Kevin, two out of five were normal, two had neck kinks and one has a pronouned knob on its back like a hunchback.
You've got me thinking about the moisture but I can't see where this clutch was hatched differently from many others that were fine. Now I'm worried about the lucy black rats and the mandarins. They were transfered to the incubator by the person watching my collection while I was on vacation and I fear they spent too much time unnoticed before they were transfered.
Out of the 7 mandys it looks now like the best I can hope for is two and out of nine lucy rats I may get six and they have a month to go. My initial plan was to time the laying to be early on so that they would be already in the incubator when I went on vaction but as plans often change I ended having to take vacation early and that screwed things up.
Got to get my timing down better.
Mike.

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