I should make it to the show.

I've heard good hatch rates reported by the few people who regularly use maternal incubation. I wasn't suggesting trying to stress them, just maybe checking if our believe that we can do better artificially are correct. I'd have to get a better snake room/rack setup but ideally maybe randomly distribute half my females each year to either my best attempt at artificial and best attempt at maternal and then see which has the better hatch rate and which has the better next year production. I understand it doesn't make much sense but maybe there are optimal variations in incubating temperature over time or hormonal effects on the mothers we don't know about and would never find without letting the numbers tell us to look for them.

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