Eggs must be deposited within a window. Past that window, they die in the female. This is a common reason fertile eggs are dead when laid.

Your clutch appears to have one oviduct healthy and the other not. If you notice, one side still look good, the other doesn't.

But that is just a guess, as its only from a picture.

The basic terms of good or bad, also don't really help.

Snakes can deposit several different kinds. Like unfertilized ovum. Or dead fertilized eggs, or of course, healthy living eggs.

You must consider that a living egg can only die or hatch.

They can die inside the female as well. Usually if they die inside the female, they never fill up. Or become full. Unfertilize ovum and eggs that die within the female, do not fill up. or become firm. Of course, in most cases.

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