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jobi
at Sat May 1 16:57:15 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jobi ]
In regards to egg incubation many good techniques can be applied, however once you start with one you must continue throughout the entire incubation, eggs are much less forgiving the adults. If I was to say how aim planning to incubate my future uromastyx eggs, it who’d be of little value to Ryan as I have no uromastyx egg experience yet, however I can share a minimum basic egg husbandry that can be applied to most reptiles egg, this without interfering with incubation techniques graciously offered by top breeders.
Retiles eggs totally rely on there environment to develop, as opposed to foul eggs there yolk drops to the bottom under the influence of gravity, this making them vulnerable to heating from any under source, also this why they can’t be turned as it who’d drown the embryo. Furthermore the medium is not as important if it can hold humidity and temperature any medium will work for incubation, even no medium if conditions are good, temperature and humidity is the first and foremost ingredient any female looks for when nesting, provide all the types of dirt in the world if it doesn’t sustain eggs its worthless to her, once the eggs are incubating at a predetermined temperature, humidity must be lowered by 10-15% or more as saturation will suffocate the embryo (to better understand try breathing thru a wet cloth) many breeders raise humidity to high to help them hatch (big mistake) this in any species, all reptiles incubate at variable temperature and humidity, these variable are often subtle but nevertheless of grate importance, they stimulate in the early embryo development the hypothalamus witch is responsible for all genetic inherited traits like skin pigmentation, gender, and all the little things for witch mommy isn’t there to teach them, feeding thermoregulation and hydro regulating, cycling and ultimately nesting.
Therefore incubation is the highest level of husbandry, and the best advice I can offer to someone about to incubate his first clutch is to follow one proven direction until experience shows him a better route.
Rgds
Ps. keep a water bottle in your incubator; this will avoid thermal shocks when you need to add.
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RE: Cage humidity and Incubation (long) - jobi, Sat May 1 16:57:15 2004