First, please understand, eggs are living things, being fertile is only the first step to a neonate. It can die anytime along the way and for many reasons.



Your hatchrate is very much an indicator of your efforts(husbandry) But again, only to a point, but a good point. hahahahahahaha If you recieve eggs, you have reached at least that level.



Again a story from the past, Ernie Wager, a pioneer in colubrid breeding said, healthy neonates(good feeding responce) and good hatchrates are based entirely on a healthy adults. Which is true if your nesting and hatching methods are sound. In Ernies case, they were. So he was right.



Newbies must develop good nesting and good incubation. Mind you, colubrid eggs are amoung the easist to hatch, But still require some skill. Particularly over the long run.



Not everybodys nesting and incubation methods are sound.



So you have three basic areas of concern, health of the adults, nesting of the female, and incubation methods.





The combination of those three are measured by your hatchrate.



I am old and at a loss as to why people EXPECT so much. Why would you expect them all to hatch?



There are folks who say they have 100% hatchrate. Well they are either lying or only measuring one clutch. Or simply they discount the ones that don't hatch, so it keeps their hatchrate up. Don't laugh, that occurs. Like, it didn't hatch because something was wrong with it, so I don't count those, I still have a 100% hatchrate. hahahahahahahahahahahaha



Don't get mad folks but down below theres a thread that indicates the poster expected all his babies to feed right off. That is odd to me. Where do those expectations come from. Do you newbies really think your that good?



Again, I am only attempting to figure out those people, its kinda like your model builders that work from a kid, if you follow the instructions, its suppose to come out well. Unfortunately, snakes are alive and all manner of things can go wrong, at any time for a million reasons. The truth is, most of those reasons are NOT INCLUDED IN YOUR KIT(husbandry recipe) that you get over the internet. Those are the fun things you get to learn on your own.



Its like you folks think your perfect. Well how you judge that is not what you think, but your results. They tell you how good you did. And that means, past tense. As each and every time you do it, your can succeed or fail. There are no guarantees, no matter how much you know. You must apply your knowledge, each and everytime, and each and everytime the results are a measure of your ability and effort.



So the answer is, you WORK towards high hatchrate levels, you do not expect them.



As mentioned above, a fertile egg is only a start, there is plenty of time to fail from there. No offense and good luck

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