a few years ago now. I had a large, healthy Amel Honduran that bred for me the first year with no issues. The second year she was full of eggs...the most eggs I've ever seen per overall body length. I did the same examination that you did and the eggs looked exactly the same. (by the way TOP NOTCH photographs!)



The eggs, in my opinion, are bad and were never fertile from the beginning. That is also the main cause for egg binding that I've observed. In my experience, I've never had egg binding issues with good eggs. I only had one other experience with egg binding and dehydration, since then I keep the water dish in with the females and I've never had a problem with them laying in the nest box.



I was fortunate this year, I had 4 females give me 100% slugs...it totally sucks not to get fertile eggs, but it is completely another level of pain to lose a prized female.



Sorry about your loss and hopefully you kept back one of her females from a previous clutch?



-Rusty

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