wrong - tspuckler, Fri Apr 21 08:53:25 2006
- RE: Egg problems, what am I doing wrong - Dork, Fri Apr 21 10:27:58 2006
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