I would agree with Mike, if she is getting off the eggs periodically, the overhead heat is probably warming her body too much and she is moving off the eggs and away from the heat source to cool her body back down to avoid overheating the egg mass. It's difficult to get the humidity too high with burmese eggs, unless they are actually standing in pooled water. Move the heat source to another area of the cage away from her and monitoring the ambient temps around her at body level. That contraction rate tells me that the temps may be just slightly high where she is nesting.

Kelly

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• Eggs - jsbarnwell, Mon May 5 14:27:39 2008
• RE: Eggs - HappyHillbilly, Mon May 5 15:34:28 2008
• RE: Eggs - jsbarnwell, Mon May 5 16:18:23 2008
• RE: Eggs - HappyHillbilly, Mon May 5 20:31:29 2008
• RE: Eggs - jsbarnwell, Mon May 5 21:11:19 2008
• Contraction rate..... - Kelly_Haller, Mon May 5 22:30:52 2008
• RE: Eggs - jsbarnwell, Tue May 6 10:35:22 2008
• RE: Eggs - HappyHillbilly, Tue May 6 11:08:54 2008
• RE: Eggs - HappyHillbilly, Tue May 6 10:38:28 2008
• RE: Eggs - jsbarnwell, Tue May 6 12:01:03 2008
• RE: Eggs - HappyHillbilly, Tue May 6 13:00:39 2008
• RE: Eggs - jsbarnwell, Tue May 6 15:50:53 2008
• Maternal incubation setup...... - Kelly_Haller, Wed May 7 00:52:42 2008
• RE: Maternal incubation setup...... - HappyHillbilly, Wed May 7 01:33:20 2008
• Thanks for all the help (I screwed up) - jsbarnwell, Wed May 7 15:47:41 2008
• RE: Thanks for all the help (I screwed up) - jsbarnwell, Wed May 7 20:44:45 2008
• RE: No you didn't - HappyHillbilly, Wed May 7 21:58:51 2008
• RE: No you didn't - jsbarnwell, Wed May 7 22:50:56 2008
• Ambient temps...... - Kelly_Haller, Wed May 7 23:35:40 2008
• RE: Ambient temps...... - jsbarnwell, Thu May 8 08:57:46 2008
• RE: Ambient temps...... - BenR79, Thu May 8 10:05:54 2008
• RE: No you didn't - HappyHillbilly, Thu May 8 00:42:16 2008
• RE: No you didn't - jsbarnwell, Thu May 8 08:50:12 2008