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PHWyvern
at Tue Mar 27 18:33:31 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHWyvern ]
>>Don't worry about it. They can be moved during the first few days with no problem. Think about how mom "gathers" them up after laying. The all get rolled around until they finally dry a bit and stick together. I've read stories where Ralph Davis is holding eggs under running water, and Dave Barker mentions times where eggs were dropped on the floor and all hatched fine. I even remember one guy purposfully rotating a batch of retic eggs every few days throughout incubation and not really getting a significantly lower hatch rate.
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>>I think the fragility of eggs is a bit of a myth. They're tougher than people think.
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Rolling eggs is not a problem early on.
The other year I hatched a clutch of black rat snake eggs (laid in the wild) after they took a 6 foot spill when a front-end loader picking up a load of mulch from a large pile unearthed the nest. All of the eggs actually had the outer shell split in places from the fall but the inner soft membrane held up..except on one. That particular egg leaked fluid off and on throughout the incubation process but still wound up hatching with the others (bit of a runt though). I kinda figured they were all a bit brain addled after they hatched as they didn't behave like normal black rats.. they are more like little puppy dogs.. nicer than corn snake even lol. Great appetites too. The slower growing half of the clutch are now happily munching on hoppers and the faster growing individuals are on small adult mice....all are between 3.0-3.5 feet.
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RE: Relax.... - PHWyvern, Tue Mar 27 18:33:31 2007