>>Wow Jimmy. That is great. Congrats. It looks like we are having opposite luck. Remember half my first few clutches were definite slugs. Well, I have lost more during incubation. Big bummer. I have eggs from 3 different snakes that are down to just a couple good eggs between them.

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>>Those eggs look good to me. Why did you think they were duds? I know your snake was earlier than expected, but was that the only reason?

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>>****Misty****

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Hey Misty,

Sorry about your luck. I hope the eggs you have left do ok.



My first breeder, Arwen, a nice creamsicle, has always given me good clutches with high hatch rates and I figured this season would be no different. She laid 19 eggs that all looked good and for no reason I can discern almost all of those eggs have gone bad. They are incubating the same as all my other clutches but just going bad. I don't get it. The incubation container was on a shelf (in one of my racks) with other egg containers and the moisture level was no different then the others.

Now, as usual, I have had an egg here or there go bad which is no surprise but for almost an entire clutch just to go bad really confuses me.

Now as far as the stripe cream eggs go...four were laid in her water dish and the rest (I think it was 14 total) looked more yellow and felt spongy. Of the ones laid out of the water only one looked good.

I put ten of the eggs in to incubate and threw four obvious slugs away.

It appears as if I got the four out of the water soon enough because they all survived. The one I originally thought was good survived and out of the remaing five three went bad and two survived.

Well, as of this morning the one that came out of the egg yesterday is the only one so far but the other six have all pipped and are peeking out.

whoo whoo



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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.

"Resistance is futile"

Jimmy Johnson

(Draybar)

Draybars Snakes



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• stripe creams hatching whoo whoo - draybar, Fri May 25 18:21:15 2007
• congrats! - xblackheart, Sat May 26 01:22:47 2007
• RE: congrats! - draybar, Sat May 26 08:44:20 2007
• RE: stripe creams hatching whoo whoo - tko75, Sat May 26 01:31:34 2007
• RE: stripe creams hatching whoo whoo - draybar, Sat May 26 08:50:52 2007
• RE: stripe creams hatching whoo whoo - tko75, Sat May 26 19:32:48 2007
• all 7 hatched - draybar, Sun May 27 10:29:15 2007
• good to hear Jimmy! n/p - xblackheart, Sun May 27 13:38:33 2007
• RE: good to hear Jimmy! n/p - xblackheart, Sun May 27 22:35:19 2007