So I cut my first clutch today. Dinker female x CH YB (and she bred a Silver streak last year)



Well...one egg died early...

and when I cut the remaining 4 today, two were almost full term and dead...



the real kick to the groin...the dead ones look like they could have been pewters...and one was REALLY nice.



This is the first one...though it could also have been an underdeveloped Yellowbelly...







But this one...definitely looks like it was a pewter. The egg was tiny...

and it had a nice stripe of blushing on it's spine that the camera didn't pick up all the way.



(Yes, that's a piece of the tail. I accidentally cut it off trying to remove the dead baby from it's egg.)



7 years I've wanted a pewter...I finally possibly get one, and it's dead.

-insert swear here-
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"What is man without the beasts?

If all the beasts were gone,

men would die from great loneliness of spirit.

For what happens to the beasts,

soon happens to men.

All things are connected."



-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

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