Wow!

Are you going to try to save the ripped one? I know it's a long shot but check out the link below on what is possible. Maybe you could tape it closed?

I think getting them apart depends on how quick you find them, but there may well be other factors also.

It looks like these eggs where about 20% smaller than your 14 egg clutch. Has this female generally laid eggs close to 100 grams in the past? Have you had any more problems hatching them or with the babies than with the one that lays 120 gram eggs? I'm thinking the secret to the really monster clutches in addition to the obvious of having a monster big female is to have one that lays relatively small eggs but I don't know how small is too small. Someone posted a 14 egg clutch a few days back that was only about 85 grams per egg.

It looks like most clutches are consistently around 1/3 of the female’s pre-lay weight (yours was almost exactly). This doesn’t seem to vary much for big females (I had a very small female only lay 23%). So the way I see it the only place other than really big females to make progress is to breed for smaller eggs. If you could cross your big girl with a son from the 14/85 gram egg clutch last week and grow the daughters up to mom’s 5288 grams you might have one lay 21 of those little 85 gram eggs! I just don’t know if 85 grams is too small for captive conditions or not.

Did you breed this female to anything particularly interesting?

Thanks,

Randy Remington
Split egg incubation

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