Second lucy clutch hatches...

second clutch started to hatch on 7/6. All 10 out by the 8th.

Well the second clutch has started to hatch with the one egg I cut window on 7/4 coming completely out and another coming out. There are 2 more pipped and the others will soon follow.

Amazingly both the ones to come out first I thought would not survive the incubation period due to conditions of the egg. Both proved me wrong by being healthy normal sized neonates.

Emphasizing the fact that when in doubt wait it out!!!

First egg had very black nipple deformity and burst on the 4th and I cut the window to a live neonate inside the egg.

Pic of first egg that bursted and was leaking fluid...



here is neonate that came out of this egg...





here is the second "bad" egg...



neonate that came out of this egg...



The other two that are pipped but still in egg are both normal phenotype as well.

Meaning orange rat snake sired the ones out so far. From copulation to egg deposition is quite a bit faster then I thought.

These are all het for Leucism.

Group shot...7 of the ten...



Third clutch from this female due to hatch 8/18 - 8/22 by my guesstimating.

second was due to hatch on July 8th but hatched 2 days earlier then first clutch due to higher temps in the snake room (shelf incubation technique for colubrids I use)

Third clutch would hatch 21-22nd if it where same amount of days as first but like second I expect it to hatch earlier due to higher temps, third should hatch even faster then second.

That's why I pushed the date back to the 18th of August.

Third clutch has 9 out of 12 fertile eggs and utilized stored sperm as there was no re mating's involved.

so now I have:

9 lucy texas rats.
10 het lucy texas X orange rats.

so 19 neonatesa so far from this one female, if all 9 hatch in last clutch total yield will be 28 neonates from this one female!!!

Kewl Stuff!!!

maybe someday I will get a real camera LOL!!
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