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Jeff Clark
at Sat Aug 2 15:15:42 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Clark ]
Frank,
...When I used to breed them silly egg laying snakes I had lots of different results with different clutches. Some clutches all would slit eggs within a 24 hour hour period and do fine. Some others would slit them over as much as four days and make me crazy. I had some clutches before I had enough experience that one would slit the egg and the others would not and I left them alone and the ones still in the eggs never pipped and died in the eggs. Looking back this seemed to most often happen in clutches that I kewpt too moist. The babies developed seemingly okay but were not robust enough to pip. When I finally got to where I thought I knew what I was doing I would manually slit all eggs about 12 hours after the first one pipped. All I would do though is cut them a slit and then open it up using cuticle scissors to a window just large enough for them to stick their head thru and then leave them totally alone until they emerged on their own. In clutches of adhered Burmese eggs one snake pipping sometimes will cut through other eggs and so I think manually slitting eggs, even if they are still a day or two away from being ready to emerge probably does not harm them.
Jeff
>>Congrats Milo,
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>>Every time I slit or touch the eggs and a snake dies or I believe I killed it, I feel like crap. My Dumeril litter had one still born so sometimes some just do not make it. But I believe I def killed the one I removed from the egg. SO I am not so sure I want to help them any more but yet I also do not want to let them die in the egg If I can do something, catch 22!!
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>>SO many people and books say to slit the eggs within 24-48 hours but most clutches I have had that I did nothing to in any way took as long as 3 days from first to last pip. So who knows.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Frank Roberts
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>>I opened my mouth and out flowed a melody black.
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