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All the babies except number 7 (half way out of egg now)

I incubated these pyros at temperatures between 78 F and 80.5 F average 79.5 F with brief highs at 82.5 in the late afternoon, due to heat wave. Prevented any spikes with frozen gel packs in incubator.

My question is: do you think the lower temps caused the babies to hatch with more yolk reserve in their bellies than if they had been hatched at the standard 82 F? These babies seem fuller than babies I have seen in other people's photos. What has been your experience with this? My theory is that the slightly lower temps helped the babies to not burn through their yolk reserves as their general metabolism was lower.

Pictures of other people's just hatched babies would be most welcome, and at what temps they were incubated.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

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• bigger yolk lower incubation temps? - pyromaniac, Fri Jul 8 19:41:33 2011
• RE: bigger yolk lower incubation temps? - mrkent, Fri Jul 8 19:46:07 2011
• RE: bigger yolk lower incubation temps? - RG, Fri Jul 8 20:51:19 2011
• RE: bigger yolk lower incubation temps? - pyromaniac, Fri Jul 8 23:06:45 2011
• RE: bigger yolk lower incubation temps? - DMong, Fri Jul 8 23:43:12 2011
• RE: bigger yolk lower incubation temps? - m77mcreedy, Sun Jul 10 13:19:02 2011
• RE: bigger yolk lower incubation temps? - pyromaniac, Sun Jul 10 19:08:19 2011